Catherine
Toner
Managing Director, Impact Investing, Gary Community Ventures
As Managing Director of Impact Investing, Catherine leads Gary’s impact investing and investment product structuring work. She has a passion for creating innovative investment solutions that produce sustainable and scalable impact, with a particular focus on ownership investing, housing finance, and child care.
At Gary, her work has included conceptualizing the tenant equity vehicle and guiding the financing strategy for Proposition 123, the first successful ballot measure in the U.S. to create a statewide solution to the affordable housing crisis; structuring the Dearfield Fund, a down payment shared appreciation fund launched by Gary Ventures Inc.; and designing statewide employee ownership policy.
Prior to Gary, Catherine worked at BofA Securities in its Consumer & Retail Investment Banking group. Catherine began her career at Arabella Advisors, where she helped establish and grow the firm’s impact investing advisory practice. She received an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and a bachelor’s from Colgate University.
