We Raise Foundation Welcomes Mark Wimer to its Board of Directors
Itasca, IL—We Raise Foundation is pleased to announce that Mr. Mark Wimer has joined its board of directors for a three-year term starting January 1, 2025.
“We are thrilled to have Mark’s presence, his financial expertise and experience, and his passion to serve others on our board of directors,” said Paul Miles, President/CEO of We Raise Foundation. “We strive to be a good steward of other people’s generosity at We Raise, and Mark will help us achieve that objective.”
Wimer, CIFD, CFA, is an experienced institutional equity portfolio manager and investment management executive with broad experience managing multi-billion dollar global equity portfolios and growing an institutional asset manager from a very early stage to over $5 billion in assets under management.
Wimer has experience with brokerage oversight, fair value determination, and risk analysis across investments, operations, compliance, and technology. As a portfolio manager, he has presented to mutual fund boards and advised pension fund boards on asset allocation and selecting and monitoring external managers.
From 2008 until 2022, Wimer served as a Senior Portfolio Manager at Strategic Global Advisors, LLC, where he managed non-US and global equity portfolios for institutional investors and communicated investment results to clients. He was an equity owner and leader/mentor for investment team members.
Wimer holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
In other We Raise board news, Mr. Mark Duesenberg, Rocky River, Ohio, was re-elected as chair; Rev. Gerald Mansholt, Sheboygan, Wis., was re-elected as vice chair; and Mrs. Christine Messerschmidt, Tower Lakes, Ill., was re-elected as secretary.
About We Raise Foundation
Motivated by the belief that freedom is grace in action (Galatians 5:1a), We Raise Foundation partners with Christian nonprofit organizations and emerging leaders working at the intersection of poverty, violence, and inequality. We have a preference for funding solutions within the areas of education, workforce development, and criminal justice and employ a unique approach to our investing by coupling program funding with a variety of robust value-added services that empower our grantees to grow their solutions. As a result of these value-added services, every $1 that donors invest through We Raise multiplies into more than double the benefit to the organizations we support. To learn more, please visit weraise.org. You can also find We Raise on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
