George Kelly Joins Quantified Ventures as Managing Director

Ecosystem markets veteran will build on the firm’s expertise in environmental finance and nature-based solutions as well as develop new market investment opportunities

WASHINGTON, DC — Quantified Ventures, a leading outcomes-based capital firm in the environmental, social, and health sectors, has hired George Kelly as managing director to build on its capabilities in ecosystem markets, environmental finance, early-stage enterprise development, and next-generation offsets. In this newly created role, George will expand the firm’s existing outcomes-based financing capabilities and oversee the firm’s development into new market investment opportunities.

“George’s deep expertise in environmental finance and policy, ecosystems markets, and outcomes-based environmental solutions compliments our existing team and strategies,” said Eric Letsinger, CEO of Quantified Ventures. “We are thrilled to work and learn with George to expand our vision of the possible, explore new market frontiers and to continue to innovate on our relentless quest for bold impact for people and the planet.”

“What I’ve always loved about Quantified Ventures is the focus on outcomes,” said George Kelly. “There is a strong linkage between my background in mitigation banking, market-making policy development, and the performance-based approaches that make QV a leader in delivering outcome-based environmental and health solutions.”

George most recently served as the CEO and Founder of Bespoke Mitigation Partners (BMP) and Partner of Earth & Water Strategies. Prior to forming BMP, he was the Chief Market Officer for Resource Environmental Solutions (RES). George led market initiatives for RES, with a focus on expanding the organization’s client base, geographic footprint, and wetland, stream, nutrient, and species offset markets. In this capacity, he spearheaded RES’ efforts to open nutrient and stormwater markets in the Chesapeake Bay Region; species markets in the Appalachian, Western, and Mid-Western U.S.; stream markets in Texas and the western U.S.; and wetland and stream restoration projects for water quality and carbon markets. Earlier in his career, George was the Founder and Director of Environmental Banc and Exchange, which was acquired by RES in 2014, and a Partner and a Member of the Environmental Law Group at Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver.

Quantified Ventures is an outcomes-based capital firm that develops public-private initiatives by structuring innovative financial transactions that drive transformational health, social, and environmental impact. As a certified B Corporation, we leverage deep content expertise, strategic partnerships and extensive capital relationships to plan, finance, and develop transformative projects and programs that advance health equity, social impact, community resilience, climate justice, and environmental outcomes.

Quantified Ventures pioneered the Environmental Impact Bond with DC Water in 2016 to address local stormwater challenges. In 2019, we structured the first publicly offered outcomes-based impact bond in Atlanta. Last year, we launched our first subsidiary outcomes-based company, ReHarvest Partners, to lead the transition to a more regenerative system of agricultural production by creatively deploying outcomes-based capital and monetizing carbon and water quality outcomes. Quantified Ventures operates four synergistic areas of practice: Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use, Health and Human Services, and Urban and Coastal Resilience.