Who We Are

Before founding Arvella Investments, Benoît was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs International in London. He started his career at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., then moved to asset management. Benoît received a PhD in Economics from Yale under Nobel Laureate Chris Sims and a BSc in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique. Benoît sits at the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association Board. He is a Knight of Burgundy’s Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin.

Lionel is an independent economic consultant at MacroLucid Research specializing in ESG finance. He plays a key role in developing many of the ESGforInvestors tools. Until 2019, he was a senior cross-asset strategist for Société Générale Lyxor Asset Management in Paris. Previously, Lionel worked as an emerging markets economist and fixed income strategist for Deutsche Bank investment bank research in London. While a doctoral student, Lionel conducted research projects with the Federal Reserve of Chicago, the International Monetary Fund, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and BNP Paribas. He holds a PhD in Economics from The University of Chicago and an MS in Statistics from the ENSAE in Paris.

Dr. Cort works at the intersection of sustainability and investor value. Over the course of 20 years, in consulting and academia, he has applied a scientific and economic lens to corporate social and environmental responsibility (or sustainability) in order to identify the tools, mechanisms, metrics and indicators that create the greatest value for investors, businesses and society. Todd has worked extensively with companies and investors across industrial sectors. His experience ranges from ‘on the ground’ implementation of sustainability programs to corporate level communication and investor strategy development. He has also worked extensively on integrated programs to meet regulatory requirements while promoting awareness and understanding of sustainability priorities through communications and engagement with communities, regulators, policy makers and internal stakeholders. Todd has a courtesy appointment at the Yale School of the Environment. He serves as Faculty Co-Director for the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) and the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance (YISF). He serves on a variety of advisory boards including the JUST Capital Scientific Advisory Board and the PRIME Coalition Academic Advisory Committee and Merck Sustainability Advisory Committee. He is also currently Board Chair for Save the Sound, a regional environmental non-profit serving communities around Long Island Sound.

Donough joined Davy in 2019 as Chief Investment Officer and has overall responsibility for their wealth management portfolios. This encompasses asset allocation, manager selection and portfolio construction. Prior to joining Davy, he led the Investment Strategy Group for Goldman Sachs International in London. In this role he was responsible for advising clients and overseeing client portfolios in the Private Wealth Management division across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Donough joined Goldman Sachs in New York in 2000, working in investment research and strategy. He moved to London in 2002 and became a Managing Director in 2008. He earned a PhD in Mathematics and a MS in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000, and graduated from University College Dublin with a MSc in Mathematics in 1993.

Ahyan is an economist in the Division of Financial Stability at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. His current research focuses on themes of climate risk and financial markets in various settings. He holds a PhD in Economics from Yale and received a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Reed College. Disclaimer: The analysis and conclusions set forth are those of the author(s) and do not indicate concurrency by members of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, or their staffs.

Prior to joining Arvella Investments, Margaux was a PhD student at IFP Énergies Nouvelles and worked jointly with the research lab EconomiX-CNRS from Université Paris Nanterre. While a doctoral student, she conducted research on the determinants of investments for renewable energy and published in the journal Energy Economics. Margaux also holds a master’s degree in Applied Economics from Université Paris Nanterre.

Prior to joining Arvella Investments, Benjamin studied Industrial Engineering at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Economics and Data Analytics at the University of Mannheim and Nova School of Business and Economics. His academic research was focused on quantitative Finance and derivative pricing. He worked at the Chair of Macroeconomics and Financial markets at the University of Mannheim as research assistant for econometric modelling in the field of macroeconomics. Benjamin played key roles in different social initiatives.

Tianhao is a PhD candidate in Finance at HEC Paris. His current research focuses on asset management and ESG investment. He holds a MSc with distinction in Statistics from University College London.

Charlotte is the CEO and an executive director of Pensions for Purpose. In her role, Charlotte oversees the running of the business, develops the growth and innovation strategy and looks for opportunities to build partnerships to achieve Pensions for Purpose's mission. Charlotte is also a member of the Impact Investing Institute's Pensions Expert Panel, an ambassador for the Transparency Taskforce and a founder of 10 Billion World, an end-to-end sustainability project management business aimed at businesses and organisations setting net zero and carbon reduction targets. Charlotte has over 15 years of professional experience in asset management, starting in fund analysis and progressing through to institutional business development. Charlotte has worked for some very well-known institutions, including Jupiter, Pictet and Cambridge Associates. Through her roles, Charlotte has built a knowledge and passion for responsible and sustainable investing. She has demonstrated this in co-authoring a paper with the Society for Pension Professionals on Social Impact Investing and speaking on topics such as fee and service transparency at PLSA and Transparency Taskforce events. Charlotte played a key role in developing the Impact Investing Institute's Impact Investing Principles for Pensions and led the launch of the Impact Investing Adopters Forum. Outside of work Charlotte is a mother to two children, a fitness and running enthusiast, a volunteer with Redstart (a charity working to educate children on savings and investments) and always looking for ways to improve her own social and environmental impact.

Iancu works on the development of Fulcrum Asset Management’s responsible investment capabilities. He joined Fulcrum from Legal & General Investment Management (where he led the stewardship team’s work in the energy sector and advised institutional clients on low-carbon investment solutions), having previously worked for the Carbon Tracker Initiative (a leading think-tank investigating climate risk in energy markets), the Institute of Art and Ideas and the UK Cabinet Office. He graduated from the London School of Economics and holds degrees in philosophy and public policy.

Prior to joining Arvella Investments, Géraldine worked as a Senior Research Analyst at Pavilion Advisory Group in Montreal, Canada (now a Mercer practice). In this capacity, she worked with investment consultants conducting manager searches for institutional clients as well as due diligence on global investment managers through face-to-face meetings. Géraldine holds an MBA from INSEAD as well as a Master of Science in Administration (M.Sc.) in Finance and a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) from HEC Montreal. She is a CFA charterholder.

Before joining Arvella, Emilie worked in London as an institutional relationship manager for the UK and France at Morningstar Investment Management. She started her professional career at Euler Hermes Asset Management in Paris as a Financial analyst covering multi-asset strategies, before working as an Equity Portfolio Manager Assistant. Emilie holds a degree in Economic Sciences from Panthéon-Assas University – Paris II and a Master’s degree in Asset Management from Dauphine University.

Sree joined Arvella Investments after the completion of the MiM-Grande École from ESSEC Business School with a Finance specialisation. He was an active member of ESSEC’s chair program on sustainable finance, where his team collaborated with an alternative asset management firm to research the evolution of the green premium on fixed income products and the potential impact of the incoming EU Taxonomy on valuation. Prior to the management program, he worked as an applied researcher for the energy industry in Abu Dhabi. He holds a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Khalifa University, UAE.