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Activist Investing And ESG: A Conversation With Dianne Mckeever

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Last month I sat down with Dianne McKeever, the Co-founder and CIO of Ides Capital, an impact activist investor. We met one morning at a Le Pain Quotidien in midtown Manhattan. She ordered the chamomile tea and I had the iced tea lemonade. Neither one of us had anything to eat. The bill was $10.44 which she insisted on paying saying, “I am the local.” Being the gentleman I am, I demurred.

Eccles: Dianne, thanks for taking the time to meet with me. Let’s start by talking about your childhood.

McKeever: I grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana and graduated from Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School where I had a pretty well-rounded experience—speech team, cheerleading, and a serious violin student. I grew up in a family that operated and owned a small consumer chemical manufacturing business, so I spent a lot of time meandering around factory floors and playing with adding machines.

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