Theresa Wilson

As a mission-oriented investment professional, Theresa is passionate about leveraging market-based solutions and innovative partnerships to accelerate economic development, alleviate poverty, and facilitate social justice. Today Theresa assists a variety of clients in building robust and resilient business operations to agilely meet growth opportunities. She also works with clients to develop, deploy, refine, and monitor mission-aligned investment portfolios.

Prior, she worked with a niche SEC-registered investment advisory firm, Avivar Capital, to managed internal operations and conducted investment due diligence and client portfolio management. Theresa also supported a $50M impact portfolio at Omidyar Network, worked in SME Private Equity at the IFC, supported the Market Dynamics team at Results for Development, and served as a Kiva Fellow working to launch Kiva’s US-based microfinance platform. Before Kiva, she served in the U.S. Peace Corps in the Republic of Georgia and Costa Rica.

Theresa holds an MBA and MA in Global Affairs from Yale University where she was a Forte Fellow, Executive Director of the Yale Journal of International Affairs, and co-chair of the Yale Philanthropy Conference. She earned her BS in finance and in interdisciplinary business management with a marketing minor, magna cum laude, from Miami University.

Marc Rand

Marc Rand is a founder and the Managing Partner of Community Capital Advisors, an impact investing advisor focused on place-based foundations. While he has experience across a broad array of investment solutions, Marc has particular expertise in designing and managing community loan funds.

Marc is the former Program Director for Loans and Affordable Housing at the Marin Community Foundation (MCF). While at MCF Marc invested more than $50 million in Marin-based nonprofits during a 12-year period with a 0% default rate. Marc also developed one of the nation’s first donor development strategies connected to impact investing and increased available MCF loan capital and increased available loan capital five-fold from $5 million to $25 million as a result.

Marc also serves as Executive Director of American Nonprofits and the Bridge to Bridge Fund that provides short-term financing to tax-exempt organizations. He was also a Senior Partner at Avivar Capital, an SEC-registered investment advisor focused on impact investing.

Marc served six years as a director, two as Board Chair, for Opportunity Fund. Opportunity Fund is one of the nation’s most successful CDFI microlenders, having invested $138 million in underserved entrepreneurs and low-income communities in 2018 alone. Marc is a sought-after expert and public speaker having contributed at several national conferences on nonprofit lending, including serving as a guest lecturer at the Haas School of Business, University of Southern California, and the Aspen Institute.

Mark, a graduate of the University of Delaware, lives with his partner in San Francisco.

Daniel Tellalian

Daniel Tellalian is the Founder and CEO of Angel City Advisors. Angel City was created to provide an accessible platform for investors, entrepreneurs, policy leaders, and community voices to come together in pursuit of a better world. It is a place where market-oriented solutions can be designed and executed to address complex problems. Daniel comes to Angel City with over two decades of experience in impact investing, social entrepreneurship, business mentoring, financial transactions, and community economic development. He also strives to come to Angel City every day with humility, integrity, and authenticity.

Immediately prior to launching Angel City Advisors, Daniel was the co-founder and Managing Partner of Avivar Capital, bringing his operator experience in economic development, real estate management, social entrepreneurship, and impact investment to the firm. Avivar Capital is an SEC-registered investment advisory firm focused on impact investing. Daniel was the firm’s lead on a food investing and bioscience investing, as well as active in place-based community development initiatives, due diligence, and pipeline development activities. Since his exit, Avivar continues to advise a national roster of impact investors – mostly private and community foundations. 

Prior to joining Avivar Capital, Daniel was a Principal and 13-year partner at Emerging Markets, Inc., an economic development consulting firm that assisted the private sector to responsibly pursue business opportunities in low-income areas nationwide. During that time Daniel led client engagements within the firm’s regional banking and food retailing sectors, assisting a number of successful financial institutions and supermarket operators in California and nationally. As part of a place-based model, his primary client services included market research and sectoral analysis, real estate siting and entitlements, customer segmentation, community marketing strategy and campaigns, strategic partnership design, deal sourcing and structuring, workforce development, and community relations.

Daniel has also consulted broadly with clients on strategic grantmaking initiatives, market expansion strategies, and investment opportunities for traditional and impact investors. He served as the co-designer and lead for the deployment of the California FreshWorks Fund, the nation’s largest healthy food financing initiative, originating over 70 successful transactions and $62 million invested into healthy food enterprises in the state. Daniel also consulted on the redesign and deployment of a FreshWorks Fund 2.0 program ($70 million deployed and counting), as well as the Michigan Good Food Fund, both ongoing statewide food financing initiatives. His connection to multiple regional and national food funds is ongoing. He now also advises on the pivot and expansion of the national Fair Food Fund with an integrated capital approach to equity-first food investing.

Daniel is also retained by economic development entities to attract new investment to underserved communities. He has consulted with Los Angeles County on the design of strategic funds dubbed the Catalytic Development Fund (real asset redevelopment) and Bioscience Investment Fund (early-stage venture), LA COVID19 Fund (emergency small business lending), and the LA Microloan Program (microcapital to the informal economy). He has also advised on the creation of catalyst organizations intended to accelerate innovation ecosystems and the commercialization of science and technology. Daniel helped launch and lead a new such organization, Bioscience Los Angeles County or BioscienceLA, in Southern California. Across multiple sectors, Daniel has consulted with enterprises seeking to secure investment, as well as investors seeking to place investments. He has also advised the LA Cleantech Incubator on its stated goal of securing a diverse and inclusive company portfolio.

A proponent of neighborhood-scale development, Daniel has more than a decade of working knowledge designing and executing place-based initiatives. He was a founding board member of the Center for Place-Based Initiatives (now known as the Emerging Markets Development Corporation). He is experienced operating in low-income and communities of color, and connecting them to the investment community. Daniel recently joined the Investment Committee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, one of the nation’s few private foundations that have committed 100% of its assets towards mission through impact investing and active ownership.

Daniel lives in Mid-City Los Angeles with his wife Monica Carlos and two daughters. He speculates he is the City’s only Puerto-Rican/Armenian resident.