Our dedicated Leadership and Advisory Team
Our team is committed to driving community development and fostering impactful investments in communities across the United States.
Rodrigo Vela, Managing Principal
Rodrigo is the founder and Managing Principal for Bedrock Impact Assets LLC, where he leads the firm's investment strategy, capital formation, and mission-driven lending initiatives. He has over 15 years in community development finance, serving as CFO for two of the largest CDFIs in the country, IFF a regional CDFI based in Chicago, and Raza Development Fund, a national CDFI serving the Hispanic community.
Rodrigo has raised over $1 billion in enterprise debt over his career with over $200 million deployed in the education finance space. He led the initial public debt offering for RDF with a AA(-) rating from S&P, leading the Fund to a 5X growth in AUM over a decade.
His community involvement includes serving as founding board member for the Tepeyac Leadership Initiative and En Familia Radio, and board officer for the Catholic Association of Latino Leaders and Catholic Education Arizona, a state tax credit organization providing tuition scholarships across the state.
He holds a BS in Physics from Monterrey Institute of Technology, and a MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Business. He has completed executive training at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business.
Rodrigo is married to Diana for over 24 years, and is father to five children, ages 13 to 1 year.
Roldan Trujillo, Advisory Chair
Roldan Trujillo is a senior executive with over 35 years of experience in corporate and project finance, private equity investments, and infrastructure development in Latin America and the U.S. He is the Founding CEO of Corporación Interamericana para el Financiamiento de Infraestructura, S.A. (CIFI) (2001–2015) attracting top Latin American and European banks, funds, and multilateral institutions. Roldan Raised over $600 million in capital and provided $1.3 billion in financing to private sector infrastructure companies across Latin America and the Caribbean.
Corporate Finance & Financial Institutions, Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC) (1989–2001): Managed corporate finance and financial services, overseeing project and corporate lending, equity investments, and capital markets transactions
Mr. Trujillo served as Finance Committee Chair for the Raza Development Fund, Inc. and other organizations; he mentors international graduate students at Georgetown University’s Global Competitive Leadership Program. He holds a JD from UC Davis and a BS in Economics and Business from New Mexico State University.
Steve Petsos, CFA
Steve Petsos is President of Broadstreet Impact Services, guiding the firm’s strategic direction and ensuring strong performance across its two platforms: Fund Management, serving institutional impact investors, and Fund Services, supporting private impact fund managers.
He is leading Broadstreet into its next phase by expanding its lines of business, modernizing its operating model, and deepening its role as the sector’s infrastructure for making impact. Steve focuses on building durable systems, elevating client experience, and developing strategic partnerships that help clients deploy catalytic capital with precision and transparency.
Previously, he was Head of Fund Management at the National Equity Fund, structuring more than $8 billion of impact capital for affordable multifamily housing. Steve began his career at Smith Barney, a Citigroup company, and holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Richmond. He is a CFA® charterholder.
Gellert Dornay
Gellert is one of nine siblings born to a Hungarian immigrant and a native Seattle mother. He married, completed his education, helped launch a boutique coffee roaster, and welcomed their first child before hitting legal drinking age.
Dornay helped Java Trading Co. bring specialty coffee to the masses on three continents over his 15 year tenure. He left Java Trading shortly after a private equity sale in 2006. He subsequently co-founded Axia Home Loans. Home ownership contributes greatly to family and economic stability. Under Gellert’s leadership as CEO, Axia grew to fund over $1 billion annually, helping thousands of families become homeowners. In 2016, Axia became the first 100% employee owned mortgage bank. Just as owners take better care of homes and communities so do the 350 employee/owners at Axia who now participate in company ownership and contribute to a stronger and more just and equitable economy.
Now the father of 10 children, Gellert is a strong proponent of employee ownership and directs and advises a number of educational, non-profit and for profit organizations.
Fiona Mulema
Fiona Mulema is an investment and portfolio risk professional specializing in impact-focused portfolios. She brings experience underwriting, monitoring, and rating diverse CDFI portfolios across the United States, with sector
exposure spanning affordable housing, small business, education finance, community facilities, and rural communities.
At Opportunity Finance Network, Fiona does credit risk analysis, prepares recommendations to internal credit committees, monitors covenant compliance, and manages ongoing surveillance of CDFI portfolios Her work integrates rigorous financial analysis, liquidity and leverage stress testing, and qualitative assessments of management, resiliency, expected loss assessment and nonperforming asset exit pathways.
Fiona’s expertise extends to catalytic-capital, including first-loss structures, EQ2-style capital, participation structures, and multi-investor community finance vehicles. She is experienced in translating impact objectives into investment structures, aligning performance covenants and KPIs with social outcomes, and preparing comprehensive reporting for investors and external stakeholders.
Fiona brings a unique ability to connect impact measurement frameworks with CDFI institutional-grade
credit risk management. Her work is rooted in supporting mission-driven financial intermediaries while
ensuring sound underwriting, effective monitoring, and long-term portfolio sustainability.
Fiona holds international banking experience from Standard Bank group -South Africa, complementing her U.S. community development finance focus with a global understanding of emerging-market credit, and financial-sector development issues. She is passionate about scaling equitable capital access, strengthening community lenders, and contributing to innovative financing structures that advance financial inclusion.
Fiona holds a BSc in Natural Sciences from Makerere University (Uganda) and an MBA from the Eastern
and Southern Africa Management Institute (Tanzania).