Mark Heising, the founder and a managing director of Medley Partners, an investment firm based in San Francisco, has been named Chairman-elect of the Board of Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). Heising, an EDF Board member since 2011, will take office in January 2021, succeeding Carl Ferenbach, co-founder of Berkshire Partners, who has served as Board Chair since 2009. Heising founded Medley Partners, a private market investment firm, in 2004. Previously he was the founder of VLSI Cores, which designed and licensed cryptographic integrated circuits. He holds six U.S. patents in cryptography, compression and data communications. He serves on the Board of Directors for Renaissance Technologies, Sion Power and the Heising-Simons Foundation, and as a trustee for the Institute for Advanced Study. Heising and his wife, Liz Simons, signed the Giving Pledge in 2016, publicly committing the majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes. Mark earned a B.S. in Physics and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California at Berkeley. “I am excited to take on this new role at EDF,” said Heising. “The people of EDF are highly skilled and deeply passionate about addressing the most urgent environmental issues facing communities around the world. EDF uses strong science and economic insights to forge lasting solutions to these challenges. I am honored to be able to play a part in this essential work.” To view the full article visit the Environmental Defense Fund.
