MEET OUR TEAM

Bill Stoddart has been personally involved in social finance and values-based investing since the early 1990s and professionally since 2006. His current focus is reforging the tools of finance to create opportunity, build equity, and promote self-determination.

After five years with a regional broker-dealer, Bill founded an ESG advisory firm, NorthFork Financial, in 2011. He then launched 45North Partners in 2019 to provide consulting and advisory services to support individuals, family offices, and foundations in their investment journey and develop unique direct investment portfolios for them that align with their values to foster thriving communities and vibrant ecosystems.

Bill is also the co-founder of HomeStake Venture Partners, a Montana Benefit Corporation, created to address the related problems of access to friendly, patient capital for businesses, small to medium-sized companies’ need for advanced technical assistance, and the interest of investors to find alternatives to Wall Street.

Bill is a frequent attendee and contributor to several conferences each year, including Social Venture Institute, American Sustainable Business Network and Confluence Philanthropy, and was also a member of the first cohort of Just Economy’s Integrated Capital Institute.

Bill graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in History in 1989, obtained his M.A. in History at Montana State University in 1996 and spent nine years teaching AP U.S. History and Government at Bozeman High School. Beyond work and volunteering on several nonprofit boards, as well as his role on the board of Seek Labs, a HomeStake portfolio company, he and his boys spend as much time as possible adventuring outdoors near his home in Bozeman, MT.

Sarah brings more than a decade of experience in impact and community finance. Prior to joining NorthFork Financial, she spent two years working with Bill Stoddart at 45North Partners, where she helped deploy a $15 million custom impact investment fund of direct loans and equity investments in private companies. The fund was focused on four main impact areas including: Food Security, Low Income Housing, Indigenous Communities, and BIPOC Entrepreneurs.

Before her work with 45North Partners, she led the New Markets Tax Credits team at MoFi (formerly Montana Community Development Corp) where she and her team closed over $300 million in projects in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Arizona and managed a nearly $500 million portfolio. Prior to that, she led the Small Business Lending team at MoFi, vetting, underwriting, and closing small business loans. She helped grow the small business portfolio to over $40 million.

Sarah holds an MBA from University of Montana and undergraduate degrees in Environmental Studies and Sustainable Development from Prescott College. She is on the board of Red Ants Pants Foundation and CEI Capital Management and is a certified teacher with the Search Inside Yourself Mindfulness and Emotional Intelligence Program. She is delighted to join NorthFork as the COO, where her work includes internal operations, impact research, and business development and strategy. When not in the office, she enjoys finding new wild places to explore with her husband, Peter.