Roger Frank

Roger Frank’s brings to AlgiSys decades of experience in financing, creating and building innovative, climate smart and agtech companies. Prior to joining AlgiSys he founded Innovare Advisors, a boutique advisory firm focused on financing climate-smart technologies and enterprises in Africa. Before Innovare, he worked at Developing World Markets (DWM) where he and his team won a Fast Company Award for their innovative financial models that opened the capital markets for microfinance.

Before becoming a climate-focused entrepreneur, he worked as an investment banker in global capital markets with major Wall Street firms including Lazard, Deutsche Bank and HSBC and a range of companies from start-ups to the Fortune 500.

He hasan MBA in International Finance from NYU Stern School of Business and a BFA, cum laude, from the University of Delaware. Publications include the Stanford Social Innovation Review and the Chronicle of Philanthropy. He is a frequent public speaker on ESG, social enterprises and impact investing and is on the Advisory Board, University of Delaware Graduate Program in Fashion and Sustainability and the Board of Trustees, University of the West, a secular Buddhist inspired University, where he is the CIO of the endowment fund.