Wayne Silby

Calvert currently manages $20 billion in assets. Silby retired as the Chairman of the board when Calvert was sold to Eaton Vance in 2017.

In 2015, Silby co-founded Zenflo, a mindfulness, floatation tank center in Beijing, with the goal of bringing Silicon Valley transformational neuroscience technologies to advance the mindfulness experience.

In 2004, he recruited Guo Peiyuan to co-found Syntao, Ltd, a Chinese consulting firm in the area of corporate social responsibility. In 2019, Syntao Green Finance was spun off from Syntao with Moody's Corporation as a strategic investor. Beginning in 2007, Silby chaired the China Committee of the Grameen Foundation and helped introduce microfinance to China including legal reviews in meetings with the current Chairman of the People's Bank of China, Yi Gang. He was a founding board member of China Alliance of Social Value Investors (CASVI).

Silby co-founded ImpactAssets, a donor-advised fund, in 1999 with Ron Cortes and Tim Freundlich. Its assets recently exceeded $1 billion.

Silby has been particularly active in trying to bring corporate social responsibility into China. Under his supervision, Calvert became a founding investor and advisor to the pioneering China Environment Fund in the late 1990s.

Silby and Guffey co-founded the non-profit Calvert Impact Capital (aka. Calvert Foundation) in 1987, whose mission is to help direct social investors to community needs by leveraging the Calvert operational infrastructure. Calvert Impact Capital was approved as a community development financial institution (CDFI) by the United States Department of the Treasury in 2000. Assets of this Note loan program are now in excess of $500 million.

Silby, together with Joshua Mailman, co-founded the Social Venture Network in 1987 with the goal of creating a community of entrepreneurs and investors committed to using business as a tool for social change.

In 1983, Silby met software architects Peter and Trudy Johnson-Lenz, who coined the term "groupware" and formed Groupware Systems, one of the first collaborative softwares utilizing the then newly-introduced Internet. The company folded in 1986, and Silby made a second attempt in 1999 by launching GroupServe, which collapsed during the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2001.

After attending a Buddhist conference entitled "Right Livelihood," Silby was inspired n 1982, to confound Calvert Social Investment Fund (CSIF), the first socially responsible mutual fund. Under His leadership, Calvert Social Investment Fund was the first fund to set aside 1% of its assets to be deployed at below market rates to further issues of social justice. It was also the first fund to oppose Apartheid by divesting from South Africa, and in 1994, it was the first fund to reinvest in free South Africa. Also, it was the first fund to file shareholder resolutions to hold companies accountable to their stakeholder mission, which included issues of gender and racial parity in boardrooms.

In 1976, just out of law school, Silby co-founded Calvert Fund with John Guffey, his classmate from Wharton . The fund was the first money market fund to use government sponsored floating rate note to achieve high returns with added safety; it soon managed more than $1 billion in assets by 1982.

Wayne Silby (born 1948) is an American social investor and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Calvert Investments, one of the first and largest socially responsible mutual funds in the nation, and has been acting as the Founding Chairman until his recent retirement.