Tom Soto

About Tom Soto

I am a long-time investor in the impact sector. I was born & raised in East LA County & Pomona, California to two of the state’s most well-respected Latino Civil Rights leaders. My father was Assemblyman Phil Soto, the first Latino elected to the state legislature in 1962. My late mother was Nell Soto, she too served the last ten years of her life as a member and leader in the California State Senate. I live in the most incredible, abundant and dynamic time in the history of humanity. I have owned four PE funds, and our family investment office, Latimer Partners, LLC with my husband of 19 years, Todd Soto. I’ve stood at the dovetail of energy, climate tech, carbon monetization, renewable energy, and over many Fourth Industrial Revolution driven platforms where technology contributes to improving the human condition using AI, fintech, and blockchain, all well challenging LP’s and tech platforms to embrace diversity, equity and inclusion and a carbon free future. Between contributing to climate change initiatives; Clean Air Act Standards and forcing the removal of diesel from municipal procurement processes across the country and the need to decarbonize our economy, this all to promote a political process and regulatory framework needed to establish a clean economy driving the planet into a future of prosperity and abundance. I am former Chairman of the New America Alliance, the national Latino business initiative seeking to increase access to capital for diverse fund managers; I am a founder and Vice Chair Emeritus of the LA Clean Tech Incubator and Trustee of the California Science Center and Trustee of the NRDC. I\'m also appointee to the California Lithium Valley Commission. After selling my fund, Craton Equity Partners to TCW in 2013, I was the Managing Director of Alternatives at the $198b fund and was an Investment Committee Member of TCW Alternatives. Under mine and my colleagues’ leadership, the TCW alternatives platform grew from $300m in AUM to $10.3b in three years. I am a former member of the board of trustees of the Redwood Mutual Fund, owned by Aspiration where I am a former Sr. Advisor, the country’s fastest growing online bank and financial services platform. I am a two-time appointee of President Clinton and was the Team Lead for The Executive Office of the President’s Transition Team for the White House Council on Environmental Quality for President Elect Obama and a founding member of the Executive Council for Clean Energy for Biden. We live in Los Angeles, with our fourteen year old son.

Experience

1. Senior Advisor

   Trndsttrs

   Jan 2020 — Present · Santa Monica, CA, US

Education

• UCLA

  BA, Political Science

  1985 — 1987