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The Impact Investor Global Summit 2025 is back—bigger and better than ever! Join 700+ leaders in impact and transition investing, including 250+ active allocators on 20-21 May at our exciting new London venue, the Brewery.
As the leading global event in impact investing, the Summit is your chance to dive into how private capital is fueling a sustainable and equitable future—and uncover the investable opportunities within this shift.
Claire van der Grift, Rabobank
"Very interesting programme and speakers, great event for networking. Well organised and location was top notch."
Keynote spotlight #1: Regaining high ambition in sustainable investing
Join us for a keynote featuring a legendary figures in global impact investing, David Blood. David 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. Alongside Al Gore, David launched one of the world’s leading pioneering funds in impact investing, Generation Investment Management.
Where | Day one keynote
When | Tuesday 20th May, 12.00
Keynote spotlight #2: The next era of impact investing
Hear from one of the world’s biggest impact funds in the form of TPG’s The Rise Fund. 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.
Where | Day two keynote
When | Wednesday 21st May, 14.00
Hannah Maunder, SV Health Investors
"The Impact Investor Global Summit provided a huge amount of clarity on all things impact investing and did so in an engaging and enjoyable way."
Speakers for 2025 include:
Key themes for 2025:
Growth and maturity of the impact market
Understanding the evolution of the impact investing market, and its role in a fast-changing world. Hear debate on impact investing especially in the wider context of political developments, ongoing high inflation, and the profound impact of AI on society.
Investment themes and sectors of tomorrow
Learn about the investment sectors of tomorrow, especially those that have sustainability outcomes and present the best returns. Hear deep dive sessions with leading funds in energy system evolution, natural capital, circular economy, climate resilience and adaptation, water scarcity, AI safety, ownership economy, among others.
Innovation in impact management, measurement and structures
Get the latest on innovations in impact structures and executing a credible impact strategy, with dedicated sessions focused on exchanging best practices on reporting, metrics, fundraising for an impact fund, creating blended finance, solution, and executing brown-to-green strategies, and more.
Meet institutional investors
Hear from institutional investors who are looking to increase their exposure to impact funds. Connect with representatives from Allianz Global Investors, Alvarium, AZR Capital, British Business Bank, BII, Church Commissioners, CPPIB, EBRD, EM Impact Capital, GIC, Hitachi Digital, IMAS Foundation, KFW Capital, M&G Investment Management, Mallinckrodt Foundation, and many more.
Event content with value
The summit will explore investment opportunities across the impact market’s different thematic buckets, and how to build strategies that are measurable, scalable and deliver real world outcomes. Featuring sessions on impact benchmarking, specialist vs generalist impact strategies, allocation priorities, investments opportunities in climate, circular economy, placed-based investing, emerging markets, and many more.
Build a valuable network
Connect with industry participants in all aspects of impact investment and benefit from our expansive global community. Network in-person at interactive workshops, networking breaks, evening drinks reception, roundtable discussions and invite-only breakfasts. Build lasting relationships and compare best practices with your peers.
2024 event in numbers
Diane Damskey, Operating Principles for Impact Management
"The event gathered some of the top names in impact investing and covered key topics to promote the understanding and growth of this market. The organization and execution was impeccable."
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2025 speakers:
Natalie Adomait
Managing Partner ＆ Chief Operating Officer, Renewable Power ＆ Transition, Brookfield Asset Management
Dr. Stephanie Bilo
Chief Client ＆ Investment Solutions Officer, Executive Management, responsAbility Investments AG
Daniel Borrego Cubero
Head of Debt Mobilisation Product Development, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
Henry de Zoete
Senior Advisor and Visiting Fellow, Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative; AI adviser to the UK Prime Minister
John Goldstein
Managing Director, Global Head of Sustainability an Impact Solutions, Asset & Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs
David Gowenlock
Senior Investment Director, Sustainable and Impact Investing at Cambridge Associates
Imraan Mohammed
Portfolio Manager – Climate Opportunities Fund, Border to Coast Pensions Partnership
Anna Murray
Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainable Investing, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
Alex Ouimet-Storrs
Investment Director - LOIM Plastic Circularity, Lombard Odier Investment Managers
The Impact Investor Global Summit will take place in May 2025.
For more information on the agenda or speaking opportunities, please contact Boris Petrovic.
boris.p@pei.group | +44 (0)204 548 4494
Agenda
Impact Investor Global Summit 2025 - Day 1 - Tuesday 20th
08:00 - 08:50
Networking breakfast and registration
Plenary
08:50 - 08:55
PEI welcome
08:55 - 09:00
Chair’s opening remarks
Xenia Loos
Xenia Loos, Co-Founder, Partner, Collective Action
1 Speaker
09:00 - 09:10
Data presentation: Impact fundraising over the past year
Fairuz Farhoud
- Who are the biggest funds and allocators in impact investing?
- What are the most significant trends in allocation to impact investing?
- Which strategies and themes are gaining the most capital?
Fairuz Farhoud, Senior Research Manager, PEI Group
1 Speaker
09:10 - 09:55
Plenary #1: The state of market - performance, fundraising, exit environment
Laurie Spengler,
Jen Braswell,
John Goldstein,
Max Odefey
- How are geopolitical and macro trends converging, and what does it mean for the impact market?
- Generalist impact vs specialist – does it make sense to have climate, healthcare, education, financial inclusion focuses in one fund?
- As the first vintages of impact funds reach maturity – what can we say about performance?
- How are impact assets being valued and what are the trends in exits?
Moderator: Laurie Spengler, President and CEO, Courageous Capital Advisors
Jen Braswell, Head of Impact, EQT Partners
John Goldstein, Global Head of Sustainability and Impact Solutions, Asset & Wealth Management, Goldman Sachs
Max Odefey, Co-founder, GENUI
John Goldstein
Managing Director, Global Head of Sustainability an Impact Solutions, Asset & Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs
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4 Speakers
09:55 - 10:00
Launch of Impact Convergence Forum
David Schacht
Hear about the exciting new initiative in convergence on impact measurement, the Impact Convergence Forum for Private Equity (ICF), how it builds on previous effort and priorities for 2025.
David Schacht, Secretariat, Impact Convergence Forum for Private Equity (ICF)
1 Speaker
10:00 - 10:45
Plenary #2: Allocator perspectives – can impact be a form of portfolio protection?
Paula Langton,
Eliza Foo,
Simon Hallett,
Yasemin Saltuk Lamy,
Carlotta Saporito
- How is the appetite for impact products changing?
- When looking at the investment landscape as an LP, what is the good, the bad and the ugly?
- Will impact ever be a part of fiduciary duty?
- How are capital allocators driving flows into impactful opportunities and embedding impact into investment processes?
Moderator: Paula Langton, Partner, Campbell Lutyens
Eliza Foo, Director, Impact Investing, Temasek
Simon Hallett, Partner and Head of Climate Strategy, Cambridge Associates
Yasemin Saltuk Lamy, Head of Investment Strategy, Legal & General Institutional Retirement
Carlotta Saporito, Head of Impact Investing, J.P. Morgan Private Bank
5 Speakers
Networking
10:45 - 11:15
Break
Plenary
11:15 - 12:00
Plenary #3: The bigger picture - how to balance realism and idealism in impact investing
Matt Christensen,
Hetal Damani
- Is impact investing overly idealistic or ideological?
- What is the real incentive to being an impact investor?
- ‘Planetary boundaries’, net zero, science-based targets, SDGs, DE&I, Just Transition – are we being guided by sound frameworks or a web of overlapping/conflicting fads?
- Climate change is very palpable now, has the time come for a serious shift from mitigation to adaptation?
- What does the Trump administration mean for global environmental efforts?
Matt Christensen, Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing, Allianz Global Investors
Hetal Damani, Impact Partner, Trill Impact
2 Speakers
12:00 - 12:20
Day one keynote #1: Regaining high ambition in sustainable investing
David Blood
Hear from a legendary figure in global impact investing, David Blood. David 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. Alongside Al Gore, David launched one of the world’s leading pioneering funds in impact investing, Generation Investment Management.
David Blood, Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management
1 Speaker
12:20 - 13:00
Plenary #4: The economics of the transition - who pays for the cost curve and takes the risks
Natalie Adomait,
Anders Bendsen Spohr,
Dr. Stephanie Bilo,
Anna Murray
- Is it possible to turn asset-heavy impact venture into mature companies?
- What are the lessons of Northvolt’s demise?
- Who will pay for going down the cost curve, which is needed to scale transition solutions?
- What role will industrial policy and subsidies play in a transition?
Natalie Adomait, Managing Partner ＆ Chief Operating Officer, Renewable Power ＆ Transition, Brookfield Global Transition Fund
Anders Bendsen Spohr, Managing Partner, Head of Planetary Health Investments, Novo Holdings
Dr. Stephanie Bilo, Chief Client ＆ Investment Solutions Officer, Executive Management, responsAbility Investments AG
Anna Murray, Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainable Investing, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
Natalie Adomait
Managing Partner ＆ Chief Operating Officer, Renewable Power ＆ Transition, Brookfield Asset Management
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Anders Bendsen Spohr
Managing Partner, Head of Planetary Health Investments at Novo Holdings
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Dr. Stephanie Bilo
Chief Client ＆ Investment Solutions Officer, Executive Management, responsAbility Investments AG
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Anna Murray
Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainable Investing, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
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4 Speakers
Networking
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
After lunch the conference splits into four streams, the streamed sessions are designed for you to hear about the latest investment opportunities from best-in-theme managers and get detailed insights on innovations on the horizon.
Impact tech and innovation
14:00 - 14:45
A1: Looking into the sun: investing in the AI revolution
James Gifford,
Jeremy Rogers
- How quickly will the economy change because of AI?
- How can impact funds get exposure to AI?
- How is AI being applied to address social and environmental issues right now?
- What can funds and investors do to get ahead of the disruption curve?
James Gifford, CEO, Additionality Capital
Jeremy Rogers, Chief Investment Officer, Better Society Capital
2 Speakers
14:50 - 15:35
A2: Deep tech and biotech for environment
David Gowenlock,
Floris Lyppens
- Which advances in biotech and deeptech are reaching commercial maturity, and what’s on the horizon?
- What is the potential for impact applications?
- What is the intersection between biotech and deeptech with impact investing?
- How can impact investors access deployment opportunities in this market?
Moderator: David Gowenlock, Senior Investment Director, Sustainable and Impact Investing, Cambridge Associates
Thorsten Billing, Senior Investment Manager, KfW Capital
Floris Lyppens, Managing Director, Corporate Investments, ABN AMRO Bank
David Gowenlock
Senior Investment Director, Sustainable and Impact Investing at Cambridge Associates
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2 Speakers
Social and inequality
14:00 - 14:45
B1: Systemic change vs sticking plasters: what will social impact be in the coming decade?
Sophie Robé,
Cyril Gouiffes,
James Westhead
- Can impact investing address the root cause of social issues or is that chimerical?
- What are the most transformative models of effective social impact around the world?
- Is there a lack of replicability between countries and regions?
- To what extent are social investment opportunities as a result of welfare institutions retreating?
Moderator: Sophie Robé, CEO, FIIND Impact
Cyril Gouiffes, Head of Social Impact, European Investment Fund
James Westhead, Executive Director, Better Society Capital
3 Speakers
14:50 - 15:35
B2: Democratising ownership: a workable solution to inequality?
Jonny Page,
Delilah Rothenberg
- To what extent is ownership a scalable means to addressing inequality?
- How do models such as community ownership or employee ownership work?
- What are the case studies from some of the pioneer investors that have ownership within their theory of change?
- Can investments focused on ownership attract mainstream allocators?
Jonny Page, Head of Social and Impact Investment, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
Delilah Rothenberg, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Predistribution Initiative
Delilah Rothenberg
Co-Founding Partner and Executive Director, The Predistribution Initiative (PDI)
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2 Speakers
Decarbonisation
14:00 - 14:45
C1: Energy system evolution: where’s the impact and the alpha?
Emma Gordon,
Imraan Mohammed,
Jacqueline van den Ende
- What is the next phase of energy system transformation?
- How are geopolitics and escalating energy security considerations by advanced economies impacting the investment opportunity set?
- Which aspect of the energy transition is underfunded?
- How much price inflation are we seeing for ‘grade-A’ climate assets?
Emma Gordon, Energy and Investment Policy Analyst, International Energy Agency
Imraan Mohammed, Portfolio Manager – Climate Opportunities Fund, Border to Coast Pensions Partnership
Jacqueline van den Ende, Co-founder and CEO, Carbon Equity
3 Speakers
14:50 - 15:35
C2: Climate adaptation: going mainstream
Jesse de Klerk,
Ross Madden,
Matteo Squilloni
- As climate change becomes more palpable, is it time for a heavy pivot to adaptation (away from mitigation)?
- Is climate adaption largely an infrastructure investment play?
- What are some of the best examples of climate adaptation solutions around the world?
- What are climate resilience investors going after in terms of asset selection?
Jesse de Klerk, Partner, Stafford Capital Partners
Ross Madden, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Keeling Capital
Matteo Squilloni, Head of Climate Transition – Equity Investments, European Investment Fund
3 Speakers
Natural capital
14:00 - 14:45
D1: Nature capital as an investment: forever hype?
Angelika Delen,
Peter Jäderberg,
Yida Kemoli,
Michael Urban
- What are the fundamentals driving viability of natural capital as investments?
- How are managers active in the market deploying their capital?
- What are the environmental objectives and impact goals of nature funds?
- Is the term ‘natural capital’ being abused?
Angelika Delen, Head of Impact Solutions, Mercer
Peter Jäderberg, Founder & Principal, Jäderberg & Cie.
Yida Kemoli, Managing Director, Africa, New Forests
Michael Urban, Chief Sustainability Strategist, Lombard Odier Investment Managers
4 Speakers
14:50 - 15:35
D2: Water security: poised for scarcity?
Xenia Loos,
Tom Ferguson
- How much is water scarcity and quality becoming an issue in different markets?
- What does the landscape of water investing consist of?
- To what extent does water investing align with the and climate adaptation agenda?
- What is the LP appetite for the theme?
- Is water a human right?
Moderator: Xenia Loos, Co-Founder, Partner, Collective Action
Tom Ferguson, Managing Partner, Burnt Island Ventures
2 Speakers
Networking
15:35 - 16:00
Networking Break
Impact tech and innovation
16:00 - 16:45
A3: Health: impact opportunities and market disruption
James Bair,
Caitlin Bristol,
Michael Chang
- How is AI affecting health investment opportunities?
- Have we made any progress in credibly measuring health impacts?
- How robust are health-related impact opportunities in a downturn?
- What is the maturity of the ecosystem in the ‘impact for health’ sub-asset class?
Moderator: James Bair, Managing Director & Partner, Baraka Impact Finance
Caitlin Bristol, Director, Impact Ventures, Johnson & Johnson
Michael Chang, Managing Partner, Global Health Investment Corporation (GHIC)
3 Speakers
16:50 - 17:35
A4: AI safety, assurance and security: a short window to act?
Henry de Zoete,
Kristian Rönn,
Vilhelm Skoglund
- As the world becomes ever more digitised, what is the investment opportunity set which is emerging in security and safety?
- Some of the leading impact investors (such as Omidyar) have shifted their focus toward safeguards for tech, why have they done so?
- What are the risks of inaction on safety considerations in the tech sector?
- What is the opportunity set within this theme, in things such as AI safety, ethical cloud, deepfake detection, cybersecurity, privacy etc?
Henry de Zoete, Senior Advisor and Visiting Fellow, Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative, University of Oxford
Kristian Rönn, CEO and co-founder, Lucid Computing
Vilhelm Skoglund, Founder, Astralis Foundation
Henry de Zoete
Senior Advisor and Visiting Fellow, Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative; AI adviser to the UK Prime Minister
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3 Speakers
Social and inequality
16:00 - 16:45
B3: Aging society and care economy: investing in the ‘silver tsunami’
Peter Kaldes,
Lyne Landry,
Angelica Nikolausson
- How are investors thinking about the demographic precipice facing developed markets?
- What are the investment opportunities in an aging society?
- Are there any concrete visions in terms of how societies can provide a better life for older people?
Peter Kaldes, President and CEO, Next50 Foundation
Lyne Landry, Founding and Managing Partner , AgeTech Capital
Angelica Nikolausson, Managing Director, Impact Investments, GEM Investments
Angelica Nikolausson
Managing Director, Impact Investments, Global Endowment Management (GEM)
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3 Speakers
16:50 - 17:35
B4: Work and skills: what will be the value of labour in the future?
- In the past two years, how much have labour markets been altered by AI?
- What is the future of education and reskilling?
- How are funds active in the workforce development and education market faring in the current market, in terms of deployment?
- Where is the alpha opportunity for investors active in the scape?
Decarbonisation
16:00 - 16:45
C3: Decarb strategies: deep dive into industry and built environment
Pierre Devillard,
Virginie Morgon,
Timothée Pasquier
- How are corporates looking to decarbonise?
- Which technologies are being used to decarbonise and how scalable are they?
- How capital intensive are industrial decarbonisation solutions?
- What are some examples of successfully executed brown-to-green strategies?
Pierre Devillard, Partner – Sustainable Industries, Eurazeo
Virginie Morgon, Managing Partner, Ardabelle Capital
Timothée Pasquier, Advisor, Sustainability, CDPQ
3 Speakers
16:50 - 17:35
C4: Sustainable commodities : green ammonia, steel, cement, hydrogen
- How have the supply chains of commodities such as green ammonia and hydrogen been evolving?
- What is the investment universe within sustainable commodities?
- Have high hydrocarbon prices disincentivised investors from pursuing moving capital into this area?
- Will these alternative fuels ever be able to compete with their mainstream (hydrocarbon-derived) counterparts?
Natural capital
16:00 - 16:50
D3: Circularity: latest innovations, corporate appetite, and scaling impact
Bruno Farber,
Nina Kraus,
Alex Ouimet-Storrs
- How is the circularity evolving?
- What technologies and innovations are driving progress in materials recycling and reuse?
- What the regulatory trends in sustainable consumption and waste?
- Is corporate interest and investment in circularity likely to grow?
Bruno Farber, Founder and Managing Director, Ginkgo Advisor
Nina Kraus, Director of Sustainability, Hamilton Lane
Alex Ouimet-Storrs, Investment Director – LOIM Plastic Circularity fund, Lombard Odier Investment Managers
Alex Ouimet-Storrs
Investment Director - LOIM Plastic Circularity, Lombard Odier Investment Managers
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3 Speakers
16:50 - 17:35
D4: Impact in food systems: how resilient is global food supply?
- How are food supply chains likely to be impacted by climate change in the coming decade – are we going to run out of food?
- What opportunities does food system transformation present to investors?
- What are leading corporates doing about food supply chain resilience, and what opportunities does it present to PE funds?
- What is the intersection of nature-focused and sustainable agri strategies?
Networking
17:35 - 18:35
Evening networking reception
Agenda
Impact Investor Global Summit 2025 - Day 2 - Wednesday 21st
07:30 - 08:15
Networking breakfast and registration
First round of workshops
08:15 - 09:30
W1: LP only - best practices in filtering, due diligence and data
Anastasia Guha,
Jonathan Hirschtritt,
Jake Levy,
Rames Munschizada,
Katsuki Tsuboi
LP only session.
- What filters are investors using to screen bad impact investments?
- What are the best practices for engaging with impact fund managers?
- How are different investors doing due diligence?
- How are LPs using impact data?
Anastasia Guha, Global Head of Sustainable Investment, Redington
Jonathan Hirschtritt, Managing Director, Sustainability & Impact Investing, GCM Grosvenor
Jake Levy, Director, Impact Investing, AlTi Tiedemann Global
Rames Munschizada, Executive Director, Investment Professional, Private Markets, Bank Julius Baer
Katsuki Tsuboi, Head of Sustainability, Dai-Ichi Life International (Europe)
Rames Munschizada
Executive Director, Investment Professional, Private Markets at Bank Julius Baer
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5 Speakers
08:15 - 09:30
W2: IMM - building a good impact strategy
Nina Freudenberg,
Kenza Himmi,
Marta Hervás Melgarejo
- What are the pillars to a credible impact strategy?
- Should you link carry with impact performance?
- Should your fund have third-party verification mechanisms to impact claims?
- What is part of a well-thought-out theory of change?
- How are the concepts of intentionality and additionality, double materiality being applied practically?
Nina Freudenberg, Director, Investments, Golding Capital Partners
Kenza Himmi, Head of Impact Investing and Partnerships, United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund
Marta Hervás Melgarejo, Managing Director, Arcano Partners
Keren Raz, Head of Impact, APG Global Private Equity
Kenza Himmi
Head of Impact Investing and Partnerships, United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund
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Marta Hervás Melgarejo
Managing Director - Private Equity ＆ Impact Investing, Arcano Partners
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3 Speakers
08:15 - 09:30
W3: Impact operating partners – best practices in supporting impact companies and founders
Niclas Düring,
Madeleine Evans
- How can you become the impact GP of choice?
- What are the differing considerations when handling an ‘impact’ portfolio company?
- Impact under the hood: how to increase ‘sustainable revenues’ of portfolio companies?
- How can funds improve the mental health of founders in their portfolios?
Niclas Düring, Senior Impact Director, Trill Impact
Madeleine Evans, Director, Generation Investment Management
2 Speakers
08:15 - 09:30
W4: How to create blended finance solutions fit for the coming decade
Regina Rossmann,
Daniel Borrego Cubero,
Eric Holterhues
- Is the resurgent interest in blended finance, by prominent voices such as Mark Carney, justified?
- What have been some of the genuine innovations in blended finance over the last 5 years?
- What are the lessons learnt in how not to do blended finance vehicles and where they are not an appropriate tool?
- How can blended finance be used in non-EM context (e.g. in financing climate or nature solutions)?
Chair: Regina Rossmann, Manager, Convergence Blended Finance
Daniel Borrego Cubero, Head of Debt Mobilisation Product Development, EBRD
Eric Holterhues, Director of Partnerships for Impact, FMO
Daniel Borrego Cubero
Head of Debt Mobilisation Product Development, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
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3 Speakers
09:30 - 09:45
Short morning break
Second round of workshops
09:45 - 11:00
W5: Impact measurement - convergence in measurement approaches ＆ metrics
Inès Mertens,
Michele Demers,
Diane Mak
- How much progress have we made on impact convergence – can improved convergence drive more efficient capital allocation towards impact?
- Avoided and serviced emissions – how to enhance measurement and reporting credibility?
- Putting a price on impact – can you put a valuation on impact?
- How are some of the pioneering metrics (such as carbon reduction per million dollars invested) faring? What metrics do LPs / GPs find most helpful?
Chair: Inès Mertens, Impact Investing Market Development Lead, Impact Europe
Michele Demers, Founder and CEO, Boundless Impact Research & Analytics
Diane Mak, Head of Impact Strategy, Allianz Global Investors
3 Speakers
09:45 - 11:00
W6: To be, or not to be…an impact-labelled fund
Marieke Spence,
Anja Gräf,
Matt Ripley
- Is the impact label worth it, with all the measurement and metrics backage that comes with it?
- What are the language options that make most sense (‘Transition’, ‘Impact’, ‘Inclusive Growth’, ‘Climate’ etc)?
- What’s the most prudent way to fundraise with the negative sentiments around sustainability-related investments in certain markets (as in the US)?
- How are different funds positioning themselves that invest alongside ‘impact’ themes?
Chair: Marieke Spence, Executive Director, Impact Capital Managers
Anja Gräf, Head of Impact, Private Markets, Managing Principal, HSBC
Matt Ripley, Director, Impact Frontiers
Tim Manuel, Head of Responsible Investment, Border to Coast
Anja Gräf
Managing Principal - Head of Impact Private Markets, HSBC Global Asset Management
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3 Speakers
09:45 - 11:00
W7: Getting to grips with the evolving regulatory environment
Heike Schmitz
- How are funds going about resourcing and supporting their portfolios to comply with CSRD and CSDDD?
- How are funds finding their way around the UK’s regulations on sustainability labels?
- How is the market reacting to SFDR’s evolution?
- What are the main regulatory headaches for impact investors?
Heike Schmitz, Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills
1 Speaker
09:45 - 11:00
W8: The nuts and bolts of executing a brown-to-green strategy
Jack Azoulay,
Danielle Brassel,
Vishesh Srivastava
- How extensive is the playbook on brown-to-green strategies?
- What case studies are there of successful execution of brown-to-green transition of businesses?
- What are the considerations in terms of planning, governance, and management selection?
- What are the best and worst scenarios in which the strategy can be applied?
Jack Azoulay, Senior Partner, Argos Wityu
Danielle Brassel, Director Responsible Investment, Zurich Insurance Group
Vishesh Srivastava, co-Founder and co-Managing Partner, Future Business Partnership
3 Speakers
11:00 - 11:30
Networking break
Stream A
11:30 - 12:15
A5: Deep dive into the growth of secondaries in impact
Nicolas Muller
- Are secondaries a good entry point for LPs into the impact market?
- What’s driving the growing interest in secondaries?
- What’s the activity between LP stake and continuation vehicles in the market?
- How are LPs viewing the secondaries market?
Nicolas Muller, Managing Director (Head of Private Equity Partnerships), Blue Earth Capital
1 Speaker
12:15 - 13:00
A6: Elevator pitches: The best up-and-coming managers
Jon Coker,
Tom Ferguson,
Khanh Tran
In this new format session, you’ll be hearing from some of the most innovative and exciting emerging managers in the global impact market.
We’ll hear a set of 5-minute pitches from five of the most exciting managers we’ve found in the impact market, followed by an open Q+A with the speakers facilitated by the chair.
We are committed to providing a platform for new managers that are doing exceptional work.
Jon Coker, Founding Partner, Eka Ventures
Tom Ferguson, Managing Partner, Burnt Island Ventures
Khanh Tran, Managing Partner, Touchstone Partners
3 Speakers
Stream B
11:30 - 12:15
B5: Impact debt strategies: are they really impact?
Rajen Gokani,
Johnny Brom,
Ralph Engelchor,
Diana Wesselius
- How much is ‘impact washing’ a phenomenon in credit?
- To what extent are credit strategies authentically impact?
- What is the market map on impact credit in terms of themes and geographical coverage?
- How can funds embedding intentionality and additionality to their strategies?
Moderator: Rajen Gokani, Executive Director, GCM Grosvenor
Johnny Brom, Founder and Chief Investment Officer, SAIL Investments
Ralph Engelchor, Lead Portfolio Manager, Impact Investing, Achmea Investment Management
Diana Wesselius, Managing Director Multi Asset Impact, Anthos Fund & Asset Management
Diana Wesselius
Managing Director Impact Investment Portfolios, Anthos Fund ＆ Asset Management
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4 Speakers
12:15 - 13:00
B6: Emerging markets, blended finance ＆ development impact: will it finally become mainstream?
Luc Rigouzzo,
Matt Robinson,
Juho Uusihakala
- EM investing is a rounding error, people have quipped, in terms of the total volume investments – is it destined to remain so?
- Is there the resurgence in blended finance justified or hype?
- Are there reasons for optimism about the future of emerging market investing?
- The perennial question: what is needed to make EM investing more attractive to allocators?
- How are the shifting geopolitics picture going to effect international development?
Luc Rigouzzo, Managing Partner & Executive President, Amethis
Matt Robinson, Head of Private Capital Mobilisation, British International Investment
Juho Uusihakala, Senior Development Impact Advisor, Finnfund
3 Speakers
Stream C
11:30 - 13:00
Speed networking
In this session we’ll have speed networking between conference delegates.
A great way to meet 6-8 new people with 4-minute per meeting.
Please note, places are limited and look out for our communication regarding how to sign up. this will occur roughly 3 weeks prior to the event.
PEI will then email the week before the event those that have been accepted and more details on the format.
Networking
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
Afternoon plenaries
14:00 - 14:20
Keynote #2: The next era of impact investing
Steve Ellis
Hear from one of the world’s biggest impact funds in the form of TPG’s The Rise Fund. 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 Ellis, Co-Managing Partner, TPG Rise Fund
1 Speaker
14:20 - 15:00
Plenary #5: Protecting the biosphere - Planetary boundaries as an investment mindset
Chris Gorell Barnes,
Marieke Spence
- What do the concepts of ‘land transition’ and ‘planetary boundaries’ in investing entail?
- What are the investment opportunities that have deep impact in protecting the biosphere?
- Is conservation a ‘sticking plaster’ solution relative to the scale of degradation occurring?
- What are the most pressing issues in biodiversity (soil health, ocean acidification, deforestation)?
Chris Gorell Barnes, Founding Partner, Ocean14
Marieke Spence, Executive Director, Impact Capital Managers
2 Speakers
15:00 - 16:00
Plenary #6: Debate - Can impact investing survive in a post-liberal world?
Xenia Loos,
Michele Giddens OBE,
Jennifer Pryce
This is an Oxford-style debate in which we’ll have two speakers for the proposition and two speakers against, with audience voting on their views at the start and at the end of the session. This session will be an off-the-record discussion.
The political atmosphere has shifted considerably since the start of the Trump administration’s second tenure in the White House. In this budding ‘post-liberal’ era, long-cherished values and institutions appear to be in retreat while national self-interest is being prioritised above all else.
The norms of environmentalism, multilateralism and social justice are in the process of being revalued or scuppered entirely. Yet existential global issues such as climate change, biodiversity loss and global inequality are only ramping up with no credible vision that they will be addressed meaningfully in the short-term.
Against this background of political flux, we ask what the future of impact investing is likely to be as a result. Will impact investing survive as a going concern, and if so, in what form.
The debate session will explore questions such as:
- Will impact investing go the way of ESG and DE&I?
- What investment areas are above the political tumult?
- Can security and defence ever be an impact investment?
- Can trying to protect old liberal institutions (freedom of press, human rights) be a form of impact?
Chair: Xenia Loos, Co-Founder, Partner, Collective Action
Michele Giddens, CEO & Co-Founder, Bridges Fund Management
Jennifer Pryce, President & CEO, Calvert Impact
3 Speakers
16:00 - 16:05
Closing remarks
16:05 - 16:15
End of conference
Impact Investor Global Summit
Meet our 2025 advisory board:
David Gowenlock
Senior Investment Director, Sustainable and Impact Investing at Cambridge Associates
Sponsorship opportunities
Position your business with an authoritative content-led event portfolio focused on ESG & diversity and be recognised as a go-to solution provider for senior private markets professionals and institutional investors.
Sponsorship gives you the opportunity to:
- Network with senior power players and private market investors as you address the most impeding social and environmental challenges through impact investing.
- Present how your impact fund solutions deliver measurable ESG credentials to align with a strong financial performance to enable fundraising across a global investor base.
- Discover brand opportunities to position your sustainable funds to aid capital raising to a global ESG community.
For more information on available sponsorship opportunities please contact chris.w@pei.group | +44 (0) 7584 018 707
2025 sponsors include:
Network with the global impact investment industry
The Summit will be in-person in London. Join 600+ attendees from specialist impact fund managers, general asset managers and institutional investors for two days of networking at the must-attend event for impact investment professionals.
The in-person networking experience
Meet investors focused on impact investment
Network with active investors in the industry. Benefit from our expansive global investor community who will be in attendance throughout the summit.
Network in-person in London
Connect with your peers at interactive workshops, networking breaks, evening drinks reception, roundtable discussions and invite-only breakfasts.
Build new connections
Our past attendees included Big Society Capital, Blackstone Group, CDC Group, Goldman Sachs, Macarthur Foundation, MassMutual, New York State Common Retirement Fund, and many more.
Past attendees included
Tufts University
Two Sigma
TZP Group
U.S. International Development Finance Corp
UNIDO
Wafra
Wimmer Family Office
Working for Change
YIELCO Investments
ABC World Asia
Aberdeen Standard Investments
Achmea Investment Management
Actis
AfricInvest Group
Airovation Technologies
Allianz Global Investors
Alter Capital
Ambienta Sgr
AMP Capital
AP6
AP7
Apax Partners
APG Asset Management
Arcano Asset Management
Ardian
Ares Management
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Asset Management One
Astarte Capital Partners
AXA
Bain Capital
BentallGreenOak
Big Issue Invest
Big Society Capital
BlueMark
BlueOrchard Finance
BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt
Bridgepoint
Bridges Fund Management
Brightwood Capital Advisors
Brookfield Asset Management
Brunel Pension Partnership
Buckingham Companies
CalSTRS
Calvert Foundation
Capital Safi
Capricorn Investment Group
Carlyle Group
Castle Hall
Cathay
CDC Group
Ceres
Children's Investment Fund Foundation
Christian Super
Church Commissioners
Collective Action
Conduit Capital
Counselrock Partners
CPP Investment Board
Dai-ichi Life International (Europe) Limited
Dementia Discovery Fund
Denham Capital
Derigo
Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit
Development Partners International Dream Unlimited
Earth Capital Partners
EBRD
Educate Global
Enhanced Capital
EQT Partners
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Eurazeo
European Commission
European Investment Fund
EUROSIF
EVPA
Finadvice
FinDev Canada
Finnfund
Fondaction
Fund Our Future
Glenmede
Goldman Sachs
Goodwell Investments
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity
Hancock Capital Management
Hancock Natural Resource Group
Hatch BioFund Management
Hg
HSBC Bank
ILX Fund
Impact Management Project
Inarcassa
Indigram Labs Foundation
Intermediate Capital Group
International Finance Corporation
Julius Baer
Kempen Capital Management
Kirkland & Ellis
KKR
KPMG
Kuria Foundation for Social Enterprise
Larry Ellison Foundation
Laureola
LBO France
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
M&G
Macarthur Foundation
Marwitz Family Office
MassMutual
Merseyside Pension Fund
Mosiamise Rural Development
NEST - National Employment Savings Trust
New York City Retirement System
Nordea
North Sky Capital
Nuveen
NYS Common Retirement Fund
Oaktree Capital Management
Octopus Investments
OMERS
Paine Schwartz Partners
Palatine Private Equity
Palladium Equity Partners
Partners Group
Patrizia Netherlands
PGGM
Phillips Foundation
Primestor Development
PwC
Quadriga Capital
ReAssure
Rede Partners
Satter Investment Management
Schroders
Seroba Life Sciences
Simmons University
Small Foundation
SPE CAPITAL Partners
Stafford Capital Partners
Stepstone Group
Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
SV Health Managers
Swedfund
Temasek
The Predistribution Initiative
Trill Impact
Triodos Investment Management
Tufts University
Two Sigma
TZP Group
U.S. International Development Finance Corp
UNIDO
Wafra
Wimmer Family Office
Working for Change
YIELCO Investments
ABC World Asia
Aberdeen Standard Investments
Achmea Investment Management
Actis
AfricInvest Group
Airovation Technologies
Allianz Global Investors
Alter Capital
Ambienta Sgr
AMP Capital
AP6
AP7
Apax Partners
APG Asset Management
Arcano Asset Management
Ardian
Ares Management
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Asset Management One
Astarte Capital Partners
AXA
Bain Capital
BentallGreenOak
Big Issue Invest
Big Society Capital
BlueMark
BlueOrchard Finance
BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt
Bridgepoint
Bridges Fund Management
Brightwood Capital Advisors
Brookfield Asset Management
Brunel Pension Partnership
Buckingham Companies
CalSTRS
Calvert Foundation
Capital Safi
Capricorn Investment Group
Carlyle Group
Castle Hall
Cathay
CDC Group
Ceres
Children's Investment Fund Foundation
Christian Super
Church Commissioners
Collective Action
Conduit Capital
Counselrock Partners
CPP Investment Board
Dai-ichi Life International (Europe) Limited
Dementia Discovery Fund
Denham Capital
Derigo
Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit
Development Partners International Dream Unlimited
Earth Capital Partners
EBRD
Educate Global
Enhanced Capital
EQT Partners
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Eurazeo
European Commission
European Investment Fund
EUROSIF
EVPA
Finadvice
FinDev Canada
Finnfund
Fondaction
Fund Our Future
Glenmede
Goldman Sachs
Goodwell Investments
Guy's and St Thomas' Charity
Hancock Capital Management
Hancock Natural Resource Group
Hatch BioFund Management
Hg
HSBC Bank
ILX Fund
Impact Management Project
Inarcassa
Indigram Labs Foundation
Intermediate Capital Group
International Finance Corporation
Julius Baer
Kempen Capital Management
Kirkland & Ellis
KKR
KPMG
Kuria Foundation for Social Enterprise
Larry Ellison Foundation
Laureola
LBO France
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
M&G
Macarthur Foundation
Marwitz Family Office
MassMutual
Merseyside Pension Fund
Mosiamise Rural Development
NEST - National Employment Savings Trust
New York City Retirement System
Nordea
North Sky Capital
Nuveen
NYS Common Retirement Fund
Oaktree Capital Management
Octopus Investments
OMERS
Paine Schwartz Partners
Palatine Private Equity
Palladium Equity Partners
Partners Group
Patrizia Netherlands
PGGM
Phillips Foundation
Primestor Development
PwC
Quadriga Capital
ReAssure
Rede Partners
Satter Investment Management
Schroders
Seroba Life Sciences
Simmons University
Small Foundation
SPE CAPITAL Partners
Stafford Capital Partners
Stepstone Group
Sustainability Accounting Standards Board
SV Health Managers
Swedfund
Temasek
The Predistribution Initiative
Trill Impact
Triodos Investment Management
Tufts University
Two Sigma
TZP Group
U.S. International Development Finance Corp
UNIDO
Wafra
Wimmer Family Office
Working for Change
YIELCO Investments
Testimonials from attendees
Operating Principles for Impact Management
Diane Damskey, Head of Secretariat
The event gathered some of the top names in impact investing and covered key topics to promote the understanding and growth of this market. The organization and…
SV Health Investors
Hannah Maunder, Investor Relations and Communications Associate
The Impact Investor Global Summit provided a huge amount of clarity on all things impact investing and did so in an engaging and enjoyable way.
FSN Capital Partners
Pål Dale, Senior Director, Business Development
All in all, the event provided a rich and detailed snapshot of the state of the impact investment industry, as of 2021.
Institutional Investors at the Impact Global Summit 2025
The Impact Investor Global Summit is an opportunity to connect with 200+ investors who are looking to increase their exposure to impact funds and sustainable investment strategies. The Summit is a platform for investors to gain insights from their peers, benchmark investment strategies, and share best practices.
Confirmed investor attendees in 2024 included Allianz Global Investors, Alvarium, AZR Capital, British Business Bank, BII, Church Commissioners, CPPIB, EBRD, GIC, Hitachi Digital, IMAS Foundation, KFW Capital, M&G Investment Management, Mallinckrodt Foundation, and many more.
What to expect at the Summit:
- Meet with the best and biggest impact funds globally – network and arrange one-to-one meetings with leading impact managers
- Networking with peers and other institutional investors – build your network of peers, understand their strategies, challenges, and allocation approach to impact
- Get insight on the latest innovations and trends in impact investing – take advantage of a world-class speaking faculty to stay aligned with developments in the market
- Find investment opportunities across the impact market’s thematic sub-asset classes from climate, healthcare, social, education, and many more
Apply for a complimentary Institutional Investor pass
A limited number of complimentary passes are available for impact LPs, allocators and institutional investors to join the event.
Complimentary investor passes are limited to foundations, endowments, trusts, insurance companies, single family offices, sovereign wealth funds and pension funds who are actively making fund commitments and do not engage in third-party fundraising activities or collect fees for advisory/consulting services.
Apply for a complimentary pass and a member of our team will follow up with you to confirm your eligibility.
Natalie Adomait
Managing Partner ＆ Chief Operating Officer, Renewable Power ＆ Transition, Brookfield Asset Management
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.
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.
James Bair
Partner, Managing Director, Baraka Impact Finance
James is a Partner and Managing Director of Baraka Impact Finance LLC, a Swiss-registered advisory and intermediary facilitating private capital investment in the health sector of emerging and frontier markets. His career has focused on the economies and operational processes for delivering sustainable and equitable healthcare solutions. He divides his time between San Francisco and Geneva.
Anders Bendsen Spohr
Managing Partner, Head of Planetary Health Investments at Novo Holdings
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).
Dr. Stephanie Bilo
Chief Client ＆ Investment Solutions Officer, Executive Management, 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.
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 Borrego Cubero
Head of Debt Mobilisation Product Development, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
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
Senior Partner, Generation Investment Management
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
Director Responsible Investment, Zurich Insurance Group
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
Managing Director and Head of Impact, Private Capital, EQT Partners
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 Bristol
Director, Impact Ventures, Johnson ＆ Johnson
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
Founder and Chief Investment Officer, SAIL Investments
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.
Michael Chang
Managing Director, Global Health Investment Corporation (GHIC)
Michael Chang is a Managing Director on the investment team at GHIC and lead’s the firm’s investment research efforts. Prior to joining GHIC, Michael founded Tether Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing gene-based cures for respiratory diseases. Michael has deep experience investing at the intersection of biotechnology and global health security, as he was previously a venture capital investor at Adjuvant Capital, and an Investment Officer at the Gates Foundation, where he worked across the foundation’s Strategic Investment Fund and Global Health Division. Previously, Michael spent several years covering the specialty pharmaceuticals sector as an equity research analyst at Piper Jaffray and as an investment banker in New York. Michael holds a B.A. in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University and an MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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.
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.
Ben Constable Maxwell
Head of Impact Strategy, M＆G Investments
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 Damani
Impact Partner, Trill Impact
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
Head of Impact Solutions, Mercer
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.
Michele Demers
Founder & CEO, Boundless Impact Research & Analytics
Michele has over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and business executive. She is Founder and CEO of Boundless Impact Research & Analytics, an industry research and environmental data and analytics firm that provides objective and actionable analysis that moves investment dollars more quickly toward clean technologies and companies driving positive environmental change. The Boundless method uses a science-based, data-driven approach, grounded in the proven methodology of Life Cycle Assessment, and serves a growing universe of investors, companies, and funds. From 2010-2013, she was Vice President at Foundation Source where she built a knowledge platform that was used by a network of 1200 family offices. From 2007-2008, Michele helped found and was Director of Communications for Humanity United, a philanthropic entity created by Pam Omidyar and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. She has been involved in the successful development of more than two-dozen startups and is regularly called upon for her innovative thinking about impact measurement. Michele advises and mentors emerging clean tech companies and projects through Heritage Group Accelerator and TechStars. She is a graduate of Pennsylvania State University and has a Master’s in International Relations and Communications from Boston University.
Pierre Devillard
Partner – Sustainable Industries, Eurazeo
Pierre is Partner within the Eurazeo Smart Industries growth equity team.
Prior to joining, Pierre has been a PE investor in sustainable industries for the last 15 years, investing across US, Europe and Africa and across sectors (energy, transportation, manufacturing, built environment…). He started his career at BCG where he focused mainly on the energy and industrial sectors.
Henry de Zoete
Senior Advisor and Visiting Fellow, Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative; AI adviser to the UK Prime Minister
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 Düring
Senior Impact Director, Trill Impact
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
Co-Managing Partner, TPG Rise Fund
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
Lead Portfolio Manager, Impact Investing, Achmea Investment Management
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
Director, Generation Investment Management
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 Farber
Founder and Managing Director, Ginkgo Advisor
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
Senior Research Manager, PEI Group
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.
Tom Ferguson
Managing Partner, Burnt Island Ventures
Tom Ferguson is the Managing Partner of Burnt Island Ventures, an early stage venture fund focused exclusively on the water sector. They manage $80m across three funds, and have invested in 28 companies, supporting founders building solutions across the water value chain. He holds an MA (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Eliza Foo
Director, Impact Investing, Temasek International
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
Director, Investments, Golding Capital Partners
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.
Michele Giddens OBE
CEO ＆ Co-founder, Bridges Fund Management
Michele co-founded Bridges alongside Philip Newborough and Sir Ronald Cohen in 2002 and was Co-CEO alongside Philip Newborough from 2019-2024. Michele became CEO in summer 2024 and oversees all Bridges’ investment activity across our platform of funds, as well as strategy, operations, people and all other aspects of the business.
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 in 2000 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 was also a Trustee for the Bridges Impact Foundation from 2018-2024. She is currently on the Board of GSG Impact.
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.
James Gifford
CEO, Additionality Capital
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.
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.
John Goldstein
Managing Director, Global Head of Sustainability an Impact Solutions, Asset & Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs
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.
Emma Gordon
Energy and Investment Policy Analyst, International Energy Agency
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
Founding Partner, Ocean14 Capital
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 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.
David Gowenlock
Senior Investment Director, Sustainable and Impact Investing at Cambridge Associates
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.
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
Anastasia Guha
Global Head of Sustainable Investment, Redington
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
Partner and Head of Climate Strategy, Cambridge Associates
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
Head of Impact Investing and Partnerships, United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund
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.
Jonathan Hirschtritt
Managing Director, Sustainability ＆ Impact Investing, 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.
Eric Holterhues
Director of Partnerships for Impact, FMO
Eric Holterhues (1972) has 25 years of experience in impact investing. He worked for 17 years at Triodos Bank and Triodos Investment Management in various roles as Senior Account Manager Corporate Finance, Fund Manager and in several other management positions. From 2017 to 2023 Eric was Managing Director at Oikocredit Netherlands.
Since the end of 2023, Eric is Director of the Partnerships for Impact (P4i) department at FMO. FMO is the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank. FMO’s mission is to enable entrepreneurs to increase inclusive and sustainable prosperity. Partnerships for Impact (P4i) is the department that is responsible for mobilizing third party capital to FMO's investments, to scale up the total capital invested in emerging and frontier markets.
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.
Peter Kaldes
President and CEO, Next50 Foundation
Peter Kaldes is the CEO and President of Next50, a national foundation in Denver, Colorado, focused on making it more affordable to age. Since joining in 2023, he has brought a global and entrepreneurial approach to Next50’s grantmaking and impact investing, strengthening nonprofit organizations and driving systemic change to create a world that values aging.
Previously, he led the American Society on Aging, the nation’s largest professional association in aging, expanding its membership, reach and influence. His career spans leadership roles in global philanthropy at JPMorgan Chase, economic policy in the Obama White House as well as in international trade law. A charismatic and inclusive leader, he frequently speaks on aging, impact investing, policy, and technology at major forums and in the media.
Kaldes holds degrees from Tufts University and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and speaks Greek and German.
Yida Kemoli
Managing Director, Africa at New Forests
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
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.
Nina Kraus
Director of Sustainability, Hamilton Lane
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 Landry
Founding and Managing Partner , AgeTech Capital
Lyne Landry is a co-founder and managing partner at AgeTech Capital, a firm dedicated to accelerating growth in AI-driven health tech and AgeTech startups. She has extensive expertise in venture capital, impact investing, and private equity, with a career spanning roles across North America, Africa, and Europe.
Professional Background
● M＆A: Lyne has managed transactions ranging from $50M to $300M across diverse sectors and geographies.
● Impact Investing: With 10+ years of experience in impact investing, she built an impact investing firm with ThirdWay Partners and founded CIVIC, a General Partner impact investing group.
● Private Equity and Asset Management: Lyne has structured three impact funds focused on delivering financial returns while driving social and environmental change. She is a partner in BAngels Capital, a $40M impact private equity impact holding.
● Tech Investor ＆ Mentor: Lyne has been an angel investor and mentor to tech startups for more than two decades now.
Key Achievements
● Played a leading role in forming the AgeTech Investor Network, in collaboration with AARP and other strategic investors.
● Recognized for her thought leadership, Lyne was elected one of the best up-and-coming managers in impact investing at the PEI Impact and Transition Investing Conference.
Board Role
● Serves as a board member for the National Research Council's Aging in Place Program, advancing innovation to support aging populations.
Vision
● Lyne is passionate about empowering individuals to age how they want and actively participate in society. Her work emphasizes the intersection of technology, innovation, and social impact, with a focus on shaping the future of the longevity economy.
Paula Langton
Partner, Campbell Lutyens
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 Levy
Director, Impact Investing at AlTi Tiedemann Global
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 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.
Floris Lyppens
Managing Director, Corporate Investments, ABN AMRO Bank
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 Madden
Co-founder and Managing Partner, Keeling Capital
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 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.
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.
Inès Mertens
Impact Investing Market Development Lead, Impact Europe
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
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.
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 £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
Managing Partner, Ardabelle Capital
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
Managing Director (Head of Private Equity Partnerships), 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.
Rames Munschizada
Executive Director, Investment Professional, Private Markets at Bank Julius Baer
• Investment Professional in Private Equity since 2013
• Joined Julius Bär in Q1 2024, responsible for the private markets impact strategy and feeder funds
• Prior joining JB, spent 7 years at Amundi Alpha Associates, a leading institutional asset management firm.
• Designed and developed the climate investment strategy during his time at Amundi Alpha Associates
• Executed more than 60 primary & secondary fund and co-investments
Anna Murray
Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Sustainable Investing, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
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
Managing Director, Impact Investments, Global Endowment Management (GEM)
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.
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.
Alex Ouimet-Storrs
Investment Director - LOIM Plastic Circularity, Lombard Odier Investment Managers
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.
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.
Timothée Pasquier
Advisor, Sustainability, CDPQ
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.
Jennifer Pryce
President and CEO, Calvert Impact
Jennifer Pryce is President and CEO of Calvert Impact, a global nonprofit investment firm. Over the past decade, Jenn has shaped the strategic direction of Calvert Impact to focus on innovation, sustainability, and scale. Under her leadership the organization has tripled the size of its flagship product, broadened the organization’s mission to focus on equitable climate solutions, expanded the corporate structure to support the development of new products and services and has led industry-wide efforts on how to scale impact with integrity.
Jenn began her career in the Peace Corps before working for NeubergerBerman, the investment banking team in Morgan Stanley’s London office, and Nonprofit Finance Fund, a Community Development Financial Institution. Jenn studied engineering at Union College and holds an MBA from Columbia University. She currently is a lecturer at Oxford Saïd School of Business, a board member of UNICEF USA Impact Fund for Children and a member of the Advisory Board of Ecofin and the Operating Principles for Impact Management.
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
Matt Ripley
Director, Impact Frontiers
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 Robé
Chief Executive Officer, FIIND Impact
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 Robinson
Head of Private Capital Mobilisation, British International Investment
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 Rogers
Chief Investment Officer, Better Society Capital
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 £3 billion of social impact investment with over 200 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
CEO and co-founder, Lucid Computing
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 Rossmann
Manager, Training and Engagement at Convergence
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.
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.
Yasemin Saltuk Lamy
Head of Investment Strategy, Legal ＆ General Institutional Retirement
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 Saporito
Head of Impact Investing, J.P. Morgan Private Bank
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
Secretariat, Impact Convergence Forum for Private Equity (ICF)
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 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.
Vilhelm Skoglund
President, Astralis Foundation
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 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 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
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 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.
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.
Khanh Tran
Managing Partner, Touchstone Partners
Khanh Tran is driven by a mission to empower visionary founders who are building real solutions to Vietnam’s most pressing challenges. As the son of a brilliant engineer-turned-entrepreneur, Khanh grew up witnessing the obstacles of doing business in an emerging market—especially the barriers that prevent talented individuals from accessing capital and support. He came to believe that talent and technology alone are not enough; a more inclusive and purpose-driven financial ecosystem is essential for innovation and long-term prosperity.
With a deep commitment to impact, Khanh focuses on enabling startups that are transforming Vietnam’s critical sectors such as education, healthcare, supply chains, and sustainable climate solutions through innovation. He also aspires to play a pioneering role in building a full continuum of capital in Vietnam—from grants and philanthropic funding, to early-stage risk capital, growth-stage financing, and eventually listing pathways—ensuring that entrepreneurs have access to the right resources at every stage of their journey.
Khanh was previously Head of Technology Investment at VinaCapital, after years of experience at Goldman Sachs London, Grab, and GoBear. He holds a BEng and MSc in Electronic Communication and Computer Engineering from the University of Nottingham and an MBA from INSEAD.
Katsuki Tsuboi
Head of Sustainability, Dai-ichi Life International
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
Chief Sustainability Strategist, Lombard Odier Investment Managers
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 Uusihakala
Senior Development Impact Advisor, Finnfund
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
Co-founder and CEO, Carbon Equity
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
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.
James Westhead
Executive Director, Better Society Capital
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.