AVPA Deal Share: Fostering Strategic Connections Between African and European Social Investors Seeking Large Scale Impact on the Continent
Workshop | Introducing the new Deal Share Platform for Africa to facilitate collaboration amongst social investors across Africa and globally.
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The International Venture Philanthropy Center (IVPC), advances the practice of Venture Philanthropy and Social Investment globally, and to increase the effectiveness of that capital in generating meaningful social impact. IVPC has working as a catalyst and facilitator for the establishment of EVPA's sister networks in Africa (AVPA) and Latin America (Latimpacto).
Sergio Zuniga
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Ecosystem Development Manager
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Agustin Landa
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Latmpacto
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Senior Adviser
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Maria Jose Cespedes
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Latimpacto
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Director, Mexico and Central America
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Claudia Pani
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Project Manager SwitchMed - Green Entrepreneurship
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Daniel Großbröhmer
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Impact Design & Portfolio Management
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Martijn Blom
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EVPA
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Lead Benelux and Impact Funds Initiative
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Rachel Keeler
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Africa Venture Philanthropy Alliance
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Value Hub Director
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Connect with social investors interested in Africa.
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Rachel leads the AVPA Value Hub, which drives service delivery for AVPA’s diverse stakeholders. She is currently developing the AVPA Deal Share Platform and African Social Investment Landscape Study. Rachel engages widely with social investors to identify opportunities for collaboration to address major social challenges facing Africa. Based in Nairobi for the last decade, Rachel has worked as an analyst, journalist, researcher, entrepreneur, portfolio manager, and impact communicator across many sectors. Rachel has written widely on finance and impact investment in Africa. She is excited about catalyzing finance to achieve the SDGs.
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.
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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.
At the Red Cross, Simon is responsible for developing alternative financial instruments to unlock private capital in support of the movement’s mission. He also currently chairs the investment committee of Community Investment Partnership, and sits on the Impact Investing Steering Group for BOND network
Sandra Weinstock
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Swiss Re Foundation
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Senior Manager Corporate Volunteering
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Corporate Volunteering, Impact Measurement, Employee Engagement, Skills-based volunteering, community support
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I have 20 years + experience in talent management, leadership development, project management, corporate volunteering. I started to work for Swiss Re in 1998 in the Swiss Re Academy organizing trainings in the area of financial tool and doing deals. In 2005 I managed the selection process for leadership development programs in Talent Development in HR. Since 2014 I work for Swiss Re Foundation and I am responsible for the corporate volunteering programs globally.
Rareș Pamfil
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Impact Agora
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co-founder
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impact investing
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I lead the Impact Agora project, which is a new industry initiative to convene an institutional marketplace for impact investing. It brings together accelerators, venture funds, corporates, wealth managers, and family offices who invest in, and share, impact deals and funds. They launched officially in April 2020 and currently have over 60 organizations as members and 20 live deals raising over £300m (including funds). Investors currently have over £800m allocated for unlisted impact investments. (for a partial list of members see our website https://www.impactagora.com).
My previous work has been with Ashoka, ClearlySo and Google.
Samuel Monteiro
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I&P
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ESG & Impact Manager
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Irina Tsay
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SOS Children's Villages International
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Keith Wallace
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Hivos Impact Investments
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Portfolio Manager
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Wouter Vandersypen
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Kampani
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Executive Director
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connect with similar social impact investment funds
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Prior to becoming Kampani’s Executive Director, Wouter was a consultant for PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers). He also worked for the International Committee of the Red Cross, the International Rescue Committee and the World Bank.
Wouter is on the Board of Fairtrade Belgium, Trias, and a traditional private equity investment fund, called Invale NV.
He holds a Master’s degree in International Relations & Economics from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a degree in Political Sciences from the University of Leuven, having studied in Leuven, Tübingen and Fribourg.
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.
Laurens Coeveld
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Oxfam Novib
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Project Lead SME Development
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Gert van Veldhuisen
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BiD Network
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managing partner
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impact investing in East Africa
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Private impact investor since 2007. Currently managing partner at BiD Network, where we support East African entrepreneurs with social impact to attract growth finance. Since 2007, we have facilitated over 220 impact investments for emerging market entrepreneurs.
Gideon Kletzka
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
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Advisor Private Foundations and Philanthropy
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GOAL 17: PARTNERSHIPS Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development.
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As the Liason Office for private foundations at the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) we are interested in building broad networks and partnerships across sectors and borders in order to increase the quality and sustainability of our development cooperation projects and programs internationally.
Paul Carttar
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IVPC
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Partner
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Deirdre O'Sullivan-Winks
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DOSW Consulting
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Freelance Consultant
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Social Impact Investing & Disaster Risk Financing
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I have 10 years’ innovative financing experience in the non-profit sector, with a specialist focus on impact investment and disaster risk financing. My earlier career was in investment management. I have designed, developed and managed social impact strategies and financial products for leading NGOs and their partner organisations.
Themba Elias
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easyHATCH Rwanda
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CEO
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easyHATCH is an impact driven agribusiness working with smallholder poultry farmers in Rwanda and Congo where we supply them with the key input of Day Old Chicks. We further supply other key inputs such as feeds, medicine, veterinary support and training. We also assist farmers gain access to markets to ensure that they don't suffer post-harvest losses.
Our work contributes to the provision of low cost animal protein for consumers, lowering poverty levels and improving farmer incomes.Our business model is about creating income generating opportunities for rural communities whilst remaining a for-profit business. We have established ourselves as a trusted brand in the poultry sector in Rwanda.
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
Charlotte Brugman
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The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP)
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Manager, Assessment and Advisory Services at CEP
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Tendai Pasipanodya
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Endeva
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Director
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Drones, Open hardware, Systems Change, tech4good, youth employment, youth entrepreneurship
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I am leading several initiatives to unlock the full potential of drones for good in Africa. Our approach is focused on transformational partnership that change systems and lead to sustainable impact through the safe, sensible, localised and cost effective use of this technology.
Mariah Grubb
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Kampani
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Investment Officer
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Passionate problem-solver with a track record of delivering results looking to leverage my management prowess and ingenuity to tackle human vulnerabilities, social inequities, and illicit trafficking.
Oluwatoyin Adegbite-Moore
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African Venture Philanthropy Alliance
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Executive Director, West Africa
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Venture Philanthropy, SDGs, IB, Blended Finance & Inclusive business in Africa
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Reto Wey
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Toilets for All
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Secretary
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SDG 6
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My passion is discovering the New in the fields of finance and impact investing, social entrepreneurship, the circular economy, sanitation economy and the art world to come up with surprising new ways to provide basic services to the bottom of the pyramid and investing in them as Angel Investor and throughout our foundation Toilets for All to reach the SDG, especially SDG 6 for water and sanitation.
Specialties: Innovation, New Technology, Sustainable Development Goal SDG, SDG 6, Sanitation, venture Philanthropy Social Finance, Impact Investment, Angel Investment, Pyrolisis, BioChar, CO2-certficates, Contemporary Art.
Carolina Suarez Visbal
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Latimpacto
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CEO
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CEO of LatImpacto, the Latin American Venture Philanthropy Network, a regional community of social investors that connects and mobilizes capital (human, intellectual, and financial) committed to achieving the most significant social and environmental impact.
Mrs Suarez has more than 14 years of experience in the fields of private social investment and philanthropy. Throughout her career and as an expert working with the social sector, she has played a strategic role in the international arena, promoting effective transformations by knowledge sharing and building effective partnerships. She is a reference on strategic approaches to philanthropy and is frequently invited to participate in high-level debates regarding private social investment and had publish many articles and publications about these topics internationally.
Before heading LatImpacto, she was a Senior Adviser at the International Venture Philanthropy Center (IVPC), where she co-led and strategized the creation of the Latin American Venture Ph
Peter Cafferkey
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EVPA
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Ireland and United Kingdom Country Representative:
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Nancy Kairo
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The African Venture Philanthropy Alliance (AVPA)
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Director E.A. Region & Member Services
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Audrey Selian
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