Fund Management Team

Tammy E. Newmark, Fund Manager and President
Newmark heads the fund management team for EcoEnterprises Fund. She also serves as president of Fondo EcoEmpresas, S.A. Before joining the Conservancy, Newmark led Technoserve, Inc.'s environmental business advisory services in Latin America and Africa. Prior to that, she was a founding officer and a vice president of the Environmental Enterprises Assistance Fund, a nonprofit venture capital fund that specializes in environmental investments. She established Yayasan Bina Usaha Lingkungan and Preferred Energy Investments in Indonesia and the Philippines, respectively. She has also worked for the International Finance Corporation in Washington, D.C., and The Chase Manhattan Bank in New York. Newmark has an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Michele Pena, Vice President, Operations
Pena brings organizational management and marketing expertise from her five years as a program director at the Climate Institute, a nonprofit organization that facilitates dialogue regarding global climate change among scientists, policy makers, business executives and citizens. She has an M.A. from American University in Washington, D.C.

Eugenia Villalobos Baldioceda, Vice President, Investments
Villalobos joins the Fund from Citibank Costa Rica where she worked as a Risk Officer in the Corporate Bank Division. Prior to that, she worked with Grupo Bursatil Aldesa, a local brokerage firm in San Jose as a Corporate Finance Project Analyst. Villalobos did her undergraduate work at the University of Costa Rica and holds an MS in Industrial Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia.