Dave Zellner is the Chief Investment Officer for Glenview, Illinois-based Wespath Benefits and Investments, an agency of The United Methodist Church (UMC), and Wespath Institutional Investments. Wespath manages $29 billion on behalf of 100,000 active and retired clergy and lay employees of the UMC and over 120 UMC-affiliated institutions. Prior to joining Wespath in 1997, Dave was Senior Vice President and Director of Operations with Investment Research Company, then an investment management affiliate of United Asset Management. Previously, he was Director of Equities for the Shell Oil Company Retirement Funds where he managed two internal investment portfolios

Dave helped co-author and was one of the original signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment in 2006. He presently is the board chair for FaithInvest, a U.K. based charity. He received his B.S. in Finance from Louisiana State University and MBA from the University of Houston.