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What is Impact Investing?
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- Antony Ross, Partner at Bridges Venture, a pioneer in the impact investing space, mostly focusing on the UK
- Barbara Kong, Senior Investment Principal at D Capital, the financial advisory arm of Dalberg (international development consulting firm), focusing on impact investments in emerging markets
- Alex Pitt and Henry Wigan, CEO and founders of Mustard Seed, a VC firm investing in innovations having a significant positive impact.
Where
LT10
26 Sussex Place, Marylebone, London, NW1 4SA, United Kingdom
Speakers
Antony Ross
Director and Partner
Bridges Venture
Antony has been a director and partner at Bridges Ventures for over 11 years. Bridges manages over £750m of funds dedicated to using an impact-driven investment approach to benefit society. He leads the Bridges Sustainable Growth and Social Sector Funds, is a member of the Bridges Ventures investment committee and is also actively involved in the portfolio management of investments.
Antony is a Teaching Fellow at London Business School. Prior to Bridges, he led 3i’s European healthcare team and managed 3i’s operations in the North East and Cambridge. He studied Mechanical Engineering at Bristol University and has an MBA from London Business School.
Henry Wigan
Co-Founder and Director of Investment
Mustard Seed
Frequent panelist on impact investing – Google Campus, INSEAD, IESE, LBS, Oxford Skoll Centre, amongst others – and author of a private paper on Impact Investing in Frontier Markets.
Formerly Director and Portfolio Manager at BlackRock in London, having started his career at Goldman Sachs.
Recipient of the GSGL academic scholarship for social entrepreneurship and First Class Honours degree from London School of Economics in Economics and Economic History
Barbara Kong
Senior Investment Principal
D.Capital
Barbara Kong is a Senior Investment Principal based in London and her work focuses on advising impact investors and executing their fund and direct investment transactions. Barbara works on long-term mandates with European family offices on their impact investment portfolios. She has extensive experience sourcing, conducting due diligence and structuring investment opportunities in the agribusiness, energy and waste management sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa. Most recently, Barbara has been involved in developing an innovative insurance mechanism aimed at underwriting social impact projects in developing countries.
Prior to joining D. Capital, Barbara was a management consultant in Paris. Barbara worked on numerous engagements across the consumer goods, insurance and energy utilities sectors. Her work ranged from corporate strategy to operations improvement and strategic due diligence. Barbara also worked for Veolia Water in China as a project analyst, conducting technical feasibility studies for water treatment plant projects in North China.
Barbara holds a MBA from MIT Sloan and a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Paris. She is fluent in French and English.