Catherine Toner

Biography

Catherine is Managing Director of Impact Investing at Gary Community Ventures, a hybrid family office and private foundation in Denver, Colorado. At Gary, Catherine leads portfolio and product structuring for the organization’s family economic mobility outcome area, with a focus on housing finance innovation, community and employee ownership, and the future of work. She also led the structuring of The Dearfield Fund for Black Wealth, a fund launched by Gary to close the racial wealth gap by increasing access to Black homeownership in Denver.
Prior to Gary, Catherine worked at BofA Merrill Lynch in its Consumer & Retail Investment Banking group. She joined BofA Merrill after graduating from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Before to business school, she spent five years at Arabella Advisors, where she helped establish and grow the firm’s impact investing practice, advising philanthropists on sourcing, due diligence and structuring of private equity and debt investments.