ABOUT SUMMIT MEMBERS

Hillary Summit:

Joan Shapiro

Joan Shapiro is Chair of Seer Analytics, LLC, a research firm she co-founded in 2001. Seer develops integrated research products to uncover business realities, helping organizations make smarter decisions. Although it uses sophisticated analytics (data mining, predictive modeling, survey research, demographics and geo-spatial analysis), Seer products are clear, actionable and affordable.

Ms. Shapiro was Executive Vice President of South Shore Bank (ShoreBank Corp.) where, over 20 years, she built its franchise as the leading development bank in the country. She attracted a national clientele, helped to shape the field of community-based investment and communicated these strategies abroad. She was a founding member and later president of the Social Investment Forum and recognized as one of the pioneers of socially responsible investing in the United States.

She was an independent consultant in social enterprise investment and community development for several years. Her clients included the Global Environmental Facility of the United Nations, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Chicago Humanities Festival. She has given academic lectures on community development and social investment at leading graduate schools of business, professional institutes and international forums and has contributed to books and other publications on these subjects.

Ms. Shapiro has served on public and private boards for over 25 years. She is a member of the UK Social Investment Task Force, a group of business and civic leaders advising government since 2000 on private sector investment in urban regeneration. She is also Vice President of the New Israel Fund and a director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.