Leveraging capital for long-term positive
impact and sustainable change in the world.
About the Founder
Lukas Haynes
Founder, Principal Donor Advisor
Lukas Haynes advises major donors on strategy and allocations to maximize the impact and leverage of their philanthropic, political and commercial investments.
From 2015-22, he worked closely with 15 Rockefeller family trustees as Executive Director and CEO of the David Rockefeller Fund, where he oversaw major changes to endowment investment policy and grant making programs. He spent 20 years shaping and refining grants programs to promote national security, climate solutions, human rights, community organizing, justice and democracy at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in Chicago and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation in New York.
From 2000-01, Haynes had a White House OPM appointment at the U.S. Department of State and wrote for Secretary of State Madeleine Albright during visits to 30 countries abroad.
Haynes was a Harvard University Kennedy School Fellow in 2001 and earned a master’s degree in International Relations from Oxford University. He has published in The New York Times, The Economist, Comparative Strategy, Christian Science Monitor, San Diego Union Tribune, and the Stanford Social Innovation Review. Haynes has provided media commentary to The New York Times, NBC News, Inside Philanthropy and the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
Haynes is a visiting distinguished fellow at Stanford University’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a board director of Rihanna’s Clara Lionel Foundation, One for Democracy and Sepsis Alliance. He is a graduate cum laude of the College of William & Mary and he advocates for better sepsis awareness and treatment through Lulu’s Law, a bipartisan, bicameral bill named after his late daughter and introduced in the United States Congress in September 2022.
About Johann
Johann Berlin
Senior Advisor
Since 2017, Johann has held fractional C-Suite executive positions at leading family foundations and investment firms, stepping into both entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial roles during important leadership transitions and turnarounds. He has advised both global and domestic social enterprises, including Nouvelle Vie Haiti, a youth leadership, permaculture, and trauma relief initiative that has been scaled to impact nearly 10,000 Haitians; and resilient schools program, a youth resilience-building program that has impacted about 150,000 + teenagers in 70 schools, and CLO at Total Brain, a digital platform to advance mental health built off the world's largest neuroscientific database.
From 2012 - 2022, Johann was CEO of TLEX Institute North America. Launched at the World Bank, TLEX Institute drives vision clarity, team alignment, and performance grounded in human values like empathy, belonging, and thriving. Johann worked with hundreds of leaders and teams across corporate, government, and nonprofit institutions - including Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Amazon, Microsoft, and the World Bank Institute. As a thought leader, Johann he has put forward new narratives on leadership - including hosting a summit and podcast series on “The Future of Humans at Work,” giving a TEDx Talk on kindness, and is a contributing writer in leading publications like Harvard Business Review, The Washington Post, Forbes, Business Insider, and Real Leaders.
Prior to these roles, Johann was CEO of Sustainable City Solutions, advising pioneering inventors, researching community sustainability best practices, and identifying the most effective solutions that could be shared as best practices. Managing relationships among city officials, innovators, sustainability entrepreneurs, and funders, he phased solutions strategically to align with donor legacies, values, and perspectives. As a strategic advisor to impact platform mapping conscious investor space in the very early days of impact investing and building algorithms matching crowdsourced deals for investments based on impact investment criteria.
About Susan
Susan Su
Senior Advisor
Susan Su is a venture capital investor focused on climate tech and sustainability. As a former operator with a background in building and scaling technology products and teams at Stripe, Reforge, and Google, Susan brings a builder’s ethos to her work with early stage founders.
As an investor, Susan has led deals across stages and geographies, with a special focus on investing in founders dedicated to reversing climate change and restoring nature. Susan’s personal and professional portfolio includes some of today’s best known early stage climate tech companies, including David Energy, The Cool Down, Pachama, Overstory, Ecosafi and more, with co-investors including Union Square Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Lowercarbon Capital, General Catalyst, B Capital, Upfront Ventures and others.
Susan has also sourced, vetted and advised on managed fund (limited partner) opportunities, and is fluent in direct deals, SPVs, and fund deals. As the creator and program director behind Climate Change for VCs, a course that saw learner participation from 80+ venture investors including individuals from Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, and Equal Ventures, Susan is exceptionally well-connected in the climate and sustainability venture ecosystem and strives to build bridges between founders, investors and executive operators.
In addition to her work as a climate investor, Susan is a member of the board of advisors for The Environmental Voter Project and a board director at The Carbon Business Council.
About Henry
Henry Zhu
Donor Advising Associate
Henry Zhu specializes in elevating opportunities for young professionals to engage more deeply in philanthropy. This includes advising on cause alignment and donation strategy, bridging connections to high-impact nonprofits and foundations, and co-developing sustainable engagement efforts.
Henry brings a wealth of experience as a trusted partnerships intermediary for hundreds of individuals, companies, and organizations intending to engage more substantially with proven non-profits. He has engaged heavily with social impact, corporate social responsibility, and communication leads, connecting thousands to non-profit resources and initiating earned income and donations of over $1 million.
Beginning in 2019, Henry has assumed numerous roles in internal operations and external affairs at The Jed Foundation (JED), a leading mental health and suicide prevention non-profit focused on teens and young adults. This includes serving as a Senior Associate, Strategic Partnerships; Chief of Staff; and Summer Fellow. In these capacities, he initiated dozens of high-impact, resource-generating opportunities including with corporations, large school districts, professional associations, advocacy groups, and nonprofits.
Henry is a graduate of Harvard College, with a Cum Laude in Field in Psychology and received the Emerging Leaders Award. He recently completed a year-long, highly selective fellowship at the Institute of Nonprofit Practice, where he was the youngest of 30 NYC-based, non-profit professionals as part of the Community Fellows Program.