Renaye Manley is a seasoned and accomplished professional in the world of finance and pension funds. She has honed her skills focused on strategic execution of sustainable financial principles. Renaye brings strategy, innovation and advocacy to the world of finance and institutional investors infusing a lens of racial and gender equity. Renaye recently launched MCG, a boutique consulting practice that is focused on strategic development and execution of ESG strategies in the investor ecosystem with a focus on workforce, diversity and equity. She is a senior advisor to the Capital Markets hub project sponsored by the Amalgamated Bank Foundation.
In this role she is focused on deploying innovative and under-utilized strategies to address issues of racial justice, economic and gender equity as well as climate and related issues that address medium and long-term investor risk. She will work with local pension fund trustees, state and city comptroller’s and treasurers to urge investors to address risk related issues around mismanagement, low job standards, financial speculation, monopoly power and industry precarity.
Before her current role, she served as Deputy Director of the Service Employees International Strategic Initiatives department. In this position, she worked with pension trustees, investment professionals and union leaders around the engagement of multi-billion-dollar union and public pensions funds, including corporate governance and shareholder work. She led SEIU’s “Diversity & Dollars” work, which has led to the adoption of the “Rooney Rule” at seventeen companies, including Facebook and Amazon. She served on the Biden Harris transition team bringing her ideas and expertise to the financial regulation team. Renaye also previously served on the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s advisory board on Small Business, Agriculture and Labor.
She previously served as the advocacy committee co-chair of the Council of Institutional Investors which convenes the largest groups of investors and asset owners in the United States. She currently serves on the board of the 30% Coalition, an investor coalition dedicated to gender and racial equity on corporate boards. Prior to her job at SEIU, Renaye worked for Interfaith Worker Justice, a community /labor collaboration, coordinating work with national unions and denominations on issues of workplace justice. She has a background as field organizer, working for years at the AFL-CIO where she focused on field campaigns on political and worker organizing. She is a graduate of Indiana University and has an MBA from Western Governors University.