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In this episode we’re joined by Matt Moscardi, a pioneer in rethinking corporate governance and accountability. Matt is the founder of Free Float, a platform dedicated to unpacking the hidden layers of corporate power and influence.
With a sharp wit and a no-nonsense approach, Matt and his team at Free Float explore how companies make decisions that impact us all—from boardroom dynamics to shareholder influence.
In this conversation, we’ll dive into his work at Free Float, how he’s challenging traditional ESG norms, and why transparency in corporate behavior matters more than ever.
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Where are the climate solutions for investors?Jacqueline van den Ende is co-founder of Amsterdam based climate fintech company Carbon Equity.Carbon Equity seeks to connect next generation capital to the world’s most impactful climate investing opportunities.By enabling small ticket access to climate private equity funds.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.What will you learn?
- What is climate technology and key trends?- ESG vs. climate impact investing- How to invest in climate technology through angel investments, funds, and funds of funds?
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Multigenerational business and legacy families seek family engagement and alignment to maximise their legacy and impact. Zita Nikoletta Verbényi, Founder & Legacy Aesthete, The Legacy Atelier™ shares her insights in achieving these goals. What will you learn?
Discover How to Enhance Your Family Engagement and Alignment via Your Family Legacy Explore Why Your Family Legacy is Your Competitive Advantage, a Complexity Premium How You Can Map, Understand, and Thrive via Your Intertwined Family Legacy Layers for Generations to Come -
Johan Jorgensen, a leader in the global food tech movement, discusses the urgent need for transformation in the food industry. He highlights the environmental and health impacts of the current food system, which he describes as one of the most polluting industries, potentially surpassing even fossil fuels. Jorgensen emphasizes the importance of viewing food beyond just what's on the plate, advocating for a broader understanding of its value and impact.
Jorgensen advocates for policy changes and a shift in collective thinking to recognise the true costs and potential benefits of food. He discusses the role of venture capital in food tech, noting that while there was a surge of investment, the expectations were often misaligned with the realities of food production compared to software. He stresses the need for financial systems to support sustainable practices and provide fair compensation to farmers, who should be seen as caretakers of nature.
The talk concludes with a call to action for greater collaboration among stakeholders, including policymakers, investors, and educational institutions, to drive the transformation of the food sector. Jorgensen highlights initiatives like the Big Meat gathering and partnerships with academic institutions to foster innovation and awareness.
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Nadine B. Hack, known internationally for pioneering engagement leadership work using a proprietary framework called Strategic Relational Engagement.Creating connectedness is at their core. Her firm, beCause helps individuals and organizations connect to their core purpose, connect across silos in their organizations, and connect with external stakeholders, friendly and even adversarial, all based on building and sustaining trust.“When I was in prison it was very good to know that I had powerful friends like Nadine Hack working on behalf of South Africa’s freedom. ”— THE HONORABLE NELSON MANDELAEveryone will learn:- How cultivating deep relationships improves your work- What obstacles you face in sustaining such relationships- Why it’s worth the effort to overcome those challengesTBLI is the world's leading ESG/Impact Investing network/authority. We have been educating, advising, and connecting investors for 25 years.
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Dr. Raj Thamotheram is a pioneer in responsible investing. He worked for 12 years inside the system in senior management roles at a large pension fund (USS) and a global fund manager (AXA IM), before becoming a freelance consultant in order to start Preventable Surprises. He is a recognized thought leader on how companies and investors can adapt to put people and the planet on par with profit and so deliver long-term value and has been nominated twice by Global Proxy Watch as “one of the 10 most influential figures in the corporate governance field”. He is one of the co-founders of the Network for Sustainable Financial Markets and a former trustee of Friends Provident Foundation, where he played a key role in the organization’s decision to become an “active and engaged investor”.
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Chrysalix Venture Capital, one of the earliest and most recognised private equity firms focused on industrial innovation, where he has helped raise more than $250M and participated in more than $1B in venture capital funding. The Founder, Wal Van Lierop will share with us his journey and experiences in building the ecosystem for Cleantech Investing. Lessons Learned.What you will learn?- Does Cleantech Offer solutions to Climate?- What are the challenges to starting Cleantech VC 20 years ago?- Failures and Successes.
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Many in the financial sector are well compensated, but often asked to push product that are not in line with their values. Dr. Giulio Franzinetti will explore these personal challenges and torments.Dr. Franzinetti is a 30 year financial services veteran. He worked at Banca Intesa, he worked on trying to rationalise the Catholic Church portfolio. In addition, he created the Gum Arabic Fund, to create a fair trade for this essential commodity fund.For the past few years, Dr. Franzinetti is a personal coach for those in the corporate and financial sector.
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Despite the increased demand for private alternatives, investing in top venture capital funds still remains often exclusive to large institutions and a small group of hyper-connected wealthy individuals. Because of this, most investors continue to be locked out of the best opportunities. A new segment of managers is however, becoming increasingly appealing to family offices and fund of funds - that of the emerging manager.Join this session with Emerging Manager, R3i Capital GP Leesa Soulodre and learn:- How Emerging Managers are outperforming benchmarks- How ESG in Venture is delivering returns- How Microfunds are delivering outperformance
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James Arbib will share his vision on addressing the Climate Challenge in an effective, uplifting manner.
Jamie is the co-Founder of RethinkX, a not-for-profit think tank that analyzes and forecasts technology disruptions and their impact on society, using a complex systems-based framework. He is co-author of the book Rethinking Humanity.He is also the founder of Tellus Mater, a grant-making foundation that supports work on issues related to sustainability, with a focus on the finance system. Jamie is Chairman of a family office based in London and specializes in clean tech venture capital. What will you learn?
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Claudia Segre is the driving force behind the Global Thinking Foundation. Her story as to how Global Thinking Foundation was started, funded and its purpose is absolutely brilliant and inspiringGlobal Thinking Foundation is among the most active foundations in the organization of citizenship events and socially useful projects on the national and international scene. They promote initiatives related to the quality of education (Goal 4), gender equality and the prevention of violence and economic abuse (Goal 5) and the promotion of decent work and sustainable economic growth (Goal 8).
Their goal: to be a resource for the social promotion, culture and enhancement of women’s work, scientific research, education and health.
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The current chasm between the rhetoric of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the capital available for development leads to why a new financial paradigm is now needed.
UNCTAD projects that we are now 20% below where we started in 2015 - ergo we have spent 3.2 trillion to have gone backwards.
The context cannot be ignored: the twin pillars of demographics – ageing populations in the West/China with substantive unfunded liabilities in health and pensions on the one hand and the pincer of youth populations in the developing world on the other hand – exacerbate instability.
The existential threats of world resource usage now estimated by the World Resources Institute at 1.7 times the planet’s ability to replenish.Arthur Wood is leading authority on New Financial paradigm that addresses UNSDGS.
Speaker: Arthur Wood - Founding Partner, TOTAL Impact Capital
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Italian impact investing market.The country provides a unique vantage point on the real potential of impact investing in the post-COVID covid. The European Union has invested its largest stake in the recovery of the country. Italy has turned into the poster child of the European green transition and a playground for the new geopolitics.Furthermore, 2021 is a special year: Draghi at the head of a collation gov, and Italy hosting the G20 for the first time. Naturally, every major corporation has made commitments to join the green transition and contribute to the economic and social recovery. The ability to cooperate within this roadmap represents the true challenge to win for public institutions and private corporations together.TBLI Talk: Knowledge that Inspires
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Sierra Gorde Alliance is a model of social entrepreneurship in Sierra Gorda, Mexico, where they correlate economic development with biodiversity conservation. They developed the skill set and economic value for the landowners whose forests provide environmental services- – scenic beauty as well as carbon and water capture.Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda I.A.P. (GESG) leads a movement of civil society organizations that form the Alliance for the Conservation of the Sierra Gorda. Together with partners they promote a living laboratory of best cultural practices, with interdisciplinary teams. Our robust analysis of social & environmental return on investment demonstrates the impact on donorsLearn how Martha Isabel “Pati” Ruiz Corzo and her team showed that the impossible is possible.What will you learn?-Does biodiversity have a monetary value?-How to capture it?-How to monetize nature's value?
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Eva-Lotta Sjöstedt founded KUNO Leadership Community to build a global sense of trust for the next generation of leaders. Sjöstedt is passionate about connecting and inspiring people to develop strong, meaningful businesses through purposeful leadership. After more than 30 years’ experience as a global business leader and CEO, she has led thousands of people in organisations worldwide.KUNO Leadership Community is composed of leaders who share our philosophy. Our fundamental beliefs, values and ideas act as guiding principles for purposeful leadership. Our philosophy encompasses our way of thinking about the world, business, leadership, sustainability, technology and globalisation and the connection between them.As a purposeful leader you cannot separate economic growth from a positive impact on the world. You must consider your impact on all stakeholders. This is essential for long-term success.“It’s time to transform the value proposition. It’s time for a new leadership framework."
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THE KEY MAN tells the story of a man who raised billions of dollars for investment by vowing to end global poverty through capitalism but ended up arrested on fraud, theft and racketeering charges and facing up to 291 years in jail. Arif Naqvi, the founder of Dubai-based private equity firm Abraaj, was a pioneering impact investor who claimed to seek out ways to make money and do good in the emerging markets of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Bill Gates invested $100 million in Arif's $1 billion fund to build hospitals and clinics in poor countries. The World Bank and the American, British, and French governments also invested in this fund.The UN, Interpol, McKinsey, Harvard, LSE, KPMG, Bank of America and the World Economic Forum were among the elite organizations which backed Arif.TBLI Talkt: Knowledge that Inspires
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How do you get professionals doing high quality impact accounting and management quickly?SVT Group works with firms with a business metabolism and an impact focus, like Techstars’ Workforce Development Accelerator (US), Mission Driven Finance (US), Angels of Impact (Singapore), and Happiness Capital (Hong Kong), which seek to support scalable, innovative companies whose work also creates a happier, more equitable and sustainable world. Sara champions the impact management profession including through her work as Director & Methodology Committee co-chair at Social Value International, who are "working to change the way society accounts for value."
What will you learn?
How to measure and verify the social impact? Why impact accounting is essential to to drive financial performance How accountants might just save the worldTBLI is the world's leading ESG/Impact Investing network/authority. We have been educating, advising, and connecting investors for 25 years. -
The term “financial inclusion” as described by the fintech industry is a lie, says Emmanuel Daniel, in his recent book “The Great Transition – the personalization of finance is here”. Emmanuel Daniel is the award-winning founder of The Asian Banker and Wealth and Society.He argues that the phrase was forcibly requisitioned by the platform players because it suited their business model of onboarding millions of customers and then monetizing them. He points out that the way that technology players are funded by venture capitalists today does not allow them to create a viable business model to succeed in financial inclusion. What will you learn:Why is Financial Inclusion a lie?What are the potential consequences of financial inclusion that is wrongly applied?What then should be the goal of “financial inclusion”
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Mark Campanale is one of the true pioneers and champions of sustainable investing and using capital to address the climate challenge. Join us as he will show us how to move the needle in capital mobilization away from a carbon-intensive economyWhat will you learn?- The energy system is changing now that renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels. How big is the ‘carbon bubble’ and why $100 trillion of lost fossil fuel revenues means something- Manufactured energy vs commodity energy, why electrons are more important than molecules and what the future will look like- Investors lose money – and make money – when a whole system changes. Where are the risks for investors in “business as usual” with fossil fuels?
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Marko Oksanen is CEO of Coventures and an experienced product leader. Marko has been involved in building digital products and ventures his whole career. As co-founder, product manager or venture designer he has been hands-on building 20+ fast growing digital ventures in Helsinki & Berlin. Now as Coventures CEO Marko has been in the deep end of Corporate Venture Building and has seen many different approaches for building impact in cooperation with established companies and entrepreneurs.
In his talk he will share his learnings on how corporations can successfully build new ventures and which pitfalls to avoid.
What will you learn?
What role corporate venture building can play in the impact ecosystem. Reasons why corporate venture building initiatives doesn't succeed. Different types of partners in corporate venture building ecosystem, why and when to partner with them. - Visa fler
