Valerie Red-Horse Mohl is the deputy chief investment officer for Responsible Investing and head of the Economically Targeted Investments Portfolio within the New York City (NYC) Comptroller’s office, managing the assets for the five pension funds within NYC (approximately $285 billion of assets under management in aggregate). In this role, she focuses on diverse managers, emerging managers, environmental, social, and governance, climate, and place-based economically targeted investing programs.

Red-Horse is of Native American Cherokee heritage and has over 40 years of experience in financial services, having started her career working for Michael Milken and John Kissick in the High Yield Bond and Corporate Finance Departments at Drexel Burnham Lambert. She then founded the first Native American-owned investment bank and Registered Investment Advisor on Wall Street where she raised, structured, and managed billions of dollars of capital for tribal nations.  In asset management, she focuses on financial returns alongside positive, impactful outcomes. 

She holds ten Financial Industry Regulatory Authority registrations and recently served, via appointment by Secretary Janet Yellen, on the US Treasury Advisory Committee for Racial Equity.  As an entrepreneur, she founded both Red-Horse Financial Group and Red-Horse Native Productions.

She is a part-time department board member and lecturer at Stanford University. Previously, she was a co-founder/partner of Known Holdings, executive director of Social Venture Network, and the chief financial officer/chief investment officer of the East Bay Community Foundation. She is active in her church and has been married to her college sweetheart for 43 years; they have three children and two grandchildren.