Team
Steve Monti, Managing Director
Steve is an active angel impact investor and Founder and Managing Director of Solidarity Capital Group and Solidarity Capital Fund, an impact investment firm and fund that finances economically sustainable social enterprises.
His background includes a 20 year IBM management career including key roles launching, leading, or accelerating four internal startup ventures. He has global experience in two dozen countries, is an alumnus of the Venture Capital Institute and of Stanford University and Duke University, and a member of the Investors’ Circle national impact investors’ network.
He is a founding member of the Investors’ Circle NC local network; a board member and/or advisor for several early stage companies; recent chair for the Duke Catholic Center; and serves the real estate and finance committee of Passage Home, Inc. Steve is married with two daughters and one son, and lives and works in the Research Triangle region of NC.
Jim Falanga
Jim is a highly experienced professional with focus on affordable, mixed income community development, with an extensive history in providing regulatory compliance, validation, quality assurance, planning, business analysis, system analysis, risk analysis, business process improvement, application, third party product evaluation, testing, remediation, and project management consulting services to health, bio-pharmaceutical, and medical device clients. Since 2010, Jim has shifted focus to social issues related to affordable community development, marginalization, low income, income inequality, homelessness, and current issues of social concern. Interdependent to involvement in these social issues is his belief that business can be a force for good which has led to pursuing impact investing opportunities based on this premise. Notable organization affiliations include Solidarity Community Advisors (Partner), AD-SCA Grace Holdings (Partner), The Justice Theater Project Board of Directors (Chair), Social Venture Circle (formerly Investors Circle), Solidarity Capital investor and Advisory Board, SJF Ventures IV investor, and SlowMoneyNC investor.
Bonny Moellenbrock
Bonny Moellenbrock is a nationally recognized impact investing pioneer who provides strategic counsel to leaders, foundations and organizations deploying investment and philanthropic dollars to make a difference. Most recently, Bonny served as Executive Director of Investors’ Circle, the largest and most active early-stage impact investing network in the world. Previously, Bonny was a Managing Director at SJF Ventures, a leading impact venture fund investing in high-growth, positive impact companies in the cleantech, sustainability, and tech-enhanced services sectors, and Executive Director of SJF Institute, its affiliated nonprofit. Prior to SJF, Bonny was COO and CFO of Preservation NC, and served on the management team of an entrepreneurial commercial recycling company. Bonny serves on the B Lab Standards Advisory Council and the Advisory Board of AMCREF Community Capital. She holds an MBA, a Master of Regional Planning, and a BA in Environmental Policy, Phi Beta Kappa, from UNC-Chapel Hill, and is a graduate of the Venture Capital Institute. Bonny enjoys gardening, trail running, and making music with her husband and daughters at their historic bungalow in Durham, NC.
Tom Silverio
Tom retired from a career in chemical manufacturing management with Honeywell International. His second career involved serving on and/or providing strategic planning for several non-profit boards. He and his wife Susan also started an Institute for Lifelong Learning at the Florida State University at Jacksonville. Along the way he took up creative writing as T. J. Silverio, becoming an award-winning novelist, and was recently honored to have a play he wrote become part of the 2019 NC 10 x 10 Festival.
Mike Tadych
Mike is a practicing attorney and founding partner of Stevens Martin Vaughn & Tadych, PLLC. His areas of practice include Administrative law, Commercial and Insurance litigation, First Amendment and Communications law and litigation, Intellectual Property, Occupational and Professional Licensing, and Sports and Entertainment law. Prior to practicing law, he also has had experiences in television production, aerial video photography, graphics design, desktop publishing, editing corporate newsletters and public relations. Mike is a native of Berea, Ohio, and a graduate of Indiana University and of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He serves on the Boards of the Justice Theatre Project and the Downtown Raleigh Rotary Club – NC’s oldest civic club; and has previously served the Board of the Wake County Bar Association, as its Communications committee chair and past editor of its newsletter. Mike and his wife Denise have three children. He plays water polo regularly, runs with his dog Molly a few times a week and gets beaten by his wife in tennis most times they play.
Jeanne Tedrow
Jeanne is currently CEO of the NC Center for Nonprofits, and previously a co-founder and the CEO of Passage Home, a nonprofit community development corporation established in 1991 to offer housing, economic development, youth development and neighborhood revitalization services within Wake County, North Carolina. Through her committed leadership over two decades and with the partnership of many local faith communities, Passage Home has become a nationally recognized community development organization that effectively and compassionately assists homeless families, previously incarcerated individuals, those in recovery and low resource neighborhoods. Jeanne has also served as the Co-Chair of the Wake County Continuum of Care and actively serves the City of Raleigh Affordable Housing Task Force, the Justice Theatre Project, and the North Carolina Community Development Initiative.
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