Our Team
The ValuesRate management team has extensive experience in; Sustainable & Impact Capital Markets, Financial Data and Technology. We use our expertise to create a comprehensive platform enabling users to choose a companies products and services that match their personal values.
Michael Van Patten, Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Michael Van Patten, CEO, Founder
Michael is recognized as a sustainable investing early innovator and pioneer. He has extensive experience in capital markets and financial technology.
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2009 Founded Mission Markets the first online impact investing platform
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2015 Recognized by “Real Leaders” Magazine as one of innovative leader #8 out of 30.
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Michael was also a member of Mensa International, the oldest high-IQ society which members must have a minimum of a 132 IQ.
Larry Rafsky, Partner, Chief Data & Technology Officer
Larry Rafsky, Partner, Chief Data & Technology Officer
Larry is a prominent statistician and data scientist. He is the co-inventor of the Friedman-Rafsky Test, a key multivariate procedure, earning him the Theory and Methods Award from the American Statistical Association.
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Larry has filed 17 U.S. patents
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Summa cum laude graduate of Princeton and earned his PhD in statistics from Yale.
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Founded Acquire Media which was acquired by Moody’s Oct 2020.
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Current advisor to Moody's.
Tom Saleh, Senior Data Advisor
Tom Saleh, Senior Data Advisor, Tom advices ValuesRate' back-end technology development.
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Has a long standing relationship with our founder
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Leading entrepreneur in the computer and financial data industry for more than three decades
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Founded seven successful high-technology companies, and influenced the success of several more.
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His firm provided the technology platform for Mission Markets in 2011.
Laura Trumbull, Senior Software Development Advisor
Laura Trumbull, Senior Software Development Advisor
After graduating from Harvard, Laura spent over 30 years in financial markets technology including nearly 20 years at Reuters in leadership positions.
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Global roles overseeing quality assurance practices and ITIL service management.
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Global roles overseeing quality assurance practices and ITIL service management.
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Served as COO / CTO at Chaikin Analytics (acquired by Stansberry & Associates Investment Research).
ValuesRate employs a team of skilled software developers.
