Rian F. Fried, Portfolio Manager

Rian is a cofounder of the Clean Yield organization and president of Clean Yield Group, Inc.

Prior to founding the Clean Yield in 1984, Rian was the director of the Brockton Regional Economic Development Corporation. His employment history includes positions as the director of an agency that coordinated and funded economic data research projects, and six years in community action and social work positions.

Rian holds a master's degree from Harvard University and a bachelor of arts from the University of Michigan. He has managed equity portfolios for more than twenty-five years.

Rian has served as a selectman in Stannard, Vermont, and is currently chair of the Planning Commission. He is also an elected justice of the peace. He has served on the board of the Vermont Community Loan Fund and many other boards of directors. He is currently on the board of Sterling College and the advisory board of People's United Bank's Socially Responsible Banking Fund. He also contributes financial columns to local and national newspapers and newsletters.

Rian's hobbies include cross-country and downhill skiing, cooking, and historic preservation. He was born on March 2, 1948, and lives in Stannard, Vermont, with his wife, Rachel. They have one daughter, Dorigen.

P. Douglas Fleer, Portfolio Manager

Doug is a co-founder of the Clean Yield organization and is vice-president of Clean Yield Group, Inc.

Prior to founding the Clean Yield, Doug worked as an independent building contractor. He attended Quaker secondary school and pursued higher education at Colorado College before exploring interests in scallop fishing and building on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.

Doug traces his interest in the stock market to his grandfather. He has been a private investor for over thirty years. For almost as many years, Doug has used his own social philosophy to guide and screen his investments. An active opponent of nuclear power and weapons, and an active proponent of environmental responsibility, he has long worked to help others design investment portfolios that reflect their social principles.

Doug was born on February 27, 1951, and now resides in Greensboro, Vermont, with his wife, Alice. They have two daughters, Lillian and Zoe. Doug's interests include whitewater canoeing, gardening, woodworking, and cross-country skiing.

Elizabeth Glenshaw, Portfolio Manager

Elizabeth is Clean Yield's Managing Director. She came to us with 25 years of experience in SRI. Elizabeth started her career crafting a community-banking program for a Vermont bank that focused on ensuring access to credit for low-wealth communities. Subsequently, she worked for two SRI asset-management companies, managing portfolios for clients who wished to integrate their social values with their financial objectives. Elizabeth's last position was with the Calvert Foundation, which assists non-profits in low-wealth and impoverished communities. She was instrumental in growing the organization from six to 38 employees, with a loan portfolio of $200 million.

In 1993, Elizabeth was first elected to the board of the Social Investment Forum, our industry's trade association. She served for 14 years, several as VP. Currently, she is president of the board of the Vermont Community Loan Fund, serves as an advisor to Vermont's largest bank, the Chittenden Bank, and is VP of the board of the Upper Valley Rowing Foundation. She also has an advisory seat with the Upper Valley Region of New Hampshire Charitable Trust.

Elizabeth received a BA from Marlboro College and is a graduate of the National Graduate Trust School at Northwestern University. She also has a degree in financial planning from Boston University. Elizabeth loves most sports and competes nationally in rowing. She and her husband Peter are raising three children in Lyme, NH.

Eric Becker, Portfolio Manager

Eric is Clean Yield's chief investment officer, overseeing our firm's portfolio-management discipline.

Almost from the time he graduated from college in 1991, Eric has been engaged in social and environmental investing. He joined Clean Yield in 2009 after sixteen years as an equity analyst and portfolio manager for Trillium Asset Management in Boston. Rising to vice president, Eric was the lead portfolio manager of the $45 million Green Century Balanced Fund and the leader of Trillium's small-mid cap and sustainable opportunities equity strategies as well as Trillium Sustainable Ventures, its private equity initiative.

Eric holds a B.A. in Comparative Religion from Haverford College and a Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the CFA Institute.

A proponent of sustainable agriculture, Eric is a founding member of the Slow Money Alliance, a network of investors, farmers and activists, and a founding board member of The Carrot Project, a sustainable agriculture finance organization. He is also senior fellow of the Environmental Leadership Program. In 2008, Eric was appointed commissioner on the Somerville (Mass.) Commission on Energy Use and Climate Change.

Eric lives with his wife, Vanessa, and daughter and son in Somerville, where he enjoys birding, live music, and Patrick O'Brian novels.

Dorigen Hofmann, Portfolio Manager

Dorigen is a portfolio manager operating out of the Clean Yield office in Washington, D.C.

Immediately prior to joining Clean Yield in 2006, Dorigen was an assistant attorney general for the State of Washington. At the attorney general's office, she worked on litigation and client advice regarding natural resource management, land use, real estate, public records, and administrative procedures. She has also spent time in Beijing working on land development issues, and she worked for a variety of U.S.-based environmental nonprofits and government agencies.

Dorigen has over 20 years of experience with Clean Yield, although most have been as a volunteer. The daughter of co-founder Rian Fried, her first job, at age seven, was licking stamps and sealing envelopes for the Clean Yield newsletter. Her investment interests vary widely, but she is particularly interested in community investing and the powerful impact it can have on communities around the world.

Dorigen holds a juris doctor from the University of Washington and a bachelor of arts from Washington University in St. Louis. She resides in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Jon. She can frequently be found cross-country or downhill skiing, hiking, tap dancing, gardening, and playing ultimate frisbee.

Richard D. Hausman, Research Director

Rick began work as Clean Yield's director of social research in 1990 while finishing out his third term in the Vermont House of Representatives. As a legislator, Rick advanced environmental protection, affordable housing, civil liberties, progressive tax policy, and divestment from South Africa.

Earlier, Rick's roles included Peace Corps volunteer in the Ivory Coast, director of one of the Farm & Wilderness summer camps, and director of U.S. Department of Labor programs for disadvantaged persons in northeastern Vermont. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Rick served as chief financial officer, first for the community mental health agency tied to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and later for a community action agency based in Barre, Vermont.

Rick holds a master’s in public health and a B.A. in biology. He has served on numerous for-profit and nonprofit boards, frequently in the role of treasurer. Currently, he serves on the boards of the R & R Foundation, the Wells River Action Project, and the Newbury, Vermont, Board of Civil Authority. He also serves on the Vermont Community Foundation's Investment Committee and on two nonprofit advisory boards. Like Rian, Rick is an elected justice of the peace.

Rick and his wife, Emmy, live in Newbury, Vermont. They have two sons, Ethan and Nate. Rick enjoys hiking, skiing, tennis, canoeing, and banjo.

Valerie Martin, Office Associate

Valerie is Clean Yield's office operations associate, based in our Norwich, Vermont office. She brings to Clean Yield a longtime personal commitment to leading a sustainable lifestyle both at home and at work.

Valerie combines an extensive administrative/operations background with strong graphic design experience. She came to us most recently from Tele Atlas, a digital mapping and navigation solutions company, where her role was to provide sales & training support to staff, including the managers of sales-forecasting and training. Prior to that, she honed her graphic design skills at Orvis, the sports-equipment company, where she helped design the catalogue.

Moving to this area nearly a dozen years ago, Valerie eventually settled in Lebanon, NH, with her partner Dennis and her two children. Outside of work, Valerie is active with the a cappella group Harmony Night. Never shy of interesting things to do, she also enjoys riding her motorcycle, gardening, reading, crocheting, hiking, sailing, cooking with her daughter, and watching her son play sports.

Valerie received a Bachelor of Fine Arts, with a major in Graphic Design, from the University of Connecticut.