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The SRI Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing is the premier annual gathering of investors and investment professionals working to direct the flow of investment capital in more positive, healthy, and transformative ways. The SRI Conference offers many opportunities to meet and learn from passionate, creative people from all corners of the sustainable and responsible investment industry (SRI) in the United States and around the world.

The SRI Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing

is owned and produced by First Affirmative Financial Network in collaboration with many other SRI industry organizations.

Conference Producers

George R. Gay, CFP, AIF
Chief Executive Officer

George Gay is Chief Executive Officer of First Affirmative Financial Network and chairs the First Affirmative Investment Committee. George served on the board of directors of the Social Investment Forum for more than a dozen years, and has produced and hosted the annual Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing since 1990. He was the recipient of the industry's 1997 "SRI Service Award."

George earned his Certified Financial Planner designation in June 1984 and completed a range of securities examinations covering the practice and supervision of securities business. He has held Series 24 (Registered Principal), 7 (Registered Representative), 65 (Uniform Investment Advisor), 53 (Municipal Bond Principal) and 63 (Uniform Securities Agent) licenses. He earned his AIF designation (Accredited Investment Fiduciary) in November 2003.

George joined the company that was to become First Affirmative Financial Network as a financial planner in November 1986. He assumed the position of Chief Operating Officer of First Affirmative in 1989 and managed the sale of the company to Walnut Street Securities, Inc., in 1995. George served as President of the First Affirmative division of Walnut Street Advisers and as Vice President of Walnut Street Advisers (May 1995-June 1999). He became CEO of the newly independent First Affirmative Financial Network, LLC on July 1, 1999.

Born in 1952 in Monroe, Michigan, Mr. Gay is a 1974 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point; he served on active duty for nine years in various command, staff and faculty assignments as an Armor officer. His final assignment on active duty, and then for three years as a civilian, was in the Resource Management Division, Directorate of Personnel and Community Activities at Fort Carson, Colorado. As division chief, George was responsible for the financial management of most business operations on the installation, ranging from the Golf Course and Bowling Center, to the Club Systems and Child Care operations. Upon his departure, he was awarded the Department of the Army "Commander's Award for Civilian Service."

Steven J. Schueth (pronounced “Sheeth”)
President

Steve Schueth is President and Chief Marketing Officer of First Affirmative Financial Network.  He served as a Director of the Social Investment Forum from 1992 to 2003, and as Chair and President of the organization from 1993 to 2002. He currently serves as a director of the Denver-based nonprofit Alliance for a Sustainable Colorado. He received the social investment industry's "SRI Service Award" in 1998, and has produced and hosted the annual SRI Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investinge since 1999.

Steve worked from 1989 to 1997 for Calvert where he specialized in promoting the concept and practice of socially responsible investing with the public and press. His efforts significantly enhanced Calvert's reputation as a leader in the field, while the firm's socially screened mutual fund assets more than tripled. He led a product development group that created the first global socially screened mutual fund in the U.S. and was directly involved in launching four other new Calvert funds designed for socially conscious investors. Steve managed Calvert's national sales organization from 1994 to 1997. As President of Calvert Distributors, Inc., he oversaw the company's relationships with over 2,000 broker-dealer firms and grew the assets of Calvert's 35 money market, bond, and equity mutual funds.

Born August 27, 1954 and raised in New Hampton, Iowa, his father owned a hardware store where Steve worked, meeting the needs of retail customers, from the age of ten. He graduated from Marquette University in 1976 with a BA degree in Journalism/Communications. He has held NASD Series 24 (Registered Principal), 7 (Registered Representative) and 63 (Uniform Securities Agent) licenses.  Prior to his association with Calvert, he served for three years as a major gifts officer and Director of Development at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.