Our Team

Ted Roosevelt V

Founding Partner, MSM

“I was first introduced to climate change in the late 80’s, when my parents started talking about it at dinner. At the time it was a niche idea, rarely mentioned outside of environmental circles. But climate change is now impacting our world and economy. Investors with medium to long-term outlooks can no longer ignore its impacts.”

Ted co-founded Redwood Grove Capital on the belief that capital markets remain the most powerful driver of change. Prior to Redwood Grove Capital, Ted was a managing director at GoldenTree Asset Management, a hedge fund specializing in high-yield, distressed, and structured credit investments. From 2001 to 2010, Ted worked as a senior vice president in Lehman Brothers’ and Barclays Capital’s Distressed Research and Leverage Finance Groups. Ted is on the National Board of Trust for Public Land, and a Trustee at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. He also serves on the President’s Council of the Woodwell Climate Research Center, and Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Racial Equity Task Force. He has a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Princeton University and a Master of Science in Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Greg Serrurier

Founding Partner, MBA, CFA

“My desire to bridge environmental risk and opportunity with investing stems from the Greek word “oikos,” the root word for both ecology and economics. It meant “hearth and home”. Our society must link these two words which have been too far separated for too long.”

Greg’s unlikely career started at a climate non-profit, Friends of the Earth. A chance decision to attend business school led Greg to a career in investing at Dodge & Cox, where he served as Sr. Vice President, Portfolio Manager on the investment committee of the US Equity, International Equity, and Balanced Fund, responsible for investing over $120 billion of assets. During his 30+ year career at Dodge & Cox, the firm grew from $3 billion to $150 billion in AUM. Greg’s career as an investor has brought him full circle to his environmental roots. Greg serves on the boards of NextGen Climate America and Earthjustice where he is the chair of the Investment Committee and serves on the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee. He is a Limited Partner in a number of climate-focused private equity funds. Greg earned a bachelor of science in biology from Oregon State University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Shahriq Sheikh

Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer, MBA

Shahriq is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer. In these roles, Shahriq provides leadership, strategic vision, and oversight of the firm’s operations and administration. Additionally, Shahriq serves as Chief Compliance Officer and oversees all aspects of the firm’s regulatory compliance program. Prior to Redwood Grove Capital, Shahriq was a consultant at Ernst & Young, advising financial institutions on compliance, operating strategy, and implementing industry best practices. His experience also includes operations management roles in finance startups as well as large, global manufacturing and engineering companies. Shahriq received his MBA from Columbia Business School and his BSc degree in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University.

Yaya Zhang

Head of Marketing, MBA

Yaya serves as the connecting point between client facing initiatives, marketing, and Redwood Grove’s investment team. Prior to Redwood Grove Capital, Yaya was a Senior Management Associate at Bridgewater, a global macro hedge fund. Her experience also includes public and private sector consulting, advising startups, and managing Partnerships for a national public policy campaign around U.S. debt reform. Yaya received her MBA from Berkeley Haas School of Business and her undergraduate degree in Finance from Georgetown University.

Greg Parosa

Partner, PhD, MBA, CFA

Greg serves on Redwood Grove’s investment committee and works as a Senior Equity Research Analyst. Before Redwood Grove Capital, Greg worked at Fuller & Thaler Asset Management, a $17 billion Nobel prize winners-founded investment company from California employing behavioral finance in equity markets. Before that, he worked as a Portfolio Manager and Head of Equity at AXA, a $1 trillion asset manager and insurer headquartered in France. In addition to holding a CFA designation, Greg holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in finance from the Warsaw School of Economics, a BSc in Computer Engineering from Warsaw University of Technology, and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Recently, he defended his PhD dissertation in Economics and Finance at Warsaw School of Economics. His doctoral research was focused on zombie companies and the negative consequences of unconventional monetary policies.

Eddie Parisi

Equity Research Analyst, MBA

Eddie serves as a Research Analyst on Redwood Grove’s investment team. Prior to Redwood Grove Capital, Eddie worked at Frontier Capital Management, a $10 billion investment company employing a fundamental, bottoms-up, long-term oriented investment approach across 4 distinct strategies. Before that, he worked as an Analyst and Associate on the Consumer / Retail / Healthcare Debt Capital Markets team at Barclays, where he led large-scale M&A financings for corporate clients. Eddie holds a BSc in management with concentrations in finance and accounting from Boston College, as well as an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Kellen Wilkins

Equity Research Analyst, JD, MBA

Kellen serves as a Research Analyst on Redwood Grove’s investment team. Prior to joining, he worked at Gabelli Funds, a $30B AUM investment firm, where he covered Business Services and U.S. Regional Banks. Previously, he worked in Private Equity for a family office and Mistral Equity Partners, a $300M AUM Private Equity firm specializing in Consumer & Retail. He began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst in J.P. Morgan’s Technology, Media & Telecom group. Kellen holds a BS in Business from Florida A&M University, a JD from Penn Law School, and an MBA from the Wharton School where he was an Investment Management Fund Fellow.