R. PAUL HERMAN
HIP Investor â„¢ , CEO and Founder

The world’s $140 trillion in investments are under-performing until all currencies (e.g. rupee, real, rand, euro, dollar) generate both Human Impact + Profit (HIP) simultaneously. Paul founded HIP Investor to spread and implement this vision of a world that is socially, environmentally and financially sustainable. HIP Investor serves corporations and CEOs, entrepreneurs, and individual and institutional investors to realize their potential to be HIP.

Previously, Paul was Director of Strategy for eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s Network to help shape the future of its for-profit and non-profit investments and portfolio impact. Paul’s achievements as Chief Development Officer of Ashoka: Innovators for the Public included leading the global team to grow revenue from $12 million to nearly $20 million in two years, and expanding the North America Fellowship program, now numbering 60 systems-changing social entrepreneurs, known as Fellows (one-third of whom are in the San Francisco Bay Area).

Born and raised in Chicago , Paul has become a “citizen of the world” by living and working in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Americas . Paul is a passionate entrepreneur and has managed and grown innovative ideas and organizations from scratch. Paul co-founded and sold a financial-services company for teens, kids and parents, reaching 30,000 customers, 55 business partners, and enabling a living platform for financial literacy and privacy protection.

Paul also has helped Fortune 500 companies world-wide with McKinsey & Company and CSC Index; founded the New York Chapter of Coalition for Quality Children’s Media which teaches youth media literacy; serves on the Board of Directors for an emerging-market farmers marketplace with Vipani.org, an economic empowerment organization at Springboard Forward; and is an Advisor to a global network of human impact-focused business people with NetImpact.org.

Paul graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and now lives in San Francisco , with his wife Gayle, a travel/food writer ( www.GayleKeck.com) and branding/marketing expert.

The world’s $140 trillion of capital is under-invested, until all organizations and investment opportunities — whether denominated in rupee, rand, real, euro, yen or dollar, for example — yield both positive human impact and profit simultaneously.

HIP Investor believes that:

1. Human Impact drives Profit, a new source of value and innovation.
2. Human impact can ““ and should ““ be measured; there are four categories of impact (health, wealth, earth and equality).
3. Only organizations that pursue Human Impact and Profit at the same time will out-perform their competition and the market overall.

Once you as an investor shift your mindset and expectations that being HIP is both possible and necessary, then entrepreneurs and CEOs will adapt their corporations to realize this innovation is even more profitable.

HIP stands for Human Impact + Profit.

Today, companies and Wall Street measure financial success, but in most cases they neglect four common components of human, social and environmental impact:

* Health:   the life expectancy, quality of life and wellness of  people

* Wealth: the income, assets and ability to grow financial capabilities of people.

* Earth: the state of the air, land, water and other resources used; and how products and processes have neutral or better impacts.

* Equality: the gender, ethnic and class balance across the entire organization – Board, executives, managers and front-line staff.

At HIP Investor, we quantify the  results of these  four groups of benefits, and explain how they drive higher revenue or  lower costs, create more optimal investments or even generate tax benefits.

All companies have a HIP rating based on their Practices (Vision, Measures, Financial Impact, Accountability, and Decision-Making) and their Revenues (driven by Health, Wealth, Earth and Equality).

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