Meet the Team
Natalie Tagher
Founder
Ripple Effect Fund was founded by Natalie Tagher: a strategist, investor, native New Yorker, a Lebanese-American, and believer in the transformative power of storytelling.
By day, Natalie is Wharton MBA & a senior growth strategist at one of the world's leading fintech companies, where she runs a multi-billion dollar P&L, builds commercial frameworks, and makes the case for bold decisions. She brings that same rigor to film with the added conviction that the best investments are the ones that make a positive impact.
Natalie has always believed that stories are the most powerful force we have for building empathy, for making people feel seen, for changing how we understand ourselves and each other. She started Ripple Effect because she wanted to put her money and her time behind that belief.
Josh Penn
Advisor
Josh Penn is a producer with Serenade and the Department of Motion Pictures. He has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and Outstanding Producer at the Producers Guild Awards. He also won a Peabody Award and the Sundance Producers Award, and his films have earned Emmy nominations. Since 2012, he, as a producer or executive producer, has premiered over a dozen films at Sundance, with those films earning six awards from the festival. In 2018, he became a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.