Meet our team
Joining forces to generate social impact

In 1992, Steven started his own company specialized in Supply Chain and Operations Strategy. As business entrepreneur, he grew the company internationally before selling it in 2008.

In 2011, he joined Ashoka Global in Washington as strategic advisor, focussing on how social entrepreneurs and corporations can work together successfully.

Jamy is a serial social entrepreneur and launched two initiatives around youth-entrepreneurship in Africa and Asia where she and her team already tried out ways of impact investing. 

Christina Wu joined EVPA in May 2016. In 2006, she co-founded a charity, Global Agents, which makes seed investments globally in early stage social enterprises. More recently, she worked in South Africa as the Business Operations Manager for SPARK Schools, a portfolio company of the Pearson Affordable Learning Fund.

Ewa Konczal joined EVPA in May 2014 as the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Manager. Ewa is spreading the knowledge about venture philanthropy and social investment in CEE. 

Sophie Faujour Le Bon joined EVPA in April 2016.  Sophie is spreading the knowledge of Venture Philanthropy and Social Investment in France and Portugal. Lately, she has taken a broader role in on boarding European Corporates in EVPA Corporate Initiative. She is also very active in market building efforts locally through her contribution to the National Advisory Board for Impact Investing in France.

Alice is representing the UK and Ireland markets, and is responsible for building relationships with you, as leaders of foundations and social impact investment funds, philanthropists and angel investors in this region.

Anja-N. Koenig is a social investment, entrepreneurship and sustainable development expert as well as a trained facilitator in collaborative innovation and system change processes with close to 20 years of professional experience in the DACH region, (Central and Eastern) Europe, MENA, Africa, Asia and Latin America. 

Julie joined the EVPA Community and Market Development team in March 2018 after working as an external consultant for the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe. She studied Governance and Leadership in European Public Health at Maastricht University, building on her study of Biomedical Sciences at the KU Leuven.

Asli Erdogan started to work at EVPA as Community, Marketing and Communications Intern in June2019. She studied Business Administration in Turkey, where she graduated in 2017. 

Ioana joined EVPA in April 2017 with a strong desire to raise awareness about venture philanthropy. Before EVPA, she worked as Communications and Fundraising Manager for PACT Foundation, a community development organisation in Romania. 

Paul Bertrac joined EVPA in May 2019 as Digital Growth Lead to develop acquisition through digital channels and grow our community of venture philanthropists & social investors.

Priscilla Boiardi is EVPA's Knowledge Centre and Policy Director, leading the research, policy, training and dissemination activities of the association. Priscilla is also an advisor on numerous EC-funded projects and she is part of the OECD Social Impact Investment Experts Group.

Sara is EVPA's Training Manager. She joined EVPA in 2017 to structure and to further develop the Training Academy activities, after more than ten years working as a project and impact manager and as a trainer in the social impact field.

Lena is EVPA's Training Officer and she is responsible for the designing of the organisation's learning offer. 

Alessia is EVPA’s Research Manager, responsible for research activities and data collection. 

Gianluca Gaggiotti is EVPA's Research Associate. He joined EVPA as Research Intern in November 2017. Gianluca has previously worked as a Research Assistant for several project related to development and social network economics at Bocconi University. 

Caroline has been working at EVPA since June 2016, creating different formats (leaflets, videos, success stories website) to help increase the dissemination of the material produced by Knowledge Centre.

Lonneke is an Academic Researcher within the Rotterdam School of Management and specialises in employee engagement in Corporate Social Responsibility. Within her research, Lonneke holds a keen interest in community involvement strategies. 

Karoline joined EVPA in March 2018. She holds a MSc in Global Business and Sustainability from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Karoline is keen on helping corporate social investment vehicles to achieve greater social impact through her research.

Bianca is EVPA’s Policy Manager, she joined EVPA in February 2019. Previously she worked as EU Policy Advisor for CEE Bankwatch Network in Brussels, mostly focusing on the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027. In particular on Invest EU, European Regional Development Funds (ERDF) and Cohesion Funds.

Kateryna joined the EVPA Training Academy in November 2018. She holds a Bachelor Degree in Law and Business Management at University of Granada in Spain and in Business Administration from Erasmus Warwick University, in United Kingdom.

Arnau joined EVPA as a Research Intern in February 2019. He holds a Msc in Economic Development from the University of Glasgow and a Bachelor Degree in Journalism from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Tessa Van Autreve joined the policy department at EVPA in May 2019. She holds a MSc in Sustainable Finance from Maastricht University and a BSc in Business Administration from KU Leuven.

Lara joined EVPA in January 2019. She worked for more than 20 years in the field of HR and innovation, mixing internal, ad interim and consultant assignments. 

Dirk de Boer joined EVPA as Head of Finance in September 2016.Dirk has got over 20 years of professional experience in Finance,mainly in Business Control, Internal Control and Management with international, commercial companies in Belgium, France and Holland.

Natasha Medvedeva joined the EVPA team as a Community intern in March 2014. She has an MSc in International Business Economics and Management from the KU Leuven/Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels.

Agata joined EVPA in March 2019. Prior to that, she worked in the cultural and social sectors, spending 3 years in Istanbul and traveling around the Middle East. She is still involved in artistic initiatives aiming at spreading knowledge and cultural awareness. Her new mission now at EVPA is to support her colleagues and contribute to meaningful impact investing.

Agata graduated from the Free University of Brussels with a Bachelor in Information and Communication, and is still an avid student at Oxford University Department for Continuing Education.