Dr. Todd Arthur Bridges
Design and build product solutions for the financial services and accelerate sustainable return on investment.
- 415-515-5639
- San Francisco, CA
- toddarthurbridges@gmail.com
Todd has a deep passion for building product, technology, and AI solutions that create sustainable economic growth, generate return on investment, and help business and markets solve the world’s biggest challenges. He has built innovative solutions in the technology and financial services industries. His experiences within industry have given him the opportunity to develop enterprise strategy, fundraise (Seed to Series B) across the private capital markets, convert complex ideas into products (Zero to One), build innovative product roadmaps, manage cross-functional global teams, and advise clients on AI & data solutions. His intellectual curiosity has driven him to develop domain expertise in the financial services, AI product strategy. applied research, applied artificial intelligence, product development, technology solutions, and data analytics. He has built partnerships across the ecosystem - including Bloomberg, NASDAQ, S&P Global, Google, BCG, Accenture, Morningstar, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Allianz Group, DWS, State Street, Blackstone, Bridgewater, and BNY Mellon. He enjoys working with public and private companies to build solutions to drive economic growth and develop innovative product solutions.
ResilienceAI is an AI-driven intelligence and diligence platform built for institutional capital allocators. We help accelerate investments across four critical pillars of the global economy: Climate Tech & Energy Independence, Resilient Supply Chains, Strategic Defense, and Frontier Technologies. By leveraging foundational models to synthesize highly complex, cross-domain data, our platform automates heavy-lift research workflows—including financial valuations, predictive risk analytics, and climate transition scenarios. ResilienceAI empowers asset managers, private equity firms, and infrastructure funds to identify vulnerabilities, streamline underwriting, and confidently deploy capital into the companies securing the future of the global economy. ResilienceAI is headquartered in San Francisco.
Trusted Responsibilities:
• Strategic Leadership - develop and execute the enterprise AI strategy aligned with the organization’s business objectives, prioritizing high-impact use cases for scaling across all client workflows and investor types.
• Zero-to-One Product - build prototype and AI workflow solutions, and collaborate with CTO to build enterprise technology platform that solves for institutional investor requirements - data integration, LLM model-agnostic, multi-agent architecture, climate intelligence, AI workflows, AI agents, and AI report generation.
• Fundraising & Revenue Generation - lead fundraising and commercial engagements with global clients across private equity, private debt, public equity, public debt, real assets, infrastructure, and ensure product and technology solve for their pain points and investment objectives.
• Team Leadership - build the ExCo (CTO, CRO, and Head of AI) and work with engineering, product, and commercial teams to deliver product (Zero to One) and delight clients.
EthiFinance is an independent European rating, research and expertise group, fully committed to Sustainable Finance. The group provides investors, banks, insurances, corporates and organisations of all sizes with impactful analysis and solutions to the challenges of financing as well as environmental and societal transformation. EthiFinance provides its services to a wide range of leading international clients under the brands EthiFinance (ESG assessments and credit ratings) and Spread Research (independent credit research). EthiFinance is headquartered in Paris.
Trusted Responsibilities:
• Strategic Leadership - collaborated with CEO and Board of Directors at ESG Book (acquired, 2026) to build the enterprise strategy, established business requirements that prioritize stakeholder demands, and secured venture capital funding for Series A ($25 million) and Series B ($35 million).
• Product Development - built innovative products (data, analytics, technology platform) that solve for client requirements for sustainability performance, GHG data, climate transition, and reporting.
• Team Leadership - led 15 member cross-functional team across four verticals (sustainability, climate science, artificial intelligence, ESG regulations & standards), and collaborated with engineering, sales, and marketing on GTM product release.
• Corporate Engagement - led commercial engagements with global clients on data, analytics, decarbonization, climate risk, climate transition, climate scenarios, and reporting solutions.
• Education & Advocacy - established the company as a thought leader via speaking engagements, white-papers, industry conferences (UN Climate Week), and professional forums (CFA Society).
State Street Investment Management serves the world’s governments, institutions, and financial advisors. With a rigorous, risk-aware approach built on research, analysis and market-tested experience, they build from a breadth of index and active strategies to create cost-effective solutions. State Street has become one of the world’s largest asset managers with US $5.1 trillion AUM. State Street is headquartered in Boston.
Trusted Responsibilities:
• Strategic Leadership - collaborated with CIOs to develop long-term sustainability strategy, establish across asset class requirements that prioritize stakeholder demands, and secured assets under management across the climate and sustainable investing product portfolio ($10+ billion).
• Product Development - built innovative ESG data architecture and products (investment strategies, client solutions, reporting tools) that solve for requirements for sustainable investing, climate decarbonization, and collaborated with sales and marketing on GTM product release.
• Team Leadership - led 5 member cross-functional team and collaborated with strategists, product, and engineering on the integration of sustainability across asset class — including beta, smart beta, active quant, fixed income, active fundamental, and asset stewardship engagements.
• Corporate Engagement - led commercial engagements with institutional clients on climate data, climate risk, climate solutions, sustainability solutions, and sustainability reporting.
• Education & Advocacy - established the company as a thought leader via speaking engagements, white-papers, industry conferences (UN Climate Week), and professional forums (CFA Society).
Ethic is the technology platform for sustainable and impact investing. The company empowers wealth advisors and institutional investors to create portfolios that align personal values with financial goals. The Ethic offering is available to advisors and institutions at Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and Morgan Stanley. The company is backed by investors including State Street Global Advisors, Jordan Park, UBS, Fidelity, and Oak HC/FT. Ethic is headquartered in New York City.
Trusted Responsibilities:
• Strategic Leadership - collaborated with CEO to develop startup growth strategy, establish business requirements that prioritize stakeholder demands, and secured venture capital funding for Seed and Series A ($13 million).
• Product Development - built innovative product that integrates proprietary investment model and best practice from modern portfolio theory - tracking error, risk premia, and sustainability.
• Research Leadership - led due diligence on data, climate decarbonization, climate transition, reporting solutions, and negotiated data licensing contracts - MSCI, Sustainalytics, CDP, S&P, SASB.
• Corporate Engagement - led commercial engagements on sustainability data, climate data, sustainable investing, climate transition, technology solutions, and climate reporting & regulations.
Doctorate with specialization in Social Sciences & Research Methods
Doctoral fellow with specialization in Law, Economics, and Socio-Legal Governance
Doctoral fellow with specialization in Social Sciences & Research Methods
Masters with specialization in Social Sciences & Research Methods
Palgrave Macmillan Feb 2020
Sustainable investing is a rapidly growing and evolving field. With investors expressing ever greater interest in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics and reporting, companies face a sustainability imperative and the need to remake their business models to respond to an array of pressing issues including climate change, air and water pollution, racial justice, workplace diversity, economic inequality, privacy, corporate integrity, and good governance.
Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment (JSFI) Feb 2019
Institutional investors are increasingly concerned with the material financial risks associated with global warming and the impacts of climate change on corporate financial performance and security returns. The challenge remains how to empirically quantify climate risk from an investment perspective and build investable portfolios that address the transition to a low-carbon economy. This study analyzes the available metrics for capturing climate-related investment considerations.
Journal Of Investment Management (JOIM) Jan 2018
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) offers a source of new and potentially valuable information for investors, impacting both potential returns and risk. Growing data availability has created the opportunity to integrate ESG into equity portfolios for a variety of investment processes, for both indexing and active management. In this paper, we provide an overview of the current data landscape and several popular methods for integrating ESG.