Mr. Davis is Founder and Managing Director of Stance Capital, a company he formed in 2016 to bring to market public equity portfolios that mitigate material environmental, social, and governance risks and generate excess returns while at the same time allowing investors to align their portfolios with their belief systems.
Prior to forming Stance, Bill was co-founder and Managing Director of Empirical Asset Management, and Portfolio Manager on EAM Sustainable Equity, a strategy he launched in 2014. Prior to co-founding Empirical, he was the founder and CEO of Ze-gen, a venture and private equity backed renewable energy company he founded in 2004, focused on converting certain biomass waste materials into renewable syngas.
Mr. Davis received a B.A. from Connecticut College, and his career in business has included serving as CEO or founder of numerous companies including: Database Marketing Corporation in 1986, Holland Mark in 1997, and Cambridge Brand Analytics in 2002. He has served on both public and private company boards, and currently serves on the Boards of Mafic S.A., HoneyDrop Beverages, and Commonwealth Corporation. He chairs the Advisory Board of Drake Partners, and Seven Hills Global Outreach.
Bill is a founding member of the President’s Council of Ceres and has taught Environmental Entrepreneurship at Columbia University Center for Environmental Research and Conservation, and guest lectured at Harvard College, Harvard Business School, MIT, MIT/Sloan, and Boston University.