The team behind your engagement
A senior partner owns every engagement end to end. Behind them sits a private network of specialists we match to your goal — so you get exactly the expertise your project needs, and a single point of accountability throughout.
Principals
Iva Kaufman — Founder & PrincipalLinkedIn ↗
Craig Ullman — PartnerLinkedIn ↗Associates
Lubna Dajani LinkedIn ↗
Lubna Dajani is a futurist and systems architect with three decades at the frontier of technology, ethics, and human dignity. Her expertise spans ethical AI, digital identity, and the infrastructure of trust, and she has advised global enterprises — including Microsoft, GE, AT&T, and PwC — on how emerging technology reshapes markets and society. She is the founder of Allternet, a senior member of the IEEE, and a W3C Invited Expert who helps shape the international standards for responsible AI. For IKA, Lubna brings a rare pairing: deep technical command of AI and a systems-level view of how those forces reshape the businesses and communities the firm advises.
Yonatan Glaser LinkedIn ↗
Yonatan Glaser is the founder and CEO of un-stuck, a leadership and organizational-development practice built around a "Four Intelligences" model that helps leaders close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. He brings a background in coaching, strategy, and mission-driven institution-building. At IKA, Yonatan leads international business development — opening market relationships in India and structuring cross-border deals — pairing a strategist's eye for deal structure with a coach's instinct for the people and partnerships that make a venture hold together.
Muguette Petoe LinkedIn ↗
Muguette Petoe builds lifestyle brands for real estate, helping developers move beyond square footage into experience — designing self-sufficient communities and "farm-hoods" where wellness, hospitality, and local production are part of the offering rather than amenities bolted on. Her work centers on revenue diversification — spas, retail, food, and programming that give a property multiple income streams and a distinct identity. Through SEED ONE, her sustainability-focused venture, she pairs creative direction with business development for clients entering lifestyle-driven markets.
Stephen Shaff LinkedIn ↗
Stephen Shaff is a social entrepreneur who works at the seam where real estate, community development, and nonprofit capital meet. As founder of Community Vision Solutions, he has helped lead more than $100 million in housing and community-development efforts across under-served Washington, DC neighborhoods, with hands-on command of every phase of real-estate investment, development, finance, and management. He has founded, funded, and served on the boards of nonprofits working on anti-poverty, arts, and environmental causes — and brings IKA an operator's view of how mission and real-estate capital actually come together on the ground.
Kiran Waters Website ↗
Kiran Waters is a built-environment consultant who designs spaces around how people actually feel and perform in them. Through Element Sunlight Properties, she works across air quality, acoustics, circadian lighting, and materiality — from master planning down to the granular detail — with productivity, wellness, and return on investment as the measures that matter. Kiran helps IKA's real-estate and institutional clients treat healthy, high-performing buildings as an investment thesis rather than a nicety.
Partners
Donnetta Campbell Website ↗
Donnetta Campbell is a pioneer in executive personal branding and the founder and CEO of The Social Architects. She has built influential profiles and peer communities for C-suite leaders at companies including IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon — driving billions of impressions through authentic storytelling rather than broadcast. With IKA, Donnetta helps the firm's principals and clients turn credibility into reach, building the thought leadership and visibility that mission-driven work depends on.
Steven Keays Website ↗
Steven Keays is a professional engineer and four-decade veteran of major capital projects across energy, infrastructure, aerospace, and oil & gas. As founder and CEO of KPO Group, he helps visionaries secure the capital and certainty to carry ambitious, complex projects from idea to roll-out, and is the author of Investment-Centric Project Management. For IKA, Steven brings deep command of how large, capital-intensive ventures actually get financed, de-risked, and built.
Liz Rubin Website ↗
Liz Rubin is a documentary filmmaker and the founder, CEO, and creative director of Ecodeo, a B Corp climate-communications and video studio that turns climate solutions into stories people actually watch. Her work spans clean energy, conservation, and climate justice for mission-driven organizations and the United Nations. With IKA, Liz brings the storytelling firepower to make complex environmental work legible and compelling to the funders and audiences it needs to reach.
Robert Rubinstein Website ↗
Robert Rubinstein is an impact-investing pioneer and one of the field's most connected conveners. He is the founder and chairman of TBLI Group (Triple Bottom Line Investing), which for three decades has brought together institutional investors, family offices, and fund managers around sustainable and ESG investing through its global conferences and network. At IKA, Robert leads investor relationships and capital introductions — opening doors to impact investors and family offices across Europe and beyond for the firm's climate, conservation, and regenerative-venture clients.
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