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Rethinking Finance: Impact Investing & Financial Inclusion
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With a focus on but not limited to:
• Social Capital: Delivering growth for specific populations (women, minorities, etc) or for necessary projects (building, farming, etc) improving quality of life
• Community Capital: How do we lift sub-sects out of poverty and engage them in the economy? (Education initiatives, etc)
• Start-Up / SME Funds: Access to financing for companies in developing markets
Speakers:
Agustín Vitórica – Founder & Co-CEO @ Gawa Capital
Adedana Ashebir – Regional Manager @ Village Capital & Co-host/Co-Producer @ Afracanah Podcast
Vincent Leonard – Partner @ Impact Partners
Moderator: Ashley Olson Onyango – Head of Financial Inclusion & Agritech @ GSMA
Speakers
Vincent Leonard
Partner
Impact Partners
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentleonard/
Vincent is a Partner at IMPACT Partners, a Paris-based investment fund with 300 M€ assets under management, supporting companies with a strong social impact in deprived areas.
Vincent began his career at Arthur Andersen and then joined PepsiCo where he held numerous finance positions in France, England, China and at the group’s headquarters in New York.
Before joining Impact Partners, Vincent spent 7 years at Groupe SEB, as Senior Executive Vice-President, in charge of Finance and Legal. He is a graduate from ESSEC Business School in Paris.
Agustin Vitorica
Founder & Co-CEO
Gava Capital
https://www.linkedin.com/in/agustinvitorica/
Agustín Vitórica is Founder and Co-CEO of GAWA Capital, Spain’s leading impact investing firm with over €195 million in Assets under Management through four impact investing funds. In the last 10 years, Agustín has been instrumental in the introduction of Impact Investing as an asset class in Spain, having closed alliances for the distribution of its products with leading private banks, wealth managers and traditional asset managers. Through its investments GAWA Capital has helped more than 215 thousand low income families in developing countries.
Agustín holds over 20 years of private equity experience and is also Founder Member of SpainNAB and Teacher at the Master in Microfinance and Master in Impact Investing at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Teacher at the Master in Competitive Social Transformation at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Ashley Olson Onyango
Head of Financial Inclusion & Agritech
GSMA
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-olson-onyango/
Ashley Olson Onyango is a 2009 IESE alumni, with over 11 years' experience championing financial inclusion and access to finance for agricultural SMEs across sub-Saharan Africa. Ashley has worked with private foundations, public funders, impact investors and key stakeholders across the industry, designing and managing funds to support private sector businesses across sub-Saharan Africa in creating impact on rural and marginalized communities and livelihoods. She is the incoming Head of Financial Inclusion and AgriTech with the world's global mobile industry association, GSMA, promoting and accelerating the use of technology and digital innovations for impact. Ashley is passionate about finance for good and the role that the private sector plays in economic development.
Adedana Ashebir
Regional Director @ Village Capital & Co-host/Co-producer @ Afracanah Podcast
Village Capital
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adedanaashebir/
Adedana Ashebir leads Village Capital's strategy and work in Africa and the Middle East. Village Capital is the largest organization in the world investing in startups at the seed stage. Adedana has directly worked with both entrepreneurs and entrepreneur support organizations across Africa and authored reports on fintech and agriculture investments in the region. She is based in Nairobi, Kenya.