Good Deals + Beyond Good Business

Jed Emerson

We are thrilled that the internationally recognised author and “rock-star of mission-led business” – Jed Emerson – will be making a rare appearance with us in the UK.

Jed is now recognised as one of the founding fathers of the impact investment movement. He co-authored the first existing book on impact investing, and coined the term “Blended Value”: the idea that the value we create in our lives is a blend of social, environmental and economic elements.

Several impact investment books later, Jed’s latest work, The Purpose of Capital, explores not just the how to invest for more than money, but the why – meaning how we might think about the integrated purpose of our wealth and place in the world.

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Michelle Morgan

Michelle Morgan is an award winning founder of 5 purpose led businesses, winner of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award, the Queens Award for Innovation, Lloyds Business awards and most recently invited to join the Society of Leadership Fellows at Windsor Castle.

In December 2016, 16 years into her entrepreneurial journey, having spent the year leading the Livity the youth led network she founded in 2001 through a successful £1.5million social investment round, she burnt out suddenly and violently, physically and mentally. What came next was even more challenging as she realized her passion and purpose for the business she had created and loved deeply had also burnout, triggering a terrifying episode of anxiety followed by depression.

As part of her own self-care and alongside a medical recovery plan Michelle gave herself permission to play with the idea ‘if I did it all over again what would I do?”. She hit a wall immediately as she found it impossible to follow the rule of ‘do something you love’ as she had depression: “I’m not passionate about anything apart from sitting in my beautiful PJs you bought me for Christmas” she’d wail to her husband Remi Rough, an artist. This continued until one day she suddenly found herself at the crossroads of where brilliance meets madness, where the PJs that represented everything holding back became her inspiration. She wondered, ‘Could we use the duality and symbolism of ‘the PJ day’, both good and not good, to help make mental health an everyday conversation?” Could we make the most kind, caring, ethical and sustainable PJs, designed by the most brilliant artists, using the PJ as our blank canvas to create something beautiful and joyful? And could we use our product, platform, packaging and people as the Trojan horse to deliver hopeful stories of mental health and as a way to celebrate the small joys in life? There might just be something in it…

Josh Babarinde

Josh is Founder and CEO of Cracked It, London’s social enterprise tech repair service, staffed by young ex-offenders.

Cracked It delivers pop-up tech repair services in large workplaces, including The US Embassy, Ministry of Justice, Deutsche Bank and River Island.

Cracked It was awarded ‘Social Enterprise of the Year 2018’ by the Centre for Social Justice, named one of ‘London’s best iPhone fixers’ by the Evening Standard, and featured in Natwest’s 2019 SE100 list of top UK social enterprises.

Josh was featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 List 2019 in the Social Entrepreneurs category. He is one of the youngest ever alumni of the US State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Programme in its 70-year history, whose graduates also include 337 current or serving heads of government and state. He is a Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust and the US State Department.

@JoshBabarinde @Cracked It

Jessica Brown

Jessica Brown is the Connect Fund Manager at the Barrow Cadbury Trust. Jessica has responsibility to develop and deliver this infrastructure fund to strengthen and diversify the social investment market, which the Barrow Cadbury Trust manages in partnership with the Access Foundation. With a fund of £3m over three years, the investments and grants made by the fund will enhance existing infrastructure, bring new entrants into the sector and develop enterprising ideas to build the market. Jessica has experience in social investment, community finance and grant-making, having worked in leadership roles across social enterprises and charitable trusts in the UK and abroad for the past 15 years. Previous roles include Director of the Tellus Mater Foundation and Head of Access to Finance at the new economics foundation. Early in her career, Jessica worked in investment banking at Merrill Lynch in New York and London. Jessica has served as a trustee for several small charities and early stage social enterprises, and is currently Chair of Hatch Enterprise, a social enterprise incubator in South London.

Adele Blakebrough MBE

Adele Blakebrough MBE is CEO and Co-Founder of Social Business Trust (SBT), a charity which supports high-potential social enterprises and charities to grow and become more sustainable.

It does that by investing professional support and cash grants from its leading corporate partners in a carefully selected portfolio of organisations.

Since 2010, SBT has positively impacted the lives of 1.9 million people, providing £18 million worth of in-kind and financial assistance, including 35,000 hours of high-quality business support.

Before setting up SBT, Adele was co-founder and CEO of CAN, a leading UK organisation for the development and promotion of social entrepreneurs.

Adele was also CEO of the nationally renowned Kaleidoscope project, working with 350 heroin users daily.

Adele received the Business In The Community Sieff Award for engaging business for social benefit and was made an MBE for services to social enterprises.

She is a Director of Impact International and Chair of the International Advisory Board for Cardiff Business School.

Tim West

Tim has been working in the space where business and social mission meet for well over a decade. He works with boards and senior teams to bring strategic thinking to their marketing, brand development, and communications.

Tim founded Matter&Co in 2001 after many years working as a journalist and editor on local, national and specialist publications. He is also founding editor of Pioneers Post, the digital and print magazine for social entrepreneurs, with readers in 60 countries and which itself is a social enterprise, ploughing profits back into great journalism and film content. Tim also founded Good Deals, the UK’s leading international conference for social enterprise, impact investing and responsible business, and he created the UK’s market intelligence tool tracking the growth and impact of more than 1,300 social enterprises, which aims to help develop the social enterprise marketplace.

Tim has a BA in Music from Oxford University and studied business at Warwick and Cranfield. He is a director of Big Issue Invest, the investment arm of The Big Issue; a trustee of ECT, one of the UK’s leading transport charities; and serves on the UK Council of Social Value International.

Devi Clark

Devi Clark is Programmes Director at Impact Hub King’s Cross, providing a range of business support interventions to help social entrepreneurs start up or grow ethical ventures including the Impact Hub Scaling programme, supporting 110 social enterprises scale across 8 European countries, Feeding the City, an ethical food programme and the ChangeMaker Challenge which offers students funding and support to develop plastic waste reduction solutions. Devi is founder of the Outsiders’ Network, ran TEDxAylesbury 2015 and has blogged at Huffington Post, Brazen Careerist, Life Hack and Third Sector. Her book, People, Planet, Passion, reached #2 in the Amazon Kindle store for Nonprofit Organisations and Charities. Devi has an MA (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh and a Postgraduate Certificate in Careers Guidance from University of East London.

Dirk Bischof

Dirk is the CEO/ founder of HATCH. He focuses on achieving it core aim to “support 1000 mission-driven businesses in South London by 2020,” by building partnerships with local and corporate businesses.

Since 2004 he has raised over £3.5M for sustainability, vocational training and entrepreneurship projects and programmes across the UK and Europe. Dirk helped set-up a number of social enterprises and a commercial Solar PV company. He’s passionate about social enterprise and helping people get their ventures off the ground.

He managed to get through a BSc in Social Anthropology with Business Studies and a Masters in Social Anthropology (Goldsmiths). A cyclist commuter by heart, he loves it so much that he’s done a few 1000+ miles charity rides around England and Japan.

Laurence McCahill

Laurence McCahill and Carlos Saba are the founders of The Happy Startup School, ex-agency founders and friends since real school. Since 2012 they’ve built a thriving, global community of entrepreneurs and leaders that put purpose before profits. Through an online platform and their legendary off-grid gatherings they provide inspiration, support and accountability for those that want to make money, do good and be happy.

Olivia Sibony

Liv is an award-winning entrepreneur who left a career at Goldman Sachs to launch her foodtech startup, GrubClub, which she sold to Eatwith in 2017.

As an ex-founder, she was only too aware of the challenges entrepreneurs face in raising funds and wanted to help make this process more efficient and transparent. So she joined Angel Investment Network (having raised money for Grub Club through them) to launch and grow SeedTribe, a spinoff platform focused specifically on connecting “impactful” businesses with investors.

She is also a Board member of UCL’s Fast Forward 2030, which aims to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs to launch businesses that address the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Luke Fletcher

Luke Fletcher is a partner at Bates Wells, where he co-leads the firm’s Impact Economy practice and advises clients seeking to have a positive social impact through their business and other activities.

Luke is an expert on the boundaries and interplay between the worlds of charity and business – his work often involves structuring relationships correctly and appropriately where charities are interacting with businesses or operating in market contexts. His team’s practice therefore spans charity, social enterprise, responsible business and impact investing.

Clients vary from international NGOs, household name charities, Governments, major corporates and investment banks, to purpose driven businesses, impact investors, entrepreneurs and philanthropists. Many clients need strategic, tailored and practical advice.

Luke has worked on many of the most significant developments in the growing ‘Impact Economy’, including:

• The structuring of key institutions such as Big Society Capital and Social Finance
• Advising the European Commission on the law and regulation of social enterprise across Europe
• Working in Government on the design of social investment tax relief
• Creating governance principles for community interest companies which are endorsed by the CIC Regulator
• Making the argument for the new statutory social investment power for charities
• Creating the official model documents and guidance on social impact bonds
• Developing the legal and governance requirements for B Corps
• Designing and launching Purposely to help businesses to embed purpose in different ways

Antonio Gould

Antonio heads up Teach Monster Games, the team behind Teach Your Monster to Read, now one of the world’s most widely used digital literacy products. Funded by the Usborne Foundation, they are a charitable social enterprise building digital games and apps for children which are both fun to play and have a positive social impact.

Ashley Richardson

Ashley is the Enterprise and Innovation Lead for Peabody. She is responsible for delivering the Economic and Innovation strategy by researching and implementing opportunities for economic growth and sustainability in London

Ashley has over six years of experience and a track record of success in supporting the growth of communities. Throughout her career she has led on trailblazing projects with combined income streams in excess of £500K.

With over 55,000 homes, Peabody is one of the largest housing providers in London and the south-east. They deliver services to 111,000 residents, 8,000 care and support customers, and the wider communities in which they work. They focus on those who need our help the most, working with people and communities to build resilience and promote wellbeing. They create and invest in great places where people want to live. Their ambitious housebuilding programme will deliver thousands of new homes by 2021.

Most recently Ashley has been selected as Peabody’s Community Impact Partnership Lead. The Community Impact Partnership is a £3million joint initiative between four of the UK’s leading housing associations which provides social investment in the form of blended grants and loans to help charitable organisations, social enterprises and community businesses to grow and innovate.

Seb Elsworth

Seb has been Chief Executive of the Access Foundation since May 2015, overseeing a team of seven.

Prior to joining Access, Seb was Deputy Chief Executive at the Social Investment Business, a leading social investment intermediary, where he led on developing a range of programmes helping charities and social enterprises access social investment, and bringing new investors into the social investment market.

Seb was previously Director of Strategy at ACEVO, and he started his career as a student executive officer at Leeds University Union.

Seb was appointed to the Council of the University of Leeds in August 2016, and was a trustee of Kings College London Students Union from 2011 to 2015.

Scott Roy

Scott Roy co-founded Whitten & Roy Partnership, an international sales consultancy that helps socially minded businesses and organisations transform their sales results. He previously built and ran large direct sales organisations, as well as co-founded a nationwide direct sales insurance company in the United States.

Together with business partner Dr Roy Whitten, Scott Roy leads a network of consultants operating in 40 countries around the world. Drawing on several decades of sales experience in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors, and with a background in psychology and business development, Whitten & Roy Partnership offers an ethical sales approach that is fit for use by socially minded organisations that are genuinely concerned with the well-being of their own people and the clients they serve.

For more information visit www.wrpartnership.com.

Natasha Jolob

Natasha Jolob is a social impact and investment adviser for three local infrastructure support organisations in the East and West Midlands – Co-operative and Social Enterprise Development Agency (CASE), Wolverhampton Voluntary Sector Council (WVCS) and Voluntary Action Leicestershire (VAL). She is currently supporting them to identify and support local organisations to develop enterprise models, collaborate and access patient capital.

Natasha has over 20 years’ experience of working with for the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) in many roles, at all levels (she has worked from the bottom up) and in most sectors. She has worked for one of the largest funders in the UK, the Social Investment Business, where she provided business development and investment readiness services to organisations across the UK. Natasha knows the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector inside out, having helped hundreds of organisations to develop, grow and access funding and social investment.

Natasha has a Masters in International Development and a Degree in Geography. Her global experience includes experience with Social Venture Network, a network of socially and environmentally responsible business, and the Forum on Early Warning and Early Response – an international peace-building network.

She also has significant public sector experience – she has worked in local authorities, she has strategic commissioning and procurement skills and she has developed public sector business cases and designed social impact bond models for local partnerships across the East and West Midlands.

Natasha also has her own small boutique consultancy social enterprise called Kai-zen Change for Good. Kai-zen is a business improvement concept that literally means to ‘change and improve for the better’. This is her underlying motive – to make a stepped change in how business is done so that markets, commerce, technology and finance improve outcomes for people and the planet.

Natasha has served as a trustee and family support volunteer for Home-Start Horizons for many years. She is a black belt martial artist and she practices yoga and meditation in her spare time!

Holger Westphely

Holger is part of the senior management team at CAF Venturesome and shares responsibility for the strategy and operations of the investment team. Duties include appraisals of applications, monitoring the CAF Venturesome portfolio, overseeing SE-Assist, the placed-based fund for early stage social enterprises, managing the team’s operations, and supporting new business development. Holger co-founded Aylesbury Partnerships which provides investment and contract readiness services to organsations in the voluntary sector, and co-founded Eastside Primetimers which advises organsations in raising finance.

Megan Peat

Megan Peat is the CEO of NatWest Social & Community Capital. S&CC is an independent charity, supported by NatWest, providing loan finance, alongside business support, to viable social enterprises who make a positive impact to their community but who are unable to access mainstream funding. Megan joined NatWest in 2007 from a US investment bank and has a background in credit underwriting and business development. She sits on the board of a personal lending Responsible Finance provider and, along with her team, is passionate about the amazing and life changing social enterprises that S&CC have helped support and the dedicated and committed people who run them.

Andy Daly

Andy leads on corporate partnerships at Social Enterprise UK (SEUK), the national membership body for social enterprises. He has a particular interest in the way procurement can deliver a more strategic corporate social responsibility by driving growth and impact at B2B social enterprises.

His role at SEUK includes development and delivery of the Buy Social Corporate Challenge: an initiative supporting a group of high-profile businesses to spend £1 billion with UK social enterprises.

Andy has worked in the Third Sector for 10 years, having previously worked at social enterprises and intermediaries such as UnLtd, School for Social Entrepreneurs and HCT Group.

Andy is a Fellow of the RSA and a Fellow (alumnus) of On Purpose. He is also a big fan of live music, and a member of the team which runs the annual Oxjam Clapham music festival.

Andreea Anastasiu

Andreea Anastasiu is a Senior Policy Engagement Officer at the Government Outcomes Lab (GO Lab), a centre of academic research and practice based at the University of Oxford exploring the practice and impact of outcomes-focused approaches to tackling entrenched social issues.

Andreea leads the implementation of the practitioner-focused work of the GO Lab. As such, she works closely with government policymakers and commissioners, and stakeholders across the private, voluntary and academic sectors in the UK and beyond, to help inform policy decisions and improve the development of outcomes-focused models of public service provision, such as social impact bonds. Andreea manages GO Lab’s programme of capacity building and engagement, which includes advice and support to commissioning authorities and their partners, bespoke training, communities of practice and the annual international conference on social outcomes. Andreea also coordinates GO Lab’s Fellows of Practice network and international partnerships.

Prior to joining the GO Lab, Andreea worked as a Policy Adviser in local government, focussing on strategy and policy development. She is particularly interested in how innovation and cross-sector collaboration can help build a fairer and stronger society, and in ways to improve accountability and transparency in government.

Caroline Hyde

Caroline is passionate about social ventures and tech for good and their potential to create positive change for people, planet and place.

Having spearheaded Allia’s Future Business Centre growth from an initial site in Cambridge to four locations across Cambridge, East London and Peterborough Caroline also co-designed and managed innovation programmes such as Serious Impact and Future20, a national programme supporting tech for good ventures addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

As CEO, Caroline leads on Allia Future Business Centre’s strategy and partnerships understanding how to develop collaborations between the private, public and philanthropic sectors to support innovation and ventures that can address critical local and global challenges.

Ceri Goddard

Ceri is Associate Director of Social Justice for the Dartington Hall Trust, leading their new Centre for Social Justice Innovation.

As a previous Director of Equality and Gender Innovation at the Young Foundation she initiated and the Gender Futures initiative which developed new gender equality innovation and gender lens investment frameworks and projects, as well as wider work to increase the equality impact of placed based social innovation and investment.

Prior to this she spent 4 years as Chief Executive of The Fawcett Society, the UK’s leading campaigning organisation for women’s equality and rights. Before joining Fawcett, as Director of Practice and Development at the British Institute of Human Rights , she led a range of campaigns and practice initiatives, to bring human rights to life in areas such as equality, health and social care, education, tackling poverty and strengthening the impact of civil society sector campaigning and advocacy.

As well as number of roles building local, regional and national civil society equality organisation’s she also worked for Irelands Combat Poverty Agency where she pioneered programmes to increase the voice and influence of traditionally excluded groups in national anti-poverty policy and the cross border EU Peace and Reconciliation programme.

She is previous Chair of the Women’s Resource Centre, trustee of the UK Equality and Diversity Forum and founder board member of AGENDA – The Alliance for Women and Girls at Risk. An fellow of Young Foundation and the Royal Society of Arts, in 2016 Ceri was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Open University for innovation in equality and social justice

Recent Publications:

Unequal Nation – The case for social innovation to work for a gender equal future, 2015,
The Sky’s The Limit – Increasing investment impact with a gender lens, 2016

Edward Finch

Eddie is a Partner and works in the Charity & Not-for-Profit team. As well as a wide range of charities, he has a particular interest in social enterprise. He oversees the audit and advisory services that Buzzacott delivers to his clients operating locally, nationally and internationally.

As well as advice relating to financial statements and reporting, advisory work for Edward’s clients encompasses structures and governance, financial strategy, risk management, reviews of systems and processes and training. He undertakes a variety of writing and speaking, and is a frequent presenter at the firm’s seminars and sector conferences.

Edward has held a number of voluntary board roles and is currently a member of the risk committee of an international social enterprise working in partnership with major corporates, INGO’s and public authorities.

Becky Schutt

Prior to her appointment as Head of DICE, Becky built a consulting practice over a period of fifteen years specialising in executive strategy and operational and capital planning for creative and cultural organisations, consortia and funders the world over. She has worked with over 70 clients, including Amman National Music Conservatory, Art Dubai, Arts Council England, Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity, Beamish Museum, National Museum of Afghanistan, Open Society Institute, Prince’s Foundation for Children & the Arts, State Tretyakov Gallery, Tate and the Welsh Government.

Becky began her career aboard Artrain, a museum on a train that toured America and housed the NASA art collection; and then worked at The Newark Museum and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Her interest and mission to working with creative organisations that ignite ‘child-like’ curiosity, inspire agency, build positive community relationships, and explore and address challenging local/global issues was confirmed during this time. With an enthusiastic commitment to inspiring the next generation of board members and directors, Becky was Fellow and Lecturer at University of Cambridge Judge Business School (2007-2016), where she established the Cultural, Arts and Media concentration on the MBA programme. She is Chair of Hoipolloi Theatre and Founding Chair of the UK Relaxed Theatre Project, designed for people with autism and their families. She earned her BA in Arts and Ideas from the University of Michigan and her MBA from the University of Cambridge.

Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson is a Grammy Award Winning Producer/ Engineer and Award-Winning Film Director. For the past 20 years, Mark has worked with some of the most renowned producers in the music, film and television industries, and with such musical artists as Paul Simon, Jackson Browne, Keith Richards, Sara Bareilles, Bono, Robbie Robertson and Ringo Starr. In hopes of showcasing musical talent found on the streets, Johnson parlayed his musical knowledge and technical skills to turn his vision into what is now known as Playing For Change. Mark has recorded and filmed music around the world in over 60 countries and he has dedicated his life to connecting the world through music.

Playing For Change (www.playingforchange.com) is a multimedia movement created to inspire, connect, and bring peace to the world through music. The idea for this project arose from a common belief that music has the power to break down boundaries and overcome distances between people. Mark’s vision became an effort to share this truth with the world. Playing For Change is the 2019 recipient of the prestigious Polar Music Prize often referred to as the Nobel Prize of Music.

Mark also sits on the Board of Directors for the Playing For Change Foundation, a separate 501(c)3 nonprofit organization created in 2007 in order to bring music education to children in communities the team had visited while traveling. Mark Johnson has also been a keynote speaker at the United Nations, TED Global, the World Economic Forum in Davos and a featured guest on “The Colbert Report”, “Tavis Smiley”, “Bill Moyer’s Journal and CNN heroes. Such icons as Norman Lear, Chris Blackwell and Howard Schultz have supported Playing For Change and the PFC movement continues to grow one heart and one song at a time.

Playing For Change Accolades
Polar Music Prize (Sweden)
Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Award
Asia Game Changers Award (United Nations)
Rebel With A Cause Award (Reserva – Brazil)
Human Security Award

Bridget Rennie

Bridget Rennie is Co-Executive Director at Streetwise Opera, an award-winning performing arts charity for people who are or have been homeless. Streetwise Opera runs creative programmes across England and stages critically-acclaimed operas.

Bridget has a proven track record in effective strategic planning, successful fundraising and sector-leading impact measurement. Following a career in arts fundraising and events and concert management, she joined Streetwise Opera in 2011 as Head of Development and after growing the charity’s income by 88% over four years, became Co-Executive Director in 2016.

In 2016 Bridget participated in a Clore Leadership Course, a two-week intensive cultural leadership programme. She has co-led the charity through a strategic planning process, developing a strategy focused on participant progression, regional development, communications and diversity. Bridget is a Trustee of Music in Detention, a charity which works with immigration detainees.

Arti Bareja

Arti has 8 years of experience in the banking sector doing M&A and Portfolio Management. More recently, she worked for Fair Finance helping to build their SME lending business based on the principles of responsible lending. She joined ClearlySo in 2018 with a mandate to grow their impact focussed individual investor network. Arti holds a BA(Hons) in Mathematics from Delhi University and a MSc in Economics from LSE. In her spare time, she likes to run and read.

Daniel Wilson

Daniel has worked with Big Issue Invest since 2011 and has managed a number of funding programs designed to provide investment to smaller social enterprises and charities.

Tristan Ace

Tristan has more than 15 years’ experience working in more than 20 countries in Central and Eastern Europe, sub-Saharan Africa and for the past 8 years in East and South Asia.

Tristan Leads the British Council’s work in social enterprise and impact investment in the Asia Pacific region and is responsible for the flagship policy and government engagement programme which provides support to develop social entrepreneurship policy and strategy in the region. Through this programme, he has developed a range of partnerships and policy initiatives with government and regional multinational organisations.

Tristan is passionate about the role that social enterprises can play in building fair, inclusive and just societies and has a particular interest in both the role that social enterprise can play in strengthening civil society and the role that governments can play in driving innovation in policy that support social entrepreneurship and social innovation more broadly. He is currently based in Hong Kong and has previously lived and worked in mainland China (Beijing), Myanmar (Yangon) and Poland (Krakow).

Servane Mouazan

Servane is an experienced conscious innovation entrepreneur, helping small and large businesses understand people’s needs in a changing economy, working across industries in the UK, South America, Europe and the MENA. As the founder/director of Ogunte CIC, a certified BCorp that amplifies women in socially responsible businesses and their ecosystem, she has developed the first incubator and growth readiness program for women in social enterprises in the UK, supported over 7500 change makers, managed funds for social innovators, advised gender-focused funds on programming and strategy, and has run the International Women’s Social Leadership Awards with over 130 finalists from 23 countries.

A management consultant, she currently leads on the Equality portfolio at Cadence Innova, a company that helps the public sector increase its positive social impact, through business and digital transformation.

Proud to be 1 of #WISE100 leading women in social enterprise in 2017.

Jill Jackson

Jill Jackson is the Managing Director of The Big Exchange, a simple, mobile first financial services platform that will launch in 2019. It is a mission driven business that is part of The Big Issue family, looking to improve financial inclusion. The first phase this will see investment funds offered that are exclusively focussed on having a positive impact on people or the planet, with future phases including other ethical financial services and a cash account. Prior to this, Jill was the Head of UK Retail at Aberdeen Standard Investments and was responsible for the retail book of business that has around 120,000 direct customers invested in the companies UK Mutual funds. Jill was also a member of the Ethical Funds Advisory Group and the Impact Advisory Group that govern the Ethical and Impact funds run by Aberdeen Standard Investments. Jill is also a member of the TISA board. Jill joined Standard Life Investments in 2015 following the acquisition of Ignis Asset Management where Jill was responsible for a wide range of activities including CRM, the retail business, management information and change management. Jill was at Ignis Asset Management for 18 years and prior to that worked at Scottish Amicable Investment Managers.

Zeejah Fazli

Zeejah Fazli is a cultural programs director, educationist, producer, musician and an entrepreneur, in the field for the last 25 years. Besides being the founder and president of FACE – Foundation for Arts, Culture and Education, his initiatives include founding and establishing “The Rock Musicarium”, a 2acre amphitheater facility in Islamabad at Lake View Park. Zeejah has a wide exposure as an Artistic Director and is spearheading flagship projects such as FACE Music Mela (The largest music, food and artisans festival of Pakistan since 2014), Pakistan Showcase Abroad. (Promoting Pakistani culture in the west through Music) and womart.pk (An e-commerce platform for empowering women artisans from underserved rural areas of Pakistan and promoting our culture) and various other national and international training programs and workshops in Arts and Culture.

In 2014, He also founded and set the artistic vision for the first ever Art space in Islamabad called “FACE” where he has conducted workshops and trainings for filmmakers and musicians, presented theater, including Broadway, and visual artists and musicians of all genres. In the last two decades, at various venues in Pakistan and abroad, Zeejah has presented thousands of artists and artisans from a variety of disciplines and premiered numerous new works in programs attracting more than 50,000 of audience annually. Zeejah connected art and people in joyous, creative, and popular programs. His commitment to cultural promotion, public engagement and community connections, promises to promote the rich and diverse culture and hence positive image of Pakistan.

Jana Stefanovska-Nightingale

Jana Bio: Jana Stefanovska-Nightingale has spent more than a decade working in education and delivers mental health and wellbeing courses in various settings around the country. Jana is also a Psychosynthesis coach and counsellor, qualified with BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy) and PDF (Professional Development Foundation) at post-graduate level. Prior to her work as a trainer, Jana graduated from King’s College London with first class honours in Literature and spent 6 years running her own wellbeing events business, NOW Live Events, which was the official events partner of Psychologies Magazine.

Mindapples Bio: Mindapples helps people manage their minds. Grounded in science and backed by a passionate community, we aim to make looking after our minds as natural as brushing our teeth

John Murray

John Murray is a Loans Officer for NatWest Social & Community Capital, providing loan finance to Charities and Social Enterprises across the UK that are making positive changes to their communities but finding it difficult to access mainstream finance. John joined NatWest in 2007 and is involved in delivering NatWest Moneysense and Young Enterprise sessions to local schools, supports local charities with fundraising and volunteering and is active as a Business Mentor as part of the Prince’s Trust Enterprise Programme.

Marla Shapiro

Marla is an experienced entrepreneur, mentor and supporter of female founded businesses.

Working for over 15 years in the media technology space, she specializes in building sustainable, revenue generating businesses from new technologies. Through her own advisory business, Front Yard Consulting, Marla has worked with both start-up businesses as well as large corporates seeking to innovate around technical change. Prior to working in media and technology, Marla worked as an investment banker in New York and London and has an MBA from the MIT-Sloan School in Boston.

Marla is a mentor to young entrepreneurs through the Imperial College Venture Mentor Service and also has judged funding competitions for the College’s various venture start-up contests. In addition, she is a new business angel and a member of the Green Angels (green tech) syndicate. And, Marla is committed to supporting women funders and founders as a co-founder of investHER.

Jari Moate

Jari works in the Ventures team at Resonance, advising a range of business types. As a real estate and regeneration expert with particular experience in deal structuring for residential and commercial property, he deals with many of our support-driven, community-led, affordable housing and workspace providers.

Previous work includes property work for large and small organizations including Bristol East Side Traders, the BBC, LoveBristol and Brighton’s Bridge Education Centre.

Outside work Jari is a novelist and short story writer, founder of the Bristol Festival of Literature and runs a writing group for homeless ex-armed service personnel. He is also a lay speaker in his local church.

Peter Babudu

Peter Babudu is a Labour Councillor for Rye Lane, Southwark. Peter is also the Deputy Cabinet Member for Innovation in Southwark Council. He has been tasked with establishing the Southwark Pioneers Fund, an innovation fund to support local entrepreneurs who make a positive contribution to Southwark.

Peter is also Executive Director at Prime Advocates, focusing on helping firms to incorporate responsible investment practices and to become responsible businesses more generally.

Peter is a leading social impact expert and has designed and delivered projects with a wide range of social impact funds, banks, national and regional government departments, private organisations and charitable foundations. His work has also included providing strategic advice on impact measurement approaches to large UK social investors. He has been responsible for impact reporting on various multi-million pound impact programmes, accelerators and government funds.

Peter previously qualified as a solicitor at the magic circle law firm Clifford Chance, in their corporate finance division. Peter holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and an MSc in International Development from Birkbeck, University of London.

Richard Thickpenny

Working with refugee communities since 2004, Richard has brought his lived experience into the design of innovative programs which challenge the status quo, resulting in ACH becoming recognised as a thought leader in refugee integration.

Richard leads ACH’s ambitious research and consultancy plans, which links world-renowned academics with our #rethinkingrefugee ethos.
He presents regularly on the topics of refugee self-integration and policy-controlled integration, providing inspirational and insightful discourse around how barriers are created by policy and the enhancement of agency necessary to overcome them.

Richard is currently undertaking an Executive MBA at Aston Business School focused on international business.

Richard Litchfield

Richard is the Chief Executive of Eastside Primetimers – the social sector consultants. The organisation has a mission to build the capacity and effectiveness of social enterprises and charities, which it does through a team of 130 senior business and charity professionals across the country, selected for their experience and commercial know-how. It is a large provider of investment readiness and fundraising support, helping organisations to finance their growth and development.

As well as leading on the firm’s strategic development and partnerships with funders, Richard specialises in charity mergers and finance, and continues to advise clients working in social housing, health and social care, and education.

Leo Allen

Leo is an organisational coach, helping companies and the individuals who work in them work better, more efficiently and (most importantly) more happily. Bringing his background of working for tech startups everywhere from Cape Town to Silicon Valley, he loves to help companies take the best ideas to come from that world (lean startup, agile, design thinking, radical candor etc.) and leave out the worst.

He is currently working with Teach Monster Games to help them as they begin to gradually scale up following the huge success of their first game Teach Your Monster To Read. He is particularly a fan of their “patient capital” model of funding, where the focus is on gradual growth and sustainable long-term impact.

Samantha Magne

Sam’s remit covers the learning that The National Lottery Community Fund are seeking to generate from our work on Social Investment.

In particular this includes work with Access and Big Society Capital on making social investment more accessible through small-scale unsecured blended finance and, the Fund’s work to explore ways of commissioning better outcomes through tools such as Social Impact Bonds.

Sam also plays a role in The National Lottery Community Fund’s wider work to develop a more joined-up ecology of development support for the VCSE sector and, in learning about different ways of putting money to work, to more effectively support cross-sectoral collective impact partnerships.

Sam’s interest in social impact began when working as an engineer in emergency relief and international development, and prior to joining the Fund 7 years ago, also worked as an evaluator, advisor and social researcher with public sector, voluntary organisations and social enterprises for 13 years.

Barry Forde

Head of Technical Services, ISS, University of Lancaster till I retired in 2005. Responsible for networking within the University and across the NW region. I’m a Professorial Fellow in Computer Networking at Lancaster University. After retiring founded Broadband for the Rural North Ltd (B4RN) a social enterprise working to deliver world class broadband to the deeply rural areas of the North West. Currently CEO of B4RN, awarded MBE for my work on rural broadband.

Sergio Lopez Figueroa

Sergio Lopez Figueroa is a Spanish social entrepreneur and a creative leader for social change with professional experience as a videographer and music teacher for special needs. He founded Big Bang Lab, an award winning media learning enterprise involved in the use of digital video to bring generations together. As a composer and pianist he has written and performed music for opera, theatre and silent films including concert improvisatory pieces for full orchestra.

He is the creator of Humming in Harmony, a social mindfulness practise designed to connect people together through sound to beat social isolation across ages and promoting inner peace, empathy, resilience and self care with a focus on preventive mental health. He is seeking scientific research partners looking at the interface between music perception, neuroscience and acoustics to validate the crossover application of humming for healing purposes in healthcare, performing arts and education,

He is currently developing a HUM mindfulness learning app to train users on active listening and communal sound meditation. His vision is to include Humming as a model of care for mental healthcare face to face and digitally. The future use of a royalty shared model systems will reward patients to become music creators and performers in the the collective co-creation of sound humming archives available worldwide and locally.

Charlie Palmer

Charlie is one of the co-founders of ForestCar – an airport car sharing service for eco-friendly travelers. ForestCar offer car owners free airport parking in exchange for renting their car out to other members. ForestCar was born from the idea that sharing is an essential part of the fight against climate change. This is also the reason why ForestCar invest 10% of their profits to plant trees in tropical rainforests. Before ForestCar, Charlie spent 5 years working as an innovation consultant. He advised big businesses on how to adapt and survive in the digital age, including helping to manage innovation programs and supporting teams to launch new products and services.

Rosemary Addis

Rosemary is a pioneering leader and go to strategist with 30-years’ track record built on a unique combination of commercial acumen, policy, innovation and leading global expertise in impact. She is a highly experienced Chair and Director with deep experience across public, private and community sectors and is widely published on impact, innovation and investment.

Rosemary inspires people to change the way they think about things, informing change agendas shaping society for the future and mobilising innovation and investment to solve complex problems. As a leading global expert in impact strategy, policy, innovation and governance, Rosemary is committed to shaping the world we want for the future and works with like-minded leaders around the world to solve complex problems, drive real solutions and demonstrate impact in action. She has been at the forefront of thought leadership and practice shaping global systems and governance to drive impact at scale for over 15 years.

Rosemary founded and Chairs the Australian Advisory Board on Impact Investing and its operating company, Impact Investing Australia. She was a member of the G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce 2013-15 and was elected the board of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment in 2018 and is and expert adviser to the OECD and Impact Management Project.
Over a 30 year+ career, Rosemary has held senior roles as a professional services partner at Allens-Linklaters, in the community and philanthropic sectors and State and Federal Government, including as Social Innovation Strategist leading the Australian Government’s first social innovation unit 2010-13.

Rosemary has a law degree (First Class Honours), the New York Bar, is an experienced director and Chair and graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and an internationally accredited broker of cross-sector partnerships. She is published widely in social innovation and investment and was recognised in the AFR/Westpac 100 Women of Influence for contributions to innovation (2015), was a finalist for Women in Finance Thought Leader of the Year (2017). Impact Investing Australia was recognised as Impact Investing Asia Pacific Market Builder of the Year (2018).

Paul Talliard

My name is Paul Talliard. Twenty five years ago, I was appointed as one of the first Firemen of colour in Apartheid South Africa.I graduated at the top of my class and enjoyed a sparkling career. Sadly, in my 12th year, I was introduced to crack cocaine and lost everything in one year. I spent the next few years as a transient drug addict/alcoholic, surviving by my wits. One day, seven years ago, I stumbled into a soup kitchen as a 50Kg drug addicted weakling and realised I had hit rock-bottom.

This stark realisation helped me to conquer a 35 year old drug habit and I founded Hands of Honour a few months later. Hands of Honour was formed mostly in response to the alarming increase in the amount of young and adult men just languishing in soup kitchens all over Cape Town. Many of the men were also participating in anti-social activities. In some cases I found up to three generations of the same family present in the Soup Kitchen. That would be the grandfather, son and grandson.

MY SOLUTION Rehabilitating Communities and Waste/Obsolete Stock through engaging the socially marginalised‘’ I was fortunate to be part of Unlimited UK’s (UnLtd UK) pilot Social Enterprise project in Cape Town around 2012 ,where I learned about Social Entrepreneurship and even went on to win seed funding from them in 2013. Through hard work and support from various sources , I have founded an UPCYCLING program that has been widely celebrated and recognized as a creative solution to the social ills that plaque Cape Town, especially the Cape Flats and have attained the following a nominations:

• Top 5 ( Finalist) Chivas $1 Million Venture SA 2018
• Finalist: SAB Foundation Social Innovation Awards 2018
• Winner – Swarm Vision – ‘’Future of Education ‘’ 2016
• Spark* SA Changemaker of the Year 2014
• Winner SA UnLtd Award 2013
• Nominee: Rockefeller Foundation 100 Innovators Award 2013
• Recognised: World Design Capital CT 2014
• Finalist: Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award 2012.

Dr. Vaqar Ahmed

Dr. Vaqar Ahmed is Joint Executive Director at Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) Pakistan and lead for Pakistan in a UNDP’s regional programme: ‘Trade Winds of Change – women entrepreneurs on the rise in South Asia’. He is former Advisor, UNDP and has undertaken assignments with Asian Development Bank, World Bank, and Ministries of Finance, Planning and Commerce in Pakistan. He was a technical associate and member in the task forces constituted by the Government of Pakistan including Advisory Panel of Economists (2008), Task force on Private Sector Development (2009), Working Group on Macroeconomic Framework for Tenth Five Year Plan 2010-15, and Working Group on Social Sector Development for Pakistan Vision 2025. He has published extensively in areas such as inclusive growth and infrastructure reforms, trade and taxation policies, trade in services, youth employment, women-led social enterprises, and social safety nets.

He is also a visiting faculty member and researcher at the University of Le Havre in France, National University of Ireland, IMT Institute of Advanced Studies in Italy, Pakistan Institute of Trade and Development and Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.

Reetu Sood

Reetu is a freelance consultant, coach and trainer, bringing more than 14 years’ experience working with social enterprises, charities and commercial start-ups. Reetu previously worked in social investment at the Social Enterprise Investment Fund, and hands-on organisational development roles at Richmond CVS, developing expertise in funding, governance, strategic development, impact measurement, and accelerator programme design. Reetu recently completed her MSc Management at Birkbeck (University of London) and is starting a PhD in entrepreneurial relationships in October 2019. She is currently researching the BAME female founders ecosystem. She has held trustee positions with several small charities, and is currently a trustee of Hub Brixton, a coworking space and community catalyst in South London.

Oliver Hunt

Oliver is an Associate in the Charity & Social Enterprise department at the law firm Bates Wells and specialises in charity, social enterprise, responsible business and impact investing.

Aman Johal

Aman is an Investment Director within Big Society Capital. Her current focus is Social Impact Bonds, Childhood Obesity and Community Energy. She is also a trustee for Hatch Enterprise, which provides community-based entrepreneurship programmes to emerging entrepreneurs. Before joining Big Society Capital, Aman worked for J.P. Morgan, leading the firm’s philanthropic programme across the UK on employment and skills. During her time there she also played a leadership role in the roll out of signature programmes and in building the visibility of the impact of the firm’s philanthropic efforts across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Prior to this she held a number of positions across the non-profit and public sectors in the UK, including at the Young Foundation, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in public affairs for a national health charity and as a caseworker for a benevolent fund working on the frontline to administer support to beneficiaries.