Ecology & Sustainability

The president of Kestrel is John P.M. Higgins  ([email protected]).  John is co-Chairman of the Board and Chief Investment Officer of Clearstead Trust, a Maine non-depository trust company based in Portland, Maine.  John has broad domestic and international experience as an asset manager of private and public securities, real estate, and oil and gas investments, as well as expertise advising not-for-profit and family organizations.

John  was formerly an officer of Citicorp (Santo Domingo), the Lambert Brussels Capital Corporation (New York), and the Banque de Gestion Privee (Paris). For three decades, John served as the president and chief investment officer of Ram Trust Services, a small boutique investment management firm in Portland, Maine which specialized in private investments, the management of generational wealth, and not-for-profit financial affairs.

John is deeply involved in the field of corporate governance and formerly was the chairman of the board of GMI Ratings, an international organization focused on environmental, social, governance and accounting risk in publicly traded companies. John graduated from Harvard University and currently sits on a number of non-profit and family boards.