Team

Stephen is of mixed European heritage. Prior to joining Raven Indigenous Capital Partners in 2018, Stephen was the Founder and Managing Partner of AHL Venture Partners, an impact investing firm dedicated to scaling disruptive, scalable, and mission-driven enterprises across Sub-Saharan Africa. Stephen lives and works alongside his wife and two children on the traditional unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil Wau-tuth First Nations.

Jeff is mixed heritage, Métis and European and hails from the White Horse Plains area of Southern Manitoba, the traditional Buffalo Hunt staging grounds. For nearly 20 years, he has provided strategic leadership for Indigenous, not-for-profit, and government organizations. Jeff has helped create and implement the community-driven outcomes contract (a unique pay-for-success social finance model) and the Indigenous Solutions Lab process, which earned him an Ashoka Fellowship. Jeff is a proud husband to Nicole and father of five and currently lives and works on unceded Algonquin lands in what is now known as Ottawa, Ontario.

Garry McBerryhill is a citizen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and an investment associate with Raven Indigenous Capital Partners. Garry joined Raven in 2021 to help lead Raven’s investments in Native American-led startups in the US.

Garry has worked in Native American finance since 2014. He has experience in private equity, tribal economic development, sovereign investment, and real estate.

Garry earned his MBA at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where he was a Toigo Foundation Fellow, an Ayres Private Equity Fellow, a Management Leadership for Tomorrow MBA Prep Fellow, and a Consortium for Graduate Study in Management Fellow. Garry is a proud alumnus of Oklahoma State University and Tulsa Community College. He lives in Upstate New York with his wife and two children.

Mitch Langan is a member of the Metis Nation of Saskatchewan. He holds Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Business Administration degrees both from the University of Saskatchewan. Mitch has spent the last 5 years as a Commercial Banker focused on working with First Nations Governments and Indigenous owned businesses. His passion is entrepreneurship, having been involved with various early stage start ups as a side hustle. Mitch lives in Martensville SK on Treaty 6 Territory and the Traditional Homeland of the Metis.

Devon is of mixed European descent and is grateful to reside on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Passionate about using finance to promote inclusive economies, Devon’s professional experience spans twenty countries including at a global economic development firm and a Canadian pension plan. Devon earned an Honors Business Administration bachelor’s degree with distinction from the Ivey Business School and a post graduate diploma in Social Innovation from the University of Waterloo. When she’s not busy impact investing, Devon can be found in the mountains hiking and camping.

Jonas Hunter supports the design and implementation of Impact Measurement and Management at Raven Indigenous Capital Partners and Raven Indigenous Impact Foundation. For the past 12 years, Jonas has provided leadership, strategy, and operational support for social purpose start-ups and non-profit organizations, prior to which he founded and led an enterprise software company which he operated from Macedonia.

 Jonas, who is mixed European descent and grew up in India and Japan, brings a multi-cultural world view and a love of nature to his work. He is grateful to live and work in the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations of Vancouver, BC.

Alisa is an accountant with more than 30 years’ experience in financial and information systems design for non-profit organizations and for-profit businesses. She has worked extensively throughout her career supporting Indigenous organizations in Canada. She lives as an uninvited guest on the traditional lands and territories of the Cowichan Nations in Duncan, BC.