Steve Oyer

Steve Oyer is a seasoned investment executive with over 40 years of business and investment experience. He is the Founder and Managing Partner of Sustainable Finance Partnerships, a platform for business and philanthropic endeavors, through which he advises family offices, companies, funds, and select non-profits. His focus is providing advisory expertise to companies  committed to sustainability and impact, such as Borealis Foods, a mission-based food tech company listed on the NASDAQ, for which he is a board member and chairs the Audit, Governance, and Compensation Committees. He also provides consulting expertise for Earth Finance, a Seattle-based consulting and capital solutions company that helps global organizations accelerate their net zero objectives. Steve is a founding partner and advisor to Quake Capital Partners, a venture accelerator focused on startups spun out of university ecosystems. Most recently, he became an advisory partner to Sustainable Impact Partners, an impact-focused venture fund.

Steve’s leadership experience includes serving as CEO of i(x) Net Zero, a permanently capitalized holding company focused on energy transition and sustainability in the built environment. As a Senior Vice President at Lazard Asset Management, he led its Global Family Office Advisory Group. He was also a senior member of the Private Funds Group of Brookfield Asset Management, focusing on real assets and renewable investments. He was also a board member and the audit chair of Salton, Inc., a NYSE-listed designer, marketer, manufacturer, and distributor of branded small appliances like the George Foreman Grill.

Steve’s non-profit experience is extensive. In addition to his role on the Investment, Governance and Audit committees at Truth Initiative, he is a co-founder of Family Office University Network (FOUN), a nonprofit organization fostering collaboration between single family offices and universities. He is also the principal organizer of its non-commercial initiatives at Stanford, NYU, and most recently Oxford. Steve is also an active volunteer with the Climate Solutions Prize and Festivals, which advances cooperation and partnership with finance, industry, government and academia to support breakthrough solutions to the climate crisis. Steve has also served on the board and investment committee of the Florida Atlantic University’s Foundation.

Steve hails originally from Youngstown, Ohio and currently lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife, Lorri Staal, and they spend as much time as possible with their four children who live from coast to coast.

Oyer has served on the Truth Initiative board of directors since 2019.