Katie Hall
Co-Chair & CEO // Leadership
Galvanize is a pure-play, global asset manager focused on delivering returns through deep specialization in energy and the business of decarbonization.
Katie Hall is a member of the Board of Managers and shareholder at Pathstone and was also the Founder of Hall Capital Partners (“HCP”). Founded in 1994, HCP advised on $45 billion in investment assets for foundations, endowments, and large pools of family capital. Katie also serves as a Director of Laurel Trust Company. Before founding Hall Capital Partners, Katie was a General Partner of Laurel Arbitrage Partners, a risk arbitrage investment partnership. Prior to that, she was a General Partner at HFS Management Partners (predecessor to Farallon Capital Partners) and Hellman & Friedman. Katie began her career at Morgan Stanley, where she worked in both the risk arbitrage and mergers and acquisitions departments.
Katie graduated cum laude from Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree and earned an MBA from Stanford. She serves as Board Member for a number of corporate boards (including Gap Inc. and Ariat International) and is active on the Board of UCSF Foundation, UCSF Foundation Investment Company, and SFMOMA. Katie is also Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Previously Katie has served on the boards of a number of civic and educational institutions, including serving as Chair of the Board of Trustees of Princeton University from 2011-2019. Katie was a member of the Board of PRINCO from 1998-2011 and Chair from 2008-2011.
Katie also serves on the boards of Ariat International, San Jose Earthquakes, and McEvoy Group.
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articles Katie Hall calls climate change an ‘existential crisis’ Katie Hall, Hall Capital Partners founder and co-chair talks about starting the company Galvanize with friend and billionaire Tom Steyer. It's an investment platform focused on ending climate change.
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articles Katie Hall and Tom Steyer back firm fighting climate change Katie Hall, Hall Capital Partners founder and co-chair, teamed up with friend and billionaire Tom Steyer last year to launch Galvanize. The goal: to raise money for the flight against climate change. Here's more from "Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein."
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press-releases Tom Steyer and Katie Hall launch new investment platform to fight the climate crisis through private-sector innovation and global activism Galvanize is spearheading the use of Movement Capitalism to produce and scale vital and urgent climate solutions.