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April 26-30, 2021

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Moderators and speakers per date in alphabetical order

April 26, 2021 | 10am-12pm

New Models for Sustainable Finance

Paul is a nationally recognized expert on sustainable investing, and the host of the popular Sustainable Finance Podcast, a weekly program featuring conversations with thought leaders in the field. His guests include cleantech entrepreneurs and VC investors; CEOs leading the low-carbon economy transition; creators of the ESG indices and analytics platforms everyone is using; and NGO executives bridging the public/private partnership funding chasm through digital banking and blockchain-based technologies.

In addition to his podcast series, Paul works with both individual advisors and large investment firms to integrate ESG investing into their portfolio and sales strategies. Incorporating his knowledge of current investor trends, the most robust ESG analytics, and the latest technology trading solutions, Paul helps his clients capitalize on the growing business opportunities in the transition to a low-carbon economy.

From 2015-2019, Paul was a regular contributor to FA Magazine, including his series on women leaders in sustainable finance. He co-authored an article about impact investing for Investments & Wealth Monitor, and has moderated panels at Sustainable Investment Solutions events in Chicago, Minneapolis, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia. He was co-convener of the annual Sustainable Investing Conference at the United Nations in 2018 and 2019. Paul believes the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) exemplify the use of cross-sector collaboration, linking business, government, and civil society in support of people, planet, and profit–in that order.

Paul was a certified financial planner and franchise advisor with Ameriprise for 23 years, and frequently participates in conferences, seminars, and webinars nationwide (now virtually!).

Paul has a JD degree from Tulane Law School and a BA from Tulane University, and has been inducted into the Tulane Athletic Hall of Fame for his football career. Paul lives in Beacon, NY, an historic town on the banks of the Hudson River, where he is on the Advisory Board of the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, a nonprofit research and educational institution affiliated with Clarkson University.


Peter C. Fusaro is Chairman of Global Change Associates in New York and is the best selling author of What Went Wrong at Enron. His three most recent books have been Cut Carbon, Grow Profits, Energy & Emissions: Collision or Convergence and Energy & Environmental Hedge Funds: The New Investment Paradigm. Peter is an energy industry thought leader noted for his keen insights in emerging energy and environmental financial markets. He has been on the forefront of energy and environmental change for over 30 years focusing on. oil, gas, power, coal, emissions, carbon trading and renewable energy markets. Peter is currently advising in the clean energy technology arena. Peter was recently selected for Who's Who in America. He coined the term "Green Trading" and holds the Wall Street Green Trading Summit with Reuters in New York each spring. He is also a well known expert on Asia Pacific energy and environmental markets. He co-founded the Energy Hedge Fund Center LLC (www.energyhedgefunds.com) in 2004 which he sold in 2011. Peter graduated with an MA in international relations from Tufts University and a BA from Carnegie-Mellon University.


Ted Haberfield provides strategic management consulting to public companies through integrated investor relations by combining finance, marketing, and compliance. Prior to joining MZ in 2007, Ted spent over thirteen years as a financial advisor serving the investment needs of high-net-worth individuals and institutional investors, including non-profit organizations and sovereign governments. He served as Second Vice President of Wealth Management at Smith Barney and as Second Vice President of Investments at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Ted has been a speaker on financial related topics at the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), First Nation’s Development Institute, Guatemala Prospera and other national level associations. He graduated from California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo in 1993 with a B.A. in Business and major in Financial Management. He currently resides in San Diego with his wife Danielle and his four children Layla, London, Van, Curren.


Katie MacDonald is an entrepreneurship enthusiast and climate leader with experience in international development, business acceleration, and strategic partnerships within the climatetech sector. Katie has served as the Assistant Director of Technology to Market at NYSERDA since February 2020 and helps support and launch programs that can help the State of New York address its ambitious climate and energy goals through innovation and entrepreneurship. Katie came to NYSERDA from Greentown Labs, the largest cleantech incubator in the United States, where she was Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, responsible for corporate partnerships and industry accelerator programs. At Greentown, Katie designed and scaled the “Greentown Launch” model for corporate/startup partnership development and ran unique programs in energy storage, hydrogen, solar materials, circular economy, and distributed energy resources. Before Greentown Labs, Katie served as Executive Director of Cleantech Open Northeast, the region’s premier cleantech business accelerator. Katie has also worked for organizations such as the World Bank, 350.org, and Amherst College to build innovation programs, organize communities, and drive climate impact. Katie sits on the Board of 501CTHREE, a nonprofit dedicated to catalyzing social and entrepreneurial action on climate.


Tinia Pina accepted her Bachelor of Science in Business Information Technology from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2006.  She began her career in sustainability as a former student at Columbia University's Earth Institute prior to becoming the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Re-Nuble, Inc., a waste-to-resource company headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. A strong advocate for sustainable waste management, regenerative agriculture, and urban resilience, she has been involved in management and business development roles within the sustainability industry for ten years. Her professional interests focus on using unique and distributed technologies to extract the optimal value from organic waste streams for upcycling into value-added products.


Julia Samson recently graduated as an NCAA Division I student-athlete from Columbia University with a Bachelor’s degree in Sustainable Development, while also studying Mandarin, Korean and French. She currently works as a Project Management Analyst at French investment bank, BNP Paribas. Julia has been part of Columbia University’s International Research Institute for Climate and Society as a data analyst on the ACToday-Bangladesh project team working to improve climatic variability solutions to achieve food security in rural Bangladesh. Beyond her professional commitment, she currently serves as a supervisor with MUN Impact, assisting high school students around the globe with project planning pertaining to UN SDG 4 - Quality Education. She also recently served as a US Core lecturer in Harvard’s Summit for Young Leaders in China where she taught Climate Change-Development Economics. Julia is looking forward to advancing her career in Sustainable Finance and Environmental Economics.


Rebecca is the Director of Sustainable Finance at South Pole.  In this role Rebecca is responsible for the consultancy services offered to financial institutions globally which combine climate science led data and business integration advice.  The consultancy services focus on three areas; the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) impact analysis for financial products and supporting financial institutions with their Net Zero commitments.

Formerly Rebecca was the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Sustainable Finance at HSBC Holdings plc.  In this role Rebecca was responsible for the group-wide financials relating to Sustainable Finance products, including sustainability/green bonds, ESG (environmental, social, governance) asset management/private bank funds and sustainability related commercial lending.  In addition, Rebecca was responsible for HSBC’s external ESG reporting and investor relations activity – including TCFD and corporate reporting on the SDGs.  Rebecca was the Chair of the European Banking Federation industry SDG working group and a member of other advisory groups to progress sustainability reporting. E.g. Sustainability Accounting Standards Board and developing a new CDP (Formerly Carbon Disclosure Project) questionnaire for financial services.

Rebecca has approximately 20 years of industry experience, in a prior role she was Group lead for Fixed Income investor relations.  This included marketing the first green bond issued by HSBC France in December 2015 and the SDG bond issued by HSBC Holdings in 2017.  Rebecca has also worked in Product Control, Market Risk and Regulatory Management.  The latter included leading HSBC’s response to the Enhanced Disclosure Task Force to aid greater transparency in banks' disclosures post the financial crisis.

Rebecca is a Chartered Global Management Accountant and obtained a BSc in Economics and Politics from the University of Southampton, where she now has the role of Trustee for the Student Union.  In 2017 she gained a Certificate in Business Sustainability Management from the University of Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership - she is currently studying for a part-time Masters with the Institute.

April 26, 2021 | 1pm-3pm

ESG Data Reporting and Software Solutions


Dr. Bonime-Blanc is CEO and Founder of GEC Risk Advisory and a global governance, risk, ethics, cyber and crisis strategist, serving business, nonprofits, and government. She is a NACD Board Leadership Fellow and Governance faculty and holds the Carnegie Mellon CERT Certification in Cyber-Risk Oversight. She is a Governance Mentor at Plug & Play Tech Centre and, since 2017, she has served as the Independent Ethics Advisor to the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico. In 2019 she was appointed to serve on the International Advisory Boards of two global start-ups - Greenward Partners (a Spanish-based green energy firm) and Ethical Intelligence (a Scottish based AI ethics consultancy).

Dr. Bonime-Blanc spent two decades as a senior global corporate executive leading governance, legal, ethics, compliance, risk, crisis, environmental, health and safety, information security, internal audit, external affairs, and corporate responsibility functions, including at Bertelsmann, Verint, and PSEG. She began her career as an international corporate lawyer at Cleary Gottlieb and was born and raised in Europe. She is a global keynote speaker, faculty at NYU and an extensively published author of articles and books including The Reputation Risk Handbook, Emerging Practices in Cyber-Risk Governance and The Artificial Intelligence Imperative. Her latest book, Gloom to Boom: How Leaders Transform Risk into Resilience and Value, debuts in October 2019.

Paul is a nationally recognized expert on sustainable investing, and the host of the popular Sustainable Finance Podcast, a weekly program featuring conversations with thought leaders in the field. His guests include cleantech entrepreneurs and VC investors; CEOs leading the low-carbon economy transition; creators of the ESG indices and analytics platforms everyone is using; and NGO executives bridging the public/private partnership funding chasm through digital banking and blockchain-based technologies.

In addition to his podcast series, Paul works with both individual advisors and large investment firms to integrate ESG investing into their portfolio and sales strategies. Incorporating his knowledge of current investor trends, the most robust ESG analytics, and the latest technology trading solutions, Paul helps his clients capitalize on the growing business opportunities in the transition to a low-carbon economy.

From 2015-2019, Paul was a regular contributor to FA Magazine, including his series on women leaders in sustainable finance. He co-authored an article about impact investing for Investments & Wealth Monitor, and has moderated panels at Sustainable Investment Solutions events in Chicago, Minneapolis, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia. He was co-convener of the annual Sustainable Investing Conference at the United Nations in 2018 and 2019. Paul believes the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) exemplify the use of cross-sector collaboration, linking business, government, and civil society in support of people, planet, and profit–in that order.

Paul was a certified financial planner and franchise advisor with Ameriprise for 23 years, and frequently participates in conferences, seminars, and webinars nationwide (now virtually!).

Paul has a JD degree from Tulane Law School and a BA from Tulane University, and has been inducted into the Tulane Athletic Hall of Fame for his football career. Paul lives in Beacon, NY, an historic town on the banks of the Hudson River, where he is on the Advisory Board of the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, a nonprofit research and educational institution affiliated with Clarkson University.


Ted Haberfield provides strategic management consulting to public companies through integrated investor relations by combining finance, marketing, and compliance. Prior to joining MZ in 2007, Ted spent over thirteen years as a financial advisor serving the investment needs of high-net-worth individuals and institutional investors, including non-profit organizations and sovereign governments. He served as Second Vice President of Wealth Management at Smith Barney and as Second Vice President of Investments at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. Ted has been a speaker on financial related topics at the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), First Nation’s Development Institute, Guatemala Prospera and other national level associations. He graduated from California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo in 1993 with a B.A. in Business and major in Financial Management. He currently resides in San Diego with his wife Danielle and his four children Layla, London, Van, Curren.


Tinia Pina accepted her Bachelor of Science in Business Information Technology from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2006.  She began her career in sustainability as a former student at Columbia University's Earth Institute prior to becoming the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Re-Nuble, Inc., a waste-to-resource company headquartered in Brooklyn, New York. A strong advocate for sustainable waste management, regenerative agriculture, and urban resilience, she has been involved in management and business development roles within the sustainability industry for ten years. Her professional interests focus on using unique and distributed technologies to extract the optimal value from organic waste streams for upcycling into value-added products.


Kristen B. Sullivan leads Deloitte & Touche LLP’s Sustainability and KPI services, working with clients to help address their sustainability and non-financial disclosure needs. She brings extensive experience in delivering sustainability risk assessment, governance, strategy alignment, measurement, reporting and assurance services.  She also serves as Deloitte’s Americas Region Sustainability Services Leader and leads Deloitte’s Supply Chain Social Compliance services. 

April 27, 2021 | 10am-12pm

Agtech and the Regenerative Economy

April 27, 2021 | 1pm-3pm

Energy Tech Solutions


Tooraj is the founder of Perl Street, a data-powered capital raising engine for urban-tech startups with physical assets. Tooraj has 15+ years of global experience in origination, financing, implementation and operation of $1B+ clean-technology projects in energy, water and waste management, manufacturing and built environment. Tooraj holds an MS in mechanical engineering from the University of Waterloo and has an Executive MBA from Columbia Business School.


Leads Greenworks in the organization's efforts to scale nationally by making clean and renewable energy a smart business decision for commercial property owners.

Prior to co-founding Greenworks Lending in 2015, Jessica led the design, management, and implementation of the nation’s first successful C-PACE program at the CT Green Bank. In its first two years, the program financed $75 million in clean energy projects and executed the first securitization of commercial efficiency assets – more than doubling the volume of C-PACE transactions between 2013 and 2014. From 2004-2012, Bailey worked at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF), an $800 million foundation based in New York. As the Fund’s program officer for sustainable development, she co-managed a $7 million portfolio of grants focused on mitigating climate change and promoting clean energy.

Jessica has received numerous awards and positive recognition for her work. Most recently, she was selected for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneurial Winning Women of 2019 program. In 2014, Bailey was named a “Champion of Change” by the White House for solar deployment. For her work designing the successful Connecticut C-PACE program, The Hartford Business Journal dubbed her a “Green Warrior;” and after co-founding Greenworks Lending and scaling C-PACE nationally, Jessica was named to Connecticut Magazine’s 2018 list of “40 under 40.”

Jessica received her graduate degree from Yale University and undergraduate from the University of Notre Dame. She is a member of YPO and sits on the board of PACENation, the League of Conservation Voters, CT and CTNext.


Profile 

Raj manages a business development team at Constellation that works with a diverse group of customers assisting them in implementing solutions to help them address the major shifts going on in our industry including sustainability, demand reduction, data analytics and overall cost optimization.

Professional History 

Raj has worked in the chemical and energy industry across a wide range of roles. He began his career in the chemical industry working with multi-national companies Bayer, Cytec Industries and American Cyanamid. Roles included R&D, marketing and sales before being promoted to the Director of Marketing for NAFTA where he also managed the Export and Resale sales channels. Responsibilities included managing the P&L and developing short- and long-term strategy including production of chemicals manufactured in the U.S for export overseas.

Raj started his energy career with WPS Energy Services (later Integrys) in 2005 as the Managing Director for retail power and gas sales. The business was acquired by Constellation in 2014. Most recently Raj led the effort to develop a multi-year partnership agreement with the Johnson Controls Hall of Fame Village. The agreement recognizes Constellation as the official energy provider and provides exclusive naming rights for the Constellation Center for Excellence, a key component of the development project under way in Canton, OH.

As a member of the White House Initiative on Asian American and Pacific Islanders (AAPI), Raj has attended Leadership summits at the White House under both the Obama and Trump administration. The initiative focuses on several key areas including education, career development, business, jobs, immigration, heath care, housing and workforce leadership.

Education 

Raj holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Arizona and an Executive MBA from the University of Connecticut.


Kristin Barbato bio Founder & CEO, Build Edison Co-Founder, Dynamo Energy Hub With 25 years in energy and sustainability, Kristin Barbato has served in executive roles spanning utilities, government, energy services, and consulting. With her experience running large operations along with her tenure as both a provider and buyer of energy services for utilities, commercial/industrial companies, and municipalities, she engages a broad network of experts and provides valuable energy market insight to move strategies into commercial action. In 2017, she founded a company to help cleantech and energy infrastructure get to scaled commercialization faster. Build Edison provides advisory services, demonstration project implementation partners, go-to-market planning strategies, and a unique investment vehicle for cleantechs, facilities owners, and energy investors. Build Edison advises several cleantechs as well as large entities such as NYSERDA ($5B Clean Energy Fund), Murata ($17B annual revenue), and Generate Capital ($1B+ AUM). In 2019, she co-founded Dynamo Energy Hub, a unique global network of innovative energy companies, investors, individuals, and governments that provides a platform to accelerate the clean energy economy. Dynamo cultivates energy innovation communities in key cities around the world in a state-of-the-art office environment along with in-person and virtual monthly networking and thought leadership events. In her previous executive roles, she helped cities and corporations optimize their capital planning, commodity supply, efficiency projects, renewable investments, and smart operations performance. She served as Managing Director of Enterprise Development at Edison Energy, Vice President of Customer Energy Solutions at the New York Power Authority (NYPA), and was appointed to Deputy Commissioner / Chief Energy Management Officer for New York City during Mayor Bloomberg’s Administration to manage the long-term sustainability plan (PlaNYC) for the country’s largest municipal energy infrastructure and operations with an annual budget of $1.3 Billion. Ms. Barbato also worked for Veolia Environnement, Con Edison, and Florida Power & Light in various technical and strategic leadership roles. Ms. Barbato graduated Cornell University with a B.S. in Civil Engineering. She also holds an M.S. in Organizational Leadership from Mercy College and completed her MBA in Finance and Economics from Columbia University in May 2008. For the last five years, she has been a Professor of energy management for international graduate policy schools at Columbia and NYU. Among other endeavors, she is an avid squash player and serves on several non-profit Advisory Boards such as The Tom Coughlin Jay Fund to support families of children with cancer.

Tom Blum


Mr. Blum has spent 28 years as an investment banker and an investor in private equity and venture capital opportunities. Before joining G.C. Andersen Partners in 2006, Mr. Blum ran Channel Capital LLC, a firm he founded in 2001 to provide venture capital and financial advisory services to emerging companies. From 1998 to 2001, Mr. Blum was a Managing Director in the private equity firm, Columbia Financial Partners, during which time he helped manage the reorganization and liquidation of ContiFinancial Corp. Previously, Mr. Blum was a banker with Salomon Brothers Inc. and Bear Stearns & Co. where he was actively involved in mergers & acquisitions, IPO’s, high-yield and investment grade debt and corporate advisory transactions for a wide range of banks, insurance and specialty finance companies. From 1989 to 1992, he was based in Tokyo and oversaw the Salomon Brothers’ Japanese and Asian Financial Institutions activities. 

Mr. Blum received a BS in Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Thomas Blum


Nick founded UGE with a focus on distributed renewables to address the world’s energy and environmental challenges, and has led the company for the ten years since its inception. Raised on a Canadian nature reserve, Nick is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries with previous experience at JPMorgan and AIG.  Over the past decade his leadership has focused on a productive and enjoyable company culture, forging new paths for the company in solar and renewable energies, both in the US and abroad.  


Don Bubar is a geologist with 40 years of experience in mineral exploration and development in Canada. Mr. Bubar is a graduate of McGill University (B.Sc., 1977) and Queen’s University (M.Sc., 1981). From 1984 to 1994, he worked for Aur Resources Inc. as Exploration Manager and later VP, Exploration. Mr. Bubar has been President and CEO of Avalon since 1995.

Mr. Bubar served as a Director of the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) for nine years and Chair of its Aboriginal Affairs Committee from its creation in December, 2004 until retiring from the PDAC Board in March, 2013. Throughout his career, Mr. Bubar has been an advocate for increased Aboriginal participation in the mineral industry, first through the PDAC and later through the NWT and Nunavut Chamber of Mines. Mr. Bubar serves on the Advisory Board to the Faculty of Science of McGill University and on the Board of Directors of Mining Matters.


Noah Shaw is Co-Chair of the Renewable Energy Practice at Hodgson Russ LLP, a New York-based mulitdisciplinary firm where Noah and his colleagues represent a board range of renewable energy and energy efficiency market participants inclluding developers, lenders, government entities, and others. Prior to joining Hodgson Russ in September 2019, Noah was General Counsel at the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) where he had a hand in the New York State 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, its 2016 Clean Energy Standard, large-scale renewable energy procurements, design and implementation of the offshore wind program, including all the legal and regulatory work concerning contract design and compliance, and state's electric vehicles, community solar, energy storage, Property Assessed Clean Energy, building efficiency and related initiatives. Before joining NYSERDA, Noah was Senior Advisor to the General Counsel at the U.S. Department of Energy, and he began his career at the law firm Mintz Levin in Boston.

April 28, 2021 | 10am-12pm

Greening Building for the Built Environment

April 28, 2021 | 1pm-2pm

Oceantech & Watertech

April 28, 2021 | 2pm-3pm

Accelerating the Hydrogen Economy


Stephen founded Greenpoint Innovations (GPI) in 2014 with nearly 15 years of experience working within the contexts of environmental, social and governance (ESG) sustainability. At GPI, he oversees the company’s management and leads its vision, partner development, and sourcing and implementation of projects. In addition, he is Senior Advisor to Forest Trends’ Supply Change Initiative, is an educator with Arizona State University, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship, and ISOS Group, and is a member of various working groups and steering committees, including the UN Environment’s Finance Initiative. Previously, Stephen was Vice President of CDP North America (Carbon Disclosure Project) and Economist at the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX). 

Greenpoint Innovations (GPI), based out of Brooklyn, NY, is a purpose-based company that leverages innovative technologies, the arts, and in-depth subject-matter expertise to contribute to a sustainable, resilient, and prosperous future. GPI offers SustainaDrone Solutions (SDS), an innovative suite of environmental sustainability-oriented drone-enhanced technologies and services. We utilize our fleet of mapping and free-fly drones for small or large-scale areas to provide accurate, fast and cost-efficient high-resolution aerial imagery that is used to generate 2D orthomosaic maps and 3D models, which complement existing maps and imagery produced via satellites, manned aircrafts and in-situ services. Additionally, we pair traditional photography and video production with SustainaDrone to produce rich media content for the purposes of helping our partners achieve a variety of goals including, project management support, raising funds, developing partnerships, increasing transparency, and highlighting leadership.


Currently serving as Chairman and CEO of CPL Group USA, Dario Gristina is an experienced business operator and entrepreneur with a carrier spanning over 3 decades.  Over the years Dario has successfully started, funded and exited several businesses in the construction, internet and energy space from conceptualization to funding to sale while dealing with sophisticated investors and buyers.  Dario’s latest effort in the PoE Lighting space falls in line with his deep understanding of IT technology and engineering with application in the real estate industry which has been a huge part of his background.  Mr. Gristina has, and continues to support several charities with special emphasis on Fountain House, for which he chairs a fundraising event that is now in its 20th year.


Dr. Paul Matter is the CTO and Co-Founder of Power to Hydrogen, LLC.  The company is focused on commercialization of systems for hydrogen generation and energy storage.  Power to Hydrogen’s patent-pending technology was invented by Dr. Matter and was developed on previous Department of Energy and NASA projects.  Dr. Matter received his Ph.D. from Ohio State in chemical engineering.  Dr. Matter worked previously as the Design Group Leader and Chemical Systems Engineer at NexTech Materials.  He is also president of pH Matter, the parent company to Power to Hydrogen, and serves as a board member for the Ohio Fuel Cell Coalition.  Overall, Dr. Matter’s career work has resulted in a book chapter, over 20 peer reviewed journal articles, 6 issued patents, over 10 patents pending, and numerous conference presentations.


Mr. MacDonald has over 35 years of both public and private sector experience, ranging from international roles within the Parliament of Canada to serving on the boards of numerous publicly listed resource companies. From 1988 to 1997, he was the Member of Parliament for Halifax, Nova Scotia, during which time he was appointed by the Prime Minister of Canada as Parliamentary Secretary of International Trade. From 1997-2002, Mr. MacDonald was President and CEO of the Council of Forest Industries, a large lumber manufacturing, grading and marketing group, where he developed new markets in China, Korea, India and Japan. In recent years Mr. MacDonald has served as President of NRStor Remote Communities and Mines, a Canadian company focused on partnering with off-grid Indigenous communities and mines to develop renewable energy and energy storage projects.


Sue is an accomplished executive and industry expert with more than two decades of accomplishments in the electric motor industry, including eight years at General Electric (NYSE: GE) (“GE”). Former CEO of GE’s Small Industrial Motors Division, overseeing the division’s North American and international markets and scaling the division’s growth into a $160M revenue enterprise. Under her leadership, GE’s Small Industrial Motors Division was successfully sold for USD $160M to China’s Wolong Electric (SHSE: 600580) one of China’s largest motor manufacturers.


Robert F. Parker is a Managing Director at Sif Capital Advisors and is an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for S-CAP’s CleanTech Venture Fund. He has worked in cleantech for more than 15 years as an executive, advisor, banker, and project developer. He has advised more than 100 successful early stage companies and has raised more than $150 Million for start-ups and cleantech projects. Mr. Parker volunteers on the Young Professionals in Energy-NYC Board of Directors and the Innovation Advisory Board of the NECEC, while serving as a NYSERDA Entrepreneur-in-Residence. He teaches CleanTech Energy Finance & Entrepreneurship as an Adjunct Professor at New York University. Mr. Parker spent five years as the Deputy Director of the CleanTech Open’s New York Metro Region and was on the Advisory Board of New York Energy Week. Mr. Parker has an MBA from Loyola University – Chicago and a BA from Johns Hopkins University.


Sylvia Wulf is the President & CEO of AquaBounty Technologies, a publicly traded aquaculture and seafood biotechnology company, leading their growth and commercialization efforts globally. AquaBounty Technologies markets the first approved bioengineered animal for food, approved in both the US and Canada. She was previously the President of the Manufacturing Division and SVP of Merchandising for US Foods, a $23 billion broad line foodservice distributor, where she was responsible for the P&L of the $10 billion protein and produce categories and the $1 billion Manufacturing Division of U.S. Foods Meat, Seafood and Produce operations.

Her reputation as a proven leader and accomplished executive includes over 25 years of P&L experience driving both growth and improved performance and her diverse career encompasses executive level positions in General Management, Sales, Marketing and M&A in the Consumer Packaged Goods, Distribution and Agribusiness industries. Her success in growing revenue and market share coupled with her strengths in strategy development, mergers & acquisitions and operations positively impacted respected brands such as US Foods, Tyson, Sara Lee and Bunge. She serves on the boards and executive committees of the Biotechnology Innovation Organization and the National Fisheries Institute.

April 29, 2021 | 10am-12pm

Impact Investing Funds & Impact Story Telling

April 29, 2021 | 1pm-3pm

Green Investment in ESG for Raw Materials & Greening the Supply Chain


Karl Andersen's is the Founder and CEO of AV Group Ltd. Mr. Andersen has been a financial industry entrepreneur since his starting as a trader for a Nordic Investment Bank during the early 2003. Mr. Andersen was a co-partner for a US based broker dealer, co-founded an insurance linked securities hedge fund and launched a Reinsurance company that helps solve public pension fund longevity issues. Mr. Andersen now serves on the Executive Board of the Norwegian American Chamber of Commerce in New York City and works in conjunction with the Norwegian Government to strategically grow the ESG and Impact investment market.


Benjamin Bingham is the CEO/Founder of 3Sisters Sustainable Management, focused on 100% impact portfolios across private and public asset classes (Scarab Funds).  Educated at Groton School, Yale and Emerson College (UK), his writing and work draws on broad experience as an artist, bio-dynamic farmer, and teacher. His pioneering book on Impact Investing: Making Money Matter is an important contribution to this expanding movement (www.makingmoneymatterbook.com ).

Ben’s family were heirs of the Tiffany fortune and he used his resources to co-found a successful social enterprise (Triform Camphill Community) in the 80’s and two tech start-ups in the 90’s.  He became an investment advisor to his network of socially-minded investors at Legg Mason in 2001 and has been an independent money manager for families, creating proprietary impact strategies since 2007.

Ben is now focused on providing impact investments in partnership with Impact consultants, family offices and foundations. Our goal is to facilitate a major transition to meaningful impact investments that can make as much money, or more, with as little risk, or less. We have 7 years of performance numbers on public and private portfolios both direct and indirect, debt and equity and can structure separately managed accounts and direct co-investments for significant investors.

Ben has been speaking on impact investing for over 10 years.  With BNPParibas (Bank of the West) he spoke at a global retreat for wealthy millennials in Silicon Valley; with the Annual Pension Summit in San Diego he followed Bill Clinton with a 45 minute talk on the SDG’s; and presented to Wealth Managers with the Family Office Exchange  (FOX Network) in Chicago. Over the years he has spoken in London and Amsterdam, NYC and Chicago with the TBLI group (Triple Bottom Line Investing) and has headlined several Sustainatopia events in Miami, San Francisco, Boston and LA as well as a number of Opal Events for Family Offices in Newport. Recently he was invited to a forum on Impact and Philanthropy in Monaco with the Carlysle Group.

Currently Mr. Bingham is working on a second book on the 17 SDG’s and how investors can help us reach the global 2030 goals by transforming their own personal relationship with money and focusing on what is important.


Kuni is an investment professional with expertise in impact investing and ESG research/integration. He was most recently a deal lead at NatureVest, an impact investment group within The Nature Conservancy, where he focused on climate change and large land transactions. Kuni brings 15 years of Wall Street investment research experience with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, UBS and other leading investment banks. In the past year, Kuni was a panelist at Skytop Strategies Impact Investing, Financial Times – Investing for Good, PEI Responsible Investing Forum, and other conferences. He is a licensed General Securities Representative (FINRA Series 7, 16, 24, 63 & 87), a Chartered Financial Analyst, SASB FSA credential holder, and lives in New York City.

 

• Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Blue Oceans Partners
• Former Investment Director at AfricInvest, leading African Private Equity firm
• Former senior executive with the African Development Bank, Veolia Water and Saint-Gobain China
• Seasoned board director and C-level manager
• Speaker at international conferences on innovation
• INSEAD MBA and MSc engineering from Mines ParisTech
• Speaks French, English, Chinese, and Portuguese
• Jazz pianist, master freediver
 


Bill is a co-portfolio manager for Essex’s Global Environmental Opportunities Strategy. Prior to joining Essex in 2009, Bill spent eleven years at State Street Global Advisors, most recently as Lead Portfolio Manager for the Global Environmental Opportunities Strategy (GEOS) and Head of the Environmental, Social and Governance investment team. He developed GEOS over a four year period at SSgA, and was a member of the Global Fundamental Strategies group. Prior to SSgA, Bill worked in product management for Wellington Management Company, LLC. Before Wellington, he worked for Fidelity Investments in asset allocation. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Boston University and an MBA from the F.W. Olin School of Business at Babson College.


SILVIO F. PUPO is CEO of Logos Capital Group (LC). Founded in 2011, LC is a globally focused Impact Merchant Bank catalyzing solutions for the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Silvio is board member and LatAm lead for the Government Blockchain Association (GBA), Investment Committee member of Social Venture Partners and ambassador for the City of Miami as board of the Mayors International Council.

interes U.S. and emerging markets across Smart Cities, banking, fintech, logistics, energy, and infrastructure. Silvio is active with several non-profit organizations in Education, Sailing, Affordable Housing and Disaster Response.

Mr. Pupo has a Global background from years working in Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, U.S. and Asia. He received his B.S. in Management,  International Finance and Philosophy from the University of Florida, with studies in Bocconi University in Italy and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Holds Series 79 and 63 with FINRA.

April 30, 2021 | 10am-12pm

Technology for Climate Change Solutions

April 30, 2021 | 1pm-2pm

AI & Sustainability


Carii, Inc. CEO Denise Hayman-Loa has over 34 years of business strategy, entrepreneurship, client facing and management experience in technology and financial services, as well as board experience on two nonprofits.  Prior to becoming Carii CEO in 2013, Denise worked for 29 years in Financial Services in senior positions, focusing on sales, client relationships, technology, strategy and business building at firms such as Salomon Brothers, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and as a management consulting partner at Ernst & Young. A creative thinker with broad experience, Ms. Hayman-Loa is exceptionally effective at identifying opportunities and gaps in business models across multiple industries – both strategically and pragmatically.

Ms. Hayman-Loa has been Co-Founder & CEO of Carii for 5 years, bringing the company from a small beta platform to a fully developed solution garnering multiple awards, clients and team members. Now considered a thought leader in the Social Business software space, Denise has been interviewed multiple times, including by the BBC, and in addition to running the company, she assists Carii clients from multiple industries with their communication and business strategies as they implement the Carii solution.

Nonprofit Board Experience - Ms. Hayman-Loa was a co-founder and Treasurer for the nonprofit, Private Equity Women’s Investor Network, which has grown to hundreds of senior members in multiple countries. Ms. Hayman-Loa has been on the board of a mid-sized nonprofit, Appel Farm Arts & Music Center, focused on arts education for young people, for over 13 years, including positions as Board Secretary for 3 years and Board President for 5 years. During her 5-year tenure as Board President, she helped bring the organization from a difficult financial position to a strong and vibrant position as a leader in the region.

Professional Experience - During the first part of her career, Ms. Hayman-Loa primarily held IT managerial positions, leading teams of designers and programmers in building out financial software for internal and external clients at firms such as Salomon Brothers, Lehman Brothers and Commodities Corp. As a management consulting partner at Ernst & Young she transitioned to a strategic role selling, budgeting and managing projects linking technology solutions to business strategy at large financial firms such as Goldman Sachs, Fidelity and Putnam, as well as Soros and other large Hedge Funds. As a partner Ms. Hayman-Loa was responsible for building her own business and managing teams, projects and relationships. Projects included building out processes within large financial institutions to enable them to scale their businesses.

 

At Goldman Sachs, in 1996, Ms. Hayman-Loa pioneered an early Internet B2B service delivering risk management technology, data and services to clients, such as Microsoft's Treasury division. While in that role she co-authored the book "The Practice of Risk Management", published by Euromoney in 1998, still in print and considered a classic on the subject.  Other roles at Goldman Sachs included managing Goldman’s index business FTSE World index and Goldman Tech indices to institutions and distributors globally. Worked with stock exchanges and product providers to create and build new business lines based on indices, including early ETF products. Completed due diligence analysis and sold the index business to FTSE.

 

As a next career step, Ms. Hayman-Loa created a new pension coverage business in the Equities Division, advising and marketing broker/dealer products to large pensions, insurance companies, endowments and foundations, leveraging research teams and sales teams to win large transactions. Ms. Hayman-Loa transitioned next to a similar role managing the pension coverage team at Morgan Stanley, then to Hamilton Lane, where she continued working with CIO’s, Portfolio Managers and Investment Boards at some of the largest pensions, endowments and foundations across the country as a senior relationship manager for large transactions. Subsequent to her role at Hamilton Lane, she also held a founding position at a fundraising firm and built out her own independent institutional fundraising business.

For a few years, between 2009 and 2013, Ms. Hayman-Loa transitioned out of the industry and built a successful high-end horse farm business, pursued her passion in the fine arts and worked with nonprofits. Once the idea for the Carii business was created, she moved in to the role of Co-Founder and CEO which she has held ever since.

A frequent public speaker and a published author, she has demonstrated expertise in business strategy, boards, sales and client relationships, innovation and technology management.  Ms. Hayman-Loa also has non-profit board experience as a co-founder of a Private Equity Women’s Investor Network and as Board President at Appel Farm Arts & Music Center.

Education: Undergrad, Sarah Lawrence College, post Grad, business and economics courses (NYU, New School, Securities Industry courses). Held multiple securities industry licenses - Series 7, 3, 63 and 24.

Paul is a nationally recognized expert on sustainable investing, and the host of the popular Sustainable Finance Podcast, a weekly program featuring conversations with thought leaders in the field. His guests include cleantech entrepreneurs and VC investors; CEOs leading the low-carbon economy transition; creators of the ESG indices and analytics platforms everyone is using; and NGO executives bridging the public/private partnership funding chasm through digital banking and blockchain-based technologies.

In addition to his podcast series, Paul works with both individual advisors and large investment firms to integrate ESG investing into their portfolio and sales strategies. Incorporating his knowledge of current investor trends, the most robust ESG analytics, and the latest technology trading solutions, Paul helps his clients capitalize on the growing business opportunities in the transition to a low-carbon economy.

From 2015-2019, Paul was a regular contributor to FA Magazine, including his series on women leaders in sustainable finance. He co-authored an article about impact investing for Investments & Wealth Monitor, and has moderated panels at Sustainable Investment Solutions events in Chicago, Minneapolis, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia. He was co-convener of the annual Sustainable Investing Conference at the United Nations in 2018 and 2019. Paul believes the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) exemplify the use of cross-sector collaboration, linking business, government, and civil society in support of people, planet, and profit–in that order.

Paul was a certified financial planner and franchise advisor with Ameriprise for 23 years, and frequently participates in conferences, seminars, and webinars nationwide (now virtually!).

Paul has a JD degree from Tulane Law School and a BA from Tulane University, and has been inducted into the Tulane Athletic Hall of Fame for his football career. Paul lives in Beacon, NY, an historic town on the banks of the Hudson River, where he is on the Advisory Board of the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, a nonprofit research and educational institution affiliated with Clarkson University.


Doug Willmore is the Chief Executive Officer of World Tree. World Tree (www.worldtree.info) is a leading agro-forestry company focused on growing farming communities; and producing strong returns to our investor and farmer base. World Tree works exclusively with Empress Splendor (Paulownia) and works with farmers to grow the trees to hardwood maturity and then harvests and sells the lumber for mutual profit. The tree regenerate after harvesting – truly renewable. The goals of the company include: the drawdown of carbon thereby mitigating climate change; and, generating profits for its farmers and investors through the growth of a sustainable and regenerative hardwood lumber. World Tree’s mission is to elevate, educate, and innovate for the planet. 

Doug is the former Chief Executive Officer of Reference Pathology Services – a leading research pathology laboratory. Doug led the growth and turnaround of the firm from 21 employees and $1.2M in revenue upon joining the company to 120 employees and $22.2M in revenue upon the company’s sale of $33.5M to Ameripath, Inc. four years later.

Doug has had an accomplished career in both the public and private sectors. He recently completed five highly successful years as the City Manager of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA. Prior to Rancho Palos Verdes, Doug was chosen to lead the turnaround at the City of Bell, CA after the disastrous administrative scandal that left the City on the verge of bankruptcy. After almost three years at the helm, the City of Bell had fully recovered financially – going from a $200K general fund balance to a $22.5M fund balance.

Prior to that, Doug was the Chief Administrative Officer of Salt Lake County, UT for 6 years. He managed more than 4000 employees and an annual budget of more than $800M. He also led the County during the financial downturn of 2008, and, according to Standard & Poor’s produced one of the most amazing public finance success stories of the great recession in the US.

He also worked for USAID in Central America for three years earlier in his career, and has also been a sought-after consultant in breakthrough performance to Fortune 100 companies. He has a BS in Public Administration from George Mason University and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Utah.

While passionately committed to outcomes, Doug knows that it always comes down to people. His commitment at World Tree is that people thrive, are challenged and given the opportunity to be their best selves.

April 30, 2021 | 2pm-3pm

Carbotech Solutions


Marcus is based in the Global Village Canberra and focuses his activities on developing and supporting ventures that provide a global innovation edge. He is a strategy, innovation, design and systems thinker. He leads several global initiatives in climate change and health.

He has been leading an initiative since 2007 that seeks to permanently and safely store billions of tonnes of CO2 using the Earth's own carbon sink mechanism - mineral carbonation. He secured Australian Governments'​ funding for a world first pilot plant with his venture partners Orica Ltd & Newcastle Uni and research partners Columbia Uni and Sydney Uni.

Marcus is passionate about health and co-founded Health Horizon, the largest collection of health innovations globally that allows innovators to showcase, seek funding and promote their innovations. It is a marketplace that allows all participants in health to find out 'What's next in health?'.

Marcus is a serial entrepreneur and has had success with his many of his ventures. Most notably eDIME Internet Agency which he founded and sold to Computer Sciences Corp (CSC) in 2000. He was a pioneer in internet communications strategy and built websites for many Federal Government departments and agencies including Prime Minister, Australian Electoral Commission, Defence Intranet, DMO, ASIO, ATSIC, DVA, NHMRC, Medibank and AIHW.

Marcus was co-founder of Revolution CD, a second hand music and software store chain in Australia.

His diversified interests range from clean tech, e-health, complex data analytics, cloud software, mentoring youth, electronic music and promoting the Global Village Canberra. He conducts these through various ventures including not-for-profits, accelerators and incubators.

His board experience is diverse-sitting on government committees, business boards of startups, scientific & non-for profit public and private organisation boards & committees. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). 

Paul is a nationally recognized expert on sustainable investing, and the host of the popular Sustainable Finance Podcast, a weekly program featuring conversations with thought leaders in the field. His guests include cleantech entrepreneurs and VC investors; CEOs leading the low-carbon economy transition; creators of the ESG indices and analytics platforms everyone is using; and NGO executives bridging the public/private partnership funding chasm through digital banking and blockchain-based technologies.

In addition to his podcast series, Paul works with both individual advisors and large investment firms to integrate ESG investing into their portfolio and sales strategies. Incorporating his knowledge of current investor trends, the most robust ESG analytics, and the latest technology trading solutions, Paul helps his clients capitalize on the growing business opportunities in the transition to a low-carbon economy.

From 2015-2019, Paul was a regular contributor to FA Magazine, including his series on women leaders in sustainable finance. He co-authored an article about impact investing for Investments & Wealth Monitor, and has moderated panels at Sustainable Investment Solutions events in Chicago, Minneapolis, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia. He was co-convener of the annual Sustainable Investing Conference at the United Nations in 2018 and 2019. Paul believes the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) exemplify the use of cross-sector collaboration, linking business, government, and civil society in support of people, planet, and profit–in that order.

Paul was a certified financial planner and franchise advisor with Ameriprise for 23 years, and frequently participates in conferences, seminars, and webinars nationwide (now virtually!).

Paul has a JD degree from Tulane Law School and a BA from Tulane University, and has been inducted into the Tulane Athletic Hall of Fame for his football career. Paul lives in Beacon, NY, an historic town on the banks of the Hudson River, where he is on the Advisory Board of the Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, a nonprofit research and educational institution affiliated with Clarkson University.


Doug Willmore is the Chief Executive Officer of World Tree. World Tree (www.worldtree.info) is a leading agro-forestry company focused on growing farming communities; and producing strong returns to our investor and farmer base. World Tree works exclusively with Empress Splendor (Paulownia) and works with farmers to grow the trees to hardwood maturity and then harvests and sells the lumber for mutual profit. The tree regenerate after harvesting – truly renewable. The goals of the company include: the drawdown of carbon thereby mitigating climate change; and, generating profits for its farmers and investors through the growth of a sustainable and regenerative hardwood lumber. World Tree’s mission is to elevate, educate, and innovate for the planet. 

Doug is the former Chief Executive Officer of Reference Pathology Services – a leading research pathology laboratory. Doug led the growth and turnaround of the firm from 21 employees and $1.2M in revenue upon joining the company to 120 employees and $22.2M in revenue upon the company’s sale of $33.5M to Ameripath, Inc. four years later.

Doug has had an accomplished career in both the public and private sectors. He recently completed five highly successful years as the City Manager of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes, CA. Prior to Rancho Palos Verdes, Doug was chosen to lead the turnaround at the City of Bell, CA after the disastrous administrative scandal that left the City on the verge of bankruptcy. After almost three years at the helm, the City of Bell had fully recovered financially – going from a $200K general fund balance to a $22.5M fund balance.

Prior to that, Doug was the Chief Administrative Officer of Salt Lake County, UT for 6 years. He managed more than 4000 employees and an annual budget of more than $800M. He also led the County during the financial downturn of 2008, and, according to Standard & Poor’s produced one of the most amazing public finance success stories of the great recession in the US.

He also worked for USAID in Central America for three years earlier in his career, and has also been a sought-after consultant in breakthrough performance to Fortune 100 companies. He has a BS in Public Administration from George Mason University and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Utah.

While passionately committed to outcomes, Doug knows that it always comes down to people. His commitment at World Tree is that people thrive, are challenged and given the opportunity to be their best selves.

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