INVESTMENTS
LLC
NATURAL
New York
ABOUT:
PARTNER,
INVESTMENT ADVISOR
GREG PITTS
As your advisor, I’ll help you reflect your values in your investment portfolio, while building wealth for you and your family, and achieving your financial goals.
Services | Portfolio Management ($500K minimum) & Financial Planning
Phone | (607) 216-8308
BIOGRAPHY:
Greg Pitts is a Partner and Investment Advisor Representative of Natural Investments, LLC specializing in sustainable and responsible fee-only investment advice and management, as well as hourly, as-needed financial planning to people from all walks of life.
Because no third-party compensation is received, potential conflicts of interest regarding compensation are removed. Flexible, needs-based services allow clients to select what makes sense to them.
Education:
Series 65 - Uniform Investment Advisor Law Exam (2007)
Boston University, Boston, MA Certificate in Financial Planning (2007)
Kalamazoo College, MI, BA in Physics (1980)
Experience:
Natural Investments, LLC, Ithaca and New York City, NY
Partner
2017 - present
Investment Advisor Representative, Socially responsible investment advice and management
2010 – present
Ecolibrium Financial Planning, Ithaca, NY
Principal, Financial Planner, Registered Investment Advisor for sustainability-driven financial advice
2007 – 2012
EcoVillage SoNG Cooperative, Ithaca, NY
Managing Partner for financial and development management for 30-home co-housing community
2002 - 2004
Independent Consultant, Ithaca, NY
Management, technical, financial consultant to industry, government and universities on eco-industrial development and alternative energy projects
2000 – 2007
Ecolibrium, Austin, TX
Executive Director of non-profit working to establish economically-viable recovery of electronic products
1999 – 2002
MCC, Austin, TX
Director of Environmental Programs for a high-tech consortium, responsible for all aspects of multi-million dollar business
1994 - 2000
Community and industry involvement:
Founding Member of the Cayuga LION (Local Investing Opportunities Network)
Member of Sustainable Tompkins
Member of the Green Resource Hub
Investment Advisor Representative of Natural Investments, LLC
Member of Sustainable Enterprise and Entrepreneur Network
Member of the US SIF
Member of the Financial Planning Association
Past President of the Board for the Center for Transformative Action
Past President of the Second Neighborhood Group at EcoVillage at Ithaca.
International Board Member for Electronics Goes Green 2000+ in Berlin, Germany, 9/2000.
Founding Member of the International Society for Industrial Ecology.
Founding Member of the International Association of Electronics Recyclers.
Former Liaison Chair for the IEEE Technical Committee on Electronics and the Environment
Former Conference Chair, Exhibits Chair, Publicity Chair for the IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and the Environment.
Former Task Force Co-Chair for Tufts Stakeholder Dialog on Recycling Engineering Thermoplastics.
Member of the EIA Environmental Issues Council.
Session Chair at IEPS, ISHM, ASME and other national conferences.
Active in EPA Common Sense Initiative, Electronics Sector through its conclusion in 1998.
Advisor to the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment on the development and dissemination of environmental technologies (1997).