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Parham Abuhamzeh

Director - EQT Infrastructure, EQT

Parham Abuhamzeh joined EQT Partners in September 2017 and is a Director in the EQT Infrastructure team. Parham is part of the European Energy & Environmental sector team and is currently focusing on investments supporting the energy transition theme. Notable recent investment experience includes investments into energy storage operations as well as transport operations undergoing transition into green energy.

Prior to joining EQT Partners, Parham worked as a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Co. in Stockholm, Sweden. Prior to McKinsey, Parham was part of the Infrastructure Finance team at Citigroup Inc. in London, UK.

Jyoti Aggarwala

Principal, Private Capital Raise

Jyoti is a New York-based, senior private markets business development professional with 30+ years of experience across asset classes and geographies in the financial services industry. She is a registered representative with Profor Securities, LLC and works with GPs to access capital from institutional and family office investors.

As Principal of Private Capital Raise, Jyoti serves as an outsourced ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) integration facilitator to asset managers seeking to include sustainability factors in their investment process. She earned the CFA ESG Investing Certification in February 2022. Jyoti has also served as senior ESG consultant to UN Women (Sept ’21 - April ’23) where she helped forge the private sector partnerships to produce a report on the state of Gender Lens Investing. She is a W!SE certified personal finance educator, and a council member of an expert network providing phone consultations and educational webcasts on various aspects of private equity. Jyoti holds Series 7, 63, 79 and 24 registrations. She earned an MBA in Finance from Bentley University and a BA (Honors) in Economics from Delhi University. She is a member of PEWIN, the leading non-profit for senior women in private equity.

Private Capital Raise

Principal, Jyoti Aggarwala, dba Private Capital Raise (PCR) and registered representative of Profor Securities LLC, is a placement agent and Impact/ESG consultant for private funds. She places partnership interests of private funds with institutional, single, and multi-family office investors in the United States. The firm specializes in working with small, diverse, impact, and emerging market fund managers.

AUM enhancing services include:

Strengthening the Fund’s value proposition by identifying any gaps in strategy or the team and track record, reviewing marketing collateral, the data room and providing input on the website.
Enhancing the Go-to-Market strategy (lead generation to support investor pipeline, competitive landscape study, and investor mapping).
Implementing the marketing plan (building and leveraging networks and relationships at key investor events), setting up one-on-one virtual and in-person meetings and empaneling the fund summary on relevant investor platforms.
Designing, writing, and publishing content for investor impact reporting and/or ESG integration.

Jeffrey Altman

Senior Advisor, Finadvice

Jeffrey is a Senior Advisor to Finadvice AG, one of the leading sustainable energy and technology advisors in Continental Europe, where he advises funds, technology companies, institutional investors, industrial companies, utilities and regulators in Europe, North America and Asia.

He is a senior executive with 30+ years of global sustainable/impact leadership with acquisitions/divestitures, asset/investment management in energy, sustainable energy, infrastructure, telecoms, energytech, infratech, agtech and defensetech. Over this time he has collectively contributed in excess of $1.4 billion in value. Jeffrey had leadership roles at 3 varying funds (venture capital, private equity and infrastructure) and was co-founder of the first sustainable VC fund in 1994. He was also CEO of a hydrogen company, Interim CEO to 2 companies, Board Member to 7 companies/fund, including a £320m electric distribution company. Jeffrey also successfully co-managed €600m portfolio of 12 German energy companies.

Jeffrey is also a recognised thought leader on the energy transition and has published several articles/papers on the subject. He is also editor of two books: Managing Risk in Infrastructure Investments and Best Practice in Infrastructure Asset Management. Jeffrey has a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Science from the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown.

Amal-Lee Amin

Managing Director and Head of Climate - Diversity and Advisory, British International Investment

Amal-Lee is a passionate advocate for sustainable development. Amal-Lee joined British International Investment in February 2020. As Managing Director of Climate, Diversity and Advisory she leads strategy and collaboration for increasing climate, gender and diversity finance and impact. Having launched the Adaptation and Resilience Investors Collaborative at the end 2020, Amal-Lee is chair of its Steering Committee.
Over the past 25 years Amal-Lee has pioneered and delivered high level outcomes on sustainable energy and climate change policy and finance through leadership roles within an impact investor, MDB, think-tank and UK Government contexts. Notable roles include Senior Advisor on finance to the UK COP26 Presidency (2020-21), Chief of Climate Change at the Inter-American Development Bank (2015-2020) and developing E3G’s International Climate Finance Programme (2011-15).
Professional achievements are underpinned by her Doctorate on drivers for change within the power sector of developing countries and policy recommendations increasing investment in renewable energy in India and South Africa.
Amal-Lee is also currently an Industry Professor at UCL, teaching an MSc course on Sustainable Finance and ESG Investing and holds various Board and Expert Advisory roles on climate finance and green investment.

Misa Andriamihaja

Private Equity Lead, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)

Misa joined the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change in 2022 to lead their work on the net zero investment framework, portfolio decarbonization, & investments in climate solutions for the private markets (private equity, venture capital & private credit). Misa is a seasoned private equity investor with technical expertise in ESG & climate change. She has a 17 year-experience in financing & private equity investing with a total transactional experience of c.US$5 billion across multiple sectors & geographies. She founded Green Ventures Capital in 2011, a private investment company specialising in private equity investments in climate friendly clean energy technologies & assets. Prior to GVC, Misa was a senior portfolio manager for private equity with experience across origination, appraisal, negotiations, execution & post-investment management. Misa holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, a Master of Environmental Management from Yale University & a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Antananarivo.

Charles Avery

Reporter, New Private Markets

Charles is a reporter for New Private Markets, PEI Group’s publication focused on sustainability, ESG and impact investing in private markets. He works across private equity, venture capital, private debt, infrastructure and real assets. He covers topics including investors’ allocations and policies; managers’ investment strategies and ESG and diversity credentials; new regulatory measures; and ways to measure, report and compare sustainability issues and initiatives.

Jack Azoulay

Senior Partner, Argos Wityu

Jack is a Senior Partner at Argos Wityu, which he joined to implement the successful launch of “Argos Climate Action”, a buyout fund focused on acquiring majority stakes in European SMEs with a view to strongly reducing their carbon footprint.

He was previously deeply involved in the French Government’s environmental initiatives during President Macron’s first term as Chief of Staff at the Ministry of Ecological Transition. Over a four-year period, he was actively involved in energy, housing, transport and biodiversity public policies and developed in-depth knowledge of environmental issues.

He also has extensive knowledge of large industrial companies, having managed industrial investments at APE, the French Government agency in charge of managing public investments, where he was in charge of the aerospace, automotive, naval construction and defence portfolio. He notably sat on the boards of Peugeot, Naval Group, KNDS and Chantiers de l’Atlantique.

Prior to this, Jack actively contributed to the transformation of the French Postal Group La Poste, where he held strategic and operational positions and actively contributed to the diversification of its activities.

He also advises Electra, a leading electric vehicle fast charging operator aiming at speeding up the switch of mobility to electric cars, and chairs the mission committee of Contentsquare, a global leader in digital experience optimisation.

Jack is a graduate of ENA, Sciences Po Paris, ESCP Europe and Paris-Dauphine University.

Argos Wityu

Argos Wityu is an independent European private-equity group that supports the growth of mid-sized business and back their management teams.
With €1.8 billion assets under management, over 30 years of experience and more than 90 businesses supported, Argos Wityu operates from 7 offices in Europe. The group seeks to acquire majority stakes and invests between €10m and €100m in each investment of its two strategies. The Mid-Market fund helps companies implement ownership transitions while the Climate Action fund aims at shaping European sustainable leaders.

Aislinn Bakker

Director, Development Finance & Impact Credit, Allianz Global Investors

Aislinn is a Senior Portfolio Manager for AllianzGI’s Development Finance strategy. She has 11 years of experience investing and advising across the capital structure in private and public markets for debt, equity and hybrid products. Aislinn joined AllianzGI in 2022 and is jointly responsible for managing over $3.5bn of investor commitments towards Development Finance strategies and the deployment of investor capital towards high-impact debt investments in emerging markets. Most recently, Aislinn led the third-party fundraising efforts for the $1.1bn SDG Loan Fund and brought the fund to a successful close. Prior to joining AllianzGI, Aislinn worked at Whitehelm Capital focusing on high-yield infrastructure debt investments. Before that, Aislinn held several roles at Citi including M&A Advisory for the Power, Infrastructure and Utilities sectors, Project and Infrastructure Finance and Debt Capital Markets.

Fiona Balch

Co-Owner, TAG Advisers

Fiona has over 30 years’ experience in finance and banking, with more than 20 years spent in fundraising in London, both in-house and as a placement agent. Fiona set up TAG Advisers in 2015 to focus on raising money from European institutions and family offices for European and US private equity funds. Over the last 5 years, she has focused on the impact space, working with seven fund managers in the climate, education and food space, across venture, growth and buyout. Prior to that, Fiona was the head of Greenhill’s European private equity fundraising team in London. During that time, she participated in 15 global fund offerings that closed on over $10 billion, raising money for private equity, credit, infrastructure and real estate funds. Prior to joining Greenhill, she was a Director and Head of Fundraising at NIBC Bank and at Acanthus Advisers.

Clara Barby

Senior Partner, Just Climate

Clara Barby is the Senior Partner of Just Climate. Previously, Clara was CEO of the Impact Management Project (IMP) and project lead for the establishment of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB). Clara’s public interest work on standards was made possible through a secondment from her role as a Partner at Bridges Fund Management, where she led the firm’s sustainable and impact strategies across fund types. Prior to Bridges Fund Management, Clara worked for Acumen’s Capital Markets team and later co-led the Acumen clean energy portfolio, investing in South Asia and East Africa.
Clara received a BA (Hons) in Greats from the University of Oxford, and an MBA from INSEAD.
She was awarded a CBE for services to International Sustainability Standards in the 2023 King’s New Year Honours list.

Daniela Barone Soares

CEO Snowball IM

Daniela is a leader known for driving change at the intersection of the commercial and impact worlds, from strategy development through operating execution with almost 20 years of board level experience.
Daniela is the CEO of Snowball Impact Investment, a diversified investment fund that creates positive outcomes for people and planet whilst generating competitive financial returns. She is also a non-executive director at InterContinental Hotels Group Plc and a trustee of the Institute for the Future of Work.
Among her various accolades are Fifty Most Influential in Sustainable Finance (2023 - Financial News), top 100 women in engineering (2019 - Financial Times), “20 People who are Changing Brazil and the World for the Better" (2017- Istoé Dinheiro) and 100 people who make Britain a better place (2008 – Independent on Sunday “Happy List”).
Daniela holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSc in Economics from Unicamp, Brazil.

Alexander Bebov

Managing Director, BAC Securities

Alex Bebov created BAC (BAC Securities and BAC Ltd.; Advaita Capital Boston) and was involved in more than 20 energy projects working for firms such as Alpiq/ATEL, Energo Pro, EoN Energie. BAC was the main manager of the first East-European REIT as a GP. BAC has achieved 64% returns each of 2020 to 2023 mostly in green energy shares investment asset management portfolio beating many relevant indices. On the technology side he works with Boston-based fund Advaita Capital focused on areas such as green technology, educational technology, climate change. He worked on Polish, Romania, Western Balkans renewables projects among many other energy projects where he was involved from electricity trading, to debt, equity, M&A. Now he is in process of raising green energy and decarbonization fund for Europe with focus on Central and Eastern Europe but also potential allocation for Middle East/Western Europe/US Green technology. His previous experience includes working at international investments banks (JP Morgan, Salomon Smith Barney Citigroup etc.) in the financial hubs such as New York and London. Member of Harvard Alumni Association, also NYU Alumni. Regular speaker/moderator in energy and asset management conference conferences, close to 30 years of investment bank experience. Quoted many times in Financial Times, Euromoney, Euroweek, Global Finance, Global Markets, Wall Street Journal.

BAC Securities

BAC Securities (www.bac.bg) is fully EU Mifid2 regulated entity with focus investment banking and asset management. In 2022 and 2021 it won numerous awards in green energy and sustainability and in asset management for emerging markets, also Central and Eastern Europe and Middle East - Mr. Alex Bebov, 2021 Investment Company CEO of the year, CEE, 2021 Best Investment Bank, CEE, all awards by Global Banking and Finance Magazine. It is also Winner, 2020, Best Boutique Investment Bank CEE by Capital Finance Magazine, 2023 Best Debt Bank, 2019 Best M&A Bank Central & Eastern Europe, by Global Finance Magazine and 2016 Best Investment Banking Boutique Central & Eastern Europe, by Global Finance Magazine. BAC and its team members have experience in more than 20 projects in the energy sector, from development to electricity trading, to debt, equity and M&A. BAC Ltd., an affiliate, has achieved 64% p.a. returns each of 2020-2023 mostly in green energy shares investment asset management portfolio beating many relevant indices. BAC is raising a green energy fund with focus on CEE, Western Europe, Middle East, Central Asia, high-teens expected net IRR returns, portfolio deal flow of 2bn euro, for ultimate fund size 500-750mm euro after several funds/investment vehicles so far.

Sally Beken

UK Circular Plastics Network Founder, Innovate UK Business Connect

Passionate about zero waste particularly with respect to plastics and polymers. With over 30 years’ experience in research, innovation, and collaboration my expertise is to make powerful connections. I founded and run the UK Circular Plastics Network and am a Strategic advisor for growing start up such as innovative packaging company Magical Mushroom Co and Behaviour change specialists Litterlotto.

As Innovation Lead at Innovate UK I helped shape the Sustainable Smart Plastic Packaging Challenge, a £60m fund to shape and support the innovative UK materials, packaging and waste communities to reduce persistent plastic waste in the environment which I still help deliver at KTN.

I've also been a consultant focussing on polymer technology and worked in the medical sector reformulating elastomeric seal formulations patented for use in asthma inhalers to mitigate aerosol depletion of the ozone layer.

Mark Berryman

Managing Director of Impact Investing, Caprock

Mark Berryman is a Managing Director at Caprock where he leads Caprock’s impact and sustainable investment portfolio and supports the management of impact-focused clients. Mark is the inaugural Chair of the Impact Capital Managers LP Council and a member of the Impact Assets 50 Investment Review Committee. In addition to other select investment advisory boards, Mark is currently an Adjunct Professor of Impact Investing at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Mark has twenty years of experience in impact investing and emerging markets finance. Before joining Caprock, Mark spent over a decade as a Lead Investment Officer with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) of the World Bank Group where he focused on investing in financial institutions and funds (private equity, venture capital, and private debt) operating in emerging markets. While at the IFC, he was field-based in Turkey, China, Mali, and Washington DC. Mark also co-led Deutsche Bank’s Global Social Investment Funds Group launching and managing global structured debt funds for financial inclusion and social enterprises. Mark began his career over two decades ago as a three-year Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali, West Africa, and has held other positions at firms including, the Multi-lateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), eBay, and the Microfinance Information Exchange. Mark holds an MBA and Masters in International Affairs from Georgetown University and a BA in Accounting from the University of Colorado, Boulder. He speaks French and is conversational in two native African dialects.

Anita Bhatia

Board Member, Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Anita is an independent investment adviser with over 20 years of experience in investment and portfolio management. She advises on investment strategies, asset allocation, and sustainable and impact investments. Previously, Anita was the Investment Director at Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation, where she launched and managed the foundation's impact investment portfolio for six years, focussing on achieving risk-adjusted returns alongside impactful outcomes. Her earlier career includes roles at Barclays, AXA Investment Managers, and Hamburg Commercial Bank.

Anita currently serves as a board member of Resonance Ltd and is a trustee at Joseph Rowntree Foundation, where she also chairs the Investment Committee. Anita holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designations.

Dr. Stephanie Bilo

Chief Client ＆ Investment Solutions Officer, responsAbility Investments AG

Chief Client ＆ Investment Solutions Officer, Member of the Executive Management since 1 July 2019. In charge of Sales, Product Development & Management and Marketing & Communications teams. 20+ years of experience in banking and finance. Ample experience in sales and distribution with institutional investors, family offices, and private clients. In-depth know-how as to the structuring of investment solutions. PhD in Finance from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Urs Bitterling

Chief Sustainability Officer, Cubera Private Equity

Bio coming soon.

Erik Bjørstad

Director Impact Investing, FERD

Erik joined Ferd in 2019, where he is heading the Impact Investing mandate. Prior to Ferd, Erik has spent most of his career within the renewable energy and cleantech industry. Through roles such as Principal and solar lead in the cleantech venture fund Novus Energy Partners, and later co-founder/CFO and CEO in two solar energy growth companies, Erik has closely followed the impressive and challenging growth of the solar industry. Before joining Ferd, Erik was CFO in the network and cyber security company NetNordic.

FERD

Ferd is a family-owned investment company based in Oslo, Norway, owned by the fifth and sixth generations of the Andresen family. Our investment company is called Ferd (‘journey’) because, in the true sense of the word, it represents a ‘journey without an end’. Ferd has a broad portfolio with five different investment mandates, including private equity, real estate development, climate impact and social entrepreneurship.

Eleanor Blagbrough

Co-Founding Partner, Blume Equity

Eleanor has spent 20+ years supporting ambitious high-growth tech companies to scale, both as an investor and an advisor. Prior to co-founding Blume Equity, Eleanor was an investor into fast-growth tech and tech-enabled businesses at ECI Partners for many years. She started her career at McKinsey & Co, where she built strategy and operations experience across a range of industries and geographies, latterly working extensively with private equity backed businesses pre- and post-acquisition. She also spent a year working for Prime Minister Tony Blair in an operating role before gaining an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Catherine Boule

Managing Partner, Karista VC

Catherine’s career began at Institut Curie as a molecular biology researcher. She then joined Ile-de-France Innovation where she assisted several BioTech and MedTech companies in their development.

Joining Karista in 2003, Catherine is the Managing Partner in charge of the Healthcare practice. She is involved in the overall management of the firm, fundraising activities and investors relations. Catherine is investing in Healthcare and Digital Health ventures. She represents Karista at the board of several portfolio companies such as Acticor Biotech, Eyevensys and Incepto. She was also part of the board of Echosens (acquired by Furui Group), Erytech Pharma (listed on Nasdaq: ERYP), Nanobiotix (listed on Euronext: NANO) and many other successful companies.

Catherine holds a MSc in Molecular Biology from University Pierre and Marie Curie and graduated in Innovation Management from AgroParis Tech.

Jen Braswell

Managing Director and Head of Impact, Private Capital, EQT

Jen Braswell joined EQT Partners in September 2022 as Head of Impact for Private Capital based in London, UK. Prior to joining EQT Partners, Jen was Head of Value Creation in the Impact Group at British International Investment (formerly CDC Group), where she was part of building the impact management framework for the business, including overseeing expert teams on climate change, gender & diversity finance and job quality to drive value creation through an impact lens across the portfolio. Jen is a licensed attorney in New York and started her career in management consulting, focusing on private sector growth, business enabling regulatory reform and sustainability integration in emerging markets with a variety of advisory roles over 15+ years, including an extended role at Booz Allen Hamilton as Head of the International Development & Cooperation business line with oversight of P&L and operations across Eurasia, Africa and SE Asia.

EQT

EQT is a purpose-driven global investment organization focused on active ownership strategies. With a Nordic heritage and a global mindset, EQT has a track record of almost three decades of delivering consistent and attractive returns across multiple geographies, sectors, and strategies. EQT has investment strategies covering all phases of a business’ development, from start-up to maturity. EQT today has EUR 119 billion in fee-generating assets under management, within two business segments – Private Capital and Real Assets.
With its roots in the Wallenberg family’s entrepreneurial mindset and philosophy of long-term ownership, EQT is guided by a set of strong values and a distinct corporate culture. EQT manages and advises funds and vehicles that invest across the world with the mission to future-proof companies, generate attractive returns, and make a positive impact with everything EQT does.

Andrew Bullock

Managing Director, Adamantem Capital

Andrew Bullock is a Managing Director of Adamantem Capital. He is recognised as one of Australia’s most experienced corporate lawyers specialising in private equity and public market deals and he is also an experienced company director.
Andrew was previously a Partner at Gilbert + Tobin from 2006 to 2017, serving as head of the firm’s corporate advisory team and its market-leading private equity practice. Prior to Gilbert + Tobin, Andrew was a Partner at Minter Ellison and also spent three years in the London office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. He is a current director of Bailador Technology Investments Limited and of the Foundation of the Scots College, Sydney. Andrew also sits on the boards of Hygain, Legend and oversees Climate Friendly.
He has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales.

Alessandra Caine

Impact Investor Relations Manager, Toniic

With a background in Earth Sciences and Economics, Alessandra brings to the conversation 10+ years of experience in managing international sustainability programs worldwide where she worked on regenerative business models in the agri-food and reforestation sectors and where she deployed innovative financial strategies among a multitude of financial actors - impact investors and impact asset managers being one of these.

She now works at Toniic, a global action community of impact investors, where she connects and supports members on their holistic journey towards deep impact. She also advises part-time Danum Ecosystem Fund, a fund which invests in listed companies with the ambition of preventing or halting global biodiversity loss. She works mainly in Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg and the UK as she is based in Amsterdam.

Peter Cashion

Managing Investment Director for Sustainable Investments, CalPERS

Peter Cashion is the Managing Investment Director for Sustainable Investments at CalPERS.
In this role, Peter oversees CalPERS’ Net Zero plan implementation, $100 billion climate solutions investment rollout, ESG integration, Financial Markets Advocacy, and the Emerging and Diverse Manager Program.
Prior to CalPERS, Peter worked at the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) spanning back to 1995. There, he most recently served as the global head of climate finance & chief investment officer in the Financial Institutions Group (FIG), in addition to other prior senior roles, including global equity head, and principal investment officer.
Peter graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Administrative and Commercial Studies from the University of Western Ontario and an MBA from Queen’s University in Canada. He's also a Chartered Financial Analyst and has a CFA Certificate in ESG Investing.

Manuela Cedarmas

Head of ESG and Impact Strategies, Investcorp-Tages

Manuela Cedarmas is the Head of ESG and Impact Strategies at Investcorp-Tages. Prior to joining Tages in 2013, Manuela was the former Head of Hedge Fund Investments at Duemme SGR. She previously worked for Unifortune SGR, with responsibility over the creation and management of Fund of Funds. She worked for the Italian Stock Exchange in Milan and at the Derivative Desk of Citibank Milan. Manuela holds an MSc in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics and is a CFA Charter holder.

With affiliated offices in London, New York and Milan, Investcorp-Tages manages alternative assets for global institutional investors, including pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, foundations, endowments, family offices, insurance companies and other financial institutions.

Anne-Marie Chidzero

Chief Investment Officer, FSD Africa Investments

Anne-Marie is CIO of FSD Africa Investments that invests alongs side the market building work of FSD Africa.. A Zimbabwean, she is the former CEO of FSD Mozambique, and Co-founder of Alitheia IDF Managers, a private equity fund manager investing in women-led businesses.
Anne-Marie has a wealth of experience in building African financial markets. Across her career, she has led a range of development finance investments and implemented strategies for private sector growth, in roles at the World Bank Group, CGAP, and UK Aid – among other development finance institutions. She has held Board and Advisory positions at pioonering inclusive finance organisations in Africa.

Matt Christensen

Global Head of Sustainable & Impact Investing, Allianz Global Investors

Matt Christensen joined AllianzGI in 2020 as Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing. He is responsible for accelerating the growth of Impact Investing as part of the company’s private markets platform; he leads the continued integration of ESG factors across AllianzGI’s existing range of public markets products, including stewardship activities; and supports the development of new sustainable investment products. Additionally, he oversees the company’s impact investments. Matt was elected in 2022 as GRESB Foundation Board Member.
Previously Matt was the Global Head of Impact and Responsible Investment at AXA Investment Management which he joined 2011. Prior to this, he was the Founding Executive Director of the think-tank Eurosif (European Sustainable Investment Forum). He holds MBA and MA degrees from the University of Pennsylvania through the Wharton/Lauder programme.

Milti Chryssavgis

CEO ＆ Founder, Drashta Impact

Milti is the CEO of Drashta Impact, founded to empower investors to amplify their impact while ensuring capital preservation. Drashta enables investors to fund high-impact climate solutions in a secure way, as well as exiting their existing holdings sooner.

Having begun his investment career in 2008, he developed a strong grounding in risk management and portfolio engineering, building a multi-manager portfolio of systematic trading strategies.

Driven to create positive impact in the world, Milti determined that the most effective way to catalyse change was to harness the power of investment to accelerate breakthrough technologies and business models. This resulted in the founding of Drashta Impact, to solve the key bottlenecks and pain points in impact investing.

Drashta Impact

Drashta Impact empowers investors to overcome the key pain points of impact investing: risk and illiquidity. Through innovative de-risking and liquidity solutions, investors can allocate to specific investment opportunities with protection on their capital as well as exit their existing impact holdings sooner.

This transforms the way capital is invested for impact at a systems level, uniquely positioning investors to allocate to the highest impact opportunities while ensuring capital preservation and regular reinvestment of capital.

Headquartered in London, Drashta works alongside investors and investees (companies, funds, project developers) globally to accelerate the flow of capital into climate solutions.

Jon Coker

Founding Partner, Eka Ventures

Jon is a General Partner and Co-Founder at Eka Ventures, a seed stage venture firm that invests in healthcare technology and climate technology. Jon founded Eka alongside Camilla Dolan to build a leading venture firm that integrates impact investing with mainstream venture. Eka manages a £70m fund and has made 16 investments to date. Prior to starting Eka, Jon spent 11 years at MMC Ventures, ultimately as Co-Managing Partner.

Eka Ventures

Eka Ventures is an impact venture capital firm that invests in technology companies within Sustainable Consumption and Consumer Healthcare. In 2021 they raised a £70m first fund, the largest early stage, impact focused venture fund in the UK. They have made 16 investments from the fund so far including Sourceful, Hived, Foresight Data Machines, Oxford Cancer Analytics and Runna. The founding team of Eka Ventures is Jon Coker and Camilla Dolan, they have been investing together for over 10 years and have a top tier, realised, venture track record.

Christy Cooke

Sales Director, Carbometrix

Christy Cooke is a Sales Director at Carbometrix, responsible for the growth and adoption of Carbometrix' suite of climate and carbon services within the private markets ecosystem, to enable robust impact measurement and support in-depth, actionable decarbonisation efforts for funds and their assets.
Prior to Carbometrix, Christy was Regional Lead for Capital Markets and ESG Finance at EcoVadis and has 12+ years experience in climate, carbon and ESG, of which 4 have been in private equity. During this time Christy has held several roles in consulting, assurance, client management and sales, including at organisations such as CDP and the Carbon Trust.

Carbometrix

Carbometrix helps financial institutions and the companies they finance assess, benchmark and improve their carbon performance, to assess their climate transition risks, value companies accordingly, achieve their decarbonization objectives and comply with their reporting needs.

Our clients are private funds, asset managers, insurers and banks. They use our carbon data solutions both in due diligence and during the financing period.

Carbometrix was created by 3 highly experienced executives in financial institutions (Astorg, Allianz, BNP Paribas), in international operations (Vivendi) and with unique expertise in tech/data and carbon.

Carbometrix is a for benefit company (”entreprise à mission”) with the objective to empower financial institutions to direct their financial flows towards the transition with reliable data and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Chip Cunliffe

Programme and Risk Director, Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance

Chip Cunliffe is Co-Founder and Programme and Risk Director for the Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance (ORRAA), the only multi-sector collaboration connecting the international finance and insurance sectors, governments, non-profits, and stakeholders from the Global South to pioneer finance products that incentivise investment into coastal and ocean nature-based solutions.

Chip has spent the past 10 years working in the insurance industry, identifying ways in which risk transfer mechanisms and finance solutions can be best used to build resilience to ocean related risks. He established AXA’s Ocean Risk Initiative which included developing and launching a Coastal Risk Index to integrate coastal ecosystems into insurance risk models; working with partners to develop the scientific basis to create a mangrove insurance product; as well as identifying insurance pathways to prevent Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing.

Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance

ORRAA is a multi-sector collaboration connecting the international finance and insurance sectors, governments, non-profits, and stakeholders from the Global South to pioneer finance products that incentivise investment into coastal and ocean Nature-based Solutions. Our goal, by 2030 is to activate at least USD$500million of investment into this space, and in so doing, help build the resilience of at least 250 million climate vulnerable coastal people.

Nancy Curtin

Global Chief Investment Officer. AlTi Tiedemann Global

Nancy Curtin, Partner, Global CIO and Head of Investment Advisory, Alvarium Tiedemann | AlTi
Nancy has been Head of Investments and Chief Investment Officer working across both traditional and alternative asset classes at multiple firms since 2002. She held the position for eight years at Fortune Asset Management, then for another ten at Close Brothers Asset Management after it acquired the previous firm. She served in that role at Alvarium Investments from 2020 until it merged to create AlTi.
Nancy’s early experience includes senior investment roles as Managing Director at Schroders in venture capital and Head of global equities for the mutual fund business, as well as Head of Emerging Markets and a member of Global Asset Allocation for Baring Asset Management, where she also built a private equity business. She also led investments in a large single-family office, focused on private equity and real estate, building a private equity presence in Germany.
In 2014, Nancy joined the board at Digital Bridge Group Inc., a global real estate investment and operating firm with a focus on digital infrastructure. She has been Chairperson of the Board since 2021.
Nancy is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Princeton University and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.

AlTi Tiedemann Global

AlTi Tiedemann Global is a global wealth and alternatives manager, in the business of turning powerful ideas into high-performing strategies and solutions. Whether our clients are individuals or institutions, foundations or family-led businesses, we offer a connected ecosystem of advice, solutions and innovative investment opportunities from across our global network.
AlTi provides entrepreneurs, multi-generational families, institutions, and emerging next-generation leaders with fiduciary capabilities as well as alternative investment strategies and advisory services. AlTi’s comprehensive offering is underscored by a commitment to impact or values-aligned investing and generating a net positive impact through its business activities. AlTi currently manages or advises on over $70 billion in combined assets and has an expansive network with approximately 480 professionals across three continents.

Daniel D'Ambrosio

Partner – ESG ＆ Impact, Kirkland ＆ Ellis

Dan D’Ambrosio is a partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP and member of the Firm’s ESG & Impact Practice Group, which advises some of the world’s most sophisticated private equity firms, corporations, project sponsors and lenders on complex and evolving legal issues relating to environmental, social and governance (ESG) and climate-related regulatory requirements, investor demands, strategic opportunities, and voluntary reporting frameworks and coalitions.

Dan’s practice focuses on counselling clients on ESG and sustainability matters across a range of corporate, fund formation and sustainable finance transactions, regulatory compliance matters and complex ESG disputes and crises. Dan has supported private equity clients globally to navigate emerging ESG regulatory frameworks such as SFDR and EU Taxonomy and translate requirements into strategy, governance, policies and risk management processes as well as downstream M&A transactions.

Dan has significant experience advising private equity clients, corporations, project sponsors and lenders on human rights matters and compliance with international frameworks such as the OECD Guidelines, UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, the Equator Principles and the IFC Performance Standards.
Dan has supported clients to respond to complex human rights disputes and crises and to mitigate associated liability risks. This has included advising on parent company liability risks across a wide range of corporate, commercial and regulatory matters, advising on disputes before OECD National Contact Points and UN Mechanisms and designing effective grievance mechanisms.

Kirkland ＆ Ellis

Kirkland’s ESG & Impact Practice Group is a global team of industry-leading attorneys and advisors fully dedicated to ESG matters. We advise clients, including sponsors, lenders, and corporations, on issues spanning climate change, human rights, and diversity, equity and inclusion. We help clients navigate the development and implementation of ESG policies and commitments, negotiate cutting-edge contractual rights, comply with regulatory obligations, and resolve government investigation and litigation matters. By developing novel strategies and setting industry standards, our ESG and impact team has fundamentally shaped the legal practice of ESG.

Christoffer Dahlberg

Managing Director - Head of Client Solutions Europe, Community Investment Management

Christoffer Dahlberg serves as a Managing Director of Client Solutions and is focused on European client activities from CIM’s newly-opened office in Zurich, Switzerland. Christoffer has spent more than two decades in client-facing roles with asset managers, with a particular emphasis on private markets and sustainability. He most recently served as Head of Client Solutions Europe & Middle East for Stafford Capital Partners, an asset manager focused on sustainability in real assets and private markets. And prior to that he was the Global Head of Sales and Client Relations at Symbiotics, a leading microfinance investment manager. Christoffer started his career at Fidelity Investments and a few years later co-founded the Dual Return Fund - Vision Microfinance. Another position of note includes that as Head of Nordic Institutions at the Swiss private bank Union Bancaire Privée.

Swedish by birth and living in Zurich since more than 20 years, Christoffer has a dual Bachelor’s degree in financial economics and international business from the Stockholm School of Economics and is fluent in five languages.

Community Investment Management

Since 2014, Community Investment Management (CIM) has played an integral role in the development of responsible and transparent innovation in digital finance. We seek to deliver positive social impact by partnering with innovative credit providers offering responsible and transparent financial solutions to underserved communities.
Through a comprehensive investment process developed from significant expertise in small business- and consumer lending and structured finance, CIM identifies and invests in responsible financial solutions for inefficient market segments underserved by traditional lenders.
CIM's strategy demonstrates and scales innovative financial products, bringing responsible and transparent solutions for the underserved into the financial mainstream.
We focus on partnerships with innovative credit providers that demonstrate a commitment to responsible, transparent, and customer-centric practices. Our deep engagement model, impact orientation, and long-term investment focus makes us a preferred investment partner for these.

Diane Damskey

Director of Strategic Development, Ocean us

Diane Damskey is Secretariat Emeritus and Advisor to the Operating Principles for Impact Management, the global standard for impact investors. She spearheaded the growth of the Impact Principles, launched in 2019, to more than 180 signatories from 40 countries managing more than half of the estimated impact assets globally. She is also Founder of DC Damskey Global Consulting, providing strategic advice to asset managers, asset owners, foundations and family offices on their impact and sustainability practices. Prior to this, Diane was a senior member of the IFC team that developed the Impact Principles. She joined IFC after serving as an Adviser to the Chief Financial Officer of the World Bank Group, where she led initiatives to promote private sector investment in emerging markets.

Diane joined the World Bank following more than 25 years’ experience with private sector financial institutions and has held several senior roles with institutional and private client investment managers, including Credit Suisse Asset Management, Northern Trust, UBS International Private Bank, and JPMorgan. She holds a B.S. in Foreign Service, cum laude, from Georgetown University and M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School and is a CFA charterholder.

Operating Principles for Impact Management
The Impact Principles are the global standard for impact investors, providing a framework to ensure that impact is incorporated throughout the life of an investment. DC Damskey Global Consulting provides strategic advice to asset managers, asset owners and allocators, family offices, foundations and corporations on their sustainability and impact practices.

Craig Davies

CEO, Cadlas

Dr Craig Davies is the CEO of Cadlas, an advisory firm with deep expertise on climate change impacts and climate resilience financing. Cadlas works with financial institutions, investors, professional associations, policymakers and regulators to strategize around climate resilient business operations, and to define products and instruments that enable investment in climate resilience. Prior to founding Cadlas, Dr Davies led operations on climate resilience, climate risk and climate corporate governance at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Dr Davies previously worked for the UK Government on international development and sustainability, after starting his career in environmental impacts research. Dr Davies holds a PhD in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London. He has 25 years of professional experience in sustainability, with more than 15 years of specialisation in climate resilience financing.

Cadlas

Cadlas is a technical advisory practice focused on the climate resilience needs of our economy, our society and our world over the years and decades ahead. Our mission is to help shift capital towards building a climate resilient future, as a climate change increasingly shapes the way that business, finance and society operate.

A changing and more variable climate poses risks to our economy and society – while also creating opportunities for capital to flow towards the technologies, assets and activities that offer solutions for building climate resilience. We believe that businesses, investors, markets, regulators and policymakers all have roles to play in building climate resilient economies and societies that can meet the needs of generations to come.

Working at the interface between climate science, finance and sustainable development, we offer a range of specialised services covering analytics, financing modalities, impact measurement, investment strategy and regulatory insight.

Rhys Davies

Partner - ESG ＆ Impact, Kirkland ＆ Ellis

Rhys Davies is a partner in the ESG & Impact Practice Group in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Rhys has more than 15 years of ESG experience, including advising private equity firms, public companies and project sponsors in relation to the design and implementation of ESG strategies across a range of sectors, including energy and natural resources, infrastructure, real estate and technology.

Rhys' experience includes advising on sustainable finance disclosures (including pursuant to the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation), green taxonomies, sustainability reporting, climate change, biodiversity loss, human rights and responsible business practices. He has assisted clients to develop and review ESG-related governance measures, policies, strategies, metrics and disclosures in a number of jurisdictions under both mandatory and voluntary frameworks.

Rhys also has broad environmental and social regulatory experience, including in relation to environmental impact assessment, emissions licensing, contaminated land, natural resources, indigenous engagement and cultural heritage. He has represented clients in both transactional settings and proceedings before administrative decision-makers, panels, tribunals and superior courts.

In addition to his undergraduate qualifications, Rhys holds a postgraduate certificate in Sustainable Business from the University of Cambridge and a FSA credential issued by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board. Rhys is a former member of the Governance and Advisory Board for the Australian National Contact Point under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.

Kirkland ＆ Ellis

Kirkland’s ESG & Impact Practice Group is a global team of industry-leading attorneys and advisors fully dedicated to ESG matters. We advise clients, including sponsors, lenders, and corporations, on issues spanning climate change, human rights, and diversity, equity and inclusion. We help clients navigate the development and implementation of ESG policies and commitments, negotiate cutting-edge contractual rights, comply with regulatory obligations, and resolve government investigation and litigation matters. By developing novel strategies and setting industry standards, our ESG and impact team has fundamentally shaped the legal practice of ESG.

Isabel De Paoli

Partner - EQT Healthcare Growth, EQT

Isabel joined EQT Partners in September 2021 as a Partner dedicated to the Healthcare sector, based in Munich.

Prior to joining EQT Partners, Isabel worked almost 15 years for Merck KGaA. Lately as Chief Strategy Officer of Merck, she focused on long term portfolio, capital allocation and innovation strategies in the Pharmaceuticals and Life Science space as well as on transformation topics. Prior to that, Isabel has been with Permira and with The Boston Consulting Group.

Isabel holds an M.Sc. degree in Process Engineering, with focus on Biotech, from the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg and a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from UNICAMP, Brazil.

Rudy Dekeyser

Partner & Head of Health Economics Funds, EQT

Rudy Dekeyser is Head of the Health Economic Funds at EQT Life Sciences and Partner at EQT since 2022. Rudy was Managing Partner at LSP from 2012 until 2022, when LSP joined forces with EQT and was renamed EQT Life Sciences.

Prior to joining LSP, Rudy worked as a Managing Director at VIB in Belgium where he was also responsible for all business development. Prior to VIB, Rudy was senior advisor in the life sciences team at IWT in Belgium.

Rudy holds a PhD in biotechnology from the University of Ghent.

Marleen Dijkstra

Managing Director, Primary Funds, AlpInvest Partners

Marleen Dijkstra is a Managing Director in the Primary Funds team of AlpInvest Partners, where she is responsible for sourcing, evaluating, and executing fund investments in Europe. She represents AlpInvest on a large number of Advisory Boards and also leads sustainability and impact investing initiatives. She joined AlpInvest in 2009 and is based in Amsterdam. Marleen received a BSc in Business Economics and an MSc, cum laude, in Financial Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam. She also received a LL.M in Financial Law from the Erasmus School of Law. AlpInvest Partners is one of the largest and well-established private equity investors globally with approximately >$75 billion AUM and >475 investors. AlpInvest Partners is part of The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ:CG).

AlpInvest Partners

AlpInvest, the Global Investment Solutions division of The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG), is a large global private equity investor with >$75 billion AUM. The firm’s professionals have deep, global experience managing primary fund commitments, secondary and portfolio finance investments and co-investments. AlpInvest manages private equity investments for 475+ institutional investors worldwide through both commingled funds and customized strategic accounts. AlpInvest employs more than 225 professionals and operates globally with offices in New York, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, London, Singapore, and Tokyo.

Fairuz Farhoud

Research Manager, PEI Group

Fairuz Farhoud is a Research Manager in PEI Group’s London office. Fairuz oversees the data collection efforts on impact and sustainability across New Private Markets and other PEI Group brands. She is also responsible for the global research output of service provider data, including several league tables.

Madeleine Farman

Senior Reporter, Secondaries Investor

Madeleine Farman is a senior reporter for PEI Group’s Private Equity International and Secondaries Investor titles, based in London. Prior to joining PEI, she had covered private equity, private capital and advisers associated with the industry for other newsrooms and publications since 2016. Originally from New Zealand, Madeleine began her career in radio in Auckland.

Joshua Featherby

Managing Director, Pension Practice, Cambridge Associates

Joshua is a specialist managing director in Cambridge Associates’ London office, having joined the firm in 2010. He focuses on advising clients on the construction of custom private investment portfolios spanning Private Equity, VC, Real Estate and Hard Assets. He works with a variety of clients, including pension funds, non-profit institutions and SWFs.

Joshua is also a founding member of the London office’s Mission Related Investing team, helping clients frame their investment strategy within the guidelines of their non-financial motivations.

Amanda Feldman

Managing Director, Head of Impact Engagement, Sonen Capital

At Sonen, Amanda Feldman works with endowments, family offices and institutions to measure, manage, and maximize the impact of their portfolios.

She is a co-founder of the Predistribution Initiative, mentors impact startups at maze impact, and serves as a Non-Executive Audit Committee Member at the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG). She brings experience as a co-founder of the Impact Management Project, Director at Bridges Fund Management and Director, Impact & Innovation at Volans.

Before joining Sonen, her most recent work focused on supporting the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on managing impact disclosures on the Sustainable Development Goals, and leading G7 and G20 consultations, including her role as the Technical Lead on Harmonization, Transparency & Integrity for the 2021 G7 Impact Taskforce.

She holds a B.A. in English and Spanish literature from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Public Administration from the London School of Economics.

Sonen

Sonen Capital is a trusted partner of choice for asset owners seeking unbiased and tailored investment solutions that address the world’s most pressing challenges. Sonen believes that investment capital is necessary to effect large scale impact. For more than a decade, the team has designed and implemented impact investment strategies tailored to the diverse objectives of foundations, endowments, institutions and families. Sonen is committed to building and managing bespoke investment portfolios that reflect each client’s financial, impact and philanthropic goals.

Natasha Franks

Head of Client Reporting, Alpha Associates

Natasha is a member of the investor services team at Amundi Alpha Associates. As Head of Client Reporting, she manages the reporting process of Alpha’s private equity, private debt, and infrastructure products. She is further responsible for the development and programming of Alpha’s Impact portfolio monitoring tool, in addition to supporting the annual ESG reporting campaign. Prior to joining Alpha, she was an investment writer on the Content & Strategic Marketing team at GAM Investments in London. Natasha holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and a Masters in Economics & Finance from Birkbeck, University of London.

Amundi Alpha Associates

Amundi Alpha Associates is a manager and advisor for investments in private equity, private debt, and infrastructure, with a team of 70 professionals based in Zurich and Paris. Alpha was founded in 2004 following a spin-out from Swiss Life and manages funds-of-funds as well as tailor-made investment programs (managed accounts) for a global, institutional client base. It serves more than 100 institutional investors, including more than 70 European pension funds and insurance companies, and is a FINMA (Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority) authorised manager of the assets of collective investment schemes. In 2024, Alpha Associates was acquired by Amundi and formed a combined private markets platform managed by Alpha’s founding partners.

David Frykman

General Partner, Norrsken VC

As a founding General Partner at Norrsken VC, Europe's premier impact investor, David Frykman leverages 25+ years of entrepreneurship, investing and leadership experience. His extensive expertise is a cornerstone in guiding Norrsken VC's portfolio companies to scale their businesses effectively. Beyond Norrsken VC, David has championed some of Sweden's most prominent brands as an angel investor and/or board member, including Acne Studios, Matsmart, Budbee, GeoGuessr and Mentimeter.

Michele Giddens OBE

Co-founder ＆ Co-CEO, Bridges Fund Management

Michele co-founded Bridges alongside Philip Newborough and Sir Ronald Cohen in 2002 and now oversees strategy, client development, talent development, public affairs and impact management. She sits on the Investment Committee for all Bridges funds and has a key role in leading and developing Bridges’ internal team and directing the firm’s strategic growth.

Michele has played a leading role in the growth of the sustainable and impact investing sectors in the UK and worldwide. She was an adviser to the UK Treasury’s Social Investment Task Force and chaired the Community Development Finance Association from 2003-2005. She chaired the UK National Advisory Board on Impact Investing (part of the Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group) from 2016-18, chaired a Global Working Group on Policy for the G7 Impact Investment Taskforce, and sat on the BVCA Council. She served as a Non-Executive Director on the board of CDC (now BII), the UK Government’s Development Finance Institution, from 2014-2022. Michele is also a Trustee for the Bridges Impact Foundation.

Michele has over 30 years’ experience in sustainable and impact investing and international development finance, having previously worked with International Finance Corporation, the private sector financing arm of the World Bank Group, and with Shorebank Corporation, one of the leading community development banks in the USA, where she ran small business lending programmes in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, and advised on microfinance in Bangladesh, the Middle East and Mongolia.

Michele has a BA Honours in Politics, Philosophy & Economics from Oxford University and an MBA from Georgetown University, Washington, DC. She was awarded an OBE for services to international development and social finance in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

Bridges Fund Management

Bridges is a specialist private markets investor. For over 20 years, we’ve been investing in solutions that support the transition to a more inclusive and sustainable economy. We are driven by a clear conviction: that building a better future for people and the planet is also a unique opportunity to create lasting economic value. Some people call this impact investing. We think it’s just good investing. (In fact, we think it’s the future of all investing.

Rajen Gokani

Executive Director, Sustainability & Impact Investments Lead, GCM Grosvenor

Mr. Gokani is the Head of European Absolute Return Strategies and serves as a Sustainability and Impact Investments Lead. He is based in the London office. He is responsible for leading investment research and manager monitoring with a focus on European and other globally orientated strategies. Prior to joining GCM Grosvenor, Mr. Gokani held various roles at HSBC in the Global Research department. He worked in equity research in London, covering clean technology investments. He was also based in Hong Kong where he worked as an Emerging Markets fixed income strategist. Mr. Gokani received his Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Investment and Financial Risk Management from Bayes Business School, University of London.

GCM Grosvenor

GCM Grosvenor (Nasdaq: GCMG) is a global alternative asset management solutions provider with approximately $77 billion in assets under management across private equity, infrastructure, real estate, credit, and absolute return investment strategies. The firm has specialized in alternatives for more than 50 years and is dedicated to delivering value for clients by leveraging its cross-asset class and flexible investment platform. GCM Grosvenor’s experienced team of approximately 540 professionals serves a global client base of institutional and high net worth investors. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, with offices in New York, Toronto, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Sydney. For more information, visit: gcmgrosvenor.com.

Cyril Gouiffes

Head of Social Impact, European Investment Fund (EIF)

Cyril is the Head of EIF Social Impact team in charge of managing EIF equity social impact strategy, from investments in social impact funds to social outcome contracts and investments in impact incubators. His entire career within EIF has been dedicated to impact related activities, starting with microfinance in 2008. In this context, he was responsible for the implementation of the JASMINE programme, an EU initiative aimed at boosting the institutional capacity of microfinance institutions in Europe. Prior to joining EIF, Cyril gained unique field experience working with microfinance institutions in Northern Africa and the Middle East.

Anja Gräf

Managing Principal - Head of Impact Private Markets, HSBC Global Asset Management

Anja Gräf, Head of Impact, Private Markets, HSBC Asset Management. Anja has more than twenty years of experience in private markets and global capital markets. From 2012 to 2021 she was heading the German infrastructure business and took over global responsibility in 2020. Since 2012 she has also built the sustainability capability for the German Alternative Investments activities. Anja became Head of Impact for the global indirect Private Markets business in 2021. Prior to joining HSBC in 2007, she worked for WGZ-Bank (now DZ Bank) in various roles advising banks on balance sheet management, complex capital market products and derivatives. Anja holds a diploma of Business Administration, University of Trier, Germany and is a certified Treasury Manager, ADG (Academy of German Cooperatives).

HSBC Global Asset Management

HSBC Asset Management is a major global asset management firm managing assets totalling USD707 billion as at 31 December 2023, with well-established businesses in Europe, Asia-Pacific, Americas and the Middle East. We are the asset management division of, and wholly-owned by HSBC Holdings plc (HSBC Group), one of the largest financial services organisations in the world. Our investment capabilities span across different asset classes - equities, fixed income, multi-asset, liquidity and alternatives. HSBC Asset Management is well placed to provide a globally-consistent, disciplined investment process across our capabilities, drawing on the local knowledge and extensive expertise of our team of over 660 investment professionals across over 20 locations around the world.
For more details, please visit www.assetmanagement.hsbc.com.hk
Source: HSBC Asset Management as at 31 December 2023

Rhea Hamilton

Managing Director, BeyondNetZero, General Atlantic

Ms. Rhea Hamilton is a Managing Director for BeyondNetZero, a climate solution fund of the leading growth equity firm, General Atlantic. She has some 20 years of investment experience in private equity and venture capital, focused in the areas of energy, climate and sustainability.

Previously Ms. Hamilton was a Managing Director for Climate Investments, where she headed up the venture and growth equity investments globally. She has also held other senior positions including Managing Director for a large European family office, and Investment Director at RobecoSAM Private Equity, a pioneer in sustainability investing.

Ms. Hamilton holds a Geological Engineering degree from the University of British Columbia, Canada, and an MBA from IESE in Spain. She is a Fellow with the Energy Institute and holds a diploma from the Institute of Directors.

General Atlantic

General Atlantic is a leading global growth investor with more than four decades of experience providing capital and strategic support for over 500 growth companies throughout its history. Established in 1980 to partner with visionary entrepreneurs and deliver lasting impact, the firm combines a collaborative global approach, sector specific expertise, a long-term investment horizon and a deep understanding of growth drivers to partner with great entrepreneurs and management teams to scale innovative businesses around the world. BeyondNetZero is the climate growth fund of General Atlantic that invests in growth companies delivering innovative climate solutions that have the potential to meet and exceed net-zero emissions targets, with a focus on decarbonization, energy efficiency, resource conservation and emissions management. General Atlantic has approximately $83 billion in assets under management inclusive of all products as of December 31, 2023, and more than 280 investment professionals. For more information on General Atlantic, please visit: www.generalatlantic.com.

Kristian Hanelt

Partner, Ultra Capital LLC

Kristian is a veteran renewable energy professional with 15 years of energy project finance experience.

From 2011 to 2015 he served as Senior Vice President of Clean Power Finance where he built and led the Renewables Capital Markets Group to over $1 billion in capital raised for residential solar systems. From 2007 to 2011, he served as Co-founder and Vice President of Finance for Tioga Energy, an innovative venture-backed solar project developer that financed over 100 commercial-scale solar systems. Kristian also has experience in wholesale energy markets consulting, including for PA Consulting; coal mining for Oxbow Corporation; natural gas exploration and production for Gunnison Energy Corporation; and utility scale power generation development and acquisition for Arclight Capital.

Kristian holds an MBA from Stanford University and a BS from Boston University.

Ultra Capital LLC

Ultra Capital is accelerating the transition to clean energy by providing equity capital to best-in-class management teams focused on sustainable infrastructure. We invest growth equity and asset capital in companies with a successful track record of deploying demonstrated solutions in various sectors such as renewable energy, distributed generation, battery storage, EV charging and fleet electrification. We bring value to our partnerships through our experience as former developers, constructors, operators, and financiers of infrastructure assets.

Marta Hervás Melgarejo

Managing Director - Private Equity & Impact Investing, Arcano Partners

Marta currently leads Arcano PE's impact investments and historically has led investments in Europe. Prior to joining Arcano in 2010, Marta worked in the Alternative Assets Research department at NEPC and in the Consultancy department at BBDO.

Marta has a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (ICADE) and Northeastern University in Boston.

Jonathan Hirschtritt

Managing Director - Sustainability, GCM Grosvenor

Mr. Hirschtritt leads our firmwide Sustainable & Impact investment efforts. He partners closely with the strategy investment teams to drive deal flow, deepen relationships with sustainably focused managers and evolve assessment frameworks and reporting. Mr. Hirschtritt collaborates with clients to design and implement customized Sustainable and Impact solutions that prioritize the themes most important to them. At a firm level, Mr. Hirschtritt leads Sustainability strategy and product development and ensures alignment with evolving industry best practices. He works closely with GCM Grosvenor’s senior leadership team to increase coordination and implementation of the firm’s Sustainability strategy and Sustainable Investing platform. Mr. Hirschtritt also serves as a member of the Sustainability Committee, Diversity Equity & Inclusion Committee and Valuation Committee. He holds an ESG Certificate from the CFA Institute and a certificate from the Sustainable Finance & Investment Program at the Yale School of Management. Previously, Mr. Hirschtritt worked with senior leadership as part of GCM Grosvenor’s Strategy & Corporate Development team leading organic and inorganic product development before eventually serving as Deputy to the Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining GCM Grosvenor, Mr. Hirschtritt was a Partner at Sheffield Asset Management, LLC, where he served as a senior investment professional and was actively involved in the firm’s day to day management. Prior to joining Sheffield Asset Management, Mr. Hirschtritt was an Associate at Davidson Kempner Capital Management, where he worked as an investment professional on their Event Driven Equities fund. Mr. Hirschtritt began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. He graduated summa cum laude with his Bachelor of Arts in Diplomatic History from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar.

GCM Grosvenor

GCM Grosvenor (Nasdaq: GCMG) is a global alternative asset management solutions provider with approximately $77 billion in assets under management across private equity, infrastructure, real estate, credit, and absolute return investment strategies. The firm has specialized in alternatives for more than 50 years and is dedicated to delivering value for clients by leveraging its cross-asset class and flexible investment platform. GCM Grosvenor’s experienced team of approximately 540 professionals serves a global client base of institutional and high net worth investors. The firm is headquartered in Chicago, with offices in New York, Toronto, London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Seoul, and Sydney. For more information, visit: gcmgrosvenor.com.

Alex Hoffmann

General Partner, Forbion

Alex Hoffmann is a General Partner at Forbion BioEconomy, a VC fund investing in early-stage companies that leverage biotechnology to clean and feed the planet. Prior to that, he was Investment Director at M Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Merck Group. In this position, Alex was responsible for investments in cutting-edge early-stage companies in the fields of healthtech, foodtech and deeptech, and has held board director positions at companies such as Mosa Meat and Formo. Before joining M Ventures, Alex was based in Nairobi, leading the digital strategy of the Merck Group across the African continent and has collected operational experience at early-stage tech startups.

Silke Horáková

Co-Founder & General Partner, Tilia Impact Ventures

Silke Horáková is the Co-Founder & General Partner of Tilia Impact Ventures, the first social impact fund in the Czech Republic and the co-owner of Albatros Media, a.s., the largest Czech book publishing company.
In the past, Silke worked in senior positions for private equity funds and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and as the CEO of the Czech Private Equity & Venture Capital Association. She was also teaching Entrepreneurship Finance at the Prague University of Economics.
Silke is the founder and chairperson of the supervisory board of the Albatros foundation, which supports socially disadvantaged children in education, and a co-founder of the Foundation for support of independent journalism in the Czech Republic. She served as a member of the Ashoka ASN global advisory board and is currently a board member of Impact Europe, the investing for impact network (former EVPA).
Silke holds a PhD in Economics from the Berlin (East) University of Economics. In 2023, she was selected by Forbes as one of the 50 over 50 women leaders in Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Tilia Impact Ventures

Tilia Impact Ventures is a Prague-based seed stage Impact VC fund. We back mission-driven founders from the CEE region to make environmental and social change on a global scale. Our investment verticals cover climate tech, innovation in education and healthcare as well as a more equitable society. In 2023, we launched our second, 32mEUR fund. Currently, we have a portfolio of eleven impact heroes, tackling everything from minimising wastage of food, resources and fashion items, carbon capturing through afforestration to identifying corruption in public spending, and helping both visual and hearing impaired people to live their best lives. We provide mission-alligned capital, strong expertise in impact measurement & management and support our portfolio companies with a hands-on approach and access to the brightest minds in our network. To maximise the growth potential for our portfolio companies, we regularly co-invest with CEE based and global VCs.

Willem Huidekoper

Head of Sustainability and Non-Listed Equities, IMAS Foundation

Willem Huidekoper is the Head of Sustainability and Non-Listed Equities at IMAS foundation, where he started in 2015. IMAS Foundation is a sister foundation to the INGKA Foundation — the owner of INGKA Group, who owns and operates the majority of IKEA stores globally. Willem is responsible for manager selection, monitoring of existing funds and mandates and selecting direct and co-investments. Willem holds a master in Finance and Investments at the University of Groningen.

IMAS Foundation

IMAS Foundation is a sister foundation to the INGKA Foundation — the owner of INGKA Group, who owns and operates the majority of IKEA stores globally.
IMAS Foundation achieves its charitable purpose by financially supporting INGKA Foundation to enable the work of the IKEA Foundation. It specialises in creating long-term returns on financial assets, incorporating responsibility and sustainability considerations into all investment decisions. IMAS manages over EUR 12bn in assets.

Michael Hoverman

Principal - Infrastructure and Climate Strategy Solutions, CIM Group

Michael Hoverman is Principal at CIM Group and leads the Infrastructure and Climate Strategy Solutions team. He is responsible for building and structuring solutions for CIM’s infrastructure and climate-related funds, co-investments and managed accounts. Prior to his role on the Strategy Solutions team, Mr. Hoverman led CIM’s Global Partners Group, focusing on maintaining relationships with institutional investors worldwide. Mr. Hoverman currently serves on the Investment Committee and the ESG Committee at CIM Group.
Prior to joining CIM in 2014, Mr. Hoverman was a Vice President at Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets based in New York where he focused on Macquarie’s North American infrastructure funds. Mr. Hoverman earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Philosophy from Bates College and a Master of Finance degree in Investment Banking from INSEAD.

Charlotte Jacobs

Senior Investment Manager - Fund Investments, ZKB Asset Management

Charlotte is responsible for the global PE fund selection and due diligence at ZKB Asset Management. Before ZKB, Charlotte worked at RobecoSAM PE, jointly responsible for deal sourcing and due diligence for PE and VC funds within the resource efficiency strategy. Earlier, Charlotte served as the Director and Operational Managing Director of the mezzanine fund at GCA Altium, gaining investment experience and expertise in restructuring situations throughout the fund cycle. In addition to a brief period as Deputy Managing Director at a start-up, Charlotte spent several years at PwC in the Transaction Services department, where she conducted financial due diligence for large international transactions, mostly for private equity firms. Charlotte holds a Master’s degree of Freie Universität zu Berlin.

Peter Jäderberg

Founder & Principal, Jäderberg & Cie.

Jäderberg & Cie. is a Single Family Office from Hamburg with Swedish roots committed to Impact Investing, focusing on projects with profound sustainability impact and long-term profitability. We at JC prioritize values-based collaborations and aim to create substantial added value for projects as Impact Guardians, aligning our investment decisions with Planetary Boundaries. Our investment areas focus on nature-based solutions, including regenerative agriculture/forestry, system change in the food industry, and ocean health.

Peter Jäderberg’s first company focused on institutional equity trading (NYSE) and quantitative analysis (1985 to 1991). The deep insights made him a convinced financial market skeptic and a supporter of niche and real assets. From 2004 to 2010, his then-company initiated and structured 28 international alternative investment projects in various niche assets and implemented them as white label products for third parties. The flagship project since 2010 is JC Sandalwood. It represents a blueprint for reforestation and biodiversity. On 575 hectares of mixed forest in the tropical north of Australia, 275,000 sandalwood trees are growing as part of the world’s most valuable commercial forest. This belongs to a consortium consisting of the Harvard University endowment fund, the Church of England, the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund and Jäderberg & Cie. We are the only ones giving co-investors access to this impact investment. From 2028, we expect JC Sandalwood to generate gross proceeds of over one billion euros.

As active members of global Impact organizations like Toniic and GIIN, we strive to advance Impact Investing principles and combat impact washing through initiatives like co-publishing the Impact Investing Magazine as well as actively voicing our investment and impact philosophy at numerous international events.

Jérôme Kamm

Vice President, Direct Equity Investments, Hamilton Lane

Jérôme is a Vice President on the Direct Equity Investment team, based in London.

He works on the origination, evaluation and due diligence of direct equity opportunities, with a focus on Impact transactions, which he leads in EMEA. He has particular experience in business services, environmental & industrial technology and healthcare sectors, sitting as a Board Observer for several of Hamilton Lane's direct equity investments across these areas.

Jérôme joined the firm-wide Responsible Investment Committee as a voting member in 2024, having been an observer since 2021; he also sat on the cross-investment team Sustainable Taskforce (2023-2024), as the Direct Equity member.

Prior to joining Hamilton Lane in 2017, he worked at HSBC and Greenhill & Co.

Jérôme received a B.A. in Modern Languages from the University of Oxford.

Hamilton Lane

Hamilton Lane (Nasdaq: HLNE) is one of the largest private markets investment firms globally, providing innovative solutions to institutional and private wealth investors around the world. Dedicated exclusively to private markets investing for more than 30 years, the firm currently employs nearly 600 professionals operating in offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Hamilton Lane has nearly $832 billion in assets under management and supervision, composed of nearly $108 billion in discretionary assets and over $724 billion in non-discretionary assets, as of December 31, 2022. Hamilton Lane specializes in building flexible investment programs that provide clients access to the full spectrum of private markets strategies, sectors and geographies. For more information, please visit www.hamiltonlane.com or follow Hamilton Lane on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hamilton-lane/.

Paul Kearney

Co-founder & Partner, Solas Capital AG

Paul Kearney is a Partner and Co-founder at Solas Capital AG, where he is involved in both investor relations and in the deployment of the company’s Solas Sustainable Energy Fund, a EUR 220 million Article 9 energy efficiency debt fund focussed on the EU. Paul has an in-depth knowledge of the energy efficiency investment market, having over 10 years in energy efficiency financing experience, both with Solas Capital and previously at Europe’s largest private energy efficiency fund, where he was responsible for sourcing and acquiring new projects in northern Europe, for developing innovative financing solutions for energy service companies and for managing the end-to-end investment process.

In addition to his undergraduate qualifications, Paul holds an MSc in Finance and is both a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst.

Solas Capital AG

Solas Capital is a specialist investment advisory firm founded and managed by professionals from the energy efficiency financing sector. Through the development of innovative financing solutions Solas Capital's mission is to support the move to a carbon neutral society. By understanding both the funding needs of energy efficiency projects and the requirements of institutional investors, Solas Capital bridges the gap between investors and projects. Solas Capital is the investment advisor to the Solas Sustainable Energy Fund, a EUR220m debt fund which is supported by Munich Re, the European Investment Bank and the LIFE-programme of the European Commission.

Jeroen Kelder

Co-founder and managing partner, Infinity Recycling

Jeroen is co-founder and managing partner of Infinity Recycling, an impact investment manager focussed on closing the plastics loop. Its first offering, Circular Plastics Fund, backed by reputable strategic and institutional investors, will reach its final close in the last week of March at the hard cap of EUR 180 million and has made five investments thus far with EUR 40 million in AUM. Jeroen has over 25 years’ experience in M&A and corporate finance. He was an early investor in renewable energy and is using that experience to drive the world’s transition to renewable resources.

Infinity Recycling

Infinity Recycling (“IRC”) was established in 2019 to create markets for end-of-life waste streams by investing in advanced technologies that enable circularity in the plastics industry. IRC’s first offering, the Circular Plastics Fund, contributes to solving the plastic waste problem and unlocking much-needed capacity in high- in-demand recycled commodities. The fund implements a return and impact-driven investment strategy that drives value creation in advanced recycling and accelerates the transition to a circular economy for plastics. Building on the momentum in investor interest and deployment, the fund will reach final close in April 2024 near its EUR 180 million hard cap.

Davey Kho

Senior Portfolio Manager Private Equity & Infrastructure, MN

Davey Kho, who joined MN in 2018, is a Senior Portfolio Manager Private Equity & Infrastructure. He is responsible for private equity and infrastructure equity fund selection and monitoring. Besides investing in traditional funds, he also has a specific focus on Impact investing. Prior to joining MN, Davey spent four years in External Mandates (Investments) at PGB Pensioendiensten. Davey is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) and holds a master’s degree in BA Financial Management.

MN

MN is one of the largest pension investors based in the Netherlands. With roots going back to 65 years, MN currently manages roughly EUR 150 billion in assets for 7 Dutch pension funds, serving about 2 million pension plan participants. MN is a long term investor that has integrated ESG factors in the core of its strategy. Private investments, including in the circular economy, are the most effective way for our clients to make a direct, positive impact.

Michael Kleindl

Founder & Managing Partner, Collateral Good

Michael Kleindl is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Collateral Good, a Swiss-based climate-first Venture Capital platform. Collateral Good seeks to transform the existing food, food waste, fashion, packaging and building systems towards a sustainable future through technological innovations and partnering with best-in-class entrepreneurial teams and leading corporates. Doing Collateral Good is the essence of what we do.

Michael has been a successful entrepreneur and venture capital investor for many years. His track record includes 2 IPOs, and numerous exits of invested startups to prestigious buyers such RTL, Amazon, Axel Springer AG, Deutsche Post DHL, Just Eat, Pernod Ricard, Michelin and Unified Post Group, amongst others. In addition, he has been and is serving as a board member of various public companies.
Michael holds a university degree in Business Administration from the European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel, (Germany) and completed a 2-year management-training program in one of Germany´s larger public banking institutions. He is married to a wonderful woman and has four kids. He lives in Zürich, Switzerland and enjoys all kinds of outdoor sports.

Collateral Good

Collateral Good is a climate-first venture capital platform based in Zurich, Switzerland, that aims to transform polluting industry systems into more sustainable ones. "Doing collateral good" in supporting extraordinary world-class entrepreneurs, innovation and technology with capital is at the centre of the firm's mission. These are crucial cornerstones on our journey to a sustainable future.
The underlying mission of the managed thematical funds is to support and promote a positive, measurable impact globally alongside a significant financial return. The main focus areas are well-defined within each strategy. The firm currently manages several funds with total AUMs > EUR 200M: Sustainable Food, Sustainable Packaging and Sustainable Fashion. The firms operates as a corporate innovation platform with anchor investors of the likes like Bimbo Corporation, HAVI, Givaudan, Deliver Hero, Sigma, HUGO BOSS and others.
The firm has committed to all strategies to follow Art 9 under the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).

More information: www.collateralgood.eu

Jesse de Klerk

Partner, Stafford Capital Partners

Jesse de Klerk is Partner at Stafford Capital Partners and member of the Global Private Equity Investment Committee. In his role, he is responsible for Stafford’s private equity fund investment and co-investment activities in Europe. Prior to joining Stafford Capital Partners in June 2020, Jesse was Head of Private Equity at Robeco, where he worked since 2004. Prior to that, he worked as consultant at KPMG and Andersen, advising global organizations on risk management, financial management, and performance improvement. He started his career at Deutsche Bank in London, where he worked in the Global Markets Research division. Mr. De Klerk holds an M.Sc. cum laude in Financial Econometrics from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, an M.Sc. cum laude in M&A and Valuation from the University of Groningen, is a CFA-charter holder, and a CAIA-charter holder.

Stafford Capital Partners

Stafford Capital Partners (‘Stafford’) is an independent private markets investment manager with USD 7.9bn under management and advice for more than 150 institutional clients worldwide. Stafford invests in natural capital solutions such as timberland, alongside essential infrastructure and sustainable private equity through secondaries, primaries, and co-investments.

Founded in 2000, Stafford has leveraged its technical expertise in alternative investments to unlock complex opportunities for its investors. Stafford has been a UN PRI signatory since 2010 and has committed to the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative. It puts sustainability at the centre of its investment process and implements a well-defined ESG program across all strategies. Stafford is dedicated to providing its investors with better insight, investments and outcomes; invested in making a difference for its clients, people and society.

Nadia Kouassi Coulibaly

Head of Research, African Private Capital Association

Nadia is Head of Research at AVCA - the African Private Capital Association. She has fourteen years of experience working in the French private equity and venture capital industry.

Prior to joining AVCA, Nadia worked as Head of Research at France Invest, the French Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, where she focused on providing the private equity community with benchmark insights and policy and press support.

Nadia holds an MSc in International Economics from the Paris Dauphine University in France.

Nina Kraus

Principal, Fund Investments, Hamilton Lane

Nina is a Principal on the global Fund Investment team. She is based in the London office where she focuses on fund investments across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Nina is a member of Hamilton Lane’s Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Council and leads the global Fund Investment team’s ESG Taskforce.

Nina began her career at Hamilton Lane in 2013 and has previously worked for Hamilton Lane in Philadelphia and Munich, where she focused on North American and DACH market fund investments, respectively. Nina is involved in Level20 as a member of the Future Leaders Committee.

Nina received a B.A. in Economics with Honours and a minor in Biology from Hamilton College.

Claudia Kruse

Chief Sustainability & Strategy Officer, APG Asset Management

As Managing Director Global Responsible Investment ＆ Governance Claudia Kruse is part of the management team of APG Asset Management reporting into the CIO/ Board. APG manages over EUR 400bn on behalf of Dutch pension funds. Her fifteen people strong team implements the responsible investment policy on behalf of APG and its clients across all asset classes. The focus is on active ownership, ESG integration tailored to the specific investment strategies and investing in solutions that contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals.

Before joining APG in 2009, she worked on the buy and sell-side in Responsible Investing in London for almost a decade. She has been appointed to the German Corporate Governance Code Commission in 2016 and is a member of the EU Expert Group on Sustainable Finance since January 2017. She is on the Board of Eumedion, the Dutch Corporate Governance Platform as well as the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN). In 2016 she was voted CIO Europe’s Next Generation CIO Award winner.

Claudia holds a MA in International Management and Chinese, as well as an MSc Tourism ＆ Development (UCL, London), and has lived and worked in China in the 1990s on environmental education. She has inter alia published on the Governance of Sustainability and the integration of ESG factors into remuneration which reflects her strong belief in the connection between good governance and sustainability.

Diane Kulju

Director of IMM and Research, Impact Capital Managers

Diane is the Director of IMM and Research at Impact Capital Managers, which has the joint mission of advancing member performance and scaling the impact investing marketplace with integrity and authenticity. Diane leads ICM’s work on impact measurement and management, supporting and working alongside ICM’s 115+ members—all private capital funds investing for market-rate return and meaningful impact—to advance best practices in the field and help funds not only prove but also improve the impact of their work. Additionally, Diane directs the research initiatives of the affiliated ICM Institute, which publishes industry-leading studies and reports including the Alpha in Impact, Legal Innovation in Impact Investing, What’s Next for Fund Administration, Strengthening Outcomes: Impact and Financial Return at Exit, and New Frontiers in Value Creation. Diane also leads partnerships with external stakeholders to promote shared priorities in the advancement of the IMM practice, such as ICM and Impact Frontiers’ partnership on the “Impact for Decision-Making” online curriculum, which provides guidance on impact-financial integration.

Diane brings a rich and diverse history of impact measurement expertise from a variety of industries and sectors. Before beginning her tenure at ICM, Diane led impact measurement at Pyxera Global, a nonprofit that leads ESG and CSR programs for Fortune 500 companies around the world. Prior to that, Diane served as a Senior Consulting Researcher at the think tank Arqaam, where she contributed to project evaluations and impact measurement system design, including for an EU-funded $40M+ multi-country climate change mitigation project. Diane also spent several years at Samuel Hall, a think tank based in Kenya that specializes in research in conflict and post-conflict environments, where she designed and led customized impact measurement and research projects for UN, INGO, government, and corporate clients across Africa, Europe, and Asia.

Diane holds a Master of Global Business Administration from The Fletcher School at Tufts University, where she concentrated on sustainable finance. She also holds a BA, summa cum laude, in International Studies from the University of Washington.

Impact Capital Managers

The Impact Capital Managers mission is to accelerate the performance of its members and to scale the private capital impact investing marketplace with integrity and authenticity. ICM accomplishes this through its global membership association, which includes 100+ best-in-class funds representing more than $80B in impact-focused capital, and through field-building initiatives and research supported by the affiliated ICM Institute. As part of its commitment to grow the marketplace with integrity, association members must meet certain criteria including standards on impact measurement and management. ICM is a proud organizer of the Mosaic Fellowship – which has graduated over 65 top performing students from diverse backgrounds - and with Achieve Partners, producer of the Better Money, Better World podcast. For more information or membership queries, visit www.impactcapitalmanagers.com.

Paul Lamacraft

Senior Private Equity Investment Director, Schroders Capital

Paul Lamacraft covers Schroders Capital Private Equity investment activities in Europe and is Head of Sustainability & Impact. Paul has a particular focus on opportunities in the UK and Europe and supports the Private Equity element of Schroders Investment Trust product range. Given his passion for Sustainability & Impact he has recently launched and now manages the Schroders Capital Circular Economy Private Plus, Semi-Liquid Fund. He is also very keen to continue the work to expand the Private Equity asset class to a wider range of investors.

Before joining Schroders in 2020, Paul worked for 8 years in private equity and public markets investing with an emphasis on direct venture and growth equity transactions. Prior to this Paul spent over 12 years advising companies in their private equity fundraising and M&A activities, including 5 years at Deutsche Bank. Paul started his career at EY where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant.

Paul is a qualified ACA and holds a BSc in Economics & Accounting from the University of Bristol, UK.

Schroders Capital

Schroders Capital is a business built to provide investors with access to a broad range of private asset investment opportunities, portfolio building blocks and customised private asset strategies. Its team has been operating in private markets for over four decades, focusing on delivering best-in-class, risk-adjusted returns and executing investments through a combination of direct investment capabilities and broader solutions in all private market asset classes, through comingled funds and customised private asset mandates. The team aims to achieve sustainable returns through a rigorous approach and in alignment with a culture characterised by performance, collaboration and integrity.
With more than $94 billion assets under management (31 December 2023), Schroders Capital offers a diversified range of investment strategies, including real estate, private equity, secondaries, venture capital, infrastructure, securitised products and asset-based finance, private debt, insurance-linked securities and impact investing.

Paula Langton

Partner, Campbell Lutyens

Paula joined Campbell Lutyens in 2006 and co-heads the firm’s fund placement activities in Europe as well as leading Campbell Lutyens’ sustainability practice.
Paula has over 20 years of fund placement experience. She has led well over 45 fundraisings for European and global private equity firms, representing almost $65 billion of capital commitments spanning a variety of product classes including buyout, growth equity, secondary and mezzanine funds.
Prior to joining Campbell Lutyens, Paula worked in the Private Fund Group at Credit Suisse in London, having initially started in Credit Suisse's Global Industrial Services Group. She has a first class degree in business studies from City University.

Campbell Lutyens

Campbell Lutyens is a global and independent private markets advisor, providing fund placement, secondary advisory and GP capital advisory services to leading fund managers and investors. With specialist knowledge in private equity, infrastructure, private credit and sustainable investing, the firm has a team of 180 operating from offices in London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore and Melbourne.

Guna Lasmane

Senior Underwriter, Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency

Guna Lasmane is a Senior Underwriter at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), a political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank. Guna has over 15 years of experience in project structuring and execution worldwide in the Agribusiness, Manufacturing, and Services sectors, including Healthcare and Education. Her role involves supporting private sector investors, fund managers, and lenders in de-risking cross-border investments by utilizing political risk insurance tools, mobilizing private capital, and facilitating access to funding in emerging markets. Guna is experienced in international best practices in environmental, social, governance, and climate integration into investment projects. Her expertise helps to generate positive and measurable development impact alongside a financial return. Based in Washington, DC, Guna focuses on business origination and development in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and Central Asia.

MIGA

The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) is a member of the World Bank Group. The Agency’s mandate is to promote cross-border investment in developing countries by providing guarantees (political risk insurance and credit enhancement) to investors and lenders.
The guarantees protect investments against noncommercial risks and can help investors obtain access to funding sources with improved financial terms and conditions. The Agency derives its unique strength from the World Bank and from its structure as an international organization whose shareholders include most countries of the world. This enables MIGA to provide an umbrella of deterrence against government actions that could disrupt projects and assist in the resolution of disputes between investors and governments. MIGA also adds value through its ability to offer clients extensive knowledge of emerging markets and of international best practices in environmental and social management.

Adam Liddle

Head of Sustainability, RoslinCT

Adam is our Head of Sustainability and brings 18 years of private and public sector experience in environmental regulation, sustainability consulting, and corporate sustainability leadership.
Adam started his professional career as a chemist, later diversifying into environmental protection focusing on waste management, producer responsibility, and transfrontier shipments of waste. Adam then spent 10 years in consultancy, advising private and public sector clients on strategic and technical application of resource efficiency and the circular economy, before developing and leading corporate sustainability strategies focused on delivering real impact for people and the planet. Adam is an alumnus of the University of Edinburgh and an active member of numerous local, national and global sustainability working groups. He has presented at various conferences and events including COP26, providing global representation for his employers. Adam is a Chartered Waste Manager and accredited Project Manager, a keen cyclist, a father of two boys, and lives in Portobello in Edinburgh.

Tai Lin

Managing Partner, Proterra Investment Partners Asia

Tai Lin is the Managing Partner of Proterra Investment Partners Asia (“Proterra Asia”), the Asian affiliate of Proterra Investment Partners (US), a global private investment manager focused on the food and agribusiness industries with over US$ 4 billion of assets under management. He is a member of the Investment Committees of both Proterra Asia and the global Proterra Investment Partners platform.

Tai has 21 years of private equity and investment banking experience. Prior to Proterra, he served as a Managing Director for Cargill-owned alternative investment management firm Black River Asset Management (Proterra’s predecessor), where he focused on investments in the food and farming sectors across Asia. Tai joined Black River (London) in 2007 from Credit Suisse First Boston (New York). Prior to that he spent numerous years in the area of M&A and investment banking in Hong Kong, London and New York.

Tai is a graduate of Vienna University of Economics in Austria with a Master’s Degree in Economics & Finance and a CFA Charterholder. He is also a Member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO). He is fluent in English, Mandarin and German.

Proterra Asia

Proterra Investment Partners Asia ("Proterra Asia") is a private equity fund manager focused on investing in the Asian Food Sector. The Proterra Asia team sits in offices in Singapore and Shanghai. Proterra Asia is an affiliate of Proterra Investment Partners LP, an alternative investment manager focused on investing in natural resource sectors of agriculture & food.

Elisabeth Lind Jones

Managing Director, Private Client Practice, Cambridge Associates

Elisabeth is a Managing Director and a member of the Private Client Practice at Cambridge Associates with a focus on Private Investments. Based out of the London office, she works with private and institutional clients globally on investment issues such as asset allocation strategy, manager selection, and investment programme evaluation. Elisabeth joined the firm in 2005 and spent over 10 years in our Boston office.

Before becoming an investment director, Elisabeth was an investment associate in the firm, working as a member of investment teams for families, endowments and foundations. In this role, she was also the leader of the associate’s alternative assets team and was responsible for overseeing the PE exposure model and developing training materials pertaining to venture capital, private equity, energy, real estate, and timber for the associate group. She also worked on currency issues encountered by the firm’s clients.

Xenia Loos

Co-Founder, Partner, Collective Action

Xenia is a co-founder of Collective Action, a Private Markets Impact Investment Platform. She is a senior member of the investment team and leads the firm’s efforts in building, maintaining and monitoring GP relationships.

Xenia has worked in private markets and impact investing for 17 years, supporting and helping build some of the global pioneers (GPs and LPs) in impact investing. Xenia is passionate about contributing to scaling, accelerating and professionalising the impact investing ecosystem. Together with her co-founders, she launched Collective Action to help investors overcome the hurdles they face in realising their impact ambitions and, in doing so, catalyse institutional capital at scale into impact private markets. She believes private markets are key to unlocking sustainable growth, as private companies offering solutions to social and environmental challenges are poised for significant growth. Private markets impact investing is a critical tool for investors to contribute to and benefit from this growth. Before founding Collective Action, she was part of the leadership team of LeapFrog Investments, a pioneer of Profit with Purpose investing, where she co-led the firm’s fundraising, investor relations and co-investment activities. Xenia started her career at AAC Capital, a Benelux mid-market buyout firm.

Collective Action

Collective Action is a Private Markets Impact Investment Platform that supports institutional investors in building their impact portfolios by providing qualitative insight through a digital research platform, MyCelium, forming impact investment partnerships, executing impact mandates, and facilitating collaboration among peers. Collective Action was founded in 2020 by a diverse team of 11 investment professionals from the Netherlands, South Africa, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.

Martijn Lopes Cardozo

Venture Partner, Regeneration.VC

Martijn is a serial entrepreneur who has built a number of successful companies in software, mobile and digital media in California. After he came back to the Netherlands he decided to focus his energy on transitioning the world from a “take, make and dispose'' linear economy to a circular economy in which materials can be upcycled and reused. As CEO of Black Bear, a pioneering circular economy company that retrieves high-value materials from end-of-life tires he has put circularity into practice. In order to drive the much needed systemic change, he led Circle Economy Foundation, an Amsterdam based impact organisation that empowers businesses, cities and nations with practical and scalable solutions to put the circular economy into action. Recently he returned to his entrepreneurial roots as Venture Partner with Regeneration.VC.

Martijn is also an entrepreneur-in-residence with YES! Delft and is a frequent speaker at conferences such as WEF, COP27 and TEDx. Martijn holds an MSc in Applied Physics from TU Delft and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

REGENERATION.VC

Regeneration.VC is an early-stage venture fund Supercharging Consumer-Powered Climate Innovation driven by circular and regenerative principles. We invest in Consumer ClimateTech companies across Design (AgTech & Aquaculture and Next-Gen Materials), Use (Apparel & Lifestyle and Food & Beverage brands), and Reuse (Recommerce and Reverse Logistics platforms) strategies that generate measurable environmental impact alongside outsized return potential.

Alasdair Maclay

Chief Strategy Officer, Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG)

Alasdair is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG, www.gsgii.org). He is responsible for GSG’s strategy, communications, development, and funding.
Alasdair has over 20 years’ experience in financial services, with a focus on emerging markets investment. After joining CDC, Alasdair spent over a decade at Actis, the emerging markets private equity fund manager. He previously worked for Sovereign Capital, the UK private equity firm, and Bain and Company, the global consulting firm.
Alasdair was previously the Director of Strategy at the Rhodes Trust, leading on over £300m of philanthropic fundraising, driving international expansion across Africa and Asia, and building strategic operating partnerships.
Alasdair has an MBA from INSEAD and a joint honours degree in Russian and Czech language and literature from the University of Oxford.
Alasdair is an active impact investor and entrepreneur committed to environmental and social outcomes.

Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG)

The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) brings together stakeholders from the private and public sectors to collaborate on our mission to shift economies to deliver positive outcomes for all people and the planet. To achieve this objective, we orchestrate an effective and diverse global impact movement, in close partnership with the National Partners, with a focus on achieving outcomes at scale, through impact investment, where most needed.
The GSG’s National Partners currently cover 44 countries, with more than 20 countries on the way to formally establishing these bodies. A National Partner is a local platform representing all the stakeholder groups needed to redirect significant capital flows and resources towards positive social and environmental impact. Private-sector led, and in close partnership with national governments, National Partners create awareness and market intelligence, help change policies, and mobilise additional financial resources for public good. We are actively working in over 50 countries and have partnerships with many local and international organisations at the forefront of the impact sector.

Simon Maine

Managing Director, Brookfield Asset Management

Simon Maine is a Managing Director in Brookfield’s Corporate Communications group. In this role, he is responsible for the development and execution of strategic communications plans in Europe, as well as for the Renewable Power & Transition and Infrastructure businesses globally.

Prior to joining Brookfield in 2022, Mr. Maine was director of corporate affairs for Ovo Energy and a partner at Brunswick Group.

Mr. Maine holds a Master of Arts degree from the University of Oxford.

Diane Mak

Head of Impact Strategy, Allianz Global Investors

Diane is responsible for impact strategy and management activities across AllianzGI’s private markets platform. In her role, Diane helps to develop impact offerings, and oversees the due diligence, measurement and management of impact investment opportunities. Diane joined AllianzGI from Y Analytics, TPG Global’s dedicated impact unit, where she was Senior Director of Impact Solutions and oversaw TPG Rise Fund’s impact assessments and management activities. Previously, Diane was Director at Social Finance UK, where she focused on structuring results-based financing mechanisms to address social issue areas including economic inclusion, education and health in the UK and abroad. Diane started her career in the investment banking division of Citi. She holds a BA in Economics from Cambridge University, MPA in International Development from Harvard Kennedy School, and is an AsiaGlobal Fellow of the University of Hong Kong. Diane is a member of CFA UK’s Impact Investing Panel and co-author of the curriculum for CFA UK’s Impact Investing certificate.

Liza Rubinstein Malamud

Co-founder and Head of Impact, Carbon Equity

Liza is the Co-founder and Head of Impact at Carbon Equity, where she utilizes her expertise on the climate transition and financial strategies to drive tangible impact. Before Carbon Equity, she spent four years at McKinsey, consulting on the energy transition. Prior to McKinsey, Liza worked as a researcher at Robeco (shareholder engagement) and the Association of Investors for Sustainable Development (impact investing). She has also served as a Strategic Advisor for the Amsterdam Municipality and Follow This, where she currently sits on the Supervisory Board.
Liza received a BA (Hons) in Sustainability and an MSc (Hons) in Sustainable Finance from the University of Amsterdam.

Irina Markina

Managing Director, Chief Decarbonization Officer, Ara Partners

Irina Markina is the Managing Director, Chief Decarbonization Officer at Ara Partners. Irina leads the firm’s decarbonization strategy, impact due diligence, and portfolio performance measurement and management. Prior to joining Ara Partners, Irina was a Corporate Sustainability Manager at Baker Hughes, a $30 billion energy technology company, where she was instrumental in operationalizing the company’s net zero strategy and sustainability operating model across its global business. Prior to Baker Hughes, Irina served as the Senior Energy Advisor at the European Union Delegation to the United States, where she provided technical guidance and directed the European Commission’s cooperation on energy, climate change, and GHG emissions reduction strategies with U.S. government agencies. Irina is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center.

Ara Partners

Ara Partners is a global private equity firm specializing in industrial decarbonization. Ara Partners funds seek to drive industrial decarbonization through equity and infrastructure investments in innovative solutions that are proven to mitigate the effects of climate change by reducing GHG emissions and waste. Ara Partners invests in the industrial services & manufacturing, chemicals & materials, energy efficiency & green fuels, and food & agriculture sectors. With c.$5.6 billion in assets under management, Ara Partners pursues investments in North America and Western Europe and has a team of over 60 professionals based in Boston, Houston, Washington D.C. and Dublin.

Mike McCreless

Founder and Executive Director, Impact Frontiers

Mike is Founder and Executive Director of Impact Frontiers, a peer learning and market-building collaboration supporting investors in pioneering new ways to integrate impact alongside financial risk and return in investment practices. In 2020, he led the investors participating in the first Impact Frontiers cohort to co-author the article “How Investors Can Integrate Social Impact With Financial Performance to Improve Both” in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, as well as an accompanying Investor Handbook. Most recently, he co-authored the chapters on impact management and investor contribution for the forthcoming Certificate on Impact Investing from the CFA Society of the UK.

Mike served concurrently as Head of Investor Collaboration at the Impact Management Project from 2019 to 2021. Prior to that, Mike was Head of Impact at Root Capital, where his article “Toward the Efficient Impact Frontier” was featured in the Winter 2017 issue of SSIR. He holds an MBA and an MPA in International Development from Harvard University, as well as a BA from Yale University.

Impact Frontiers

Impact Frontiers is a learning and market-building collaboration for investors seeking to manage their social and environmental impacts and incorporate impact into investment decision-making. Impact Frontiers stewards the norms and consensus-building practices pioneered by the Impact Management Project, using practitioner experiences to jump-start consensus-building in areas of practice where standards and guidance do not yet exist, and synthesizing and sharing the results of these collaborations with the field at large. In 2024, Impact Frontiers published the Impact Performance Reporting Norms, establishing shared expectations for the reporting of impact results by asset managers in private markets. These Norms are the result of an 18-month public consultation among more than 350 asset managers, asset owners and allocators, consultants, and assurance and verification providers.

Inès Mertens

Impact Investing market development Lead, Impact Europe

Inès Mertens leads EVPA’s impact investing market development in Europe, supporting impact funds and financial institutions in their impact journey. She is an impact investment professional with 20+ years-experience in impact investing and corporate finance. In 2015, she entered venture capital at Inventures Investment Partners, leading European impact fund of €50M that backed 27 start-ups.
Previously, she lived in California where she gained extensive experience in business valuation working with early-stage companies. She started her career at Deloitte Corporate Finance and was involved in acquisition processes, valuations and financial due diligence assignments of private and public companies.
She co-founded the Belgian chapter of Level20 promoting diversity within the Private Equity industry and was board observer at Solifin, a Belgian impact network. She also served as board, mentor and jury member seats.

Impact Europe is the investing for impact network

We gather capital providers (foundations, impact funds, banks, corporate social investors, public funders) to increase prosperity and social progress for all, fix inequalities and injustices and preserve the planet.
Together, we rally people, capital and knowledge to accelerate, scale and safeguard impact.

All capital providers have a crucial role to play in driving transformative change. Impact Europe offers strategies, insights and practical wisdom for wherever you are on the continuum of capital or your impact roadmap.

We’re building an expansive and harmonious global impact ecosystem, setting up new markets in eastern Europe, Middle East and north Africa. Our EU policy work presses for a thriving and inclusive impact market.

Learn more at impacteurope.net.

Sarah Miller

Senior Vice President - Manager Research, Redington

Sarah works as a Senior Vice President in the Manager Research Team where she has a primary focus on private market strategies and specialises in impact investing. Sarah leads on Inclusion and Diversity within fund research and also chairs Redington's Inclusion & Diversity Committee. Sarah joined Redington in July 2019 having previously worked at BMO Global Asset Management and Janus Henderson. She is a CFA charterholder and holds a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics with Psychology from the University of Birmingham.

Abrar Mir

Co-founder and Managing Partner, Quadria Capital Investment Management Pte Ltd

Abrar Mir is co-founder and Managing Partner of Quadria Capital, Asia’s leading healthcare focused private equity firm with over US$3.4 billion in assets under management.

Quadria Capital specializes in investing in large, scalable healthcare businesses that have the potential to deliver deep social impact whilst achieving consistent top quartile financial returns. The firm has invested in over 30 leading healthcare companies throughout South and Southeast Asia. Through a hands-on operationally driven investment approach, these investments have delivered high quality, affordable healthcare to the most vulnerable in Asia whilst generating strong economic returns with over US$2 billion returned to investors. The firm has won several industry awards including “Best for the World Funds” for social impact and “Asia Healthcare Investor of the Year”. The firm is backed by several leading global institutional investors including sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and asset managers.

Abrar serves on the Investment Committee and holds board positions in several of Quadria Capital's key investments. He graduated with a degree in Law from the University of Cambridge and is fluent in five languages.

Toby Mitchenall

Senior Editor, ESG and Sustainability, New Private Markets

Toby Mitchenall is Senior Editor, ESG and Sustainability at PEI. He is the editor of New Private Markets, a new publication serving sustainable investors in private markets, from ESG to impact. Toby was previously responsible for PEI’s private equity coverage and is a regular contributor to its various publications. He was formerly a consultant advising private equity firms on marketing and public relations.

Vlad Mitroi

Head of ESG, Chenavari Investment Managers

Vlad joined Chenavari in 2020 to develop the Firm’s responsible investment strategy, spearhead ESG integration in investments, and incubate new investment strategies seeking to finance the decarbonisation of the real economy. Before joining Chenavari, Vlad worked on a climate fintech startup focused on real estate assets. Prior to this, he spent 7 years with ING in the Debt Capital Markets team, where he launched and developed the Bank’s Sustainable Markets franchise. As Vice President, he co-managed the public market issuance of c. $35bn worth of green, social and sustainability bonds and advised wholesale banking clients on strategic ESG matters.

Vlad has completed an MBA from London Business School and is a CFA charterholder. Vlad is a member of the European Leveraged Finance (ELFA) ESG Committee.

Chenavari Investment Managers

Founded in 2008, Chenavari Investment Managers is a $4.5bn+ AuM independent alternative fixed income specialist in European credit markets, with expertise across the liquidity spectrum, from corporate and financial bonds, asset-backed securities to leveraged finance, private credit and specialty finance loan origination. The Firm's diverse and entrepreneurial team utilises a fundamental, value-based approach to identify investments within its areas of expertise. Chenavari launched its impact private credit platform in 2023 seeking to finance the decarbonisation of the real economy, with strategies focused on the transition of the built environment and of industrial operators.

Reem Mobassaleh Wyndham

Founding Partner, Pact VC

Reem is a founding partner at Pact VC. Pact is an early stage fund with backing from industry heavy hitters investing in technology companies building Access, Betterment and Climate solutions. Prior to Pact, Reem was an institutional VC investor doing both direct and fund investments in the UK. She was also at Mubadala in their Advanced Technology vertical building GlobalFoundries. Reem has been a founder of a global luxury goods brand and an active angel investor. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School

Imraan Mohammed

Portfolio Manager – Climate Opportunities Fund, Border to Coast Pensions Partnership

Imraan leads the Climate Opportunities strategy at Border to Coast, which is a £1.35bn strategy that aims to build multi-asset class and diversified exposure to the climate investment theme for Partner Funds. He has over 19 years of experience across both the buy-side and M&A, and prior to this, designed and led the private markets investment strategy for the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation’s endowment, focusing on thematic investments across the energy transition, clean technologies and health. Prior to this, Imraan was a Fund Manager at Bamboo Capital Partners, where he ran a direct private equity investment strategy focusing on investments into emerging market banks and fintech providers. As such, he brings significant experience across both the LP and GP sides of the table. Imraan holds an MBA from London Business School, and a BA in Economics from Cambridge.

Border to Coast Pensions Partnership

Border to Coast Pensions Partnership is the largest Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) pool in the UK. It was founded in 2018 by like-minded Local Government Pension Funds – its Partner Funds – to enable the pooling of their assets, which collectively stand at c.£60bn (at 31 March 2023).
Based in Leeds, Border to Coast is a responsible, long-term investor regulated by the FCA. Its internal team blends direct investment management with specialist external managers to deliver bespoke solutions across equities, fixed income, private markets, and real estate to support Partner Funds’ long-term investment strategies. Together, the Partner Funds represent 1.1m LGPS members.

Dr. Marc Moser

Head of Impact, Lightrock

Marc is the Head of Impact at Lightrock. He holds a deep conviction that finance should be a force for good and used as a powerful tool for improving the state of society and the environment. He has spent most of his career managing impact strategies in the financial industry, joining Lightrock from a related role as Impact and Operations Manager with LGT Venture Philanthropy. Before his time at LGT, he was a lecturer on Sustainability and Stakeholder Management at the University of Applied Sciences in Business Administration Zurich. Marc earned his Doctorate from the University of Southern Queensland and holds a Master’s in Business Administration and Finance from the University of Zurich.

Lightrock

Lightrock is a global impact investing platform that backs purpose-driven companies tackling the world’s biggest challenges. Lightrock funds invest in companies that pursue scalable and tech-driven business models around the key impact themes of people, planet, and productivity/tech for good. Lightrock’s portfolio includes more than 90 high-growth companies across Europe, US, Latin America, India, and Africa, supported by more than 115 Lightrock professionals based in 6 global offices. Lightrock is backed by LGT, the international private banking and asset management group, and other leading global institutions.

Stephen Muers

Chief Executive Officer, Big Society Capital

Stephen was appointed CEO in May 2021. He has been at Big Society Capital since 2016, working for four years as Head of Strategy and Market Development and then as interim CEO since May 2020. During this time, Stephen has led on the organisation’s strategy planning, building strong relationships across Big Society Capital’s range of stakeholders, from the social and public sectors to institutional investors and latterly leading the organisation in its response to the pandemic.

Stephen joined Big Society Capital from the Civil Service, where he held the post of Director, Criminal Justice Policy at the Ministry of Justice , and before that, senior posts in the Cabinet Office and Department for Energy and Climate Change.

Stephen is Chair of Friends Provident Foundation, a charity that makes grants and uses its endowment towards a fair and sustainable economic system that serves society and a Trustee of Fair Trials, a global criminal justice watchdog. He is a Policy Fellow at the Institute of Policy Research, University of Bath and his book Culture and Values at the Heart of Policy Making was published in 2020.

Big Society Capital

Big Society Capital is the UK’s leading social impact investor. Our mission is to increase the amount of capital invested in tackling social challenges across the UK. We do this both by investing our own capital and enabling others to invest alongside us. We invest in funds across the full range of asset classes that have the potential for social impact.

Nicolas Muller

Managing Director (Head of Funds ＆ Co-Investments), Blue Earth Capital

Nicolas Muller joined Blue Earth Capital in 2022 and has 14 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Blue Earth Capital, he worked as a Senior Investment Manager for Obviam AG, a Swiss impact investing firm, where he was responsible for fund investments, co-investments, and secondary transactions. Prior to joining Obviam, Nicolas was a Principal at Capital Dynamics, a global alternative asset manager, within the US Primaries team and was working as a Private Equity Analyst at the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations in Paris, France. Nicolas covered various regions during his professional career including the US, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Nicolas holds a master’s degree in asset management from the INSEEC Group, Paris (France), and a master’s degree in corporate finance from the Ecole de Commerce Européenne (ECE), Lyon (France). He holds the professional designation of Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA).

Blue Earth Capital

Blue Earth Capital is a global, independent, specialist impact investor, headquartered in Switzerland, with operations in New York, London, and Konstanz. Blue Earth Capital seeks to address the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges by delivering measurable impact alongside aiming for attractive and sustainable financial returns. The company offers dedicated private equity, private debt, and fund solutions. Blue Earth Capital is owned by the Blue Earth Foundation, a charity registered in Switzerland that focuses on deep impact to support initiatives and business ventures to drive the transition to an inclusive and net-zero society.

Pete Murphy

Senior Director - Private Equity Impact Investing, Nuveen

Pete is a senior director and the Head of ESG and Impact in Private Equity Impact Investing at Nuveen, where he oversees integration of social and environmental considerations into investment decision-making processes. The Private Equity Impact Investing team seeks to drive an inclusive transition to a low carbon economy; investing in companies that simultaneously mitigate climate change, build resilience to its impacts, and develop affordable, high-quality products and services for low-income individuals. Prior to joining the team, Pete was a Director in Responsible Investing Nuveen, advising TIAA, Nuveen’s parent company on several ESG and impact initiatives, including TIAA’s $350B+ general account mandate to implement a net zero target.

Prior to Nuveen, Pete was a leader in the impact investing market at the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), where he worked with fund managers to structure fit-for-purpose impact funds and products. At the GIIN, he also built the IRIS+ standard, a system used by the impact industry to assess social and environmental fund performance. Pete also worked as a consultant, advising alternatives managers on ESG integration and sustainable funds development.

Pete graduated with a B.A. in Biology and Environmental studies from Bowdoin College and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.

Amy Nelson

Chief Strategy Officer, Rethink Capital Partners

Amy Nelson serves as Chief Strategy Officer of Rethink Capital Partners where she oversees the firm’s development of new strategies and supports growth and operations across the platform. Prior to Rethink, she spent eight years at Venture For America, an organization that selects, trains, and supports the next generation of entrepreneurs, including four years serving as CEO.
Amy has also held business development positions at B Lab, Relief International, and Cambodian Children’s Fund. Amy sits on the boards of the Vivvi, West Harlem Innovation Network, Partners for Justice, Generation Citizen, and Safe Haven Medical Outreach in Cambodia.
Amy is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College and NYU’s Stern School of Business.

Rethink Capital Partners

Rethink Capital Partners is a multi-strategy investment manager specializing in real estate and venture capital. Our complementary investment strategies deliver strong financial and social returns. With more than 40 years of experience and more than $3.1bn in assets under management, we are widely recognized as one of the pioneer impact investment firms. We currently offer five distinct investment strategies: Rethink Community, Rethink Education, Rethink Food, Rethink Healthcare, and Rethink Impact.

Paige Nicol

Director, Europe & Asia, Bluemark

Paige Nicol is BlueMark’s European & Asian Director, responsible for building out the firm’s client verification services, business development and strategy in the regions.
Paige has a decade of experience across professional services and the social sector. Most recently, she was the Director of Strategy & Insights for Luminate, a philanthropy of the Omidyar Group. In this role she led the development of the organisation’s global strategy and shaped their approach to impact measurement and learning. Prior to her time at Luminate, she co-led the development of the Omidyar Network’s experimental impact investing strategy on digital identification.
Paige began her career in management consulting at Deloitte, before returning to her undergraduate alma mater, Georgetown University, where she received her Masters in International Business & Finance at the Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Bluemark

BlueMark is the leading provider of impact intelligence and independent verification for the sustainable and impact investing market. BlueMark’s mission is to strengthen trust in sustainable and impact investing by delivering independent, incisive verification services, enabling the market to scale with integrity. BlueMark helps clients stay on top of evolving market expectations, signal credibility to key stakeholders, and understand strengths and gaps in their approach to sustainable and impact investing.

Nadia Nikolova

Managing Director, Lead Portfolio Manager Development Finance & Impact Credit, Allianz Global Investors

Nadia Nikolova heads the Development Finance & Impact Credit strategies at Allianz Global Investors, currently managing over $3bn of commitments.
Nadia joined AllianzGI ten years ago originally as a portfolio manager in the Infrastructure Debt team and from 2016 has been focused on expanding AllianzGI’s presence in sustainable investments including the infrastructure debt partnership with IFC (2017 & 2022), Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund investment (2018), the introduction of Allianz Asia Private Credit strategy (2019) and the MIGA COVID-19 Response Program (2020), Emerging Markets Credit Insured Strategies and Export Credit Agencies (2021), SDG Loan Fund (2023). Nadia is currently focused on expanding the business into European Impact Credit.

Prior to joining AllianzGI, Nadia worked at the Structured Infrastructure Finance team at Citigroup based out of London where she advised clients on debt raising and restructuring in the context of acquisitions, and recapitalizations. Notable transactions involved restructuring of inflation linked swaps; unitranche financings; mezzanine and convertible debt. Nadia started her career in credit and remedial management in Citi where she was involved in the non-performing portfolio of clients across corporates, CMBS, RMBS and shipping.
Nadia holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Essex and has graduated from Harvard Business School Executive Program for Leadership and Development.
In 2016, Financial News awarded Nadia one of 40 under 40 professionals in Asset Management.

Dr Andreas Nilsson

Managing Director and Head of Impact, Golding Capital Partners

Dr Andreas Nilsson is Managing Director and Head of Impact at Golding Capital Partners and responsible for impact investments. He joined the Golding team in 2021

Prior to joining Golding, Mr Nilsson was Managing Partner of Sonanz, an Impact-focused fund-of-funds which he founded in 2015. Before that, he worked as a private equity investor at EQT and UBS.

Mr Nilsson holds a PhD in Finance from the Stockholm School of Economics and spent two years as a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Business School. The topic of his doctoral dissertation was “The Financing of Nonprofits and Social Enterprises”. Mr Nilsson earned his MSc from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Golding Capital Partners

Golding Capital Partners is one of Europe’s leading independent asset managers for alternative investments, focusing on the asset classes infrastructure, private debt, private equity, secondaries and impact. With a team of more than 160 professionals at its offices in Munich, London, Luxembourg, New York, Tokyo and Zurich, Golding helps institutional investors to develop their investment strategy and manages more than €12 billion in assets. Its more than 250 investors include pension funds, insurance companies, foundations, family offices and ecclesiastical institutions, as well as banks, savings banks and cooperative banks. Golding became a signatory of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI) in 2013 and has been a supporter of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) since 2021

Emelie Norling

Impact Director, Summa Equity

Emelie Norling is Impact Director at Summa Equity, overseeing the establishment and implementation of processes that drive positive societal impact within the framework of ESG and impact investment. With a background as the Head of Responsible Investment at Afa insurance, Emelie leverages her expertise to tailor Summa's investment opportunities to the highest standards of impact and ESG criteria.

Emelie started her professional journey at ISS ESG, an ESG consulting firm aiding institutional investors. Emelie has an academic background and her doctoral research delved into the operationalisation of sustainable development through the legal systems.

Summa Equity

Founded in 2016, Summa Equity is an impact investor focusing on three thematic areas: Resource Efficiency, Changing Demographics, and Tech-Enabled Transformation. The purpose of Summa is to invest in solving our global challenges.

Summa has c. EUR 5 billion in assets under management and has made over 30 platform investments across the three funds raised to date. The investments have the potential for long-term sustainable outperformance because they address some of the social, environmental, and governmental challenges we need to solve as a society.

The team is located in Northern Europe, with offices in Stockholm, Oslo, and Munich. Partnerships are part of Summa’s DNA, exemplified by being a certified B Corporation and collaborating with Harvard Business School and the International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI).

Max Odefey

Co-founder, GENUI

In 2014, Max founded GENUI together with a group of successful entrepreneurs and investment professionals to combine true entrepreneurship with private equity acumen. GENUI invests in medium-sized companies in the DACH region and aims to live and promote ‘Good Entrepreneurship’. As a Benefit Corporation, GENUI targets strong financial returns as well as social and ecological impact.
Max is also co-founder and board member of the Entrepreneurs’ Social Impact Foundation (USC) which structurally promotes opportunities for children and youths. The foundation leverages more than €125 million financial contributions from GENUI’s network of entrepreneurs which it invests into the GENUI funds and other leading private equity funds, with the investment teams waiving this part of their carried interest and fees.

GENUI

GENUI is a mid-market buyout investment firm founded by a distinguished group of entrepreneurs and investment professionals who have been investing in Europe, with a focus on the DACH market since more than two decades. The firm has established a platform of a sizeable group of outstanding entrepreneurs who have founded/developed market leading companies and who are personally engaged in the deals. The group is dedicated to live „Good Entrepreneurship“ focusing on strong financial returns and companies creating positive impact. The firm is a thematic investor in Good Health, Digitalisation and Environmental Transformation and operates out of Hamburg and Zurich. GENUI supports its companies with the GENUI Entrepreneurs’ expertise and relevant network within a framework of professional governance.
Being a certified B Corp, GENUI’s strategic sustainability objective is to support positive and measurable social or environmental effects applying the Impact Frontiers methodology and pursuing alignment of its investments with the UN SDG.

Ben O'Donnell

Chief Investment Officer – Natural Capital, Climate Asset Management

Ben has more than 20 years’ experience in funds management and investment banking, with extensive experience across a range of natural capital industries. Ben leads the natural capital strategy for Climate Asset Management, which is an Article 9 aligned investment product deploying across agriculture, forestry and environmental assets in developed markets.

Previously, Ben worked in agriculture funds management at Macquarie Infrastructure & Real Assets, playing a key role in doubling the AUM to A$2.7 billion, and led food and agriculture coverage within Macquarie Capital, advising on more than A$4 billion of transactions.

Climate Asset Management

Climate Asset Management was created in 2020 as a partnership between HSBC Asset Management and Pollination with the ambition to grow the world’s leading asset management company in natural capital. Climate Asset Management’s aim is to offer a wide exposure to global natural capital investment opportunities. Its investment strategies seek to work across landscapes to build resilience against climate change whilst generating returns from food and fibre products, land value appreciation and ecosystem service payments, such as carbon credits. Climate Asset Management invests into nature-based assets, including sustainable forestry, regenerative agriculture, and nature-based carbon projects, alongside exploring new forms of natural capital.

Climate Asset Management aims to leverage the scale HSBC and the deep market expertise Pollination to unlock investment opportunities across the globe. Climate Asset Management has also been working with Apple since early 2023 in managing a novel natural capital investment vehicle, as part of Apple’s expansion of its Restore Fund.

Ayo Olabimtan

Senior investment manager, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund

Ayo Olabimtan is a senior investment manager for Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund, a $1 billion investment initiative aimed at accelerating the development and deployment of innovative climate solutions.
Before his tenure at Microsoft, Ayo was an investment manager at NTR plc, a leading sustainable infrastructure investor. He was instrumental in the acquisition, structuring, and financing of assets across Europe, including the company’s inaugural battery storage project. Earlier in his career, he worked in M&A advisory at EY as part of a team providing strategic advice on a range of topics, including buy-side and sell-side M&A, divestitures, restructuring, and business reviews, across various industries.
Beyond his professional commitments, Ayo is deeply involved in community service. He recently served as President of the African Professional Network of Ireland (APNI), a rapidly expanding organization of 3000 members dedicated to fostering community among diverse professionals in Ireland and aiding companies in executing their D&I strategies. He has also been involved in providing pro bono corporate finance advice to small-scale renewable energy developers in Africa.
Ayo holds a BA in Accounting and Finance from Griffith College Dublin. He is a Chartered Accountant and a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Jocelyne Ozdoba

Sustainability Director, Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital

Jocelyne Ozdoba is Director of Sustainability at Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital, a structured finance fund targeting companies that deliver both strong risk-adjusted returns and social impact in direct support of the Sustainable Development Goals in emerging markets. Her responsibilities include the implementation of fund’s impact strategy, the impact assessment of the deals at entry, engagement with portfolio companies and impact reporting.

Jocelyne has 18 years’ experience as a consultant and service provider in financial operations, sustainability, ESG risk monitoring and sustainable finance. Prior to Blue like an Orange, Jocelyne was Director of Sustainable Finance at Ailancy, a consulting firm dedicated to the financial industry, where she led projects related to the EU sustainable finance regulation and co-founded the Think tank “Ambitious Finance”. As part of her experience in sustainability, Jocelyne was also Head of CSR Strategy and Reporting at Utopies, a pioneering sustainability consultancy based in Paris. Finally, she was Director of Customer Success at Datamaran, a Fintech based in London and NYC, where she collaborated with sustainability professionals of major companies to identify and monitor ESG risks, using big data technologies.

Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital

Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital seeks opportunities to lend to companies and projects that deliver both strong risk-adjusted returns and positive social impact in support of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital focuses on sustainable infrastructure, agribusiness, healthcare, education and access to finance. Investors in our firm and/or advisors in our advisory committee include Ray Chambers (former Chairman of Wesray Capital), Henri de Castries (former Chairman and CEO of AXA and Chairman Europe and Special Advisor of General Atlantic), Emmanuel Faber (Chairman and CEO of Danone), Paul Polman (former CEO of Unilever) and Alejandro Santo Domingo (Chairman of the Santo Domingo Group), amongst others. Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital strives for sustainable development outcomes to foster inclusive and sustainable growth without trade-off with respect to market level rates of financial returns.

Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital's founding partners are Bertrand Badré, Amer Baig, Suprotik Basu, Rashad Kaldany and Emmanuelle Yannakis.

Jonny Page

Head of Social and Impact Investment, Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

Jonny is responsible for Esmée Fairbairn Foundation’s impact investing. Before joining Esmée, Jonny managed impact funds as Investment Director at Big Issue Invest Fund Management and is a Chartered Accountant from Deloitte. Jonny holds several advisory roles, including the Impact Investment Advisory Group at the BVCA, co-chairing the Social Impact Investors Group run by the Association of Charitable Foundations, a Visiting Fellow at Zinc VC, and the Social Enterprise Investment Committee at Trust for London.

Esmee Fairbairn Foundation

Esmée Fairbairn Foundation is one of the largest independent funders in the UK. It aims to improve our natural world, secure a fairer future and strengthen the bonds in communities.

Priya Parrish

Partner and Chief Investment Office, Impact Engine

Priya Parrish is Partner and Chief Investment Officer at Impact Engine, an institutional venture capital and private equity investor driving positive impact in the areas of economic opportunity, environmental sustainability and health equity. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Strategy and Impact Investor in Residence at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and serves as an adviser to investment firms developing and managing impact investment strategies. Prior to joining Impact Engine, Priya served as Chief Investment Officer at Schwartz Capital Group, a single-family office investing across global markets. Previously, she was Strategy Head at Aurora Investment Management, a multibillion-dollar hedge fund, and managed development of investment products that incorporated environmental, social and governance factors (ESG) at Northern Trust Asset Management and KLD Research & Analytics. Priya holds a B.S. in Business Management from Babson College and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Dimple Patel

CEO, NatureMetrics

Dimple boasts diverse and cross-industry experience, as a former founder, CEO, COO and Fixed Income Trader. She spent time at Goldman Sachs before co-founding and scaling the highly successful coffee chain, Love Koffee. Dimple then joined European scale-up Trouva as Director of Operations, focusing on building operational infrastructure for the company's international expansion.
Later progressing to Chief Operating Officer, Dimple navigated the business through COVID and the subsequent ecommerce boom. In 2022, she took over as Trouva’s CEO leading the business through the acquisition to Made.com, and then subsequently to Re:store. Dimple has also held advisory and venture partner roles at Concept Ventures, The BAE HQ, and Highliner Technology.

NatureMetrics

NatureMetrics is a world leader in delivering nature data and intelligence. It uses cutting-edge technology to generate biodiversity data at scale using environmental DNA (eDNA), Earth Observation and advanced data science and AI. NatureMetrics recently launched the world’s first Nature Intelligence Platform powered by eDNA, bringing a scalable solution to biodiversity monitoring, equipping businesses for the new nature reporting boom. NatureMetrics works with 500 plus clients in over 100 countries across a wide range of industries, including energy, extractives, food and drink, and financial services, helping them to understand, measure and manage their biodiversity impact, giving them the vital tools needed to comply with emerging biodiversity regulations. NatureMetrics' mission is to inform the best decisions for nature to build a nature positive economy.

Sam Phelps

Associate Vice President, Portfolio Oversight, CIM Group

Sam Phelps serves as Associate Vice President, Portfolio Oversight at CIM Group®, where he oversees CIM’s carbon reduction strategy. Dr. Phelps works to advance low carbon solutions across CIM’s portfolio and to develop partnerships with companies that decarbonize real assets. As a trained climate scientist, Dr. Phelps also contributes to the measurement and management of CIM’s environmental impact. He works closely with the company’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) team to achieve CIM’s emissions reduction objectives.
Prior to joining CIM, Dr. Phelps was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University. His research focused on how carbon dioxide influences climate evolution to support a greater understanding of how future climate change may unfold. Dr. Phelps also worked with Pontifax AgTech, a growth equity firm investing in food and agriculture technology, where he focused on strategy development for soil carbon markets.
Dr. Phelps earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology-Biology from Brown University and a Master of Arts/PhD degree in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Columbia University.

Daniel Pianko

Managing Director, Achieve Partners

Daniel Pianko is a Managing Director at Achieve and was formerly an MD at University Ventures. With over a decade of experience in the education industry, Daniel has built a reputation as a trusted education adviser and innovator in student finance, medical education, and postsecondary education. A frequent commentator on higher education, Daniel’s insights have been featured in national media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, TechCrunch, Inside Higher Ed, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Daniel began his career in investment banking at Goldman Sachs, and quickly became intrigued by the potential of leveraging private capital to establish the next generation of socially beneficial education companies. After leaving Goldman, Daniel invested in, founded, advised, or managed a number of education-related businesses that led to the creation of University Ventures. Prior to founding UV, he established a student loan fund, served as chief of staff for the public/private investments in the Philadelphia School District, and worked as a hedge fund analyst.

Daniel graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University, and holds a M.B.A. and M.A. in Education from Stanford University.

Andrea Ponti

Managing Partner and Founder, GHO Capital

Andrea brings over 30 years’ experience supporting healthcare entrepreneurs, founders, managers and boards develop and grow their businesses globally.

The founder of dedicated European healthcare investment banking franchises at both JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, Andrea has advised on some of the most significant M&A transactions across leading pharmaceutical, medical device and hospital companies both in Europe and globally. With responsibilities including Vice Chairman of European Investment Banking at JP Morgan and Partner, Managing Director, Head of European Healthcare at Goldman Sachs, Andrea has developed a unique network spanning the entire healthcare value chain and a track record of supporting successful management teams to achieve their growth ambitions through debt and equity financing as well as transactional expertise.

Andrea is currently on the boards of RoslinCT, Envision Pharma Group, FairJourney Biologics, Sterling Pharma, and VISUfarma and has overseen successful exits for Caprion Biosciences.
Originally from Italy and holding a BA in Economics with Highest Honours from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Andrea has lived and worked across the USA, UK and continental Europe. Andrea helped found a Blueprint for Better Business to help corporates be guided and inspired by a purpose that benefits society.

Jason Pontin

General Partner, DCVC

Jason is a member of DCVC’s investment team and leads the firm’s communicators as they tell the stories of portfolio companies. As an investor, Jason originates, finds, funds, and grows early-stage computational biology and chemistry startups that are treating previously intractable diseases, automating and accelerating scientific discovery, and transforming dirty and inefficient industries into sustainable, high-growth sectors.

Jason joined DCVC in 2021, after working for three years as a Senior Partner and Senior Advisor at Flagship Pioneering. In 2020, with CEO Neil Dhawan, he cofounded Totus Medicines, a chemical biology company that has developed a platform that can screen billions of small molecules against thousands of cellular targets in a single experiment, finding effective new drugs thousands of times faster than traditional drug discovery and at a fraction of the cost.

Before becoming a venture capitalist, Jason ran media companies and wrote for many publications, including Wired, Financial Times, and The Economist, and was a regular columnist for The New York Times. From 2004 to 2017, he was Editor in Chief and Publisher of MIT Technology Review, the world’s oldest technology magazine; he also performed a variety of administrative roles at MIT, including serving as Senior Advisor to former President Susan Hockfield and founding Solve, the Institute’s open innovation platform, which deploys capital and other resources to grand challenges. Before that, he founded and edited The Acumen Journal of Life Sciences and was Editor of Red Herring, the bible of the dot-com boom.

Jason was born in London, grew up in Northern California, and was educated in the United Kingdom at Oxford University. He now divides his time between Palo Alto and London.

DCVC

DCVC is deep tech venture capital. Over more than a dozen years, the firm has backed brilliant entre¬pre¬neurs using compu¬ta¬tional approaches to solve trillion-dollar problems in the real world across a broad set of industries, especially those that haven't seen material progress in decades. With billions of dollars of assets under management, DCVC builds long-term rela¬tion¬ships with the founders it backs. The firm has been with many of its companies from their very start — and through to their recognition by the public markets as category-defining businesses. For more information, please visit www.dcvc.com, or follow us on LinkedIn or Twitter @DCVC.

Joohee Rand

Head of Secretariat, Operating Principles for Impact Management

Joohee is the Director of Impact Principles at the GIIN and serves as the Head of Secretariat for the Operating Principles for Impact Management (Impact Principles), the global standard for impact management practice hosted at the GIIN. In her role, she leads the overall strategy, direction, and management of the Impact Principles, drives the growth of the Signatory community, and collaborates with industry partners to deepen the rigor and credibility of impact investing practice in the financial industry.

Joohee brings over two decades of experiences across impact investing, philanthropy and global management consulting. Joohee most recently served as Associate Partner with the impact consulting firm Tideline, where she led and advised on the firm’s client engagements and thought leadership initiatives related to impact strategy and management as a member of the senior leadership team. Prior to joining Tideline, Joohee promoted impact investing and systems change as practitioner and funder in senior leadership positions in the US philanthropy sector. Earlier in her career, Joohee was an Engagement Manager at global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, based in the San Francisco and Seoul Offices.

Joohee has served on various national and regional impact investing boards and advisory committees, including with Mission Investor Exchange, New Mexico Impact Investing Collaborative, and the Rainmakers Investment Collaborative. Joohee holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a MPP in International Economic Policy from the KDI School of Public Policy and Management in Korea and a BA in General Management from Assumption University in Thailand. Joohee has also completed a Sustainable Finance and Investment Executive Education certificate program at the Yale School of Management.

Impact Principles
The Operating Principles for Impact Management (Impact Principles) are a global standard for integrating impact throughout the investment lifecycle. The Impact Principles provide a common framework and promote transparency, rigor and credibility for impact management practice in the capital market. Signatories to the Impact Principles commit to publishing an annual disclosure statement, which describes how their impact management systems and processes align with each of the nine principles. They are also required to provide regular independent verification of this alignment. These documents are published by signatories and are accessible at http://www.impactprinciples.org. Through collective commitment of Signatories and broad market adoption, the Impact Principles enable capital mobilization and deployment at scale with investor confidence and integrity ultimately driving collective impact outcomes to solve global challenges. Launched by IFC in 2019, the Impact Principles secretariat is now hosted by the Global Impact Investing Network.

Fabio Ranghino

Partner, Head of Sustainability & Strategy, Ambienta

Fabio is a Partner and Head of Strategy & Sustainability at Ambienta and is based in Milan. He joined Ambienta in 2011 and since then has led the development of Ambienta’s approach to sustainability driven investment across asset classes building internal proprietary knowledge across sectors and industry. Under his leadership, the Sustainability & Strategy team develops sustainability driven insights and drives ideas generation for Ambienta’s investment teams, advises on investment decisions across asset classes and develops proprietary environmental impact methodologies.

Prior to Ambienta, Fabio was a management consultant with Value Partners where he developed experience on a wide range of sectors and industries including industrial goods, automotive, luxury goods and energy.

Fabio holds a BSc and a MSc in Aerospace Engineering from Politecnico di Torino and has an MBA from INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France and Singapore) and speaks Italian (native), English (fluent) and French (proficient).

Manuela Rankine

Director of Sustainable Investing, GHO Capital Partners LLP

Manuela is an experienced private equity professional who brings a blend of investing and sustainability expertise.
Manuela leads the firm’s responsible investing function. In this role, she is fully dedicated to the implementation of the firm’s responsible investment strategy, driving its integration within the investment lifecycle and across the portfolio. As part of her role, she works closely with GHO’s portfolio companies to support them in their sustainability journeys. She is also responsible for the measurement and articulation of the social value delivered by GHO’s strategy.
Having joined GHO in 2014, she worked closely with the management teams at VISUfarma and Velocity, and was involved with several other GHO investments including Quotient Sciences and Ardena.
Prior to GHO, she was an investment banker at Barclays Capital in London, where she advised on transactions in the healthcare sector.
Manuela holds a Master of Science in Finance cum laude from Bocconi University and a Bachelor in Economics and Management from Bocconi University and Ross Business School, University of Michigan.
A native Italian speaker, Manuela has lived and worked in the UK, the US and Italy.

Olivier Raybaud

Managing Director, SWEN Capital Partners

Driven by his passion for the ocean, Olivier co-founded the Blue Ocean fund to invest in innovations that help regenerate ocean health. Blue Ocean is SWEN’s impact venture capital fund launched in 2021 in scientific partnership with Ifremer, France’s leading ocean science institute, and is the largest ocean impact innovation fund in the world with EUR 170 million. Blue Ocean focuses on solutions to overfishing, solutions to ocean pollution and marine solutions to climate change.
Before that, Olivier worked 20 years in international banks with positions in France, Cameroon and China. Olivier is a life science engineer from AgroParisTech and holds an executive MBA from INSEAD.

Johanna Raynal

Chief Sustainability Officer, Swedfund

Johanna heads Swedfund’s ESG & Impact operations focusing on two of three pillars in Swedfund’s business model: Impact on Society and Sustainability including themes such as Gender Equality, Climate Change and Environment, Human Rights, Decent Work, and Anti-Corruption. Johanna and her team ensure the assessment and measurement of impact of Swedfund’s portfolio as well as environmental, social and corporate governance issues (ESG) in the entire investment process across different industries. Johanna has been with Swedfund since 2017.

Previous positions include Senior Sustainability Consultant at Enact Sustainable Strategies AB, Senior Manager of Sustainability and Climate Change for PwC Finland and National Team Director for AIESEC Finland. Johanna holds a Master of Economics in Corporate Finance.

Swedfund

Swedfund is Sweden's development finance institution with the mission to contribute to poverty reduction through sustainable investments in developing countries. Swedfund’s investments in the private sector contribute to a growing number of jobs offering decent working conditions and increased access to essential products and services like electricity and healthcare. Climate and gender are themes that permeate their entire investment process.

Luc Rigouzzo

Founder and Managing Partner, Amethis

Luc Rigouzzo has spent over 35 years investing in emerging market companies. He is the Co-founder & Managing Partner of Amethis, an investment and Impact fund manager dedicated to the African continent created in partnership with Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity.
Before co-founding Amethis, Luc was CEO of Proparco, a French Development Finance Institution.
Luc Rigouzzo, who holds degrees in both agronomy and finance, began his career in Mexico. He devoted the first 14 years of his career to project finance in the agribusiness and food sectors of emerging countries.

Amethis

Founded by Luc Rigouzzo and Laurent Demey and a member of the Edmond de Rothschild Private Equity Partnership, Amethis is an investment fund manager focused on the African continent, Europe and the Middle East, with assets under management of more than EUR 1 billion and more than 40 investments completed to date. Amethis provides growth capital to promising mid-market champions in a variety of sectors, offering growth support through its international network covering Europe and Africa. With six offices in Paris, Abidjan, Cairo, Casablanca, Nairobi, and Luxembourg, the Amethis team comprises over 50 experienced professionals with strong regional and sectoral expertise.
To find out more about Amethis, please visit www.amethis.com

Liz Roberts

Head of Impact Investing – Investment Management, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company

Ms. Liz Roberts is the Head of Impact Investing for MassMutual. In this role, she directs impact investing’s strategy, oversees the MassMutual Catalyst Funds (MMCF) and First Fund Initiative, and guides a team focused on investing capital for market-rate financial returns while generating positive, measurable social and environmental impact.

She joined MassMutual in 2021, bringing 20 years of startup industry and innovation experience as an accomplished entrepreneur, investor, strategist, and DEI advocate. In 2015 she built and led the VVM startup Accelerator in Springfield, MA. In four years, the initiative launched 150 startups(60% owned by women and people of color), generated 600 jobs, $51 million in revenue & investment. Previously, as Chief Strategy Officer of SX2 Media Labs, she was instrumental in the transformation of the company to a digital platform, leading to its acquisition by Great Hill Partners. Prior, Liz led operations and strategy for Distance Learning Co., acquired by Sterling Partners.

Liz is a seasoned advocate for diversity, equity, inclusion, and access to, seed and earlystage capital for underrepresented entrepreneurs to further meaningful innovation. In 2016 she worked with the Obama White House Presidential Innovation Fellows, and Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship to increase access to capital for rural and diverse communities.
She holds a B.A. in Studio Art and Economics from Smith College.

Abrielle Rosenthal

Managing Director and Chief Sustainability Officer, TowerBrook Capital Partners

Ms. Rosenthal is a Managing Director and Chief Sustainability Officer of TowerBrook, and co-Chair of the Responsible Ownership Committee and the DE＆I Committee.

Prior to joining TowerBrook, Ms. Rosenthal was a partner in the London office of Kirkland ＆ Ellis advising U.S. and European private equity clients. Ms. Rosenthal received a B.S. from the Wharton School (finance) and a B.A. (psychology) from the University of Pennsylvania, a J.D. from Columbia University Law School and an M.Phil. from Queen’s College, Cambridge. Ms. Rosenthal acts as the firm’s Chief Compliance Officer and holds the Series 7, 24, 63, 79 and 99 licenses. Ms. Rosenthal is on the board of The Opportunity Network and the Columbia Law School Board of Visitors, and a member of the Steering Committee of the ESG Data Convergence Initiative (EDCI).

TowerBrook

TowerBrook Capital Partners is a purpose-driven investment management firm co-headquartered in London and New York. The firm has raised in excess of $21.1 billion to date and invests in private equity, structured opportunities and impact strategies. As a disciplined investor with a commitment to fundamental value, the firm seeks to deliver superior, risk-adjusted returns to investors on a consistent and responsible basis. TowerBrook is the first mainstream private equity firm to be certified as a B Corporation. B Corporation certification is administered by the non-profit B Lab organization and is awarded to companies that demonstrate leadership in their commitment to environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards and responsible business practices.

Carli Roth

Principal, Innovative Finance, The Rockefeller Foundation

Carli Roth is a Principal on the Innovative Finance team at The Rockefeller Foundation. In her role, Carli sources, executes, and manages Program-Related Investments, manages relationships with current and prospective grantees, and supports the strategic development and execution of Foundation initiatives. She supports the Foundation’s Innovative Finance portfolio, specifically focusing on how innovative financial products can be harnessed to mobilize private capital to address critical social and environmental challenges at scale. Prior to joining the Foundation, Carli worked across investment banking, M&A, and corporate strategy roles. Carli received a bachelor’s degree in Math and Economics from Vanderbilt University and a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University.

The Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is a pioneering philanthropy built on collaborative partnerships at the frontiers of science, technology, and innovation that enable individuals, families, and communities to flourish. We make big bets to promote the well-being of humanity. Today, we are focused on advancing human opportunity and reversing the climate crisis by transforming systems in food, health, energy, and finance. For more information, sign up for our newsletter at rockefellerfoundation.org and follow us on X @RockefellerFdn.

Delilah Rothenberg

Co-Founding Partner and Executive Director, The Predistribution Initiative (PDI)

Delilah Rothenberg is a Co-Founding Partner and the Executive Director of the Predistribution Initiative (PDI), a multi-stakeholder non-profit organization designed to support investors in aligning their investment governance, financial analysis, and asset allocation practices with the principles of system-level investing and systematic stewardship. Delilah brings nearly two decades of experience in finance across asset classes – particularly private capital markets – having worked with private equity investors, lenders, and project developers on growth financing, ESG (environmental, social, and governance) integration, and impact strategy for over 12 years. Prior to private capital markets, Delilah worked in sell side equities with Bear Stearns and investment research with Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG). Delilah serves on the Council of Institutional Investors (CII) Markets Advisory Group; is on the Advisory Panel for the Capitals Coalition; is an Advisor to For the Long Term (public treasurers focused on ESG); was an advisor to New York City Comptroller-elect Brad Lander’s campaign; and, is a former Open Society Foundations Fellow. She has served on various committees, advisory groups, and working groups for the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), among others.

The Predistribution Initiative (PDI)

The Predistribution Initiative (PDI) is a multi-stakeholder non-profit organization designed to support investors in aligning their investment governance, financial analysis, and asset allocation practices with the principles of system-level investing and systematic stewardship.

Robert Ryan

Founder and CEO, Aristata Capital

Former Director of Development for ClientEarth, Europe’s leading public interest law firm, with 15 years of experience developing social impact solutions for high net worth individuals, foundations, and family offices in the US and Europe. Previously Executive Director at CCS in New York, advising family offices and NGOs on impact strategy and fundraising. Robert holds an MBA from London Business School.

Carlotta Saporito

Head of Global Impact Investing, JPMorgan Private Bank

Carlotta is the Head of Impact Investing at J,P. Morgan Private Bank. Before joining the firm in 2022, she worked at British International Investments (BII, formerly known as CDC Group), where she was a Director and Head of Fund Solutions. Prior to this role, she was an Investment Director on BII’s Intermediated Equity team.

Before BII, Carlotta worked at the African Development Bank, where she invested in fund managers across Africa and developed some of the first blended finance structures to mobilize capital into the continent at scale.

Carlotta began her career at the World Bank and International Finance Corporation in Washington, DC. In this role, she worked with governments in South Asia (Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) and Africa (Ghana and Malawi) on Financial Sector Development programs and projects, including as part of the joint World Bank – International Monetary Fund Financial Sector Assessment Program (FSAP). She also co-authored a book on South Asian bond market development based on her field research.

Carlotta holds an MA(Hons) from the University of St Andrews in Scotland and an MA from Johns Hopkins University – School of Advanced International Affairs.

JPMorgan Private Bank

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services to corporations, governments, for-profit and not-for-profit institutions, and wealthy individuals. Through its private banking franchise, the firm delivers customized wealth management advice and solutions to wealthy individuals and their families, leveraging its broad capabilities in investing, estate planning, family office management, philanthropy, credit, fiduciary services, and special advisory services to help its clients advance their goals. For more than 200 years, the Private Bank’s comprehensive and integrated product offering, commitment to innovation and integrity, and focus on placing the interests of its clients first and foremost have made the bank an advisor of choice to people of significant wealth around the world.

Francisco Saraiva Gomes

Founding Partner and CIO, Ocean14 Capital

Currently Founding Partner and CIO of Ocean 14 Capital. Francisco has over 23 years of operational and investment experience in aquaculture having managed operations in farming, health & nutrition, equipment & engineering, processing & marketing. During his career, Francisco has successfully advised and or led M&A for more than $300 M acquisition in fish farming, feeds, ingredients and equipment.

Ocean14 Capital

Ocean 14 Capital is adviser to a leading €200M impact investment fund that invests in growth companies and technologies in the Blue Economy, which offers both environmental gains for our oceans and competitive financial gains for our investors.

Heike Schmitz

Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills

Heike is a partner in our Frankfurt office who focuses on advising the asset management and insurance industries on investments, funds and regulation. Heike has worked in various roles in both industries for more than 16 years. She advises on fund structuring and formation, insurance investments and asset management and insurance regulation. Heike is a renowned expert for responsible investment and sustainability in the financial services sector in Germany and wider Europe, publishing regularly in newspapers and industry publications, speaking at conferences and being invited as expert by EU institutions. She co-chairs the Insurance Development Forum's Infrastructure Taskforce aiming to facilitate climate-related infrastructure investments in emerging and developing countries and she is a member of Invest Europe's ESG Committee, the central body of the European private equity association dealing with sustainability matters.

Herbert Smith Freehills

At Herbert Smith Freehills, we believe that helping your business get results starts with understanding your perspective, whatever your sector and wherever you operate.
As a 2,600-lawyer firm boasting deep resource in the EMEA and Asia-Pacific and regions, as well as a fast-growing US practice, we recognise the power of diverse thinking in delivering results, both inside our firm and within the communities in which we work.
We are advising more clients than ever on how to tackle environmental and social challenges through responsible and impact investing.
We combine our team’s long-standing, deep market experience on responsible and impact investing matters with our strong expertise in fund formation, deal implementation and financial services regulation and we stand ready to help you navigate this exciting landscape.
We are one of only two firms consistently ranked in Band 1 globally for ESG & Impact by Chambers since the category was established.
Ultimately, our insights and our people define us.

Snehal Shah

Reporter, New Private Markets, PEI Group

Snehal Shah is a reporter for New Private Markets, PEI Group’s publication for climate, sustainability, ESG, impact investing and diversity in private markets. She works across private equity, venture capital, private debt, infrastructure and real assets. She covers topics such as investors’ allocations and policies; managers’ investment strategies and ESG and diversity credentials; new regulatory measures; and ways to measure, report and compare sustainability issues and initiatives.

Greg Shell

Head of Inclusive Growth Strategy, Goldman Sachs

Greg A. Shell is a partner in Sustainable Investing within Goldman Sachs Asset Management and serves as head of the Inclusive Growth strategy. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2022 as a partner.

Previously, Greg served as a managing director at Bain Capital, co-founding the Double Impact Fund, Bain Capital’s private equity fund focused on social impact. Prior to joining Bain Capital, he was a portfolio manager at Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo (GMO), and a senior equity analyst in the Global Equity Research group at Columbia Management Group.

Greg has served on the boards of several nonprofits, including the New England Advisory Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Point32 Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, The Boston Foundation and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston.

Greg earned a BS in Political Science with a concentration in Economics from MIT in 1997 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 2001.

Goldman Sachs

Bringing together traditional and alternative investments, Goldman Sachs Asset Management provides clients around the world with a dedicated partnership and focus on long-term performance.
As the primary investing area within Goldman Sachs, we deliver investment and advisory services for the world’s leading institutions, financial advisors and individuals, drawing from our deeply connected global network and tailored expert insights, across every region and market—overseeing more than $2 trillion in assets under supervision worldwide as of December 31, 2022.
Widening inequality is costly to the economy and creates material pain points for businesses and governments who are motivated to find solutions to address these challenges. We look for opportunities to invest in innovative companies that help address these challenges, while also driving better outcomes, affordability and accessibility to education, healthcare and financial services for underserved populations.

Bruce Simpson

Partner, AgeTech Capital

Bruce Simpson is an international leader in business and philanthropy delivering societal impact and shareholder returns through several roles in sustainability/ESG. He is a GP in AgeTech Capital, raising a $250m ‘S’ focused fund to invest in tech solutions delivering ‘healthier, wealthier and more fulfilling aging’. He is a Mentor/advisor to two startup incubators, and three transformational ESG startups: Tomorrow.io on ‘E’, Quadfi on ‘S’ and Re:Co on ‘G’. He is a Senior Advisor to McKinsey on ESG/Purpose, helping companies deliver positive societal impact, and long term shareholder benefits, through their core business. He retired from McKinsey as a Senior Partner in early 2021 after 33 years delivering transformations across strategy, operations and organisation topics, and several global leadership roles, including leading McKinsey's ESG/Purpose practice. As a Senior Advisor to McKinsey he coaches Boards and CEO's worldwide to calibrate ESG risks and opportunities, engage stakeholders, develop a credible, integrated narrative, and deliver measurable impact. He shares ideas on how best to execute stakeholder capitalism, through 40+ articles, podcasts and speeches.
He has an MA and LLM from Cambridge University, and an MBA/MA in International Studies from Wharton, and the Lauder Institute at U. Penn. His parents are arctic explorers. Time spent living with indigenous cultures in the arctic developed his early passion for ESG.

AgeTech Capital

AgeTech Capital (ATC) is an “S” (of ESG) focused VC and social impact fund that will invest in Series A startups delivering non-biotech solutions for healthier, wealthier and more fulfilling aging, across 4 verticals: Aging in the right place, Circle of care, Financial security, and Health/wellness for older people. ATC is a triple return VC fund, and is unique in that partner ‘carry’ also depends on delivering measurable social impact on the aging community. ATC is fund-raising now, targeting first-close of $100m in Q3, 2024. ATC is a women’s led NA based fund with a global footprint, seeking both NA and European based LP’s. ATC has already made 2 investments; firstly in LifestyleRX a physician-led startup delivering tech enabled Type 2 diabetes reversal programs, with 46% success rates, and full reimbursement from insurance, and BloomFinance , which brings new and creative solutions to financial security challenges of older people.

Harlin Singh

Global head of sustainable investing, Citi Global Wealth

Harlin works across Citi’s investment divisions to develop and embed a global framework along the full spectrum of sustainability to ensure its alignment with Citi’s best thinking on portfolio management, research and asset allocation. This includes environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration, socially responsible, thematic and impact investments.

Harlin is an observing member of the Global Investment Committee and oversees Investing with Purpose, our sustainable investing platform. She is also a representative on Citi’s Net Zero Task Force, entrusted with the group’s goal of reaching net zero emissions by 2050.

Prior to joining Citi in 2017, she served as Associate Director of innovative finance at the Milken Institute. Before that, Harlin spent over a decade as a capital markets and foreign exchange specialist, advising ultra-high net worth individuals and family offices at Deutsche Bank and Citi, having begun her career at Lehman Brothers. She also served as an adjunct professor of impact investing at USC’s Marshall School of Business.

Harlin holds an undergraduate degree in finance from Rutgers University and a master’s in public administration from New York University.

Katharina Sommerrock

Head of Investor Relations, Lightrock

Katharina is the Head of Investor Relations at Lightrock. She is fascinated by the leverage capital, markets, innovation, and entrepreneurs can have in solving global challenges. She has also held positions at LGT Group in sustainable and impact investing. Before joining LGT, she was a project leader at Bain & Company, focused on financial services, private equity, and social impact. In 2009, Katharina received a PhD for her dissertation on entrepreneurship. She holds a Master’s in International Business Administration from the University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.

Marieke Spence

Executive Director, Impact Capital Managers

Marieke Spence is founding Executive Director of Impact Capital Managers and the affiliated ICM Institute, with the joint mission of advancing member performance and scaling the impact investing marketplace with integrity and authenticity. During her tenure she has grown ICM membership from 20 to over 115 members, initially representing $5B to now over $80B in collective AUM; overseen the development of the network’s standards on impact measurement and management; with legal partner Morrison Foerster, published landmark industry reports on legal innovation in impact and financial returns and impact on exit; launched the Mosaic Fellowship, which has to date placed 65 high performing graduate students from diverse backgrounds at ICM member funds as summer associates; and with Daniel Pianko, launched the Better Money, Better World podcast. This summer, with Mark Berryman of Caprock, Spence launched the ICM LP Advisory Council.

Prior to joining ICM Marieke was at Synergos where she served as the Director of the Global Philanthropists Circle, a peer learning community of 400+ philanthropists and social investors, and launched affinity groups focused on impact investing and sustainable food systems. Prior to Synergos Marieke was a Senior Consultant at TCC Group, a social impact consulting firm. She has studied impact investing as a Summer Fellow at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and her thought leadership has been published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, The Foundation Review, and GrantCraft. She is co-author with Jacob Harold, Joshua Spitzer, and Jed Emerson of “Environmental Impact Investing: Co-Managing the Ecological and Economic Household,” published in Social Finance (Oxford University Press, 2016). Marieke was formerly Director of Corporate Communication and Strategy at The Kessler Group; producer of On Point, a nationally-syndicated news program on National Public Radio; and Assistant Director of Communications at the Council on Foreign Relations. Marieke holds a MALD in International Business and Communication from The Fletcher School at Tufts University and a BA from Brown University. She is an alumna of the inaugural Impact Investing Programme at Oxford University’s Said Business School.

Impact Capital Managers

The Impact Capital Managers mission is to accelerate the performance of its members and to scale the private capital impact investing marketplace with integrity and authenticity. ICM accomplishes this through its global membership association, which includes 100+ best-in-class funds representing more than $80B in impact-focused capital, and through field-building initiatives and research supported by the affiliated ICM Institute. As part of its commitment to grow the marketplace with integrity, association members must meet certain criteria including standards on impact measurement and management. ICM is a proud organizer of the Mosaic Fellowship – which has graduated over 65 top performing students from diverse backgrounds - and with Achieve Partners, producer of the Better Money, Better World podcast. For more information or membership queries, visit www.impactcapitalmanagers.com.

Laurie J Spengler

President and CEO, Courageous Capital Advisors

Laurie is an impact investment banker, board member and active contributor to the impact investing industry. She is CEO of Courageous Capital Advisors, LLC, an impact investing advisory firm providing targeted strategy, transaction and governance services. Laurie is also a Founding Partner of Mondiale Impact, formed to support and challenge leaders to respond to new governance realities and initiate and confront transformative change.

Laurie serves as a non-executive director of British International Investment (formerly known as CDC) (the UK DFI), SIFEM, the development finance institution of the Swiss Confederation, Lendable, a global fintech lender, BRAC Uganda Bank Limited and Delta40, a venture studio based in Nairobi. She is also an Impact Advisor to the Future Fund of private equity firm EQT.

Laurie serves as Global Ambassador to the Global Steering Group on Impact Investing, is a member of the Advisory Council of the UK Impact Investing Institute and was a long-standing member of the Gender Smart Advisory Council. She is a Senior Fellow and Advisory Council member of Casei3 at the Fuqua Business School. Laurie is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Laurie has a JD from Harvard University and an undergraduate degree from Stanford University.

Francesca Spoerry

Head of Trainings and Partnerships, Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth, University of Zurich

Francesca Spoerry is an expert in impact investing within private wealth. She is the Head of Trainings and Outreach at the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth (CSP) at University of Zurich. She is responsible for all of CSP’s training programmes, alumni engagement and partnership management.
Before CSP, Francesca was the Head of Knowledge Development at the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, where she was responsible for Knowledge creation and knowledge development activities across a global community of impact investors. She previously worked at SystemIQ, Big Society Capital and Morgan Stanley. She is a board member at North Kensington Community Energy, a cooperative creating community owned solar energy projects in London.

CSP, University of Zurich

CSP is a training center at the University of Zurich. We conduct research and train private wealth holders & in order to move capital towards sustainable growth.

Matteo Squilloni

Head of Climate Transition - Equity Investments, European Investment Fund

At the European Investment Fund since 2014, Matteo is heading the Climate Transition investment activity focused on private equity funds having decarbonisation as the core of their investment focus (promotion of sustainable industrialisation, responsible consumption and production, reduction of GHG emissions, energy efficiency and intensity improvements, waste/water management, circular economy, regenerative agriculture, sustainable blue economy, smart mobility/transport….). While at EIF, he finalized over EUR 2.5bn commitments in c. 80 European lower mid-market funds and he is currently member of over 40 LP Advisory Committees. He is also a member of the EIF's Climate and Sustainability Centre of Expertise and have previous experience in M&A and direct investing in energy and renewable energy sector.

European Investment Fund

The European Investment Fund is a specialist provider of risk finance to benefit small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) across Europe.
EIF is part of the EIB Group. EIF’s shareholders are the European Investment Bank (EIB), the European Union, represented by the European Commission, and a wide range of public and private banks and financial institutions.
EIF’s central mission is to support Europe's small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) by helping them to access finance. To this end, EIF aims at satisfying existing and future market needs by designing innovative financial products addressed to our partners (banks, guarantee, leasing and microfinance institutions, private equity and venture capital funds, among others).
On the equity side, particularly, the main EIF’s objective is to be an agile facilitator between policy maker and market builder, acting as developer of the European VC and PE ecosystem.

Vishesh Srivastava

Managing Partner, Co-Founder & Owner, Future Business Partnership

Vish is co-Managing Partner of the Future Business Partnership, a thematic impact private equity manager run by a team of sector specialists.
FBP empowers the transition towards low carbon, resource efficient and socially positive household consumption.
Equipped with a strong sector-focused prior track record, the diverse team at FBP have been securing investments in established European market leaders in sustainable household consumer products since 2021, backed by leading institutional LPs predominately managing pension funds’ PE allocations. Having designed a differentiated legal and financial structure, FBP is tailored to be the investor of choice for a sector where environmental and social progress represents a commercial competitive advantage, delivering outsized financial success. They are now preparing to raise Europe’s first dedicated Article 9 sustainable transition fund to be focused on the most pollutive sector of the economy, household consumption.

Ben Stafford

CEO, Regenerate Asset Management

Ben is a founder and the CEO of Regenerate Asset Management

Ben has focused on sustainable private equity and venture capital investments across Europe and the UK over the past fourteen years. He has a successful and proven track record investing, managing and exiting European renewable energy businesses. He has a long history of successfully selecting and establishing new markets, while managing teams to deliver value through development and growth. Ben is responsible for fundraising, origination, investment and business development.

Ben is an advocate for the natural environment and financing projects which drive change as well as excellent returns.

Jan Ståhlberg

Founder & Managing Partner, Trill Impact

Jan Ståhlberg founded Trill Impact in 2019 with the ambition to be a force for positive change through impact private investments, in large & small scale. The firm’s mission is to create‘ Real Returns & Lasting Impact’ for the benefit of investors, businesses & society at large. Jan Ståhlberg has a long-standing career in private markets investment & has been holding senior investing – & leadership positions in Europe,US & Asia since1985. For ~25 years ,he was an Institutional Partner at EQT Partners, today a global investment organization.

Samantha Steele

Director - Private Markets, Russell Investments

Samantha Steele leads our impact global strategies and is portfolio manager for some of our global impact and real estate separate accounts. She is a voting member of the firm’s Alternatives Subcommittee and serves on numerous Limited Partner Advisory Committees for fund managers.
Samantha joined Russell Investments’ Sydney office in April 2010 covering private market investments in Asia, Australia and New Zealand. In this role she gained significant experience investing in Asia-Pacific and working with Asian and Australian investors on implementing bespoke mandates. She transferred to the London office in 2015.

Anne Valto

Senior Development Impact Adviser, Finnfund

Dr Anne Valto is a Senior development impact advisor with Finnfund’s Development impact team. She has worked in development cooperation and development financing for over 20 years. In Finnfund, Anne specialises in the forestry and agricultural sectors, and leads Finnfund’s development work in biodiversity and gender issues. She enjoys building bridges and feeding synergies between public and private sector, civil society and communities and understanding the wider impacts created with development financing.

Marjoleine van der Peet

Co-Founder, Partner, Collective Action

Marjoleine co-founded Collective Action, an investment platform facilitating collaboration between institutional investors who aim to achieve measurable social and environmental impact and financial returns in private markets. She is a seasoned impact investor driving positive social and environmental change through investments. With 20 years of investment experience and a passion for impact, she is spending her time working to bridge the gap between profit and purpose.

Marjoleine has been an investor for 20 years, and together with her co-founders, she launched Collective Action to help investors overcome the hurdles they face in realising their impact ambitions and, in doing so, catalyse institutional capital at scale into impact investing. Marjoleine is also involved with impact management & measurement platform Qdrop, which has the mission to enable all investors to measure & analyse their impact results across their portfolio in an easy, timely & repeatable manner. Before launching Collective Action, Marjoleine held senior roles at Kempen Capital Management as co-portfolio manager of the Global Impact Pool, a multi-asset impact fund of funds, and GAM PLC in London.

Collective Action
Collective Action is a Private Markets Impact Investment Platform supporting institutional investors in building their impact portfolios by providing qualitative insight, forming impact investment partnerships, executing impact mandates, and facilitating collaboration among peers. Collective Action was founded in 2020 by a diverse team of 11 investment professionals.

Anjali S. Varma

Head of the Managed Co-Lending Portfolio Program, Syndicated Loans and Management, International Finance Corporation

Ms. Varma oversees and was the original product developer of the Managed Co-Lending Portfolio Program (MCPP) at the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group, which creates diversified portfolios of senior loans to private sector borrowers in emerging markets and developing economies. MCPP has raised ~$16 billion from 17 global institutional investors and insurers since its inception in 2013. The latest iteration, MCPP One Planet, has been highlighted at the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP) in recent years for providing impact investing opportunities that tangibly contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals and align with the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation and adaptation. Further, MCPP’s design, which is tailored to the regulatory needs of different investors, won an award for “Innovation: New Markets and Capital” from the Financial Times in December 2017.

Prior to Anjali’s 13 years with IFC, she spent two years at Macquarie establishing their first-ever Country Risk Unit, and at Lucent Technologies for seven years, including within their Financial Leadership Development Program rotating through positions including Treasury, Divestitures, and Internal Controls throughout the USA and in Hong Kong.

Anjali is American and holds an MPA in Economic Policy Management from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, an MA in Management from Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business, and a BA in Economics and Business Management from Goucher College. In February 2024, Ms. Varma was inducted into Marquis Who’s Who for contributions to the field of emerging market finance.

International Finance Corporation

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) — a member of the World Bank Group — is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in emerging markets. We work in more than 100 countries, using our capital, expertise, and influence to create markets and opportunities in developing countries. In fiscal year 2023, IFC committed a record $43.7 billion to private companies and financial institutions in developing countries, leveraging the power of the private sector to end extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity as economies grapple with the impacts of global compounding crises. The Managed Co-Lending Portfolio Program (MCPP) is a portfolio syndications platform, through which investors can gain exposure to a diversified portfolio of senior loans to private sector borrowers in emerging markets. Since 2013, the platform has raised $16 billion from 17 investors, including from central banks, insurance companies, and asset managers.

Stéphane Villemain

Vice President, Sustainability, CDPQ

As Vice President, Sustainability, Stéphane Villemain supervises the integration of sustainability-related matters across our asset classes with a view to protect and create value for our investment portfolio.
From 2020 to 2024, he led sustainability integration for our real estate subsidiary Ivanhoé Cambridge. Prior to joining CDPQ, Stéphane was Director, Responsible Investment, at PSP Investments, where he helped define and implement ESG strategies for the private investment portfolio. Prior to that he was Senior Manager, Climate Change and Sustainability at EY from 2012 to 2016. He also provided sustainable development consulting services for Deloitte and its clients between 2007 and 2012.

Stéphane is a graduate of École Polytechnique (Paris) and École nationale du génie rural des eaux et forêts (AgroParisTech), and holds a Master’s Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from McGill University. He is a permanent representative of Ivanhoé Cambridge Inc. on the Board of Directors of Gecina, in addition to sitting on the Board of Directors of the GRESB Foundation.

CDPQ

At CDPQ, we invest constructively to generate sustainable returns over the long term. As a global investment group managing funds for public pension and insurance plans, we work alongside our partners to build enterprises that drive performance and progress. We are active in the major financial markets, private equity, infrastructure, real estate and private debt. As at December 31, 2023, CDPQ’s net assets totalled CAD 434 billion. For more information, visit cdpq.com, consult our LinkedIn or Instagram pages, or follow us on X.

Sanjay Wagle

Co-Founder and Managing Director, The Lightsmith Group

Sanjay Wagle is co-founder and Managing Director of The Lightsmith Group. He has over 20 years of experience in investing, company management, and government focused on clean energy, resources, and climate.

Sanjay’s investing experience includes eight years in venture capital and growth equity. He was the first Principal in the CleanTech Group at VantagePoint Capital Partners, which invested over $1 billion in 25 companies in electric vehicles (most notably Tesla Motors), solar, storage, smart grid, green building, water, and sustainable agriculture. Earlier in his career, Sanjay served as an Investment Officer at the International Finance Corporation, where he led financings of private sector transport, power, and water infrastructure projects in developing countries.

Sanjay has served in senior executive roles with several sustainable technology companies, including: Diamond Foundry, a technology company making flawless, jewelry-grade diamonds in an ethical and sustainable manner; Ubiquiti Networks (Nasdaq: UBNT), a publicly listed global technology company where he co-led the launch of a new worldwide solar business; Soligent, the largest US solar distributor with over $200 million in revenues, where he led the acquisition and integration of Soligent’s #2 competitor; and TerraVia (Nasdaq: TVIA), a biotechnology company converting plant-based feedstocks into tailored, high-value food oils.

In the first three years of the Obama Administration, Sanjay served as a senior official at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), overseeing the implementation of $15 billion in programs for clean energy and climate, including investments in renewable energy, electric vehicles, battery manufacturing, industrial efficiency, and biofuels. Sanjay also helped in the formation of DOE’s advanced research agency (ARPA-E) and served as the agency’s first Associate Director for Commercialization, founding and running a “technology-to- market” program to commercialize high-risk, high reward energy technologies funded by the agency.

Sanjay holds a BA from Harvard University and an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley.

The Lightsmith Group

Lightsmith Group is a New York-based private equity firm that invests in growth stage sustainable technology companies. Lightsmith is actively investing $15-30 million per company in growth-stage companies in the US, Europe, India, and Brazil, that have technologies, products, and services that can help respond to climate change-based disruptions and build resilience in agriculture and food, energy, water, supply chains and logistics, and infrastructure.

Jenny Wang

Principal, Owl Ventures

Jenny is a Principal at Owl Ventures, one of the leading edtech venture capital funds with offices in San Francisco and London. As a first-generation immigrant from a low-income family, Jenny has experienced first-hand the difference that a quality education can make in someone’s life and is fully committed to investing in and building organizations that are making significant advancement in improving the quality, accessibility, and reach of education. Jenny received her MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and her MA in Education from Stanford Graduate School of Education. Jenny is based in London.

Owl Ventures

Owl Ventures is the largest venture capital fund in the world focused on the EdTech market with over $2 billion assets under management. The Silicon Valley and London based firm invests in the world's leading education technology companies across the education spectrum encompassing PreK-12, higher education, future of work (career mobility/professional learning), and “EdTech+” (intersection of EdTech and other major industries such as FinTech and healthcare). Owl Ventures has deep domain expertise and leverages a global network of Limited Partners, investors, and strategic partners to help entrepreneurs scale their businesses into transformative category leading companies. Learn more at www.OwlVC.com. Owl’s annual Education Outcomes Report can be viewed at www.OwlVC.com/outcomes.php.

Rosie Wardle

Co-Founder and Partner, Synthesis Capital

Rosie is Co-Founder and Partner at Synthesis Capital, an investment manager transforming our food system through food technology. Synthesis is currently investing out of its $300M fund, the largest globally focussed on the future of food. Before Synthesis, Rosie was an Investor at CPT Capital, where she built a portfolio of leading alternative protein companies. Rosie has a background in sustainability and ESG, previously launching the FAIRR Initiative, a global investor coalition focused on ESG risks and opportunities in protein production, now representing assets of over $70 trillion. Rosie holds degrees from the University of Oxford and the Courtauld Institute.

Synthesis Capital

Synthesis Capital is an investment manager based in London, UK and investing globally in transformative food technology innovations, with a focus on the alternative protein ecosystem. The Synthesis team have been investing in the food tech sector since 2014, previously as the team at CPT Capital (family office of private equity investor Jeremy Coller). Synthesis recently announced the closing of a new >$300M fund, the largest fund raised globally for the sector to date. Synthesis primarily invests at the Series A and Series B stage.

Eva Warigia

Associate Director - Investor Relations, New Forests

Eva Warigia is part of New Forests' investor relations team and is based in Nairobi Kenya.
She is responsible for capital raising for the New Forests Africa fund- the Africa Forestry Impact Fund. She also leads in client relationship management and reporting for all Africa investment products.
Eva's experience spans over 10 years working in investor relations, corporate communication and corporate strategy development across Africa. She has served as an investor relations consultant, where she led investor engagement strategies for public companies and private equity funds. She also led a regional association of private capital investors where she cultivated and nurtured relationships with institutional investors as a trusted advisor on investing in Africa.
Eva has a Bachelor's degree from the University of Nairobi, Kenya.

Johannes Weber

General Partner and Founder, Ananda Impact Ventures

Johannes Weber is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Ananda Impact Ventures, one of Europe’s oldest impact VC firms with €200M under management. Since 2010, Ananda has backed early-stage European technology startups tackling some of humanity’s most pressing problems, from biodiversity to space, antimicrobial resistance to forest fires, digital health to education.

Johannes has been interested in the interface between entrepreneurship and "personal mastery" for many years and is enthusiastic about bringing and passing on his knowledge to the companies he finances. He recently oversaw the completion of Ananda's Social Fund I, which proved for the first time that impact investing can be both financially profitable and deliver positive, measurable differences to the world.

Ananda Impact Ventures

Ananda Impact Ventures is an impact venture capital fund investing in sustainable solutions to the world’s most pressing ecological and social challenges.
Operating with a pan-European investment remit, Ananda has €200M AUM across four core impact funds, including its latest €108M fund, an Article 9 fund, backed by the European Investment Fund (EIF) and the German State Development Bank KfW Capital, Investcorp Tages and many European entrepreneurs and families.
Ananda specialises in early-stage technology companies in DACH, the UK, Benelux and the Nordics across areas such as biodiversity and climate solutions, healthcare, education, ageing populations, and biosecurity. Its active portfolio of 36 companies includes NatureMetrics (biodiversity monitoring solutions), Closed Loop Medicine (personalised medicine), OroraTech (space-based wildfire detection and monitoring) and IESO Digital Health (online psychotherapy).
Ananda was co-founded in Munich in 2010 by Johannes Weber and Florian Erber, and is one of the oldest and most established European impact funds.

Diana Wesselius

Managing Director Impact Investment Portfolios, Anthos Fund & Asset Management

Diana Wesselius is a Managing Director Impact Investments at Anthos Fund & Asset Management, a value-based asset manager, rooted in a single family office. Her responsibilities include the execution of strategies for the fund portfolios dedicated to impact investing across all asset classes including private, listed and real assets, originating investments and managing fund manager relationships.

Diana has over 25 years of experience in both private equity and (project finance) debt, mostly in the infrastructure and renewable energy sectors in emerging markets. She began her career at ING Group, where she held positions at the Asset Management and Wholesale banking divisions. From 2006 onwards she held various positions at FMO, the Dutch development bank. At FMO she has amongst others been responsible for managing two of the funds that FMO manages on behalf of the Dutch government, she led regional project finance teams, and set up a Private Equity Energy team that was fully dedicated to investing in funds targeting the energy sector, and to directly investing in energy companies and projects.

Diana holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from Nyenrode Business University and concluded an Executive Master in Energy Management at the Norwegian Business School.

Anthos Fund & Asset Management

Anthos Fund & Asset Management (Anthos) is a values-driven asset manager that manages capital of professional investors, who together want to make a greater impact. We aim to do this by managing capital responsibly in line with our values of sustainability, human dignity, and good corporate citizenship, supported by robust responsible and impact investing principles.

Anthos was established almost 100 years ago to provide comprehensive values-based asset management and investment advisory services to clients. We are part of COFRA, a diversified group of businesses united around a common mission, spanning apparel retail (C&A), real estate investments (Redevco), private equity investment management (Bregal Investments), renewable energy (Sunrock) and sustainable food (Dalsem). Their work builds on six generations of entrepreneurship and responsible business ownership.

Barbara Wokurka

Head of Impact Investing, FINVIA

Barbara works for the Frankfurt based Multi Family Office FINVIA where she is responsible for impact investing in Private Equity. She started her career in 1994 in corporate finance at Deutsche Bank AG, based out of Frankfurt and London, before joining Porsche AG in 1999, where she established the company’s global asset management structure. In 2007, Barbara moved into asset management, joining Quoniam Asset Management to look after their corporate clients and develop Quoniam’s international reach by setting up and leading the firm’s London branch.

Nick Wood

CEO/CIO, Resonance Asset Management

Nick founded Resonance Asset Management Limited in 2012 to create and manage investment funds of real industrial operating assets for institutional investors. Resonance has grown to manage US$550m in AUM with funds investing in operating wind farms and industrial water treatment and bioenergy plants in the UK, EU, China, SE Asia and Australia. Resonance operates from offices in London, Hong Kong and Sydney.

From 2000 to 2009, Nick held a number of senior management positions at Man Group plc, one of the world’s largest independent alternative asset management businesses (EMG.L) in London, New York and Zurich. He founded and served as CEO and CIO of Man Environmental Capital Opportunities (Man ECO), and was a member of the Management Committee of Man Investments. Prior to joining the Man Group, Nick was an investment banker at Schroders for 8 years where he originated and executed public and private M&A transactions. Nick’s early career was spent at Oracle Corporation Inc. (ORCL.US) as a business systems consultant and at Marconi Space and Defence Systems (part of GEC plc) as an electronic systems design engineer. Nick holds Bachelor of Science (BSc) and Master of Engineering (MEng) degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Bath, and an MBA from the London Business School.

Resonance Asset Management

Founded in January 2012, Resonance Asset Management Limited currently manages c. US$550M of sustainable infrastructure assets organised into three solution groups: 1) Renewable Energy Generation, 2) Resource Efficiency in Water, Energy and Materials, and 3) Transmission and Storage Infrastructure for Energy and Water.

We partner with asset developers and operators to build and operate greenfield, regeneration and brownfield assets opportunities.

We focus on co-located industrial producers under long-term contracts, these assets are not only profitable for developers and operators, but they can also improve the operational resilience, running costs, and environmental impact of industrial producers.

The firm operates from offices in London, Hong Kong and Sydney, and currently manages investments in the Europe, China and Australiasia.

Hakim Yadi

Co-founder & CEO, Closed Loop Medicine

Hakim is a Co-Founder and chief executive of Closed Loop Medicine. Closed Loop MedicineTM is a global leader in the development of single prescription drug plus digital therapy combination products, developed to optimise dosing on an individual level aiming to improve patient outcomes. CLM’s vision is Precision Care For All, a world where we treat the individual, not just the disease.

Hakim joined Closed Loop Medicine from the Northern Health Science Alliance Ltd, the pan-UK Northern health partnership which brought together for the first time 20 research-based NHS hospitals, the North’s Academic Health Science Networks and Universities to collaborate on improving health outcomes across the North.

Hakim started his career at IQVIA before joining PA Consulting, where he co-managed the company's translational medicine team. During his time at PA, he was seconded to the UK Government where he worked as the Chief Operations Officer and was a founding member of the UK Department of International Trade (DIT) Life Sciences Organisation (LSO).

He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and in 2017 he was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for services to Healthcare Technology and the Economy.

Closed Loop Medicine

Precision medicine, where healthcare treatments are tailored to the individual has, until now, only been applied to a handful of medical conditions, what if it could be applied more widely? The ability to put ‘Software as a Medical Device’, as an App, in the hands of any patient with a smart phone creates an opportunity for digital companions to be prescribed alongside traditional therapeutics, enabling real-world data integration into care regimens more precisely tailored for individuals. This approach has the ability to level the playing field, providing universal access to the highest quality care, usually only accessible to the few.

Clara Barby

Senior Partner, Just Climate

Clara is Senior Partner at Just Climate. Previously, Clara was Chief Executive of the Impact Management Project (IMP) and led the IFRS Foundation's project to establish the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), under the direction of the IFRS Foundation’s Trustees. Clara’s public interest work with the IMP was made possible through a secondment from her role as a Partner at Bridges Fund Management, where she led the firm’s sustainable and impact strategies across fund types. Prior to Bridges Fund Management, Clara worked for Acumen’s Capital Markets team and later co-led the Acumen renewable energy portfolio, investing in India and East Africa.

Clara received a BA (Hons) in Greats from Oxford University, and an MBA from INSEAD.

Just Climate

Just Climate is an investment business dedicated to climate-led investing, launched by Generation Investment Management.
We define “climate-led investing” as an investment approach that seeks to catalyse timely climate impact at scale, while delivering attractive market returns.*
We believe that innovation in capital allocation is required for true, at-scale, net zero-aligned climate impact.
Just Climate’s mission is to work in partnership to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C by:
• Catalysing and scaling capital towards solutions with the highest positive climate impact per $ invested and attractive market returns*
• Establishing climate-led investing as a capital allocation imperative
* Although Just Climate seeks to deliver the highest positive climate impact and attractive market returns, this is an aspiration and there is no guarantee this goal will be achieved.

Matt Christensen

Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing, Allianz Global Investors

Matt Christensen was appointed Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing at Allianz Global Investors in December 2020. In this newly created role, he is responsible for accelerating the growth of Impact Investing as part of the company’s growing private markets platform; he leads the continued integration of ESG factors across AllianzGI’s existing range of public markets products, including stewardship activities; and supports the development of new sustainable and impact products. In addition, Matt Christensen has investment oversight for our impact investments, which are an increasingly important part of AllianzGI’s Sustainable Investment offering.

Matt Christensen joined AllianzGI from AXA Investment Management, where he had been Global Head of Impact and Responsible Investment since 2011. Prior to this, he was the Founding Executive Director of the think-tank Eurosif (European Sustainable Investment Forum). Matt started his career as a strategy consultant at Deloitte Consulting before being appointed as Director of Business Development at the Motley Fool, where he led the company’s international expansion into continental Europe.

He holds MBA and MA degrees from the University of Pennsylvania through the Wharton/Lauder programme. He has held Board positions with various impact funds, including a listed private equity fund on the London Stock Exchange and as Vice President of one of the largest microfinance funds. Matt and his family reside in Paris.

Allianz Global Investors

Allianz Global Investors is a leading active asset manager with over 700 investment professionals* in 25 offices worldwide and managing more than EUR 500 billion in assets for individuals, families and institutions. Active is the most important word in our vocabulary. Active is how we create and share value with clients. We believe in solving, not selling, and in adding value beyond pure economic gain. We invest for the long term, employing our innovative investment expertise and global resources. Our goal is to ensure a superior experience for our clients, wherever they are based and whatever their investment needs.

Anja Gräf

Head of Impact Private Markets, Managing Principal, HSBC Global Asset Management

Anja has more than twenty years of experience in private markets and global capital markets. From 2012 to 2021 she was heading the German infrastructure business and took over global responsibility in 2020. Since 2012 she has also built the sustainability capability for the German Alternative Investments activities. Anja became Head of Impact for the global indirect Private Markets business in 2021. Prior to joining HSBC in 2007, she worked for WGZ-Bank (now DZ Bank) in various roles advising banks on balance sheet management, complex capital market products and derivatives. Anja holds a diploma of Business Administration, University of Trier, Germany and is a certified Treasury Manager, ADG (Academy of German Cooperatives).

HSBC Global Asset Management

HSBC Asset Management is a major global asset management firm managing assets totalling USD617 billion as at 31 December 2022, with well-established businesses in Europe, Asia-Pacific, Americas and the Middle East. We are the asset management division of, and wholly-owned by HSBC Holdings plc (HSBC Group), one of the largest financial services organisations in the world. Our investment capabilities span across different asset classes - equities, fixed income, multi-asset, liquidity and alternatives. HSBC Asset Management is well placed to provide a globally-consistent, disciplined investment process across our capabilities, drawing on the local knowledge and extensive expertise of our team of over 600 investment professionals across over 20 locations around the world.
For more details, please visit www.assetmanagement.hsbc.com.hk
Source: HSBC Asset Management as at 31 December 2022

Yasemin Saltuk Lamy

Deputy CIO, Head of Asset Allocation and Capital Solutions, British International Investment

Yasemin Lamy joined British International Investment as Deputy CIO in August 2018. She is responsible for the Catalyst Strategies, a portfolio aimed at transformational, system-level impact and innovation across its target geographies of Africa and South Asia.

Prior to British International Investment, she spent three years building two new portfolios for Omidyar Network: one portfolio to develop empowering digital identity technologies and one portfolio to establish a trendspotting capability. Previously, she worked across several different roles within capital markets at J.P. Morgan, starting out in fund-linked derivatives and then as a credit derivatives analyst, before building and leading the impact investment platform for the firm.

Yasemin has published widely and provided expert advice to the OECD, World Economic Forum and others. She holds a Masters in Financial Mathematics from King’s College, London and a Bachelor in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Toby Mitchenall

Senior Editor, ESG & Sustainability, New Private Markets, PEI Group

Toby Mitchenall has been covering private markets for 15 years; his current focus is on ESG, sustainability and impact investing.

Toby joined PEI Group in London in 2008 to report on capital flows in European private equity for Private Equity International. After a four-year break from journalism, during which Toby advised private equity market participants on their marketing and PR strategies, he returned to PEI to oversee the group’s private equity content, then comprising Private Equity International, Private Funds CFO and Secondaries Investor.

In his current role of Senior Editor, ESG & Sustainability, Toby is responsible for New Private Markets, an information product that covers the spectrum of sustainable investment – from ESG to impact investment – within private markets. His areas of interest include the integration of impact investing into mainstream private markets; mechanisms for aligning sustainability with financial incentives; and the role that private capital will play in combating the climate crisis.

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Managing Director and Head of Impact, Golding Capital Partners

Head of Sustainability and Non-Listed Equities, IMAS Foundation

Head of Global Impact Investing, JPMorgan Private Bank

Executive Director, Impact Capital Managers

Global Head of Sustainable & Impact Investing, Allianz Global Investors

Co-Founder and Partner, Synthesis Capital

Co-founder, GENUI

CEO Snowball IM

President and CEO, Courageous Capital Advisors

President and CEO, Courageous Capital Advisors

Founder & Managing Partner, Trill Impact

Global Chief Investment Officer. AlTi Tiedemann Global

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2024 speakers included:

Director - EQT Infrastructure, EQT

Principal, Private Capital Raise

Senior Advisor, Finadvice

Managing Director and Head of Climate - Diversity and Advisory, British International Investment

Private Equity Lead, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC)

Reporter, New Private Markets

Senior Partner, Argos Wityu

Director, Development Finance & Impact Credit, Allianz Global Investors

Co-Owner, TAG Advisers

Senior Partner, Just Climate

CEO Snowball IM

Managing Director, BAC Securities

UK Circular Plastics Network Founder, Innovate UK Business Connect

Managing Director of Impact Investing, Caprock

Board Member, Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Chief Client ＆ Investment Solutions Officer, responsAbility Investments AG

Chief Sustainability Officer, Cubera Private Equity

Director Impact Investing, FERD

Co-Founding Partner, Blume Equity

Managing Partner, Karista VC

Managing Director and Head of Impact, Private Capital, EQT

Managing Director, Adamantem Capital

Impact Investor Relations Manager, Toniic

Managing Investment Director for Sustainable Investments, CalPERS

Head of ESG and Impact Strategies, Investcorp-Tages

Chief Investment Officer, FSD Africa Investments

Global Head of Sustainable & Impact Investing, Allianz Global Investors

CEO ＆ Founder, Drashta Impact

Founding Partner, Eka Ventures

Sales Director, Carbometrix

Programme and Risk Director, Ocean Risk and Resilience Action Alliance

Global Chief Investment Officer. AlTi Tiedemann Global

Partner – ESG ＆ Impact, Kirkland ＆ Ellis

Managing Director - Head of Client Solutions Europe, Community Investment Management

Director of Strategic Development, Ocean us

CEO, Cadlas

Partner - ESG ＆ Impact, Kirkland ＆ Ellis

Partner - EQT Healthcare Growth, EQT

Partner & Head of Health Economics Funds, EQT

Managing Director, Primary Funds, AlpInvest Partners

Research Manager, PEI Group