Patrick McVeigh

Patrick McVeigh is the President and Chief Investment Officer at Reynders, McVeigh Capital Management, LLC in Boston, Massachusetts, where he leads the firm's investment advisory and asset management activities. His key responsibilities include overseeing portfolio strategy, firm leadership, and guiding the firm's approach to integrating environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors into investment decisions. McVeigh is widely recognized for pioneering socially responsible and sustainable investing, with a career spanning over four decades.

His investment expertise centers on sustainable and ethical investing, specifically focusing on ESG integration across public equities, fixed income, and balanced portfolios for individuals, families, and institutions. McVeigh emphasizes identifying material ESG issues most relevant to long-term company performance, especially within industries undergoing transformation such as environmental technology and consumer products. He believes that the qualitative analysis of ESG factors is essential for sound investment management, not just as a trend but as a core data set for decision-making.

Patrick began his career at one of the earliest ethical investing firms, Trillium Asset Management, and was a founding board member of SEED, a community loan fund for Haitian cooperatives. He previously served as Director of Research at Lowell, Blake & Associates and contributed groundbreaking studies for the Social Investment Forum, shaping the industry's understanding of the growth and impact of socially responsible investing. He holds a B.S. in Economics from Santa Clara University and has consistently advocated for the evolution of mainstream asset management to include ethical and environmental considerations.