Roraj Pradhananga, Partner and Managing Director of Research, Veris Wealth Partners

Roraj Pradhananga is a Partner, Co-CIO and Managing Director, Investments at Veris Wealth Partners. He leads the firm’s Investments team and is a voting member of the Investment Committee. Roraj is responsible for sourcing, due diligence and monitoring of investments across asset classes, thematic research, capital markets analysis, and impact measurement and management. Roraj chairs the firm’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Committee and Investment Working Group.

He seeks to drive systems level change and positive environmental and social impact through financial markets, build partnerships, identify impactful investment opportunities for clients, and contribute to the advancement of the impact investing industry.

Roraj has 16 years of experience in the US and Switzerland across Wealth Management, Asset Management, Banking and Insurance in various functions and roles. Prior to joining Veris, Roraj was a Sustainability Investing Analyst at RobecoSAM in Zurich, Switzerland, where he developed and implemented sustainability, ESG and impact investing solutions across core, thematic, and impact investment strategies and covered the consumer discretionary and telecoms sectors. Before RobecoSAM, he was a Vice President in Debt Capital Markets at Citigroup in New York. He started his career at KPMG in New York in the Insurance and Asset Management practices.

Roraj is a Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA®) who holds an MBA (Honors) from IMD Business School in Lausanne, Switzerland, and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting (Magna Cum Laude) from SUNY Binghamton. He is also a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). He lives with his family in NY.