Managing DirectorOpen Road Alliance
From building pipelines of sustainable investments in Africa and Latin America to structuring innovative finance mechanisms such as blended finance impact funds, Caroline Bressan is an expert in impact-oriented financial product design, deal structuring, and portfolio construction.
With a commitment to pushing the limits of impact investing, she joined Open Road in 2015 and now leads its Investment team as the Managing Director. In her role, Caroline oversees the Open Road Impact Fund portfolio, providing bridge financing to social ventures at step-up moments of growth.
Open Road eliminates funding delays and accelerates growth for impact-first companies. As an industry leader in providing short-term bridge loans, Open Road offers fast, flexible, and affordable financing to companies across geographies and sectors facing unforeseen financing gaps that threaten to derail their work. Since its founding in 2012, Open Road has loaned more than $45 million to over 130 social ventures, keeping $450M of impact and follow-on financing into these ventures on track.
Prior to Open Road, Caroline was an Investment Principal at Dalberg Capital, the investment advisory wing of the management consulting firm, Dalberg. Previously, Caroline was an Investment Officer at Calvert Impact Capital, where she originated and managed a loan portfolio focused on the sustainable trade, social enterprise, and financial inclusion. She received her MBA from Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business and a BBA from the University of Michigan.