Fran Seegull | Executive director

Fran Seegull is the Executive Director of the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing and the President of the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance. The Alliance is dedicated to strengthening the impact investing ecosystem by advocating for an enabling public policy environment, catalyzing the flow of institutional capital for impact, and building the impact investing movement globally.

Seegull was previously the Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director at ImpactAssets where she headed investment management for The Giving Fund—an impact investing donor advised fund. Seegull also oversaw product development and managed the Global Sustainable Agriculture and Microfinance Plus Notes. 

Prior to joining ImpactAssets, Seegull was Managing Director at Funk Ventures, an early-stage impact venture capital firm. She also served as Vice President of Business Development at Novica, an online retailer of products made by artisans in Asia, Africa and Latin America.  

Seegull has a BS in Economics from Barnard College at Columbia University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She serves on the Investment Committee of Align Impact, the Investment Advisory Committee of RSF Social Finance, the Advisory Board of SOCAP and the Advisory Council of the Case Initiative on Impact Investing at Duke University. Previously, Seegull was Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at USC’s Marshall School of Business where she created and taught a graduate-level class on impact investing and won the Golden Apple Teaching Award for Best Elective, nominated and selected by Marshall students. She served on the Investment Committee of the Goldhirsh Foundation and on the G7 Social Impact Investment Task Force Working Group on Asset Allocation. Seegull tweets on impact investing at @franseegull.

Jessie Duncan | Program Officer

Jessie Duncan is an ESG/impact investing expert with 15 years of experience managing initiatives and portfolios in the sector. She has deep knowledge of ESG/impact reporting frameworks, best practices, evolving regulations and ESG data/digitization trends and challenges. At the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing (TPF), Duncan oversees strategy and grantmaking in TPF's funding areas of data and measurement and public policy. Prior to TPF, she was a Principal and Expert with Boston Consulting Group (BCG)’s social impact practice.

Previously, Duncan was Head of Strategy and Senior Portfolio Manager for Medtronic Labs (an impact and innovation lab within Medtronic where she oversaw investments across emerging markets), an Advisor to Ambassador Samantha Power at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, and a Manager at the Monitor Group (now Monitor Deloitte ). Duncan holds a B.A., with Honors, from Stanford University and a joint MBA/MPA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

Amber Reese | Senior Program Associate

Amber Reese is a dedicated professional with a passion for impact investing and extensive experience in managing initiatives and portfolios. At the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing (TPF), Reese serves as the Senior Program Associate, providing support across several areas including grant management, evaluation, and managing relationships with both grantees and funders.

Prior to the TPF, Reese was able to analyze complex information, develop strategic solutions, and effectively communicate findings to diverse stakeholders during her 5.5 year tenure as a Business Strategy Consultant at Accenture. Reese had projects not limited to coordinating cross-functional and enterprise-wide initiatives, improving operating model design, and project management spanning across a wide range of industries including retail, CG&S, high-tech, etc. She also played a pivotal role on the Global Strategy and Innovation Team within Accenture Corporate Citizenship, where she skillfully tracked and aligned ESG disclosures with internal strategy and reporting frameworks, contributing to the development of an integrated reporting process.

Reese has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago, where she maintained Dean's List every academic year. Reese also holds a minor in Romance Languages and Literature (Spanish Language). She also had internships at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) conducting research on Alzheimer's disease and the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI)/U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) working at a Bee Population Monitoring Lab.