Mr. Hanson joined the company in 2019 as senior vice president and CIO, bringing over 25 years of investment and leadership experience.

Mr. Hanson has served as an investment executive at BlackRock, Jarislowsky Fraser, and JANA Partners. He brings significant experience in global and ESG investing through his work at BlackRock, where he spent 10 years as a portfolio manager and as Managing Director, Office of the CIO. He managed the BlackRock Socially Responsible Equity strategy as well as co-led the Large Cap Series funds with $23 billion in assets under management and maintained a leadership role in establishing the firm’s ESG initiatives. Subsequently, he was Partner and Head of U.S. Equities, and Co-Chair of the Investment Strategy Committee overseeing $30 billion in assets under management with Jarislowsky Fraser Global Investment Management, where he established the New York office for the Montreal-headquartered firm. Most recently, he served as Head of Impact Investing for JANA Partners. Mr. Hanson has also been on the professional faculty at the University of California-Berkeley Haas School of Business since 2016.

Mr. Hanson received his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and French from Middlebury College, and earned an MBA, Accounting and Analytic Finance, from The University of Chicago. He is a CFA® charterholder.