LOIRE ADVISORY

I founded Loire Advisory for clients who want a social impact partner as invested in the result as they are.

Over two decades, I built expertise across three distinct worlds. I started as a graduate fellow at a global arts foundation, where I first learned how institutional funders think, how grant decisions get made, and what it means to steward a mission at scale. From there, I moved to a leading philanthropic advisory firm, where I designed and managed complex grant portfolios, conducted landscape research, and translated principals’ values into coherent strategies.

Each experience built on the last. Working at a global private equity firm, I learned how institutional capital actually moves, how investment decisions get made, how risk is assessed, and where the leverage points are between private capital and systemic change.

The challenge was always the same: taking an idea from inception to execution. I often work with principals who seek to deploy multiple forms of capital to effect change. For example, alongside a client, I built a grants portfolio informed by a broader landscape analysis of the field, including research into prize philanthropy, to understand where the highest leverage points were. That research shaped the grantmaking and ultimately led the principal to seed an early-stage fund whose core thesis was designed to solve for market-rate solutions to the systemic issues we identified in the original research.

What I couldn’t do inside any of those institutions was work the way I work best: closely, personally, and with full commitment to a single client’s vision at a time. Twenty years of working alongside family office principals and ultra-high-net-worth families has taught me that the most ambitious problems require a particular kind of partnership, built on trust, candor, and a shared willingness to sit with questions that don’t have obvious answers.

That is what Loire Advisory is for.