Steve Schueth

Steve Schueth is President of First Affirmative Financial Network, an independent Registered Investment Advisor based in Colorado Springs, Colorado (SEC File #801-56587).  First Affirmative offers Sustainable Investment Solutions™ for socially conscious individual and institutional investors.

For nearly 20 years, Mr. Schueth has been a nationally recognized authority, consultant, and resource to the socially responsible investment industry.  He served as a Director of the Social Investment Forum from1992 to 2002 – seven of those years as Chair and President of the Forum.  He was with Calvert from 1989 to 1997 where he led a product development group that created the first global socially screened mutual fund in the U.S. and was involved in launching four other new Calvert funds designed for socially conscious investors.  As President of Calvert Distributors from 1994 to 1997, he ran Calvert’s sales organization and was responsible for the company’s relationships with over 2,000 broker-dealer firms.

Mr. Schueth was born and raised in Iowa where he began working in his father’s hardware store at a very early age.  His nearly 30 years of experience in financial services also includes five years as a real estate broker and four years as Vice President of a real estate securities company.  Mr. Schueth spent three years as Director of Development for The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.  Married over 30 years, he and his wife have two children and one grandchild, and live in Boulder, Colorado.

First Affirmative produces the annual SRI in the Rockies Conference for the socially responsible investment industry.  The 19th annual SRI in the Rockies Conference will be at The Fairmont Chateau Whistler in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, October 26–29, 2008.

For more information on Steve, please visit www.firstaffirmative.com