We move money with intention.

Gary Whitehurst, CSRIC™

Managing Partner

Gary has spent more than two decades in Atlanta wealth management, holding nearly every role, from financial advisor to operations to head of advisory services, at a firm that grew to $1.4 billion in assets under management during his tenure. He co-founded Brighter to prove that clients don’t have to choose between competitive returns and investments that reflect their values. He earned a BBA from the University of Georgia and holds the Chartered SRI Counselor™ (CSRIC™) designation, the first major credential dedicated to sustainable, responsible, and impact investing. It was developed with US SIF.

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Nancy Sagar

Managing Partner

Nancy co-founded Brighter after a 30-year career as a social entrepreneur and growth-stage executive spanning the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. That work earned national recognition and included public-private partnerships that saved U.S. taxpayers more than $1 billion. She left a chief marketing role at a regional wealth management firm because, as she puts it, “I had to make fighting climate change my full-time job.” A member of the Climate Reality Leadership Corps, she speaks widely on climate solutions and sustainable investing and serves as Board Treasurer of Root Local. She holds a BA in Economics from the University of Michigan and an MBA with honors from UCLA Anderson.

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Kelsey Russell

Managing Partner

Kelsey is a strategist, operator, and systems thinker with a passion for aligning capital with community. After 13 years in corporate leadership at The Coca-Cola Company, she pivoted into the impact space, bringing her operational expertise to the Atlanta nonprofit Remerge before joining Brighter. She leads operations, helps build the firm’s private investment strategy, and is spearheading a new Social Justice Strategy to expand access and reimagine who investing is for. She holds a BS in Engineering from Baylor University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern.

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Anna Cable

Managing Director, Ecosystem & Capital Strategy

Anna is a strategist and impact innovator who moves fluidly between big-picture vision and on-the-ground execution. Her work spans impact investing, corporate social responsibility, social enterprise, and catalytic philanthropy. She has launched ventures, programs, and funding models that turn ideas into action. At Brighter, she focuses on ecosystem and capital strategy, building the relationships and structures that move capital toward solutions across the Southeast. She pairs sharp financial thinking with genuine human insight, a combination she calls “finance and feelings.”

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Jillian Rosen, MBA

Managing Director, Foundation & Institutional Growth Strategy

Jillian spent more than a decade at the Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation, rising from Program Manager to Vice President for Community Investment and, later, Senior Advisor to the CEO. There she led grantmaking and impact-investment portfolios across education, housing, and economic mobility, and built the planning systems that turned board vision into execution. At Brighter, she helps foundations and institutions align their endowments with their missions, from governance and board education to RFP strategy. She holds an MBA from Brandeis University and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Maryland, where she was elected Phi Beta Kappa.

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Roshni Chengappa

Director, Nonprofit Advisory & Impact

Roshni works at the intersection of nonprofits, workforce development, and impact measurement. She spent five years in growth and impact-leadership roles helping scale Generation, a McKinsey-founded global workforce nonprofit, and later worked with the impact-measurement firm 60 Decibels, gathering data directly from the people that programs aim to serve. At Brighter, she manages technical-assistance engagements and impact reporting for clients, with a focus on helping nonprofits adapt, build trust, and do more with their resources. Her earlier career included consulting at PwC.

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Patricia Park

Director, Client Success

Patricia leads client success at Brighter, drawing on a career that blends operations, human resources, and education. She has managed operations for multi-location businesses, led HR, and taught at the university level in both the U.S. and South Korea. Now pursuing the CFP® certification, she works alongside Gary to make every client’s experience clear, responsive, and genuinely supportive.

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Luiza DouglasAlumni

Finance & Investment Research Intern

Luiza is an honors finance student at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business, where she’s also pursuing a certificate in sustainability. An Atlanta native, she came to finance through policy work on affordable housing and a conviction that capital and community are deeply connected. She supported Brighter with finance and investment research.

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Javari CarltonAlumni

Finance & Investment Research Intern

Javari is a finance major at Clark Atlanta University and president of its Student Government Association, where he advised on budget priorities and financial strategy for the historic institution. He has evaluated nonprofit financial models through a PwC externship and analyzed the financial impact of legislation as a lobbying intern. He supported Brighter with finance and investment research.

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Tristin Shestag

Product Architecture Fellow, Foundation Systems Platform

Tristin is an industrial and systems engineering student at Georgia Tech and the founder of Scalor Medical Technologies, where he builds config-driven software platforms for non-technical users in clinical practices. He has a knack for translating real-world workflows into simple, durable systems — exactly the challenge of building tools foundations will actually use. At Brighter, he’s developing the foundation systems platform.

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