Roberta joined EVPA as CEO in September 2020 from Novartis where she covered international roles in strategy, business operations and market access. More recently, at the Novartis Foundation, she led a collective impact initiative for cardiovascular health in low-income urban settings, building multi-sector private-public partnerships and working with social enterprises on the journey to scale and financial sustainability.

Always passionate about knowledge-sharing, Martine decided she gained sufficient experience in the private sector to share with others and moved into the non-profit sector where she could contribute to giving back in a different way. Martine therefore joined EVPA as the Community and Market Development Lead in December 2020.

Nicolas Lahaye joined EVPA as an intern in the Community and Market Development team in June 2019. He studied public relations and communication at the Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve. He got into the soci(et)al impact field at Lita.co where he volunteered for a few months during the summer of 2017.

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 is leading market building efforts in France and Europe namely with European Corporates to help various practitioners like foundations and impact investing funds scale their impact. Based in Paris, Sophie supports members in their work, fostering valuable connections, facilitating peer learning, providing training as well as enabling the co-creation of projects.

Martijn joined EVPA in 2020 as the Manager for Benelux and coordinator for the Impact Funds Initiative. In the past years he was active an impact investment practitioner at Hivos Impact Investments, where he was responsible for investor relations at the Hivos Food & Lifestyle Fund.

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.

Peter is the EVPA representative for the UK and Ireland since 2019. In addition, he is the CEO and Founder of Boncerto – a social good consultancy working with individuals, corporations and not-for-profits to help increase their effectiveness and enable them to do good, better.

Lucia joined EVPA as Community and Market Development Intern in January 2020 after graduating in International Politics and Diplomacy at the University of Padova, Italy.

Henrik joined EVPA in January 2021 as Billing and Customer Care Officer. Prior to joining EVPA he worked as Customer Account Specialist and Subject Matter Expert at Hexion in the province of Varese in Italy.

Jorgos joined EVPA in August 2019 as Marketing and Communications Director. He brings in more than 20 years expertise in journalism, public relations, marketing, branding, internal and external communications.

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.

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.

Georgina joined EVPA as Communications and Partnerships Manager in November 2020. She has over a decade of experience in communications in the non-profit sector and is eager to apply this knowledge to raise the visibility and outreach of EVPA.

Juliane Unger joined EVPA as an intern in the Marketing and Communications team in November 2020 after she completed her MSc at the Pforzheim Business School (Germany) in Corporate Communication Management.

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.

Florian joined EVPA in March 2020 as Training Academy Coordinator. He previously worked as project and training manager in Brussels for a European federation of social & health care service providers, and before that as programme manager for a foundation in Vienna in the field of intercultural dialogue.

Alessia is the Head of the Knowledge Centre at EVPA, where she is responsible for research activities, content development and data collection. Since 2014, she co-authored publications, practical cases, and articles on venture philanthropy, impact measurement and management, impact strategies, the European impact ecosystem, tailored and hybrid finance.

Gianluca Gaggiotti is Research Manager at EVPA, where he is directly involved in several research activities, with a specific focus on data analysis and content development of several research-related initiatives.

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.

Ludovica joined EVPA as Research Intern in March 2020. She holds a Master degree in Management Engineering from Politecnico di Milano with a focus on Sustainable Operations Management and Social Innovation. Before joining the team she collaborated with Engineers without borders in Milan for the creation of a Social Enterprise in Albania.

Karoline Heitmann is Corporate Initiative Manager at the European Venture Philanthropy Association’s (EVPA). She is leading EVPA's research on corporate social investing and is a published author on topics such as employee engagement and strategic alignment between corporates and corporate foundations.

Nicolas joined EVPA as Corporate Initiative Intern in March 2020. During his studies in Germanic Languages at Université Catholique de Louvain, he analysed subjects such as globalization, neoliberalism and postcolonialism in a literary context.

Bianca is EVPA’s Senior Policy Manager, and she joined EVPA in February 2019. She leads the EVPA Policy’s team, which monitors and analyses key policy developments relevant to the VP/SI sector, and implements the multi-annual policy strategy of EVPA. She represents EVPA’s community towards EU authorities (EC, EIB, EIF etc.), as well as other multilateral bodies.

Cătălina Papari joined our Policy department as a Policy Associate in April 2020. She was a trainee at the European Commission in DG Regio, starting to specialise in inter-institutional European relations and audit, mainly focusing on the simplification of the Cohesion Policy and ERDF.

Sona joined EVPA in February 2021 as a Project Coordinator and Policy Associate for the Eastern Partnership region. She has studied Middle East Studies, Political Science and Cultural Studies at universities in Armenia, US, Israel and Turkey and is currently an MBA candidate at the IUBH University of Applied Sciences.

Tim Jacobs joined EVPA as an intern at the Policy Team in February 2021, after having obtained two master’s degrees, respectively, in economics at Tilburg University and EU policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gunther Volkaert is EVPA’s Head of Finance. He joined in February 2020.

He holds more than 25 years of experience in Finance and Administration. Prior to joining EVPA, he worked in the entertainment sector, as Finance Director at Universal Music Belgium (for 14 years) and Finance Controller at 20th Century Fox Film Benelux (for 6.5 years), among others.

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.

Laura joined EVPA as Human Resources Business Partner in January 2021 to build the people capability, plan and manage talent and develop approaches that achieve shared organisational objectives.

Adriana joined EVPA in January 2021 as CEO Executive Assistant and Strategy Coordinator. After five years working in strategy consulting across Europe (at PwC and Alkemy), she decided to take the next step with regards to her role in social contribution and refocused her professional career toward social investment and venture philanthropy.

Ewa joined EVPA as Financial Coordinator in April 2021. She has 8 years of experience in the project management (incl. financial management and project evaluation) in the non-profit sector.

Sparghay Said has joined EVPA in April 2021. Eager to learn, help and grow, she is completing our Finance department as an Acounting Assistant. She previously graduated from L’EPHEC in Brussels and has had 4 years of experience in a similar position in a private sector.