Our Team
The ValuesRate leadership team leverages expertise in sustainable finance, data, and technology to help users find products aligned with their values.
Michael Van Patten, Founder & Chief Executive Officer
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 the innovative leaders #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 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 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
​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.
