Speakers will discuss with delegates how social ventures can access different sources of external capital to increase their impact. The panellists are creating new and innovative ways to use finance that work for their unique needs and structures, as well as providing appropriate returns to finance providers.
Session Description
Time & Location
Time:
14:00 - 16:00, Wednesday, March 28, 2007 BSTSpeakers
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SpeakerDirector, Community Innovation UKTim Reith is a Director of Equity Plus and the Founder/Director of Community Innovation UK. In this role, Tim oversees the consultancy provided to social enterprises in the areas of business planning, accessing finance and financial forecasting, strategy, management and business development. Tim has…
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SpeakerChief Executive , CafédirectFrom The Body Shop to Cafédirect to Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen, Social Enterprise Ambassador Penny Newman is helping social businesses to make it big – and make a big difference. Penny Newman is a CEO who thrives on challenges and, having headed up three of the social enterprise world’s biggest…
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SpeakerExecutive Director, Bridges VenturesMichele Giddens has over 15 years of international development and social finance experience. She was an Investment Officer with International Finance Corporation, the private sector financing arm of the World Bank Group in Eastern Europe in the early 1990’s, then spent 8 years with Shorebank…
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SpeakerFounder and Executive Chairman, Volans Ventures LtdJohn Elkington is a writer and thinker, a serial-entrepreneur and an ‘advisor from the future’. John is a world authority on corporate responsibility and sustainable development and is credited with coining the ‘triple bottom line’. In 2004, BusinessWeek described John as “a dean of the corporate…
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SpeakerAdvisor, Southern Bancorporation & Chair, Homeless Children's Playtime Project board, IndividualJan Piercy is broadly engaged in economic inclusion, impact investing and social entrepreneurship fields, having served as Senior Advisor to Enclude, Senior Vice President of ShoreBank Corporation, and as USED on the World Bank & International Finance Corporation boards during the Clinton…
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SpeakerFounding Partner, Total Impact CapitalArthur is TOTAL's (formerly known as Total Impact Advisors) Founding Partner in Europe. Over his career he has held senior positions in both "for profit" . Arthur is a recognized innovator in social finance and frequently invited to speak and write on innovative financing vehicles for social purposes…