Jos is head of Stafford’s Agriculture & Food investments where he is responsible for all investment management activities in this sector. In this capacity he is also a board member of aquaculture-focused asset manager Neptune NRCP LLC.

Most recently he was Global Lead Capital at agri-food executive search firm Kincannon & Reed, servicing a variety of investors, investment managers, portfolio companies and agribusinesses. He also served as head of Agriculture & Food at the advisory firm, Sherpa Millbank. Prior to this, he was Head of Agri Corporate Finance at Société Générale and worked in strategic planning at publicly-traded agribusiness company, Bunge. Jos has deep industry insights across the entire agri-food value chain and holds longstanding relationships with a wide array of industry operators and stakeholders across the world.

He started his career working in Corporate Strategy & Development roles at AirFrance-KLM and JTI. Jos studied Economics at the University of Amsterdam.

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Founded in 2000, Stafford Capital Partners (SCP, Stafford www.staffordcp.com) is a boutique investment management firm with a global presence and USD 5.3bn under management and advice as at 30 September 2019. We provide clients with access to alternative assets including Real Assets (Infrastructure, Timberland and Agriculture & Food) and Private Markets (Private Credit and Private Equity) through a combination of primaries, secondaries and co-investments with greater emphasis on latter two. With offices in the UK, Switzerland, USA, Australia, South Korea and Brazil, our specialist teams are in each of our target geographies and have access to high quality deals.

David has accumulated over 35 years’ experience in international capital markets in a career that has taken him around the globe. Returning to his native Montreal in 1999, he co-founded Cordiant, a leading emerging and frontier market asset manager with a focus on private credit. He was previously a Vice-Chairman of Cordiant and has overseen more than 200 investments in 55+ emerging countries.

David is a member of the Government of Canada’s Infrastructure Advisory Board. He is also a chairman of Convergence, an initiative launched by the Canadian government and the World Economic Forum to blend public and private capital for investment in the emerging markets. He is a Senior Advisor and Chair of the Private Credit Council for EMPEA and Chairman of the Investment Committee for the BCS Foundation. He is a former director of the US Institute.

David is an honours graduate from the University of Guelph (Agriculture) and a graduate of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD.D.). He guest lectures at McGill University and at The Wharton School and is the Commodore of the Chester Yacht Club.

Hans-Peter Dohr is founder and Managing Director of ICA Institutional Capital Associates GmbH. Mr. Dohr focuses on the investment advisory segment of our business.

He has over 30 years of investment and finance experience, including board and investment committee positions at state investment holding companies and infrastructure and private equity investment funds.

Prior to founding ICA, he served as head of advisory at DC Placement Advisors, one of the leading European private markets advisory firms. Earlier in his career, he worked for multiple groups within investment banking at Fox-Pitt, Kelton, Salomon Brothers, Credit Lyonnais and Chase Manhattan Bank as well as the Ministry of Finance and the State Development Bank in Austria.

Hans-Peter Dohr holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

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ICA (www.ic-ica.com) provides investment advisory and capital raising services and delivers unique, exclusive investor events.

The focus of the firm lies on tailor-made investment solutions in the private equity, private debt, infrastructure and real estate sectors. In addition to that, ICA helps raising funds for alternative investment firms. The firm takes on a limited number of assignments each year, preferring to work on a tailored basis with each mandate specified and executed to best suit its client.

ICA is owner-managed and headquartered in Munich/Germany.

Olga is a marketing and innovation expert, specializing in sustainability, gender-smart investing, and women and finance.

She has been broadly recognized for her transformational achievements to change the financial services industry for women and gender equality with features in the global press such as BBC News, CNBC, the Financial Times, Bloomberg and The Guardian and won numerous awards including ‘Inspirational Woman of the Year 2019’ by CityWealth Magazine.

Olga is a TEDx speaker and frequently speaks at international conferences on innovation, sustainability and SDG5. Following her career at UBS has followed a dual career in marketing and entrepreneurship: she has founded her own start-up – SmartPurse – a financial toolkit for women and serves as the Group Head of Marketing of KBL epb . Olga has two children and lives in Zürich and London.

Dr. Andreas Rickert is CEO and founder of PHINEO and incubated the organization as Director of the former program ‘civil society’ at the Bertelsmann Foundation. Andreas also worked as Senior Governance Specialist at the World Bank in Washington D.C. Prior to this he was Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, Inc. globally working on public sector and healthcare projects in Bahrain, The Netherlands, UK and Switzerland. He studied Biology and completed his Ph.D. on genetics in Germany and the United States.

Andreas serves on various boards such as the expert group of the European Commission on social entrepreneurship (GECES) and is member of the German Council for Sustainable Development. His large network comprises top level decision makers in the private, public and third sectors. He has specific expertise in public private partnerships, corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability, impact investing, social business and philanthropy. At PHINEO he is responsible for the organization’s overall strategy, strategic partnerships as well as external representation.

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PHINEO gAG (https://www.phineo.org) is a non-profit research & analysis institute and consultancy. Its mission is to support the non-profit, business and public sector in having a strong positive impact in society and making a difference in people’s lives.

Phineo has a broad network and strong relationships to organizations and individuals across all sectors and currently employ 60 people with various professional backgrounds. One focus of the work is on research and analysis of non-profit organizations (NPOs) and social businesses, social impact assessment as well as capacity building in the third sector. So far, they have published 17 market reports that introduce the character and scope of social challenges, structures of non-profit and social investor engagement in each particular area and highlight best practice to guide social investors. Topics include: inclusion of people with disabilities, dementia, depression, child poverty, generation 55+, integration of people with migration background and school-to-work transition.

We also identify, analyze and highlight (with the PHINEO impact label) best practice among NPOs and projects, i.e. activities with a very high potential to achieve impact and to bring about social change. Via the consulting unit we have supported hundreds of social investors such as global corporations, large foundations, family offices and public administration at the international, federal and regional level with expertise and consultancy in order to improve their strategies and implementation on shared value, social impact investment, social business development, high-impact engagement activities, impact assessment and reporting.

Prof. Dr. Dirk Soehnholz (1963) is the founder and CEO of Diversifikator GmbH, book author, honorary professor of asset management at Leipzig University and a blogger on Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) and Robo-Advisor topics (www.prof-soehnholz.com).

Previously he worked for The Boston Consulting Group, Feri Alternative Asset, Feri Institutional Advisors and Veritas Investment.

 

 

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Diversifikator GmbH (www.diversifikator.com) is a provider of (online-) model portfolios with focus on passive multi-asset (ETF) and pure and strict ESG equity portfolios and indices for advisors, asset managers and banks (partners).

Partners can offer many responsible transparent (impact) portfolios without investing in additional data or personnel.

Dr. Christin ter Braak-Forstiner, LL.M. is the co-founder and CEO of Chi Impact Capital in Zurich an independent Impact Fund Advisor advising a Luxembourg based impact fund.

Christin is passionate about pro-actively making the shift towards a regenerative and deep impact economy a reality. Christin has a long-standing experience and a 15 year+ track record in the financial services sector, private equity, the impact investing field, sustainable investing, strategic philanthropy advisory and the collaboration with international organizations and public stakeholders.

Christin completed her Doctoral Thesis at Harvard Law School (summa cum laude) and her Master Studies at Duke Law School; She has published numerous peer reviewed articles and papers in the field of sustainable investing and impact investing, authored and co-authored several books the latest of which is “Conscious Investing”; Christin is a lecturer at various universities on impact investing; Privately, Christin is the co-founder and president of award winning NGO Braveaurora, active in North Ghana since 2009.

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Chi Impact Capital (https://chi-impact.com) is an independent Impact Fund Manager based in Zurich. Our purpose is to assist qualified investors achieve both: attractive financial returns, while simultaneously being pro-active enablers of positive and systemic change.

Chi Impact Capital invests in a new species of entrepreneurs in Europe with an integrated business mission to serve a critical social or environmental issue. These companies provide a strong growth potential next to transformative and typically tech-heavy solutions across the following impact themes: Circular Economy & Conscious Commerce, Green innovation & Energy Efficiency, Affordable and Climate Resilient Healthcare, Food Safety & Security, and Smart Infrastructure & Mobility.

After studying commercial sciences and political science, professional experience in marketing consulting. Subsequently management of a direct marketing company.

1996 Change to the financial sector and establishment of Winterthur Pensionskasse, Vienna. Various positions at Winterthur CEE as well as Board Member for Life & Pensions at Winterthur Austria until the merger with Zurich Insurance. Management of the joint subsidiaries of Zurich and Generali in the area of company pension schemes (pension fund and consulting company) from 2002 – 2007. From 2008, foundation and development of fair-finance.

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Based on the vision of investing the funds of the obligatory pension fund System in Austria exclusively in a „responsible and effect-oriented“ way, fair-finance was founded in 2010 together with a group of private individuals, GLS Bank and Concordia Insurance.

The search for sustainable and profitable Investment opportunities has led to the establishment of an asset management company and a real estate company as well as several participations in the real estate and impact sector (KlimaGut Immobilien, Berlin; faire Windkraft, Vienna).

In 2019, „Die Versicherei fair-insurances“ was founded, a brokerage company in which fair-finance holds a majority stake. With the Social Entrepreneurship Fund, the first Austrian equity fund for social enterprises (financed and managed by fairfinance) is currently in the start-up phase. The fair-finance group employs almost 40 people and manages assets of around EUR 645 million.

Since April 2016 investment fonds product manager at GLS Bank specialized in alternative investments Between October 2013 and March 2016 trainee and junior level position in the private wealth and security department of GLS Bank International experience gained in the microfinance and social business sector in Tamil Nadu India in 2013 Between September 2004 and February 2010,  industrial operative manager in a mid-tier electrical company (export/import supply chain management as well as cooperate finance)

Qualifications:
Master of Science in Finance (FH) (2010 – 2012) & Diplom Kaufmann (FH) economics (2006 – 2010)
(and maybe interesting due to the topic of the discussion: qualified and state-approved nutrition expert/advisor (2018 -2020))

Dr. Klaus Bader is a corporate partner at Norton Rose Fulbright in Munich and Head of the European Energy Practice.
Klaus has wide experience in domestic and international M&A and private equity transactions as well as joint ventures and corporate reorganisations with a strong focus on the energy and infrastructure sector. He works for private equity and infrastructure funds, utilities and asset managers of major insurance companies.

Klaus is frequently recommended as notable practitioner for corporate M&A and energy in the legal directories Chambers, Legal 500, Juve and Best Lawyer.

Klaus became a partner in 2008. Before joining Norton Rose Fulbright in 2005, he worked for a reputable German audit and tax advice firm, where he focused on financial due diligence reviews and tax structuring in the context of M&A transactions.

Steve is a Founding Partner of ONE group solutions, a provider of next-generation fund management solutions.

Prior to founding ONE, Steve was CEO of the Carne Group in Luxembourg and a member of the group’s global Executive Committee.

Starting his career with the Luxembourg government, he quickly realized that a career in the fund sector would provide the desired international exposure and joined the investment fund industry in 1998. Steve’s particular skills are in business development and building successful companies. He is an excellent networker with international business partners and connections.

He has worked in fund operations, product and customer service for companies such as Citibank, State Street Bank, Lemanik Asset Management and Pioneer Asset Management for around 12 years.

Steve is Luxembourgish and speaks fluent English, German, French and Luxembourgish. He is an active member of international committees, various working groups in the fund industry and regularly speaks at conferences around the world.

Robert Bluhm was appointed sustainability officer of the Universal-Investment Group in 2019. In this newly created function, he is responsible for the sustainability strategy and the integration of sustainability in all business areas. To this end, he is analyzing the status quo and working with all partners of Universal-Investment to improve understanding and implementation of the topic.

In addition, he jointly develops with the innovation management new ideas and services for the financial industry. After his studies at the University of Maastricht, which he completed with a Master of Science in International Business Administration, Bluhm started as a consultant in Munich. After this position, he moved to Asset Management Boutique Bantleon in 2015, where, as Head of Projects & Operations first in Switzerland and then in Frankfurt, he optimised the structure of the Bantleon Group and obtained a KVG licence in Germany. In spring 2016 he was appointed Office Manager Frankfurt and was given the task of establishing the product management. During this time Bluhm worked on various projects relating to sustainable investment solutions and served as an interdisciplinary interface for product and strategy development. In January 2019, he moved to Universal-Investment, where he began to develop the Universal-Investment Group’s understanding of sustainability. Bluhm has also been responsible for securities product management since
November 2019.

Jos is head of Stafford’s Agriculture & Food investments where he is responsible for all investment management activities in this sector. In this capacity he is also a board member of aquaculture-focused asset manager Neptune NRCP LLC.

Most recently he was Global Lead Capital at agri-food executive search firm Kincannon & Reed, servicing a variety of investors, investment managers, portfolio companies and agribusinesses. He also served as head of Agriculture & Food at the advisory firm, Sherpa Millbank. Prior to this, he was Head of Agri Corporate Finance at Société Générale and worked in strategic planning at publicly-traded agribusiness company, Bunge. Jos has deep industry insights across the entire agri-food value chain and holds longstanding relationships with a wide array of industry operators and stakeholders across the world.

He started his career working in Corporate Strategy & Development roles at AirFrance-KLM and JTI. Jos studied Economics at the University of Amsterdam.

David has accumulated over 35 years’ experience in international capital markets in a career that has taken him around the globe. Returning to his native Montreal in 1999, he co-founded Cordiant, a leading emerging and frontier market asset manager with a focus on private credit. He was previously a Vice-Chairman of Cordiant and has overseen more than 200 investments in 55+ emerging countries.

David is a member of the Government of Canada’s Infrastructure Advisory Board. He is also a chairman of Convergence, an initiative launched by the Canadian government and the World Economic Forum to blend public and private capital for investment in the emerging markets. He is a Senior Advisor and Chair of the Private Credit Council for EMPEA and Chairman of the Investment Committee for the BCS Foundation. He is a former director of the US Institute.

David is an honours graduate from the University of Guelph (Agriculture) and a graduate of the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD.D.). He guest lectures at McGill University and at The Wharton School and is the Commodore of the Chester Yacht Club.

Since 2019, Volker Weber has been a member of the board of NIXDORF Kapital AG as Chief Sustainability Officer. Activities as managing director and board member at various financial service providers and investment companies.

Voluntary work as chairman of the board of the FNG – Forum Sustainable Money Investments e. V.. Volker Weber is responsible for the sustainability strategy in the company and the products.

He has a degree in business administration and is the author of numerous studies and specialist publications in the field of sustainable investments.

Hans-Peter Dohr is founder and Managing Director of ICA Institutional Capital Associates GmbH. Mr. Dohr focuses on the investment advisory segment of our business.

He has over 30 years of investment and finance experience, including board and investment committee positions at state investment holding companies and infrastructure and private equity investment funds.

Prior to founding ICA, he served as head of advisory at DC Placement Advisors, one of the leading European private markets advisory firms. Earlier in his career, he worked for multiple groups within investment banking at Fox-Pitt, Kelton, Salomon Brothers, Credit Lyonnais and Chase Manhattan Bank as well as the Ministry of Finance and the State Development Bank in Austria.

Hans-Peter Dohr holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Vienna University of Economics and Business.

Dr. Dennis Fritsch is Member of the Secretariat and Coordinator of the United Nations’ Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Initiative, part of UNEP FI, focused on bringing banks, insurers and investors together to develop guidance and tools to enable financial institutions to align their activities with a sustainable ocean economy. The initiative is the host of the Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Principles; the gold-standard for investing in the ocean economy. Previously, Dennis established the Research department at Responsible Investor, where he led several investor research projects, most recently ‘Investors & the Blue Economy’. He also worked as a consultant and expert jury member for the European Commission’s BlueInvest Fund and BLUE Marine Foundation. After graduating from the University of Tübingen (GER), Dennis worked in research at the University of Cambridge and was awarded a PhD from University College London.

As the founder of Blue Phoenix, Amara supports clients with rich ESG value chain experience. She has spent the majority of her career leading the Dow Jones Sustainability Index rating process at RobecoSAM (now SAM, part of S&P Global). More recently, she fulfilled the role of Head Corporate Sustainability and Responsible Investment at Julius Baer. She also has created an ESG rating methodology for private market investments, has academic research experience, and worked in corporate sustainability in a listed real estate company.

Between those roles, she has prepared the corporate reporting to rating agencies and investors, she has been the rating agency, the investor and the translator between all the stakeholders. Covering the full ESG data value chain.

Blue Phoenix’s mission is to facilitate better investment decision-making. Investors are guided through the sustainable finance maze: selecting the right ESG data provider, integrating ESG into the investment process, and more. Rating agencies and investors looking to build customized ratings are supported in the creation and optimization of their ESG data collection and evaluation process. For companies, a range of investor reporting services is available. Helping the company understand what the expectation of the investor, or the rating agency as a middleman, is and translating that into investment relevant ESG reporting. For more information: www.bluephoenixesg.com.

Prior to joining EIF, Cyril gained unique field experience working with microfinance institutions in Northern Africa and the Middle East. Cyril studied at Institut d’Études Politiques de Toulouse where he received a Masters in Development Economics with a focus on poverty alleviation and local development.

At EIF, Cyril’s entire career has been dedicated to impact related activities in the area of social entrepreneurship and microfinance. 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 and in the set-up of the EPPA programme, one of EIF’s early direct investment pilots in microfinance.

Cyril moved from microfinance to impact investing in 2012 and raised the first impact dedicated fund-of-funds at EIF (Social Impact Accelerator) now fully invested with 19 funds in portfolio and EUR 220m committed. Since October 2019, he is heading the team in charge of social impact investing with the venture capital department of EIF.

Ullrich Hartmann is a PwC partner in the Banking and Capital Markets Practice. For more than 20 years, Mr. Hartmann has been assisting banks and financial services companies in all questions relating to risk management and regulation. He heads the Risk & Regulation in PwC Europe, Compliance and Sustainable Finance units in PwC Financial Services. In addition, Ullrich Hartmann is chairman of the WpHG working group and chairman of the investment committee at IDW and a member of the Securities working group at BaFin.

He is a banker, business graduate, certified public auditor and tax consultant.

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Dr. Caroline Herkströter is an investment and banking regulatory lawyer based in Frankfurt. Her main focus is on securities, banking regulation as well as the regulation of investment funds. Having a particular focus on
ESG related issues, Caroline is recognised as one of the leading experts in Germany with regard to ESG.

Caroline advises credit institutions and financial services providers, including investment and universal banks, AIF and UCITS management companies and securities trading companies on all aspects of German, European and international investment, banking, and capital markets law. In particular, she focuses on the cross-border distribution of financial products, and issues related to clearing, settlement and global custody and depositary services.

Caroline advises on the establishment and distribution of open- and closed-ended investment funds, particularly securities and real estate funds within Germany. Her experience also includes prime brokerage, securities
lending, international securities custody, collateral management, and investment advisor liability. Additionally, Caroline advises on the establishment and acquisition of German credit institutions, joint ventures, the
extension of banking licences and global outsourcing projects as well as on the listing of funds on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Caroline joined the Frankfurt office as a partner in 2007. From October 2015 to June 2019, she was head of the legal department at DekaBank and returned to the firm as a partner in August 2019.

Dr Anja Hochberg (49) has been Head of Multi Asset Solutions for Swisscanto Invest by Zürcher Kantonalbank since 1 January 2020. With 25 years of experience along the entire value chain of the investment business, Dr Hochberg is a proven expert in asset management. Prior to joining Swisscanto, she had worked for Credit Suisse in responsible management positions since 2001. As head of the economics department, she was responsible both for traditional economic research and for the analysis and forecasting of all macroeconomically driven asset classes.

In 2009 she was appointed Head of Investment Strategy of the Asset Management Division and in 2013 she was appointed „Chief Investment Officer Europe (incl. Switzerland)“. From 2016, she headed the global product department and from 2018 she focused on sustainable and impact products for institutional and private investors.

Dr. Martin Hohla is a managing director of MobilityFund. Dr. Hohla has an extensive background in the optoelectronics industry as a business leader, senior executive and innovator. Dr. Hohla has built several businesses. He is a Senior Advisor to Frankfurt based Consus Partner – a corporate finance advisory firm. He is a private investor in the laser industry.

Until 2014 he served as CEO of Neaspec GmbH, an atomic force microscope company using various lasers for nano-scale imaging and spectroscopy. He was hired to sell the company. Neaspec was succesfully sold in March 2014 to Attocube GmbH, a subsidiary of Wittenstein AG.

Before that he served as director for strategic marketing and portfolio management at Technolas Perfect Vision GmbH where he was instrumental for the conception and commercialisation of the next generation laser and diagnostic hardware for cataract and refractive surgery which led to the sale of the company to Bausch & Lomb, Rochester in early 2013. He co-founded Rangetainment Technologies, a sports sensor company. He served as a founder and chief financial officer of TuiLaser, the leading company in compact deep UV laser sources for visions correction and semiconductor manufacturing , which was acquired by Coherent Inc. of Santa Clara in 2005. Dr. Hohla furthermore serves on the Board of Directors of Toptica Photonics AG, the leader in tunable diode lasers and femto fiber lasers for scientific and industrial applications.

Dr. Hohla has a PhD in finance from Ludwigs Maximilians University (Munich, Germany) and a masters degree from the University of St. Gallen (St. Gallen, Switzerland) in accounting and finance.

Dr. Horner is a Managing Director at Middleland Capital where he is responsible for portfolio management and evaluating investment opportunities across food, agriculture and biotechnology. He currently sits on the boards of Mycotechnology Inc., Plant Response Inc., Benson Hill Biosystems, ZeaKal, Advanced Animal Diagnostics, and Vive Crop Protection.

Prior to joining Middleland, Dr. Horner was a Managing Director at Third Security, LLC, where he was responsible for assessing potential investments in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors. He worked with several of Third Security’s portfolio companies, providing business intelligence and operational support.

Dr. Horner received his Ph.D. in Bioorganic Chemistry and an M.S. in Biophysics from the University of Rochester, School of Medicine and a B.S. in Biochemistry from the State University of New York at Albany.

Julia ProJulia Profeta Johansson is the co-founder of Remagine, the startup neobank for good, and the founder of Ella Impact, a global community of women focused on developing connections and knowledge around the theme of impact investments and impact businesses.

She was previously a partner at Vox Capital, the first impact investing fund manager in Brazil, and thus has been featured among the top women investing in tech in Latin America since 2017. As an impact investing and venture capital specialist and a Responsible Leader from the BMW Foundation Network, Julia writes about these topics for the BMW Foundation blog and is also co-founder of Startup.Life Berlin.

Julia has also worked with Yunus Social Business, Rocket Internet, Itaú BBA, and Mundo InNova, her former business innovation magazine. She holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from FGV-SP, studied at the University of Mannheim in Germany and at the Disney Institute in California. Passionate about photography and filmmaking, she is also involved with the entertainment industry, in order to use it as a positive social transformation tool at large scale.

Born in Brazil, she lives in Berlin, Germany.

Florian is Managing Partner of Bamboo Capital Partners, Founder of Ryan-Kay and Board Member of numerous organisations. He holds a Bachelor of Business Administration, Master of Science in Marketing and different diploma on business and personal development.

Florian leverages his extensive background on start-ups, fundraising and transactions in healthcare and life science to invest in, build and (re-)position organisations in the competitive global marketplace.

In particular his passion is around impact investment and effective personal development methodologies to create high-performance teams, whereby many members have become successful executives and entrepreneurs themselves. In addition, Florian founded a medical education foundation in Mexico while supporting many NGOs, patient advocacy groups and extramural surgery programs in Central-America’s most remote locations. As an active Member of the Young Presidents’ Organization he is on the Executive Committee of the Social Entrepreneur Network.

With over 25 years in life sciences Florian held senior executive positions at B. Braun Medical, Olympus Biotech, Small Bone Innovations (now Stryker), Parter Capital and numerous hands on investments in early & commercial stage life science companies. Fluent in German, English, Spanish, French, Italian.

Steffen Klawitter is the Head of Investor Relations at Finance in Motion, a leading global impact asset manager with EUR 2.4 billion in assets under advisory/management and offices in 17 countries. At Finance in Motion, he is responsible for fostering relationships with existing and prospective private sector investors.

His career began in 1993 at Deutsche Bank, where he held several positions in the Private and Corporate Wealth Management Divisions. Before joining Finance in Motion, he managed Deutsche Bank’s Competence Center for Church Investors. In addition, since 2005 he served as the Wealth Management Division’s expert for Sustainable and Impact Investing. He holds a degree in Business Administration from the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University, Mannheim, Germany, and is a Certified Wealth Advisor through studies at the European Business School (EBS).

In 2013 he built one of the first German Energy-Plus Houses (which produces more energy than it consumes) as part of a two-year governmental research project.

Christoph M. Klein, CFA, CEFA is managing partner and portfolio manager at ESG Portfolio Management GmbH. Previously, he served as a partner at nordIX AG and as portfolio strategist, head ESG credit, managing director at Deutsche Asset Management.

Before rejoining Deutsche Asset Management in 2007, he served as partner and head of fixed-income credit at TriPoint Asset Management. Mr. Klein also worked as a multi-strategy Portfolio Manager for credit hedge funds at CPM Advisors and as an analyst and portfolio manager for corporate and convertible bonds at Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management. He has served as a visiting scholar at Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions at New York University.

Mr. Klein began his career as a private banking investment strategy analyst at Deutsche Bank. He served as a member of the UN PRI Fixed Income Working Group and is a member of the DVFA Sustainable Investing Commission. He received his diploma in business administration from the University of Trier.

Dr. Klaus Kunz holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry and a degree in economics. He joined Bayer in 2001 and has gained 18 years of experience directing business strategic topics in R&D at a global level, taking leadership roles in research, R&D project management, and regulatory and public / governmental affairs, including issues management and stakeholder engagement.

Since 2018 he is leading Sustainability & Business Stewardship in Bayer Crop Science. Klaus is passionate about driving innovation and change, cross-cultural collaboration, politics and history, also holding a lectureship for chemistry at the University of Aachen. He is married with three children.

Paul Leibold is the CEO of and Technical Project Coordinator at Adaptive City Mobility (ACM). Seven years ago Paul initiated ACM, built the partnership among 10 industry partners for the ACM research project and raised funding from the German Ministry of economic affairs and energy. Parallel to the research project Paul also founded in 2017 the ACM GmbH to industrialize the results of the research project. The ACM GmbH is funded by international investors from Europe and China. As early as 15 years ago, the industrial engineer headed micro e-mobility projects for BMW Group. After, he played a significant part in building two successful German e-mobility start-ups. Last year October Paul was invited by the German chancellor Angela Merkel as reference project for green urban mobility to join here to India in the business delegation.

In the eyes of Paul Leibold, rather than being a mere product solution, e-mobility is a comprehensive system solution consisting of different modules: the electric vehicle, the energy system and an intelligent real-time network. Paul Leibold is convinced that e-mobility will only be able to face the competition coming from combustion engine solutions if the business model both generates more benefits for the environment and becomes more economically viable. This approach is the core idea underlying the Adaptive City Mobility project. Meanwhile, current TCO considerations persistently confirm this hypothesis.

Janina Lichnofsky is a Senior Specialist Sustainability at MEAG, the asset manager of Munich Re and ERGO. Before she joined MEAG, Janina was Head of ISS ESG Client Success at Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS). She was responsible for ISS’ team of market-facing ESG Specialists based in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, advising asset managers and asset owners on ESG. Prior to that Janina managed the Green Bond Team and worked as an ESG Analyst at oekom research.

Janina has been active in ESG and sustainability for several years: She worked as a sustainability consultant for three years and she has been involved in projects of international NGOs and foundations, both in Germany and abroad. Janina holds a M.A. in Political Science and International Relations from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany.

Katherine Milligan is a Partner and Head of Gender & Diversity at Bamboo Capital Partners, a Swiss-based impact investing firm that has deployed nearly USD$400 million in impact investments across emerging markets since its inception. She is also an adjunct professor of social innovation at the Graduate Institute and Fordham University. Formerly, she was the Executive Director of the Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship, the sister organization of the World Economic Forum, which supports the largest network of late-stage social entrepreneurs worldwide. Katherine is the author of over 17 publications, articles, and blogs published by International Institute of Economics, Stanford Social Innovation Review, MIT journal Innovations, Forum Agenda, and the Harvard Business School. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard University, where she was a Pforzheimer Scholar.

Andreas Nilsson is the Managing Partner of Sonanz, a private equity fund-of-funds manager. Sonanz has a thematic focus on sectors that are essential for the future of society: Renewable Energy, Sustainable Food & Agriculture, Affordable Healthcare and Financial Services.

Prior to founding Sonanz, Dr. Nilsson worked as a private equity investor at EQT Partners and UBS. He has also acted as advisor to the first private equity firm in Bangladesh and the first social investment fund in Sweden. Dr. Nilsson holds a PhD and a MSc in Finance from the Stockholm School of Economics and spent two years as a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Business School.

Sebastián leads the overall strategic direction of the firm. He brings over 16 years of private equity experience in South America, with a full focus on agribusiness, food and logistics and a comprehensive operational approach to value creation. He is currently Chairman of the Board of several Aqua’s companies and Chairman of the firm’s investment committee. Previously, he ran healthcare services operator Salutia and consulted for Booz & Co in Latin America. Sebastián has participated and actively contributed to the council of several NGOs. He earned a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University, which he attended as a Fulbright Scholar, and a BA in Economics from Universidad de San Andrés. He has two children.

Maximilian Horster is Managing Director, heads the climate department of ISS Institutional Shareholder Services and is part of the management of ISS ESG. His team of experts enables financial market participants and governments to understand, measure and act on the implications of climate change on investments.

Dr. Horster heads several EU-funded projects on climate change and investment, is involved in industry organizations, and teaches, publishes and advises governments on the subject.

Maximilian Horster worked for five years as an equity and fixed income analyst and in business development at Capital Group in North America, Asia and Europe. Prior to that, he studied at the Technical University of Dresden and Georgetown University (USA) and was a research assistant to a member of the European Parliament. He loves the mountains and lives with his wife and four children near Frankfurt am Main.

Gesa Vögele is member of the management at CRIC, an association for the promotion of ethics and sustainability in investment. Within the scope of this activity, she deals, among other things, with the political and regulatory developments around sustainable finance, but also with topics such as ethical-sustainable real estate investments or engagement. She has recently initiated an anthology on the latter, which is expected to be published at the end of 2020. Gesa is a member of the ethics advisory board of Pax-Bank and supports On Purpose as a mentor.

Before joining CRIC, she worked more than seven years for a sustainable investment association. Other previous positions include a publishing house and research institutions. Gesa studied economics and political science at the University of Cologne and completed a journalistic training.

Prof. Dr. Dirk Soehnholz (1963) is the founder and CEO of Diversifikator GmbH, book author, honorary professor of asset management at Leipzig University and a blogger on Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) and Robo-Advisor topics (www.prof-soehnholz.com).

Previously he worked for The Boston Consulting Group, Feri Alternative Asset, Feri Institutional Advisors and Veritas Investment.

Dr. Katharina Sommerrock is Director, Investor Relations and Business Development at LGT Lightstone, a global direct private equity platform focused on impact investing in scalable businesses that achieve positive societal outcomes by harnessing breakthrough developments in technology.

Before her role at LGT Lightstone, Dr Sommerrock held several other positions at LGT Group contributing to the areas of sustainable investing, impact investing and venture philanthropy. When joining LGT in 2013, she was Head of Client Relations at LGT Venture Philanthropy. Subsequently, she also coordinated internal and external communication, advisory, trainings and representation on LGT Group’s activities in sustainability, social impact, corporate social responsibility and philanthropy.

Before joining LGT, she was a case team leader at the international strategy consulting firm Bain & Company, where she focused on financial services and private equity. In 2009, she received a PhD for her award-winning dissertation on “Social entrepreneurship business models”. She holds a Master in International Business Administration from the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt in Germany.

Dr. Bernd Spendig received his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Hanover in 2002 and also owns a degree in economy. After a short intermezzo as a trader for exotic equity derivatives at HSBC Trinkaus, he has been working for UniCredit Bank AG since 2004, where he heads the structuring department for private and wealth management clients.

A focus of his work has been on the product development of sustainable investment products, in particular structured products on equity indices. He is also responsible for the first European ETF that combines smart beta factors with ESG criteria.

Dr. Spendig is a member of various national and international working groups that are developing a new target market standard for sustainable products.

Thor is the Founding Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Neptune NRCP, LLC – and asset manager dedicated to investing in the global aquaculture industry. As a former senior executive of public and private aqua businesses Thor brings a hands-on approach to investing in and adding value to portfolio companies.

Prior to founding Neptune Thor was head of private equity at AMERRA Capital Management where he was a voting member of the investment committee.

Thor has more than 20 years of experience from the international aquaculture industry as investor, senior executive and as a sector focused senior investment & corporate banker.

Thor has been a speaker at and organized industry focused investor conferences in New York, Chicago, London, Oslo, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Thor is the Chairman of the Board of Andromeda Group, AquaShip and Biomega Group.

Dr. Christin ter Braak-Forstiner, LL.M. is the co-founder and CEO of Chi Impact Capital in Zurich an independent Impact Fund Advisor advising a Luxembourg based impact fund.

Christin is passionate about pro-actively making the shift towards a regenerative and deep impact economy a reality. Christin has a long-standing experience and a 15 year+ track record in the financial services sector, private equity, the impact investing field, sustainable investing, strategic philanthropy advisory and the collaboration with international organizations and public stakeholders.

Christin completed her Doctoral Thesis at Harvard Law School (summa cum laude) and her Master Studies at Duke Law School; She has published numerous peer reviewed articles and papers in the field of sustainable investing and impact investing, authored and co-authored several books the latest of which is “Conscious Investing”; Christin is a lecturer at various universities on impact investing; Privately, Christin is the co-founder and president of award winning NGO Braveaurora, active in North Ghana since 2009.

Michael joined Deutsche Bank in 2005 from KPMG. He is the Global Head of Project Finance working with teams in Frankfurt, London and New York. He has more than 20 years of experience building businesses and leading transactions across all regions and main infrastructure, energy and PPP sectors. He is focusing on non-recourse debt arranging, debt structuring and debt underwriting including bonds, loans and mezzanine financings.

Michael holds a Master degree in business administration from University of Münster with majors in Finance and International Management.

Inka Winter is CEO of ESG Screen17 GmbH, a Frankfurt-based FinTech company. ESG Screen17 develops data-driven solutions for clients – asset owners and asset managers – to support them in making better-informed decisions regarding their sustainable investment strategies.

Inka brings over 20 years’ experience in international banking. She worked in a range of investment banking, global transaction banking and asset Management roles at M.M. Warburg and Deutsche Bank, in both Frankfurt and Singapore. From 2013, as COO of the ESG Head Office at Deutsche Asset Management, she was globally responsible for the operational implementation of the divisions’ Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) strategy. Under her leadership, ESG criteria were integrated in all new product approval processes within Deutsche Asset Management.

Inka then served as the global Sustainability Officer for Deutsche Asset Management where was responsible for ESG governance, ESG transparency, the Principles for Responsible Investing (PRI) and Corporate Responsibility Reporting. She also ran the external stakeholder dialogue including the interface to NGOs, shareholders and the wider public.

Julia Bewerunge is a sustainable investment professional with a focus on diversity and inclusion. She works as Associate Vice President and ESG Specialist at ISS ESG. For the German Ministry of Environment, in partnership with adelphi, she led the research on the EU Taxonomy. In addition, Julia Bewerunge has been conducting several analyses on gender diversity in portfolio management. She is responsible for the markets Frankfurt, Belgium, Luxembourg and German speaking Switzerland.

Prior to working at ISS, Julia Bewerunge worked as a consultant and member of the executive office at KPMG Germany, where she specialized in ESG, impact investments and diversity in Asset Management. There, she led the KPMG-Fondsfrauen publication on Gender Diversity in the German Asset Management industry.

She explored the world as a journalist working for various media companies such as Zeitverlag, Handelsblatt and German public broadcasting. She is currently sharing this experience as a lecturer for Public Relations at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology. This builds on her experience as a researcher at the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics and research assistant at the Economics Institute of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Julia Bewerunge graduated from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in European Studies, obtained an MA in Gender Studies from University College London and an MA in Philosophy from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich.

Simon works at responsAbility, one of the largest impact investment asset managers. He focusses on business development of structures blended finance funds. Prior to joining responsAbility, Simon worked at KfW investing in funds and banks.

Manuela Fröhlich is a founding member of „Fondsfrauen“ and has been successful in the international banking and investment fund industry for 31 years, including more than 20 years in leading positions.

She is an experienced sales expert and covered the entire value chain in her various positions in Germany, London and Luxembourg. From product development to regulatory requirements and international launches to successful marketing and capital raising, she was active in all areas. Her focus has always been on excellent service for distributors and  and investors.

Roland Kölsch, former traditional and SRI fund manager, is the managing director of the Quality
assurance company for sustainable investments (QNG), being responsible for the FNG-Label.
He has been working in the field of sustainable investments in Germany and abroad for more than 15
years and currently contributes his expertise also to EU working groups on sustainable finance.

Young-jin is currently heading the impact investment practice at PHINEO gAG where he has led the development of various social impact bonds as well as an impact investing vehicle for impact startups that use technology as a force for good. He is currently focused on promoting climate impact investing as well as *systemic* impact measurement and management. Prior to joining PHINEO, Young-jin served as an investment manager at 3M’s corporate venture capital unit and worked in a variety of industries and regions as a strategy consultant at Monitor Group (now Monitor Deloitte). Young-jin holds several master’s degrees: in Mechanical Engineering (RWTH Aachen), in International Business Studies (University of Maastricht) as well as in Politics, Philosophy and Economics (LMU Munich).

Hedda has been delivering and moderating inspirational content on the international stage for over 15 years. Topics she speaks about include entrepreneurship, diversity and values-based investing to encourage capital and business to move towards positive social and environmental impact.

Hedda is a private investor, independent board director, adjunct professor and advisor on issues relating to sustainable development, responsible finance and diversity management. She is a founder and CEO of TIIME.org – advocacy, advisory and education (#ImpactImperative).

She is an active board member on funds and organizations working with and towards triple bottom line – and moving towards impact investing. Her focus is on social inclusion, gender-lens investing and environment Apart from managing TIIME and a privately-held forestry company in Sweden, Hedda sits on the advisory board to the Luxembourg government for Sustainable Development (CSDD.lu), focused on social finance. For the past 16 years, Hedda has been Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation & Impact Economy for Sacred Heart University’s MBA program and teaches at the University of Luxembourg and the School of Finance on the same topics.

Hannes Manndorff heads the department of Equity at the Development Bank of Austria (OeEB), the Development Finance Institution of Austria. He forms part of the senior management team of OeEB and is responsible for developing and overseeing a portfolio of private equity fund investments and direct investments.

Before joining OeEB in 2017, Hannes worked for 17 years for Accion, a global financial inclusion impact investor, where he held various positions, including as Chief Regional Officer for East Asia and the Pacific, based in Singapore, Head of Global Business Development, CEO of a Microfinance Institution in India and European Representative.

Before joining Accion, Hannes worked for the Austrian Development Cooperation, based in Vienna and in Mozambique. Hannes holds a PhD in Development Economics of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and speaks five languages.

Axel is heading the imug | rating department since July 2016. After studying economics, he gained his first professional experience at imug e. V. in Hannover. He was the founder and long-standing managing director of the rating agency scoris, today Sustainalytics GmbH in Frankfurt. In between, he worked in portfolio management at Concordia Versicherungen Hannover. Axel Wilhelm is a board member of the Forum Nachhaltige Geldanlagen and a sought-after author and speaker on sustainable investment topics.

imug | rating is one of the leading German sustainability rating agencies and the German-speaking address for tailor-made sustainability research. imug has been present on the sustainable financial market for more than 20 years – services include information and support for sustainable investment strategies as well as opinions and assessments of sustainable issuers as well as bonds and loans.

www.imug.de/imug-rating

Marc Gerards is a Senior Investment Manager in the Real Assets team with EB – Sustainable Investment Management GmbH (EB-SIM). He is responsible for the execution of renewable energy equity and debt investments as part of EB-SIM’s asset management and advisory mandates.
Marc possesses 15 years+ of experience in the financial industry, in particular regarding infrastructure and renewable energy projects. He was a founding partner of a leading corporate finance firm advising clients for over 10 years on equity transactions and debt financing with focus on German and European energy infrastructure. He started his career in the utility M&A team of an international Investment bank. Marc is a University of Cologne graduate and guest lecturer in business administration.

Partner at LeadX. Investor in growth-stage (software- and data-driven) tech-companies. Growth means €10m+ in revenue and 30%+ CAGR. Vertically-focused and specialised in themes related to the digitisation of consumer industries, with a focus on sustainability. Strong knowledge and deep networks in these areas. Coming up to 20 years‘ investment experience in venture and private equity. Prior to that, worked in strategy consulting and product development. Engineer (information and electronics) by education at Oxford University (MEng). UK and German national, based in Munich. English mother tongue and fluent in German.

Dr. Lothar Jonitz, born in 1961, founded the Munich and Sevilla-based tetralog in 1993. He holds a master in psychology and received a doctor’s degree in human biology. In 2001 he became chairman of tetralog systems.
The multidisciplinary approach and empirical procedure in consulting financial service providers has led to innovative software solutions. Today, a full range of software modules and services models consulting processes, ranging from customer profiling to portfolio optimization.
The products of tetralog support the entire investment consulting process: with scientific methods, flexible software modules and innovative data visualization.

Yannick Ferber is a Manager at Sustainalytics, a global leader in ESG and Corporate Governance research and ratings being responsible for the business development in Germany, Austria and German speaking Switzerland.

He brings over 12 years’ experience in international banking, having worked in a range of Risk Management, Structured Finance and Debt Capital Market roles at ING and Helaba and holds a Bachelor and Master of Finance degree from Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.

Dr. Sascha Lafeld has been active in climate action and green energy for almost 20 years. In the early 2000s, he founded First Climate, a service provider in the field of emissions trading and carbon offset projects. In addition to supporting national and international companies in their climate action measures, he has been instrumental in setting quality standards for the voluntary carbon offsetting market. He joined ClimatePartner in the summer of 2020 as Head of Carbon Offsetting and Green Energy Services. His focus here is on the areas of green energy procurement for corporate clients, green products for utilities and the further development of carbon offsetting projects.

Christine Scharinger, is a pioneer in the field of e-mobility and has been known as an expert in Austria for 10 years. She was active in the financial services sector for 30 years and financed the first alternative powered vehicles in Austria. Her commitment in this area was aimed at establishing e-vehicles in Austria’s vehicle fleets. She also has extensive knowledge in the field of renewable energies, having been responsible for the operation of 60 wind turbines and 6 photovoltaic power plants.

Today she develops smart mobility solutions in the form of a marketplace for the DACH region in the KIR-Group GmbH. Together with the renableenergy player, she supports large companies on their way to energy self-sufficiency. She also supports the Graz-based high-tech company Levion GmbH in the market launch of its innovative energy management solution and establishes the sales strategy in several European countries for the Raiffeisen Lagerhaus Group and the Chinese car manufacturer JAC.

Patrizia Ilda Valentini graduate from the University of Economics in Vienna in commercial science and is Integral Systemic Coach – Inner Form ILA academy. Since 20 years she has been working in the automobile industry at Renault, leader in E-Mobility in Austria and Europe in 2019. As Business Development Manager EV and New Mobility she is in charge of new and eMobility, circular economy, as well as EV key account in Austria. Head of the working board for market take-off at the Austrian Mobile Power (www.austrianmobilepower.at) in 2018 and 2019, member of the Federal Initiative of eMobility in Austria (www.biem.at) and member of the strategy team of act4energy (www.act4.energy).

Eugen is Senior Manager in KPMG’s advisory practice in Luxembourg. He holds a diploma in Business Mathematics (Dipl.-Math. Oec.) from the University of Trier with special emphasis on Financial Mathematics and Economics. Upon completion of his studies, he started his career at KPMG Luxembourg, Société coopérative. Eugen has more than 10 years of experience in advising the asset management and banking industry on various aspects. With a strong focus on risk management, he actively works on solutions to measure sustainable return of focus investments, monitor risk indicators, and integrate ESG aspects into existing frameworks.

Alexander Zanker is an Executive Director and Head ESG Analytics at LGT Capital Partners Ltd.

He is responsible for the LGT ESG Cockpit that contributes to the success of sustainable equity, fixed income and multi-asset portfolios. Mr Zanker started his career as a Quantitative Analyst at Commerzbank Securities and as a Senior Quantitative Research Manager at Deka Investment GmbH, both in Frankfurt. From 2008 to 2011, he was Head of Investment Management Quant at LGT Capital Management in Pfaeffikon, Switzerland. Prior to rejoining LGT in 2014, Mr Zanker was Head Capital Protection Solutions at Vontobel Asset Management and Head Operations & Trading at Truewealth AG, both in Zurich.

Mr Zanker holds an MSc in Physics from the University of Stuttgart and is a CFA Charterholder.

Markus founded AREAM Group in 2005 and since has built up one of the leading integrated asset management companies in the sustainable infrastructure/ renewable energy sector in Germany. AREAM manages or operates investments of more than EUR 1 bn with a team of 25 international renewable energy specialists. Before founding AREAM, Markus was CEO and co-founder of IDEENKAPITAL, an ERGO Insurance Group owned asset management company in the alternative sector. Markus has studied Business Management (BWL) at the university of Cologne.