Bill Davis

Bill Davis founded Stance Capital to bring to market investment portfolios that mitigate material environmental, social, and governance risks and generate excess returns while at the same time allowing investors to align their portfolios with their belief systems. Prior to forming Stance, Mr. Davis was co-founder and Managing Director of Empirical Asset Management, and Portfolio Manager on EAM Sustainable Equity, a strategy he launched in 2014.

Prior to co-founding Empirical, he was the founder and CEO of Ze-gen, a venture and private equity-backed renewable energy company focused on up-cycling certain waste materials into renewable syngas. Mr. Davis received a B.A. from Connecticut College, and his career in business has included serving as CEO or founder of numerous companies including Database Marketing Corporation in 1986, Holland Mark in 1997, and Cambridge Brand Analytics in 2003.

He serves on the board of the Children’s Environmental Literacy Foundation. He also serves on the Board of Ceres, where he also chairs the Ceres President’s Council. Mr. Davis co-leads a shareholder engagement effort within Climate Action 100+, a collaborative effort between UNPRI and Ceres. He has taught Environmental Entrepreneurship at Columbia University Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, and guest lectured at Harvard College, Harvard Business School, MIT/Sloan, and Vanderbilt University.