Christina Alfonso

Christina Alfonso joined Cimbria Capital in the capacity of ESG Senior Advisor with the purpose of further strengthening the firm’s expertise in ESG pre-investment screening and post-investment analytics following the acquisition of Madeira Global by Cimbria in 2020. In her role with Cimbria, Ms. Alfonso will help oversee ESG integration and serve as a direct advisor to the firm’s investment committee and executive team.

Ms. Alfonso is an investment professional with over 18 years of experience in private wealth and alternative fund management across North America, Europe and Latin America. For the last decade, she has advised top global fund managers, family offices and Fortune 100 companies on sustainable strategies and ESG integration. As co-founder and CEO of Madeira Global, an ESG advisory and reporting firm established in 2012, she advanced the use of data-driven approaches to build high-performance ESG portfolios across all asset classes.

Ms. Alfonso is dedicated to elevating the mission of the financial markets to include impact-conscious practices. Her leadership role in the field of ESG analytics and socially responsible investing has been highlighted in financial publications including Institutional Investor, Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo Finance, Worth and Leaders Magazine. In 2020, her contribution entitled, “Private Equity and ESG Investing,” in, “Values at Work: Sustainable Investing & ESG Reporting,” was published by Palgrave MacMillan. She has also been a featured speaker at the Concordia Summit, the Worth Wealth Summit and academic conferences hosted by the Harvard Kennedy School, Columbia, Cornell, NYU, Georgetown and Wharton.

In 2016, Ms. Alfonso was recognized as a “Game Changer” by the U.S. Green Chamber of Commerce. In 2015, she was awarded “Women of Influence” by the New York Business Journal and received City & State Reports’ “Pioneer Award for Distinguished Achievement in Impact Investing.” In 2014, Ms. Alfonso was initiated into the Milken Institute Young Leaders Circle and was named a “Rising Talent” by the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society. She was inducted into the international honors society of economics, Omicron Delta Epsilon, in 2004.

Prior to Madeira Global, Ms. Alfonso served as a director at WWI Group, a São Paulo-based private equity firm, where she formed part of the founding team that launched the firm’s first renewable energy fund. Prior to pursuing her M.B.A, she served as a member of the private client services group at AllianceBernstein in New York, supporting a $2+billion client base and leading a team of private client associates in multi-generational wealth planning and portfolio management services.

Ms. Alfonso currently serves as an Advisory Board member of PathNorth, in Washington, D.C. She holds a B.S. in Finance and Economics from Fordham University, where she graduated Cum Laude, and an M.B.A. from ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain.