Founder & Chief Investment Officer
Founder & Chief Investment Officer
Founder & Chief Investment Officer
Kristin Hull, Ph.D.
Founder & Chief Investment Officer
Directs research agenda and makes all final decisions on portfolio buys and sells.
Kristin is the Founder, Chief Investment Officer, and Portfolio Manager of Nia Impact Capital. Kristin oversees research and decision-making for Nia’s Flagship Global Solutions portfolio, Nia Growth and Dividend SMA, and Nia’s Equity Forward Portfolio, leading company analysis, portfolio design, and criteria setting.
Kristin started her investment career at Hull Trading and later Hull Investments, LLC, then combined her worlds of financial markets and systems change in 2007, becoming an early pioneer in the impact investing space after Hull Trading sold to Goldman Sachs. As President and Chair of the Board, Kristin supervised the creation of the first 100% mission-aligned foundation endowment in 2007. She went on to found Nia Community Investments and Nia Community Foundation, the second 100% impact-invested foundation portfolio in 2010. Nia Community is a 100% impact-invested portfolio of companies crossing the entire spectrum of impact investing opportunities from early-stage angel investments to public equities, funds, and loan guarantees.
After extensive due diligence on public equity options, Kristin was called to create Nia Global Solutions to offer investors high-quality impact alongside daily liquidity. She spent two years at Domini Social Investments, working on fossil fuel-free portfolio options and building out Nia Global’s six solution themes. Kristin is co-founder of Impact Hub Oakland, North Oakland Community Charter School, and served on the founding board of George Mark Children’s House. She currently serves on the advisory board of Limitless Bridge Venture Capital Fund, Emerging Women, How Women Invest and several non-profit boards.
Kristin is a Registered Investment Advisor. She earned her B.A. and teaching credentials from Tufts University in 1990, her M.A. in Research in Bilingual Education from Stanford University in 1995, and her Ph.D. in Urban Education from the University of California at Berkeley in 2006.