Tom Woelfel

Senior Director of Impact

Tom joined HCAP Partners as Senior Director of Impact in March 2022. Tom leads HCAP’s Gainful Jobs Approach and overall impact management efforts, partnering with HCAP portfolio companies and collaborating with limited partners and industry thought leaders to improve job quality for frontline workers and generate positive impact in LMI communities. In addition, Tom is responsible for HCAP’s field-building initiatives and research, sharing findings, lessons learned, and evidence from HCAP’s Gainful Jobs Approach and experience as an impact investor. 

Prior to joining HCAP Partners, Tom served for over a decade as Director of Pacific Community Ventures’ research and consulting practice focused on supporting the growth and efficacy of impact investing. Tom consulted to investors spanning asset classes, geographies, and impact themes, including pension funds, banks, corporations, insurers, foundations, fund managers, faith-based investors, and CDFIs. In addition to advising impact investing clients, Tom led PCV’s work to improve job quality and developed Good Jobs, Good Business, an online toolkit featuring practical tools and resources to support small businesses in improving job quality for workers. During his time at PCV, Tom published research on a variety of topics of importance to the impact investing industry, including Meeting the Moment: U.S. Impact Investing Policy, Inequality, and COVID-19 Recovery, The Impact Due Diligence Guide, and Moving Beyond Job Creation: Defining and Measuring the Creation of Quality Jobs.

Tom is an active member of the impact investing community and participates in industry knowledge sharing, research, and standard setting efforts, including the IRIS+ Working Group, the GIIN Impact Investing Research Community Working Group, the American Evaluation Association Social Impact Measurement Topical Interest Group, and the Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (US SIF) Research Committee.

Tom holds a Bachelor of Science with honors in Managerial Economics from the University of California, Davis.