Valerie Red-Horse Mohl, Cherokee, is the Deputy Chief Investment Officer for Responsible Investing in the New York City Comptroller's Office overseeing the NYC five pension funds. She is also CEO/Founder of Red-Horse Financial Group and launched the first Native American owned investment bank in the U.S. She started her career working at Drexel Burnham Lambert with Michael Milken and John Kissick and has over 25 years of in-depth experience as a securities principle holding ten current FINRA registrations. In her career, she has served as a financial advisor and investment banker to multiple tribal nations. Red-Horse Mohl has raised, structured, and managed over $4 billion in capital. She recently served as an appointee by Secretary Janet Yellen as one of the inaugural members of the U.S. Treasury Advisory Committee on Racial Equity with a focus on access to capital. She serves on the Advisory Board of Stanford University’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and teaches an undergraduate course on Entrepreneurship for Social Impact and Racial Equity at Stanford. She was inducted into the National Association of Women Business Owners Hall of Fame in 2008 and was recognized in 2022 as one of the Bay Area’s Most Influential Women.