Noelle Laing

Chief Investment Officer

Builders Vision

Noelle Laing is Chief Investment Officer of Builders Vision and is a member of the Builders Vision Leadership Team. She oversees a team of nearly 30 investors who are responsible for the management of over $15 billion across seven portfolios, including a taxable multi-asset class portfolio, a philanthropic endowment, donor-advised funds (DAFs) and Builders Bridge, a catalytic investment LLC. Previously, Noelle was a managing director at Cambridge Associates. While there, she worked with institutional and family clients to develop and execute mission-related and impact investing programs and portfolios. Her impact investing knowledge and thought leadership related to asset classes and impact themes are highly regarded. She is a frequent speaker and panelist on impact investing topics.

In addition to working with dozens of institutional investors and family offices throughout her years at Cambridge Associates, Noelle also worked directly in the investment offices of the American Red Cross and at Taft Hartley Pension Plan.

Noelle is a CFA charter holder and earned a bachelor’s degree with honors in mathematics from St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York. Outside of work, she can often be found exploring her new hometown of Chicago with her husband and daughter.

Speaker Session

10:55–11:45

Inside the mind of an Impact CIO

Bridging conviction with reality — that is the central challenge facing impact investment leaders today. As markets reset and volatility lingers, CIOs are reassessing risk, liquidity and long-term return expectations across their portfolios. This candid conversation gets inside the decision-making room: how do you balance idealism with fiduciary responsibility when headwinds mount? Where are leaders leaning in or pulling back, and what gives them the conviction to back emerging managers, new geographies or innovative structures at a time of uncertainty?
Panellists will share how they build internal buy-in, the trade-offs they actually make, and what it really takes to turn impact commitments into capital deployment — with rigour and accountability.