I am a Serial Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist interested in impact and SDG driven solutions.
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María Peña
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Symbiotics SA
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Head of Risk, Legal & Compliance
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Silvia Steisel
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Banque Degroof Petercam
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Managing Director Degroof Petercam Foundation
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Ha My Nguyen
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Fondation Demeter
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Coordinator
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Ellinor Schweyer
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FASE Finanzierungsagentur für Social Entrepreneurship GmbH
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Managing director
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Interested to meet new impact investors, project partners and social entrepreneurs
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Ellinor discovered her passion for financing sustainable business models in 2012 when working as an investment manager for German impact fund Bonventure. Before Ashoka Germany approached her to become a co-founder of FASE, she also supported social entrepreneurs in her role as a fundraiser and social impact lecturer at the Munich-based Social Entrepreneurship Akademie (SEA). For FASE, Ellinor contributes her broad network of investors, multiplyers and supporters as well as her extensive marketing and fundraising knowledge to build a pool of engaged impact investors. Through her father, Rolf Dienst, a seasoned venture capitalist, she knows the VC business from scratch and leverages her own entrepreneurial experience as a start-up founder. Ellinor is a frequent panelist for impact investing and social finance in workshops and conferences within and outside the impact sector. Originally, she obtained a bachelor degree in hotel and restaurant management from Lausanne and Oxford and ran marketing initiatives for premi
Rita Brito e Faro
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SPEAK
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Financial Controller and People Operations
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Christoph Tiefenbacher
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Private Person
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Private Person
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System thinking, impact investing, grants with impact, meta projects
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SDG 1 No poverty;
SDG 3 Good health and well-being for people;
SDG 4 Quality education;
SDG 5 Gender equality;
SDG 6 Clean water and sanitation;
SDG 13 Climate action;
SDG 17 Partnerships for the goals;
David Hirschfeld
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blueplanet Investments AG
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Chief of Staff
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Sustainable entrepreneurship and corporate governance
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Anemari Necsulescu
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Romanian American Foundation
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Senior Program Officer
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Sarah Dobson
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esela - The legal network for social impact
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Executive Director
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Law; lawyers engaged in social and environmental impact; Impact Economy; community building; event curation; sustainability and climate; Business and Human Rights; impact investing; profit and purpose; global networks.
About me
Sarah is Executive Director of esela – The legal network for social impact, an international network working to create a sustainable economy, which is run from the offices of Bates Wells, the first UK law firm to become a B Corp.
Sarah’s career spans social investment, having worked at Big Society Capital as a Fellow of On Purpose, the profit with purpose leadership programme, and the third sector, as Head of Trusts at Support Through Court, an access to justice charity.
Sarah is chair of trustees of KDC Theatre, a central London arts charity and, in her earlier days, was called to the Bar of England and Wales.
Daniel Uribe
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Fundación Corona
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Executive Director
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SDG, Outcomes based Projects, Inclusive employment, Civic engagement
I help trustees and staff of foundations to transform the management of water security, sanitation, hygiene and climate change across Africa, Asia and South America, by finding and developing the best investment opportunities.
I will:
► Connect philanthropists to leading experts on WASH, health, climate and systems change
► Support foundations to build high impact coalitions with like-minded funders
► Ensure context-appropriate and sustainable programme design with robust M&E
Working in the international development sector for nearly two decades now, I have secured funds large and small for charities including Plan, VSO and now WaterAid, and managed a diverse mixture of teams. In this time, I have experienced first-hand some of the huge development challenges as well as impressive achievements of communities in Afghanistan, Myanmar, Pakistan, Rwanda and Sri Lanka.
I am keen to develop relationships with:
► Trusts and foundations
► Venture philanthropists
► Impact investors
► Other service provid
Emma Brown
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Evdokia Agalianou
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European Commission
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Policy Officer
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Social Impact Financing, EU Social Financing Instruments
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Evita Agalianou is a policy officer for social finance in the European Commission (EC), DG Employment. She works for the Financial Instruments’ team and is coordinating the design and implementation of financial products under the social window of InvestEU. Evita is an EC official since 2009. Her area of expertise is EU funding, including under the cohesion policy and structural funds. Evita holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics and business administration from the Athens University of Economics and Business and a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics.
Florence Desmarets
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Degroof Petercam
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Impact Manager
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Filip Wadowski
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Fundacja NESsT Poland
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Portfolio Director
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Agnieszka Borek
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Valores Foundation
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President of the Management Board
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Suzanne Giele
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Heineken
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Secretary General
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Glenn Arradon
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Big Issue Invest
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Investment Director, Housing
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Investment Opportunities / Partnerships / front line Social Enterprises
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Laurens Coeveld
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Oxfam Novib
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Project Lead SME Development
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Deaconu Raluca
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Head of Life Sciences and Impact, Legal Services
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Anirudh Agrawal
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Copenhagen Business School
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Researcher
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Impact Investing; Social entrepreneurship
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I am a researcher at Copenhagen business school and an associate professor at Flame University India. My research interests are social entrepeneurship, msme growth, impact investing.
Tatiana Chopova
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Oxfam Novib
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Impact Investment Expert
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I am looking to connect with impact investment funds and impact investment specialists in Africa and Asia.
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Tatiana is an Impact Investment Expert at Oxfam Novib.
Prior to Oxfam, Tatiana was a Partner/Managing director at AlpInvest (part of the Carlyle Group), a private equity asset manager.
María Peña
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Symbiotics
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Head of Legal, Risk & Compliance
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Louise Harman
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Bates Wells
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Partner
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Julie Albaret
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Nora Praher
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Yunus Social Business
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Chiara Davalli
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EBN - European BIC Network
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Senior Project Leader
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Senior Project Leader. With EBN (European Business Innovation Centres Network) since 2010, I am passionate about Impact Driven and Inclusive Entrepreneurship. Since 2016 I am in charge of the EBN Social Impact Special Interest Group, a working group involving 30+ incubators from 16 European countries and Lebanon.
Enrico Ciotti
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Talent Garden
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Facility Manager
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Filipe Santos
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EVPA
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Dean
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Marta Pinto Coelho
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PME Investimentos - Sociedade de Investimento, S.A.
Daniel Nowack is Managing Director at Yunus Social Business (YSB), a philanthropic venture fund for social businesses in LATAM, Africa and India, co-founded by Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus. Daniel works with corporate partners to inspire purpose-driven innovation and transformation of value chains through social business initiatives. Together with partners such as Vodafone, IKEA or Merck, Daniel and his team develop impact programs and ventures to support the corporate journey towards tangible and authentic purpose transformation.
Through various roles in startups and the impact ecosystem, Daniel connects the dots between science fiction and social fiction. He is a former CFO to various startups, a Senior Partner at the innovation agency Lumen Partners, PMO Lead for the World Economic Forum's COVID Alliance for Social Entrepreneurs, a founding member of a German faith-based investment club, a mentor for Google Launchpad and Founders Institute as well as a lecturer for Lean Startup at TU Munich, Un
Karst Kooistra
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Tradin Organic BV
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Sourcing Development Director
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Mr. Karst Kooistra is a distinguished international expert on organic agriculture, carrying an MSc Organic Agriculture from Wageningen University, and using over 15 years of practical experience in developing the organic sector. Within Tradin Organic, mr Kooistra is responsible for the development of new organic sources, the technical support program, strategic alliances & sustainability.
Aline Vedder
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Ananda Impact Ventures
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Investment Manager
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Thibault Couturier
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Engie Rassembleurs d'Energies
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Investment Director
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Lise Birikundavyi
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TRECC
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Impact Finance Manager
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Lise Birikundavyi is the deputy country director and impact finance investment manager for the TRECC program in Côte d'Ivoire, an initiative started by the Jacobs Foundation. In this role, she is in charge of identifying and driving value from investments the education technology space that can improve the quality of education in Côte d'Ivoire. Lise began her career at Innocap Investment Management, a hedge funds managed account platform owned by BNP Paribas and National Bank of Canada at the time.
She has experience across the investment spectrum, from funds of funds, VCs and to being the transition CEO of a tech start-up. Lise is a CFA Charterholder. She also holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, where she wrote her thesis on impact investing, and a trilingual BBA from HEC Montreal. Lise speaks fluent French, English and Spanish, and has a conversational level of Mandarin. She is a firm believer in market driven initiatives as sustainable pover
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