Investing for impact in practice: how to build successful investment strategies?

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Investing for impact in practice: how to build successful investment strategies?
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Overview

Join EVPA's research team for this webinar where they'll unveil a new publication: the "Investing for Impact Toolkit"

During this webinar, EVPA presented the "Investing for Impact Toolkit", a hands-on guide not just for practitioners entering the impact ecosystem, but also for those who would like to become more efficient in adopting the principles of the EVPA Charter of Investors for Impact.

This toolkit builds on the EVPA’s report "A Practical Guide to Venture Philanthropy and Social Impact Investment" and includes EVPA’s research pieces and resources.

During the webinar, EVPA will dive into the content of the toolkit, and experienced practitioners will showcase how they apply the principles of the Charter in practice, from the definition of the investment strategy to the investment process and exit. Participants will have the opportunity to take part in the discussion and ask questions to the speakers.

The webinar will take place on 28th October at 15.00-16.30 (CET).

Draft Agenda:

  • Introduction
  • The investment strategy - presented by two investors for impact
  • Q&A
  • The investment process - presented by two investors for impact
  • Q&A
  • Conclusions

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Speakers

Elena Casolari

Elena Casolari

Elena believes in the transformative power of impact investing and the social enterprise movement; she is an advocate and practitioner of gender smart investing.

She is the co-founder and partner of OPES Italia Sicaf EuVECA, which invests in impact enterprises in Italy, and OPES-LCEF Fund, an impact investment vehicle that provides financial resources and management support to early-stage social enterprises whose businesses serve low-income people and disadvantaged communities.

For 10 years, Elena was CEO at ACRA, an international NGO, and before that spent 12 years in the investment banking industry covering emerging markets. Elena serves as a Director at Fondazione Umano Progresso, the Social Impact Agenda for Italy, and she is also a member of the General Council of Fondazione Compagnia San Paolo, one of the leading banking Foundation in Italy. After her graduation in Management, Elena was a Monbushoo fellow at the Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo for two years.


Gergely Ivancsics

Gergely Ivancsics

Gergő has been involved in setting up and founding Hungary's first social impact fund (Impact Ventures) since 2015, and is passionately growing the fund's portfolio of European early stage social ventures since its launch in 2018.

From dealsourcing to portfolio management, he's responsible for the investment process and impact management. Gergő builds on his experience as investment analyst at PBG FMC venture capital fund and M&A analyst at Viennese i5invest. His passion is for technology enabled social innovation, and is restlessly searching for the next tech break-through that benefits the life of those in need.

Gergő studied Business Development MA at Corvinus University of Budapest and is a CEMS Master in International Management graduate, having studied in Copenhagen Business School. He is also faithful to his helping-vocation, currently pursuing his graduate studies in psychology at the University of Szeged.


Gianluca Gaggiotti

Gianluca Gaggiotti

Gianluca Gaggiotti is Knowledge Manager at Impact Europe. He focuses on data analysis and content development of several research-related initiatives.

Gianluca joined Impact Europe in 2017, and since then has developed an in-depth knowledge on the impact ecosystem and all the actors involved in it. Gianluca has previously worked as a Research Assistant for several project related to development and social network economics at Bocconi University.

He holds a Master degree in Economics and Social Sciences at Bocconi University with a thesis on the effect of terrorism on political outcome in the US.


Arnau Picón Martínez

Arnau Picón Martínez

Arnau Picón is Knowledge and Learning Associate at Impact Europe. Since joining Impact Europe in February 2019, Arnau has conducted research on topics related to the impact ecosystem, such as impact measurement and management and the role of crowdfunding platforms within the impact sector.

Previously, Arnau worked in the Social Policy Area of a Local Government and in the communication sector as a journalist. He holds a Msc in Economic Development from the University of Glasgow and a Bachelor Degree in Journalism from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He speaks Spanish, Catalan, English and French.