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Peter Arensman is an experienced entrepreneur and investor in sustainable agriculture and food chains.  He is a Founding Partner of the investment company People, Planet, Profit, and the venture capital investment firm, Future Food Fund. Growing up on a farm in the Netherlands, Peter went on to study for a Masters in Business & Economics at the University of Rotterdam. Following his graduation...

Ron Gonen is the Founder and CEO of Closed Loop Partners, a New York-based investment firm comprised of venture capital, growth equity, private equity, project-based finance, and an innovation center that’s focused on building the circular economy.  Ron spent his early childhood years in Israel, moving to Philadelphia around the age of five.  He studied History and Economics at the University of M...

Basil Demeroutis (@Basil_FORE) is the Managing Partner of FORE Partnership, a purpose-driven real estate investment firm active in the UK and Western Europe. Basil founded FORE Partnership believing in a low carbon future in which property can be a force for social good and his mission has been to prove that driving environmental sustainability and positive social outcomes is good for investors’ f...

Jean-Philippe de Schrevel is the Founder and Managing Partner at Bamboo Capital Partners, an impact investing platform which provides innovative financing solutions to businesses in emerging markets. He has dedicated most of his career to the development of the impact investing field, during which time he has launched eight investment funds and raised over $1 billion across a variety of asset clas...

Eric Rice is Head of Impact Investing at BlackRock and the portfolio manager and the architect of the world’s first diversified public markets impact investing strategy, Global Impact.  Global Impact is an alpha-oriented strategy that invests in companies whose goods and services help address the world’s great problems, as defined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals.  He also collaborates with...

Ben Rick ( @SASCapital_Ben ) is the Co-Founder and CEO of Social and Sustainable Capital, a company that provides flexible capital to enable social sector organizations grow their social impact, tackle society’s most pressing challenges, and improve the lives of disadvantaged people across the United Kingdom. After graduating from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (n...

Sharon Vosmek ( @Vosmek ) is the CEO of Astia & Managing Partner of the Astia Fund ($100 million) and a founding member of Astia Angels. Astia is the pre-eminent organization working to ensure the success of high-growth start-ups founded and led by women. Sharon is well-known around the globe for her opinions, research, and commentary on the importance of women leadership being integral to inn...

Bram Bos is Lead Portfolio Manager of Green, Social and Impact Bonds at NN Investment Partners. He has over 20 years of portfolio management experience, including previous roles at Unilever, APG Asset Management, Nomura, and Fullerton Fund Management. Bram’s early career began in his native Holland, took him to Singapore for several years and then back to Holland, where he went on to build the gre...

Marisa Drew is the Chief Sustainability Officer for the Standard Chartered Bank in London as of July 2022. However, this discussion will not be about Standard Charter Bank because my interview with Marisa took place some months back when I was finishing my book, Sustainable and Responsible Investing 360º. At that time, she was the Chief Sustainability Officer for Credit Suisse, where she had worke...

Matt Patsky ( @mattpatsky ) is the CEO and Lead Portfolio Manager of the Trillium ESG Global Equity Srategy and Portfolio Manager of the Trillium Sustainable Opportunities Strategy. Matt began his career at Lehman Brothers in 1984 and has over three decades of experience in investment research and investment management.  In 1994 he became the first sell-side analyst in the United States to publish...

Jed Emerson ( @BlendedValue ) is an internationally recognized thought leader in impact investing, social entrepreneurship and strategic philanthropy and the Managing Director and Global Lead Impact Investing with Tiedemann Advisors. He has extensive experience leading, staffing, and advising funds, firms, social ventures, and foundations in pursuance of financial performance alongside social/envi...

Alina Donets is the lead portfolio man­ager of LO Funds-Natural Capital at Lombard Odier Investment Managers and has been managing sustainability portfolios for nearly nine years. She is a globally recognized specialist in water and sustainable investment, and during her career has developed several new strategies with proprietary impact, thematic, and ESG-centered processes. In this episode we wi...

Jenn Pryce ( @JennPryce ) is President and CEO of Calvert Impact Capital, a global investment firm investing in communities, people, and businesses that are overlooked by traditional finance in the United States and in over 100 other countries. Essentially, they’re putting their money where banks won’t. Jenn learned the power of community at the start of her career working in the Peace Corps in Af...

Welcome to the SRI 360º Podcast where I interview world-class Sustainable & Responsible investors and bring you the lessons that they’ve learned so you can find out what they are doing and how they are doing it.