Natalie Adomait is a Managing Partner and Chief Operating Officer in Brookfield’s Renewable Power & Transition Group. In this role, Ms. Adomait is responsible for the global asset management group which focuses on the strategy and execution of business plans and delivery of value-add strategies.

Ms. Adomait began her career at Brookfield in 2011 focused on origination and investment execution for renewable power assets in North America and Europe.

Anders Bendsen Spohr is Managing Partner and Head of Novo Holdings’ Planetary Health Investments team. Prior to his current role, Anders was a Senior Partner heading up Novo Holdings’ Bioindustrial Investments team.

Before he joined Novo Holdings in 2017, Anders had a corporate career in the life sciences industry, including Executive Vice President of LEO Pharma and Vice President of Novozymes A/S and Xellia.

Anders currently serves on the boards of Biomason, CIRCTEC and 21st.BIO. Since joining Novo Holdings, Anders has also been active on the boards of Lanzatech, Vestaron, Geno and Bactolife.

Anders obtained an MSc in Chemical Engineering (1994) and a PhD in Biotechnology (1997), both from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU).

▪ 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.
▪ 25+ years of experience in banking and finance.
▪ Ample experience in sales with institutional investors, family offices,
and private clients, as well business development with DFIs
▪ In-depth know-how in climate finance, financial inclusion and sustainable food investing
▪ Experienced structuring of investment solutions, including blended finance structures
▪ PhD in Finance from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Daniel leads a newly created unit dedicated to the design and development of novel private debt mobilisation initiatives, as well as to investor education and the continued advancement of a strong mobilisation culture at the EBRD. Daniel has worked at the EBRD for over 20 years, where he has acted as a banker in the Manufacturing and Services and in the Agribusiness sectors, including a two-year assignment in Romania. Prior to the EBRD Daniel worked for UBS in New York in the Mergers and Acquisitions department covering US and Latin American markets. Daniel holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.

David Blood is a Founding Partner and the Senior Partner of Generation Investment Management. Previously, David spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs including serving as CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. David received a BA from Hamilton College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. David is chair of Just Climate, Social Finance UK and World Resources Institute, and on the board of On the Edge Conservation.

Danielle Brassel is Director – Responsible Investment at Zurich Insurance Group, where she is responsible for setting, implementing and monitoring the responsible investment strategy for Zurich’s global investment portfolio. From her 16-year career in the financial industry, Danielle brings a variety of experiences to the sector. Before joining Zurich’s Responsible Investment team, Danielle was working for responsAbility, a Zurich-based impact investing asset manager with a focus on micro-finance, where she was responsible for developing a measurement and reporting framework for the company’s social impact.

Danielle started her responsible investment journey at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), where she was providing debt and equity financing for the agribusiness sector according to the bank’s development finance mission. An expertise, she later brought to HSBC and a Swiss-based family office. She started her career as an M&A analyst for Credit Suisse in London.

Danielle is a Swiss citizen and holds a master’s degree in Banking and Finance from the University of St. Gallen.

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 Partners

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.

Caitlin is a long-haul optimist working at the intersection of business and social impact. She has over 15 years of experience in strategic partnerships, social innovation, CSR/ESG strategy and philanthropic giving and investments.

As an Investment Director at Impact Ventures by J＆J Foundation, Caitlin is responsible for thesis formation, sourcing, diligence, deal structuring, investment execution, portfolio management and relationships with the health impact entrepreneurial community – building partnerships across the public health, technology, impact investing, and innovation ecosystems.

Before joining J＆J she helped leaders and teams at eBay leverage technology and commerce as a force for good - by creating economic opportunity, driving a more circular economy, and helping people support the causes they care about.

Caitlin has an MBA from Imperial College London, a B.A. from Santa Clara University, and certificates in Venture Capital and Sustainable Design. She is an Aspen Institute First Mover Fellow and has volunteered and held board roles with a variety of non-profit organizations.

Impact Ventures by J＆J Foundation

Established in 2019, Impact Ventures by J＆J Foundation invests directly in impact-focused healthcare companies through debt and equity structures, as well as through other impact funds. As an impact investment fund, our overall goal is to generate both sustainable social impact and financial returns, with the longer-term aspiration to catalyse more impact investors and entrepreneurs in the space.

We typically invest at an early stage before companies are profitable with the aim to help them scale and become sustainable. When a portfolio company has a successful exit, financial returns go back to J＆J Foundation and are recycled into new investments for ongoing impact.

In addition to our financial investments, we actively support our portfolio companies with technical assistance and resources by leveraging Johnson ＆ Johnson’s extensive network and healthcare industry expertise through a range of different pro bono services.

Johnny Brom is founder and Chief Investment Officer of SAIL Investments, where he also leads the Investment Committee. Johnny has a diverse background in business development and investment strategy for companies across South Africa, North America, and Europe. He started his career at JP Morgan Securities and held a role at a Cape Town-based boutique asset manager, accumulating over 17 years of investment experience in developed, emerging, and frontier markets. Prior to SAIL, Johnny initiated an innovative financing unit at the Dutch agency, IDH, pioneering early blended finance transactions in global supply chains. Johnny holds a Master’s in Finance from SOAS University of London, a PE specialization from London Business School, and a Business Science degree from the University of Cape Town.

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.

Ben Constable Maxwell is Head of Impact Strategy at UK-based global investor M＆G Investments, supporting the firm’s strategy on impact investing and IMM practices, and covering sustainability issues such as climate change and circular economy. Ben co-founded M＆G’s Equity Impact team which seeks to address the SDGs by investing in solutions to urgent social and environmental challenges. He is Impact Lead on the team’s funds including the M＆G Positive Impact Fund and M＆G Nature ＆ Biodiversity Solutions Fund. He supports a number of other impact investing teams internally and plays an active industry role as a member of sustainable and impact-oriented initiatives: these include GIIN’s Listed Equities impact working group, the UK Investment Association’s Climate Change Working Group, the UK Climate Finance Accelerator’s Steering Group and PRI’s Circular Economy Reference Group. Ben has an honours degree in Classics from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and a Certificate in Impact Measurement from the Said Business School at Oxford University.

Hetal is an Impact Partner focusing on private equity. She has more than 18 years of industry experience within impact and ESG investing across public equities, private equity and private debt. Before joining Trill Impact, she was a Portfolio Manager for the Microfinance funds and Private Equity ESG specialist at SEB Investment Management. She has further professional experience as Co-Head of Responsible Investments and as Senior Analyst at Nordea Asset Management specialised in ESG analysis and active ownership for the Nordea Stars fund range (Global and Emerging Markets equities), ESG Consultant to Litorina Capital Advisors, ESG Manager at 3i Group plc and as Sustainability Coordinator at ABN AMRO Bank.

Hetal holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Business Technology Management from Toronto Metropolitan University.

Angelika Delen is Mercer’s Head of Impact Solutions (Europe, IMETA and Asia) and is committed to creating and deliver profitable strategies and portfolios for institutional investors while generating quantifiable benefits for both people and the planet.

Alongside her team, she has developed an impact framework, conducted impact assessments and alignment with SFDR, and she is a part of the Investment Committee for Global Impact. She is responsible for reflecting our impact philosophy and frameworks across both listed and private markets. She works closely with our asset class pillars to source highly rated impact-oriented managers and implements our intellectual capital and best practice frameworks for impact investing. She is a focal point for the European business in relation to impact and works with European colleagues to offer impact proposition and solutions.
In her role, she works with institutional clients, participates in regular panel/roundtable discussions and is also part of various working groups on green finance and impact (local government, both international and national).

Angelika has over 20 years of experience in asset management, joining Mercer in 2018. Previously, Angelika led the institutional and distribution team at Amundi Austria and held various roles in business development with a focus on ESG. Angelika's career began at AIG Investments, overseeing business development in the DACH region.

Angelika holds a Master's degree in International Business Administration from the University of Vienna and CFA UK Certificate in Impact Investing.

Henry de Zoete is a senior advisor and visiting fellow to the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative at the University of Oxford. Until July 2024 he was the Prime Minister's advisor on AI. He led the UK's approach on AI including the Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit and setting up the UK's AI Safety Institute. He was the UK's co-lead negotiator ("sherpa") for the AI Seoul Summit.

His government experience includes four years as a Non-Executive Board Member of the Cabinet Office from 2020 to 2024. He was on the advisory board of Gov.uk / Government Digital Service for three years. Previously he worked as a special adviser in the Department for Education from 2010 to 2013 and is currently a Non Executive Director of Oak National Academy (an Arms Length Body of the Department for Education).

Henry has extensive private sector experience including at CEO and board levels. He founded a tech start up in 2014 which was backed by the Silicon Valley based Y Combinator. As CEO and co-founder he successfully took that start up to exit to a public traded company. He sat on the board of publicly listed Hornby PLC as well as campaigning group 38 Degrees. He is also an angel investor in early stage tech start ups.

Niclas is a Senior Impact Director focusing on private equity. He has more than 20 years of industry experience within impact and ESG investing, private equity and strategy consulting. Before joining Trill Impact, he was an Associate Partner specialising in Impact and ESG at Steward Requeen. He has further professional experience as Portfolio Director at Swedfund, Head of ESG and Fund Evaluations at the CDC Group plc, Senior Associate at McKinsey ＆ Co., Senior Consultant at Hitachi/Celerant Consulting and as Consultant to the World Bank Group.

Niclas holds a M.A. in International economics & International relations from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University.

Steve Ellis is Co-Managing Partner of The Rise Fund. Prior to joining TPG in 2015, Steve was the CEO of Asurion, the world's leading provider of technology protection services with over $6B in revenues. Prior to Asurion, Steve served as the Global Managing Partner for Bain ＆ Company. Steve is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Stanford Business School, where he is a regular guest lecturer. He is a trustee for the UC Berkeley Foundation and serves on the boards of Charles Schwab, LiveKindly, InStride, Greenhouse Software, UBQ Materials, Renaissance Learning, Persefoni, and Teachers of Tomorrow.

Ralph Engelchor is the Lead Portfolio Manager for Impact Investing at Achmea Investment Management, the leading multi-client fiduciary manager in the Netherlands. In this role, he is spearheading the development of an innovative impact platform designed to provide institutional investors with targeted and efficient access to high-quality impact investments across asset classes.

Prior to joining Achmea, Ralph managed the Global Impact Pool at Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management. Under his leadership, the fund celebrated its five-year anniversary, marking significant achievements in investments that positively contribute to society and the environment while aiming for market-rate financial returns.

Madeleine Evans is Director of Impact for Generation Investment Management's private markets platform, Private Equity and Growth Equity, where she leads impact strategy and value creation. Prior to Generation, Madeleine had roles as Head of Responsible Investment & ESG Advisory at Wallbrook, a global sustainability consultancy; Director of Business Development at TPG's portfolio company Tes Global; and as an investor at TPG Capital. Her early career academic research on impact investing received a UN Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) / Le Monde Prize for research on responsible investment in 2011 and was published in the Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment in 2013.

Bruno is the founder of Ginkgo Advisor, a vehicle dedicated to sustainable urban regeneration investment advisory, and acts as its Executive President. In the past 15 years, he has contributed to raise three investment funds with over 670 million in capital. Prior to Ginkgo, Bruno has worked 15 years in management consulting, financial risk advisory and project finance in Geneva, Brussels, and New-York. Bruno holds a Master in Business Engineering from the Solvay Brussels School of Economics ＆ Management, a Master of Financial Economics from the Leuven School of Business and Economics and a Certificate in Financial Engineering from the Haas Business School, University of California Berkeley. He is a lecturer on Impact Investing at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics ＆ Management, ULB.

Fairuz Farhoud is a Senior 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 quality of the global research outputs across PEI Group brands, topics, and market themes.

Eliza joined Temasek in Singapore in 2018 and is currently serving as Director, Impact Investing. She believes in channelling capital to uplift communities and protect the environment so that every generation prospers. Eliza has also worked as a private equity, impact investor in renewable energy/sustainability and investment banking professional with firms including Carlyle Asia Partners, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs with a focus on Asia. She is passionate about supporting young and female entrepreneurs in achieving their vision to make the world a better place and doing her part to build impact ecosystem in Asia and globally.

Eliza has been involved in various impact and sustainability working groups including G7 Impact Taskforce Working Group, MAS Green Finance Working Group, BlueMark Allocator Working Group and GIIN’s Impact Lab Advisory Board. Eliza received her Master of Applied Finance from the University of Melbourne and Bachelor of Commerce from the Australian National University.

Nina Freudenberg has been Director of the Impact Investments team since 2021.

Previously, Nina was a Director at Sonanz, a multi manager fund specialising in the area of impact private equity. Nina helped to build the company following its founding in 2015, in addition to actively developing the investment strategy and areas of fundraising, investments and portfolio management. Nina also managed consulting projects in Bangladesh for Brummer and Partners, although she actually started out on her career path as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in Munich in 2011.

Nina completed an undergraduate degree in European Public Health at the University of Maastricht, to which she added a Masters in International Health Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dr James Gifford is an independent advisor to UHNW investors and family offices on sustainable and impact investing. He is also a core faculty member at the Centre for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth at the University of Zurich, where he teaches a joint program with MIT (and formerly Harvard) on impact investing for the next generation of UHNW family members. He was the founding Executive Director of the UN Principles for Responsible Investment and led the organisation from inception in 2003 until 2013. Other roles include Head of Impact Investing at both Credit Suisse and UBS, and Director of Impact at TAU Investment Management. James has published numerous articles and book chapters on responsible investment, and has a PhD from the University of Sydney on the effectiveness of shareholder engagement in improving corporate sustainability performance.

John is a managing director in the Client Solutions Group within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, serving as global head of Sustainability and Impact Solutions. He is responsible for mobilizing the full breadth and depth of the firm's sustainable investing resources for clients.

Previously, John was in the Executive Office where he created and served as head of the Sustainable Finance Group, responsible for working across Goldman Sachs to deepen the firm's knowledge and grow its capabilities in relation to inclusive growth and climate transition. He serves as chair of the Sustainable Finance Group Steering Group.

John joined Goldman Sachs Asset Management as a managing director in 2015 through the acquisition of Imprint Capital, which he co-founded in 2007, to help expand the firm's Environmental, Social and Governance and impact investing capabilities.

Previously, John served as senior managing director of Medley Global Advisors. During that time, he co-founded and served as the executive director of the Medley Institute. Prior to that, John was a management consultant at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).

John has served as an advisor or board member to a diverse set of organizations in the impact space including groups such as the US National Advisory Board of the G8 Global Impact Investing Network’s ImpactBase initiative, the Global Social Venture Competition, McKinsey’s working group on Social Impact Bonds, Global Giving, the Sustainable Food Lab, the UN Capital Development Fund, the International Interfaith Investment Group and a range of other organizations.

John graduated from Yale University with honors. He was awarded the Richter Fellowship and the Townsend Prize.

Ms. Emma Gordon is an Energy and Investment Policy Analyst at the International Energy Agency. She leads the agency’s work on both sustainable finance and on energy investment in Africa. Her previous experience involves managing the investor-facing carbon products at ESG data provider Sustainalytics, and providing risk analysis for oil, gas, and mining companies investing in sub-Saharan Africa.

Chris Gorell Barnes is a social entrepreneur focused on solving one of the world’s greatest threats the crisis in the oceans. He is Founding partner of Ocean 14 capital a €200M leading impact fund focused on ensuring a healthy ocean for everyone through a sustainable ＆ regenerative blue economy and co-founder of the Blue marine foundation a world leading marine charity creating marine reserves and establishing sustainable models of fishing ＆ innovative ocean conservation all over the world.

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.

David Gowenlock is a Senior Investment Director at Cambridge Associates.

David joined the Sustainable and Impact Investing (SII) team in 2022. He is based out of the London office and works across the Global Investment Research and Global Investment Services groups. He is responsible for the sourcing and diligence of fund managers with leading SII strategies across asset classes and supporting clients on achieving their sustainability objectives such as ESG integration and net zero alignment. He also develops tools and resources to support the integration of sustainable and impact investing in research and client teams.

Prior to joining Cambridge Associates, David worked at ClearlySo, a Big Society Capital-backed pioneer in the UK impact investing landscape. As part of the ClearlySo’s Funds Advisory team, he advised European private equity and venture capital fund (VC) managers on launching and raising capital for impact investment strategies.

During his MBA at IESE Business School, David served as Chair of the School’s Responsible Business Club and became focused on the role of long-term thinking in investment management and the sustainability megatrends that are set to shape the economy over the coming decades.

David received his MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain.

Anastasia is responsible for leading the firm’s global sustainable investment team and advising clients on all aspects of sustainable investment strategy, targets and allocations. She joined Redington in June 2021 and works across all clients from pensions to endowments and foundations. Anastasia has been a sustainable investment specialist with over 18 years’ experience, 10 of which were at the United Nations-supported Principles of Responsible Investment, where her last role was as Director of Northern Europe Middle East and Africa, leading a team supporting over 200 asset owners in their implementation of ESG criteria in investment strategy, allocations, and stewardship decisions. She has previously worked at Euromoney Institutional Investor and Fidelity. Until 2023 she sat on the advisory board at Pensions for Purpose and was a working group member on the Glasgow Financial Alliance on Net Zero (GFANZ). She holds a master’s degree in economics and statistics from the University of Warwick.

Simon Hallett is the Head of Climate Strategy and a Partner at Cambridge Associates.

Simon joined the firm in 2005 and has more than 30 years of experience investing for endowed institutions and sovereign wealth funds ranging in size from $75 million to more than $100 billion. In 2021, he turned his full attention to climate change and net zero and now advises clients on their sustainability and impact investing goals. Prior to that, Simon led the firm’s Endowment ＆ Foundation Practice in Europe.

In addition to working with clients, Simon contributes to Cambridge Associates’ research and has led development of the firm’s approach to ‘Carbon Net Zero’ from an investor’s perspective. He also chairs the firm’s Net Zero Think Tank.

Simon received his MSc in Finance from London Business School and his MA in Economics from University of Cambridge.

Kenza Himmi is the Head of Impact Investing and Partnerships at the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, where she leads Fund’s impact investing programme and oversees its implementation across asset classes. Her work focuses on aligning investments with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, leading stewardship initiatives and developing robust frameworks to achieve measurable social and environmental outcomes.

Prior to joining the UNJSPF, her career has been focused on developing ESG strategies and driving impactful engagement strategies at global asset managers. Kenza holds an MSc in Climate Change, Management & Finance from Imperial College Business School.

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.

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.

Yida is responsible for driving the strategy for New Forests’ African business, fund raising for African forestry strategies, leading the team on the ground in Nairobi, and delivering investment returns and impact outcomes for clients. Yida is part of New Forests’ executive committee.

He has over two decades of experience leading, investing in, and growing businesses primarily in Eastern Africa across various sectors related to agriculture and nature-based solutions, as well as infrastructure and consumer industries.

Yida was previously a senior partner with Phatisa Group, a food and agriculture focused sub-Saharan African private equity fund management business, where he was responsible for origination and portfolio management in Eastern Africa, as well as being a member of the investment committee and portfolio company boards.

Yida has a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering.

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.

Nina is the Director of Sustainability, leading the firm’s cross-platform sustainability strategy and sustainability team globally. In this capacity, she oversees sustainable investment ＆ corporate strategy, ESG and climate initiatives. She is a member of the Responsible Investment Committee. Nina is also responsible for supporting and managing client relationships with sustainability objectives in all aspects of client relations, including portfolio construction and strategic planning.

Nina was previously a senior deal lead within Hamilton Lane’s Fund Investment & Managed Solutions Team, focusing on investment selection, execution and management across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In this role, she also developed and led the Fund Investment ESG Taskforce. Nina has worked for Hamilton Lane in the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States. She served on Hamilton Lane’s DEI&B council from 2019 through 2023 and as a committee member of Level20 between 2020 and 2024, Chairing the Future Leaders Committee between 2022 and 2024.

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

Lyne is a co-founder and managing partner at Agetech Capital, where she leverages her extensive venture capital experience to drive growth in AI-driven health tech and agetech startups. With a strong background as a founder, investor, and board member, she has gained international experience and sharp financial acumen throughout her career.

Lyne began in finance by providing M&A consulting services to international telecommunications and venture capital firms across North America, Africa, and Europe, managing deals typically ranging from $50 million to $300 million. She then played a pivotal role in helping UKAid establish a £30 million agriculture impact private equity fund.

Joining ThirdWay Partners, a London-based merchant bank, as Executive Director, she was instrumental in raising a €150 million impact private equity fund, expanding the M&A advisory division, and establishing a foundation. She contributed significantly to team building and developed the firm’s impact and ESG framework, overseeing sourcing, due diligence, and growth support. Today, ThirdWay Partners manages three funds and employs over 50 professionals.

After returning to Montreal, Lyne served as an advisor at SecondMuse Capital, co-leading the successful raise of a $50 million Climate Tech VC fund. She is now fully dedicated to the impact tech ecosystem and has emerged as a leading ambassador for impact investing in Canada, founding CIVIC, a GP impact investing practitioner group.

Additionally, she is a partner at BAngels Capital, a $20 million private equity impact investment holding, and serves as a board member for the Aging in Place Program at the National Research Council (NRC) while being an Investor in Residence at Anges Quebec. Her entrepreneurial spirit is further reflected in her founding of MIIIM, a blockchain marketplace connecting impact-driven startups with experts, and her 2016 initiative in Africa aimed at empowering women in finance through mentorship and leadership development.

Paula joined Campbell Lutyens in 2006 and heads the firm’s sustainability practice advising GPs on strategy and fund raising. She has over 21 years of fund placement experience and has led well over 45 fundraisings for European and global private equity firms, representing almost $70 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 over 265 operating from offices in London, Paris, Munich, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Charlotte, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, Melbourne and Dubai.

Jake is a Director of impact investing at AlTi Tiedemann Global. In this role, he leads on private market impact opportunities in Europe and Asia across multiple themes.

Jake has previously worked in the impact investing teams at Better Society Capital, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation and Snowball Impact Investment. In his most recent role at Snowball, Jake worked across asset classes and impact themes, in particular leading on venture capital and private equity. He was responsible for developing the firm’s impact practice and building out its frameworks.

Jake received a BA from the University of Oxford and is a qualified solicitor.

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.

Floris Lyppens is Managing Director at ABN AMRO Corporate Investments and responsible for climate-related fund and co-investments.

Floris has 26 years of working experience in M&A, equity capital markets, project finance and climate-related investments in New York and Amsterdam.

Prior to ABN AMRO, Floris worked at MeesPierson and BNP.

Ross is co-founder and managing partner at Keeling Capital, a climate technology venture fund-of-funds. He has 15 years of experience in investment banking, operational roles, and investment roles at single-family offices.

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.

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.

Inès Mertens leads Impact Europe’s efforts to develop the impact investing market across Europe, supporting impact funds and financial institutions on their impact journey. With over 20 years of experience in impact investing and corporate finance, she is a seasoned professional dedicated to driving meaningful change. Previously, Inès worked at Inventures Investment Partners, a leading European venture capital impact fund of €50M that backed 30 start-ups and scale-ups.

She also co-founded the Belgian chapter of Level20, an initiative promoting diversity in the Private Equity industry. In addition, she serves as a board member at Aqcelerator, a fund investing in sustainable innovation in wastewater, and sits on the investment committee of Impact Shakers Ventures, a global impact ecosystem tackling complex societal and environmental challenges through inclusive entrepreneurship.

Impact Europe

Impact Europe is the leading network for investing for impact. Bringing together capital providers—including foundations, impact funds, banks, corporate social investors, and public funders—Impact Europe works to drive prosperity, advance social progress, reduce inequalities, and preserve the planet. The organization mobilizes people, capital, and knowledge to accelerate and scale impact while advocating for an inclusive and thriving impact market.

Learn more at impacteurope.net.

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.

Imraan leads the Climate Opportunities strategy at Border to Coast, which is a £2.6bn 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.

Virginie Morgon is the Founder and Managing Partner of Ardabelle Capital, a Paris-based private equity firm. Prior, Morgon served as the CEO of Eurazeo from 2018–2023, having previously served as Chief Investment Officer of the firm and on the Executive Board since 2008. Morgon accelerated the firm's diversification and growth, transforming Eurazeo into a leading, multi-strategy and international investment firm present in more than ten countries and whose assets under management increased from €3 billion to €34+billion. Prior to joining Eurazeo, Ms. Morgon spent 16 years as an investment banker at Lazard, where she became the youngest managing senior partner at Lazard Frères et Cie in Paris, and later promoted to Head of the European Food, Retail and Consumer goods sector. She also co-chairs the Human Rights Watch Paris Committee. In recognition of her successful career and contribution to the economy, Morgon was made Knight of the Legion of Honor and Knight of the National Order of Merit, the two highest French civilian distinctions. She attended the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and has an MBA from Bocconi University in Milan. Virginie enjoys spending time with her husband, Marc, and four children; Margot, Jean, Arsene, and Alice.

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.

Anna Murray is Senior Managing Director, Global Head of Sustainable Investing for Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP). Anna plays a leadership role in supporting OTPP's long-term plan to create a lasting, positive impact and value for members across the $250 billion fund. Working closely with senior leaders and investment teams across the organization, Anna oversees the fund's ambitious climate, energy transition strategy and net-zero targets, advancing its approach to impact investing and overseeing corporate governance and stewardship activities including proxy voting and public company engagements. She also oversees the continued integration and assessment of sustainability-related risks and opportunities across the investment process.

Prior to joining OTPP, Anna spent her career advancing corporate strategy around the globe at major multinationals. Anna sits on the Board of Directors for the Investor Leadership Network, the Responsible Investment Association and serves on the Public Policy Committee for the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, the S&P Global Sustainable1 Investor Client Council and the Advisory Board of Osgoode Hall Law School's ESG, Climate Risk & the Law Certificate. She is the Founder of the non-profit Young Women in Energy and was the former Co-Chair of the Principles of Responsible Investment (PRI) Real Estate Advisory Committee, Co-Chair of the Environmental Committee at the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) and the Canadian Green Building Council (CAGBC). Notable accolades include: Top 100 Women in Canada, Clean50, Top 40 Under 40, 50 influencers in Sustainable Private Market, and the Making a Difference for Women Award.

She has an MBA and a law degree with a focus on environmental justice and sustainability.

Angelica Nikolausson is a Managing Director on the Impact Investments team at GEM. In this role, she is responsible for the continued development of the firm’s impact investing platform, including the integration of impact considerations into client investment strategy, portfolio design, manager selection and oversight, and operations. Prior to joining GEM in 2024, she served as Managing Director, ESG Advisory at UBS, and was responsible for leading the investment banking division’s ESG strategy, supporting the development of climate frameworks, and managing strategic sustainability partnerships. She also held roles as the Co-Head of ESG Advisory at Credit Suisse (now UBS) and as Vice President, Sustainability Strategy and Advisory at Greentech Capital Advisors. She received a Bachelor of Law and Applied Finance from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

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.

Alex Ouimet-Storrs is an Investment Director dedicated to the Plastic Circularity strategy and joined the team in Feb 2024.

He has both an industrial and private equity background with 20 investments and 9 exits and an extensive knowledge of the plastic industry. Alex started his career at Air Liquide in Paris and in 2011 joined Truffle Capital as an investor in deeptech and sustainability. He became Partner in 2014 and was in charge of a portfolio of 15 companies, including Carbios.

In 2018, Alex became the Man. Director (EMEA) of Solvay Ventures 100 M$ corporate fund, where he scouted intensively in the scope of the Plastic Circularity strategy. He invested in 3 companies including Kumovis (thermoplastics for medical devices) that was sold to 3D Systems, signed 10 corporate partnerships with scale-ups. From 2020-2023, he founded Oskare Capital, a deeptech and life sciences fund and worked as venture partner at Elaia Partners in Paris and as a consultant for Sumitomo Corp.

He’s a dual Canadian and French citizen, with a masters and bachelors in chemical engineering from McGill University.

Timothée Pasquier is Advisor, Sustainability, at CDPQ. In his role, he contributes to leading the organization’s reflections on impact. He also supports teams in integrating climate and sustainability factors into investment decisions and directly engages with portfolio companies on these topics. He joined CDPQ in 2022. Timothée holds a Master’s degree in International Business Management from La Sorbonne In Paris (France), and a Master’s degree in Finance from HEC Montréal.

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

Matt is a Director of Impact Frontiers, responsible for leading research and field-building projects. Prior to Impact Frontiers, Matt was Head of Impact at The Good Economy, where he led a team supporting alternative asset managers to strengthen their impact management practices. He established The Good Economy’s impact verification and assurance service as well as advising on the fast-moving landscape for sustainability regulations and impact management norms.

From 2016-2019 Matt was evaluation lead for the UK government’s flagship initiative to develop the impact investing ecosystem in the Global South. As part of this role he innovated stakeholder-centric approaches to impact measurement for UK’s development finance institution and supported the establishment of Impact Management Project.

Matt spent over a decade at the United Nations working on labour rights and employment impact assessments. He was technical lead for the development of the Global Impact Investing Network's IRIS+ Quality Jobs theme.

He has published widely on the topics of social impact measurement and evaluation. Matt’s articles have appeared in the Stanford Social Innovation Review and Pioneers Post, as well as in peer-reviewed journals and presented at meetings of the Academy of Management. He is currently part of the guest faculty for the Oxford Impact Measurement Programme at Said Business School. He holds degrees from University College London and King’s College London alongside the CFA Certificate in ESG Investing.

Sophie is co-founder and CEO of FIIND Impact, an Amsterdam based investment consultant & advisory company dedicated to impact investing. We support institutional investors in building impact investing mandates, sourcing investment aligned to their values, in performing investment and impact due diligence on funds and in measuring impact. She is also co-founder of the FIIND Impact Foundation. Prior to this, she founded Phenix Capital, an impact investing intermediary in July 2012, and was co-CEO until March 2020. Prior to Phenix Capital, Sophie was a Director at Jupiter Asset Management in London (2002-2012) and a Vice President and Head of Quantitative Equity Analysis at Commerzbank Asset Management in Germany (1997-2002). She is a CFA Charter holder and holds a PhD in Economics and Statistics from the University of Kassel in Germany where she was a researcher from 1992-1997. In 1992 she wrote her Master Thesis on Environmental Impact assessment and is a Diplom Oekonom.

Matt heads British International Investments’ efforts to mobilise private capital into, alongside or following BII’s own investments.

Matt has held a number of other roles since starting at BII in 2016 including as Investment Director in the Intermediated Equity team, Chief of Staff to the CEO and Head of Group Strategy and Development. In this latter role, Matt oversaw all aspects of the development and negotiation of BII’s current 2022-26 strategy: Productive, Sustainable and Inclusive Development.

Prior to BII Matt was Head of Strategy at Big Society Capital, the UK’s social investment bank, which he helped to build from inception in 2012. Matt was responsible for overall strategy-setting and major initiatives, including securing a new UK social investment tax relief, setting-up the Access foundation for blended capital, and the Business Impact Challenge. Matt was a member of Big Society Capital’s management committee and its investment committee that approved over £250 million across 40 deals in the first four years of operations.

Matt’s earlier career included 5 years as Deputy Director in the Cabinet Office, where he led the social investment team and was also part of the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit. Matt spent six years as a development economist working across Asia and Africa, including several years living in Malawi. Matt holds an MA in Economics from Cambridge University and an MSc in Development Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies. He is non-executive director of the National Forest Company and has previously served on the board of two social investment bond companies.

Jeremy co-runs the team that invests and manages Better Society Capital’s portfolio.

Jeremy is passionate about finding sustainable ways to tackle social challenges and using them to improve peoples lives. Since he joined as CIO in 2013, Better Society Capital has helped establish over £4bn of social impact investment vehicles with over 250 institutional investors supporting over 3,500 charities and social enterprises so far, tackling issues such as homelessness and fuel poverty.

Jeremy has over 25 years of experience in the charitable and investment sectors, with over 15 years in impact investing. Jeremy set up and ran JP Morgan's European High Yield Trading group, growing it to become the market leader. Jeremy has held multiple voluntary and non-executive roles at charities and social enterprises including The Prince’s Trust, Ashoka, Big Issue Invest, Pilotlight, Lankelly Chase and the Rockefeller Foundation. He is a member of Access - The Foundation for Social Investment's Joint Investment Committee and an Industrial Professor at UCL teaching Impact Investing.

Kristian Rönn is an entrepreneur, author, and advocate for AI and climate risk governance. He co-founded Normative, pioneering carbon accounting software, and have co-authored some of the leading standards for carbon disclosures. In AI governance, he contributed to the EU General-Purpose AI Code of Conduct, the UN Global Digital Compact, and policy demonstrations on AI-enabled biosecurity risks. His AI Assurance Tech Report has influenced investments in AI safety globally, highlighting it as a €270 billion investment opportunity. His bestselling book, The Darwinian Trap, explores misaligned incentives driving existential risks. Now, he is developing Lucid Computing automated auditing software for AI-hardware, enabling regulators to track the deployment of dangerous AI models—similar to the IAEA’s oversight of nuclear materials.

Regina serves as a Manager for both the Training and Member Engagement teams. Regina is responsible for fostering partnerships with Europe-based members and partners, as well as identifying, designing, and delivering engagement initiatives for members and stakeholders across the blended finance ecosystem. Prior to Convergence, Regina was a policy advisor at GIZ, the German agency for technical development cooperation, where she advised the German government on innovative finance for water and sanitation, and on pro-poor subsidy reforms. Prior to GIZ, Regina was a consultant at the World Bank Group in Washington, DC. She holds a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC, and a Bachelor’s in Chinese Studies from the University of Wuerzburg in Germany.

Yasemin is responsible for Investment Strategy for the Institutional Retirement division of Legal and General, overseeing the £80 bn portfolio of pensions managed by the division. She joined recently from British International Investments (BII), where she served as Managing Director and Head of Asset Allocation ＆ Capital Solutions. Prior to BII, Yasemin spent time in tech venture capital at the Omidyar Network, managing an impact investment portfolio for the founder of eBay. She began her career at JPMorgan, where she worked with in Structured Alternative Investments, in Credit Exotics, and was a founding member of JPMorgan’s Social Finance team. She currently serves as a trustee and Chair of the Funds Committee for Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Foundation.

Carlotta joined J.P. Morgan in 2022 as Head of Impact Investing, based in London.

Before J.P. Morgan, Carlotta was Head of Fund Solutions at British International Investment (BII, formerly known as CDC Group), leading a team identifying liquidity and value-addition pathways for underperforming investments in the BII portfolio. Prior to this role, she was an Investment Director on BII’s Intermediated Equity team, investing and managing a portfolio of funds and co-investments across emerging markets, with a focus on Africa and South Asia.

Before BII, Carlotta worked at the African Development Bank, based in Tunisia, where she invested in private equity strategies 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, D.C. She holds an MA(Hons) from the University of St Andrews in Scotland and an MA from Johns Hopkins University – School of Advanced International Affairs. She is also an Eisenhower Fellow and serves on the board of Social Finance.

David Schacht currently serves as Secretariat for the Impact Convergence Forum for Private Equity (ICF), a collaborative group of firms with private equity impact strategies seeking to encourage convergence in impact measurement and management practices among LPs and GPs, ensuring high-integrity practice while enabling better decision-making. David is the Founder ＆ Principal of Impact Markets, a firm dedicated to advancing measurable environmental and social outcomes alongside risk-adjusted financial returns. Impact Markets collaborates with private market investors across the investment lifecycle, providing impact diligence, pathway analysis, and enhancing impact measurement and management (IMM) practices to drive meaningful outcomes. Previously, David served as Vice President ＆ Head of International at National Geographic Society, overseeing international strategy and impact programs across Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. He has also held leadership roles at GLG, CARANA (now Palladium) the CRUSA Foundation, and CEB (now Gartner), advising Fortune 500 executives, institutional investors, and impact-driven organizations. David holds an M.A. in Emerging Markets & Economics (Johns Hopkins SAIS) and an A.B. in Economics (University of Chicago).

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.

Vilhelm Skoglund is an Impact Advisor, optimizing the philanthropic and investment impact of various Ultra High Net Worth Individuals in the Nordics. As the President of the Astralis Foundation, he oversees projects aimed at promoting the secure and beneficial development of artificial intelligence. His expertise spans both strategic philanthropy and impact investing, serving as Venture Partner at the impact-first AIS venture capital firm Halcyon Ventures, and on the Investment Committee for Juniper Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on AIS.

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 independent board member 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.

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 140 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; and launched the Mosaic Fellowship, placing high performing graduate students at ICM member funds as summer associates. With Mark Berryman of Capricorn, 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 at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and 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 140+ 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 90 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.

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.

Katsuki Tsuboi is a sustainability expert with extensive experience across both the private and public sectors. He is currently the Head of Sustainability at Dai-ichi Life International (Europe) in London, where he leads the company’s sustainability strategy, including its transition finance and Net-Zero transition plans.

Katsuki plays a key role in Dai-ichi Life Group's sustainability initiatives and serves as a co-workstream lead for the GFANZ Transition Finance & Real-Economy Transition workstream. He is also an engaged member of the Net-Zero Asset Owners Alliance (NZAOA) and the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

Before assuming his current role, Katsuki worked with the Japan Financial Services Agency, where he contributed to the development of global insurance standards. He also brings a wealth of experience in sustainability, strategy, and regulatory consulting from his time at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Michael Urban is Chief Sustainability Strategist at Lombard Odier Group (the Group). He joined the Group in 2020 as Deputy Head of Sustainability Research. In his current role, Michael supports the Group’s Managing Partners in the design and implementation of the Group’s global sustainable investment strategy. Michael also manages the firm’s academic partnership with the University of Oxford where he holds an Honorary Research Fellowship and a membership to Oriel College.

Prior to joining Lombard Odier, Michael was Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s Centre for the Environment where he led several research initiatives as part of a European Research Council funded project titled “Finance and Development in the 21st Century.” Michael has held various teaching positions at the University of Oxford and Bristol University, and worked at Pictet & Cie, where he covered thematic and socially responsible investments (SRI) funds.

Michael holds a BSc in Management from HEC Lausanne, an MSc in Environment, Politics and Globalization from King’s College London and a PhD in Economic Geography from the University of Oxford.

Juho is Senior Development Impact Advisor at Finnfund. He specialises in measuring and managing impact of private sector investments in emerging markets. Juho has over 20 years of experience in emerging markets and his work covers the whole investment cycle from pre-investment screening and DD to work to monitoring and impact studies. He has worked in several sectors and industries including digital infra and solutions, renewable energy, forestry, agriculture and financial institutions. Juho’s special interest lies in developing and testing theories of change for private sector operations, how investments lead to wider socio-economic developments, and how these developments can be captured.

Jacqueline van den Ende is co-founder of Amsterdam based climate fintech company Carbon Equity. Carbon Equity is a climate venture capital and private equity fund investing platform. Jacqueline brings a rather unique perspective as a founder turned investor turned founder, twice over. She worked as private equity investor at HAL Investments and more recently as a general partner at Venture Capital fund Peak Capital. She spent the other half of her career to date building and leading companies, including De Kleine Consultant, one of the largest European student-run strategy consultants, Rocket Internet backed online real estate marketplace Lamudi in South East Asia and Ant Financial backed Fintech scale up TrueMoney.

Jacqueline is obsessed with the question how we can leverage capital most effectively to mitigate climate change. In addition to her role as founder and CEO of Carbon Equity she serves on the board of the Dutch last mile delivery scale-up Trunkrs. Jacqueline obtained an MSc degree in Economics from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and a BA in Social Sciences from University College Utrecht.

Carbon Equity

Carbon Equity is an Amsterdam based climate investing fintech company. Carbon Equity seeks to build a net zero economy by connecting next generation capital to the world's most impactful climate investing opportunities. By enabling small ticket access to climate private equity funds, Carbon Equity unlocks a trillion dollar capital pool, from next gen investors who currently have no access to private market investments. Carbon Equity's technology platform enables both a seamless digital investing experience as well as a rich user experience — where investors embark on their wealth- and their climate investing journey.

Carbon Equity was founded by a group of highly experienced investors and tech-entrepreneurs including alumni of Alplnvest, the Carlyle Group, HAL Investments, Philips Ventures, Ecochain and McKinsey. The company is venture backed with participation of top Dutch and German angel/pre-seed investors such as the Pirate Impact fund.

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.

James is Head of Engagement at Better Society Capital, responsible for building awareness and understanding of social impact investment and helping grow the social impact market. He leads the Engagement Group which includes investor engagement, social sector engagement and communications.

Prior to joining the team, for ten years James was part of the leadership team of the education charity Teach First and helped build it into the largest recruiter of graduates developing teachers and leaders for schools most in need.

He previously worked as a BBC News Correspondent, specialising in education, health and social issues and also spent two years in the United States as a Washington correspondent.

In addition to his role at Better Society Capital, James serves on the boards of a number of education charities.