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Claire Smith is a climate fund manager, fintech entrepreneur and impact investor with 40 years of experience in finance and investment. She founded the humane investment platform Beyond Investing, which designs cruelty-free investment programs in public equity markets, and its venture capital arm, Beyond Impact, 

Beyond Impact has invested in over 30 superior, scalable and sustainable solutions which are carbon-negative, nature positive and animal-free across nutrition, ingredients, pharmaceuticals and materials. 

Beyond Investing created the US, Europe, Global and International Vegan Climate Indexes, which screen out all animal exploitation and fossil fuel from market benchmarks. The US Vegan Climate ETF was listed as a tracker fund on the NYSE (ticker: VEGN) in September 2019. The Vegan World Index comprises small to midcap growth stocks targeted to the vegan theme. 

In 2018 she co-founded Beyond Animal, a networking and funding platform to accelerate the growth of an animal-free economy, and she is President of Beyond Cruelty Foundation, which campaigns for zero animal exploitation and funds safe havens for animals. 

Claire received recognition as "Investment leader of the year" for her pioneering work in vegan investing by Environmental Finance in their 2022 Sustainable Investment Awards. Both public and private equity funds lunched by Beyond have received multiple awards from industry journals.