The Impact Equation

Folake Owodunni is the co-founder and CEO of Emergency Response Africa. ERA is a healthcare technology company improving how medical emergencies are managed across Africa, starting in Nigeria. They operate the largest network of trained First Responders, ambulances, and verified emergency-ready hospitals. This network allows them to connect people experiencing medical emergencies to the help...

Lord Francis Maude is a senior British political figure and former minister. His career spans three Governments, four decades and multiple continents. Having had his first ministerial post under Margaret Thatcher, Francis has long experience and deep understanding of how governments work. From his early days in the HM Treasury to leading reform in the Cabinet Office, he became one of the architect...

Adam and Rafi review the last seven episodes in our regular wash up conversation Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Mark Bjornsgaard has scaled and exited seven businesses in healthcare, finance and music. As founder of Deep Green, Mark has worked out how to turn waste heat from AI data centres into heating local infrastructure and homes, with billions of investment. In this conversation, Mark talks through the long road to making that idea commercially viable, why earlier versions failed, and why the real brea...

How does a trained chemist transition into an investment banker, a senior British diplomat in Beijing, and ultimately, the CEO overseeing the world’s most critical environmental disclosure platform? In this episode Rafi sits down with Sherry Madera, CEO of CDP , to map out her curiosity-led career and explore how data has become the ultimate force for global change. From navigating the thick PM 2....

Lord Michael Barber is the founder of the Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit under Sir Tony Blair, author of How to Run a Government , and the global pioneer of deliverology. Over the past three decades he has advised governments around the world on one of leadership’s hardest questions: not what to do, but how to get it done. In this episode, Lord Barber reflects on the experiences that shaped his ap...

This roundtable special brings together three founders working at different edges of the same question: how do we rebuild our relationship with nature through markets, products, and everyday economic choices? Cain Blythe is the founder of CreditNature, a platform designed to unlock large-scale investment into biodiversity and ecosystem recovery by making nature measurable and investable. His work...

Lucy Kellaway is an award-winning journalist, former Financial Times columnist, Business Journalist of the Year, and recipient of an OBE for services to education. Shortly after her 58th birthday, she left a 30-year career at the FT to retrain as a maths teacher and went on to co-found Now Teach with Katie Waldegrave. Joined by Graihagh Crawshaw-Sadler, CEO of Now Teach and former Director of Stra...

Yossi Abramowitz is a renewable energy pioneer, co-founder of the first utility-scale solar fields in both the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, co-founder of Gigawatt Global, and a Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Over the past two decades he has helped build renewable energy infrastructure across Israel and Africa, bringing clean power to communities that had long been excluded from reliable energy...

Rafi and Adam reflect in this 20 minute conversation on the past 7 guests. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ryan Kohn has spent the last decade answering a challenge that stumps most founders: how do you scale a massive consumer brand while leaving the planet better than you found it. As the co-founder of PROPER, he took a kitchen-table startup and built it into Europe’s largest independent healthy snacking group. But alongside selling millions of packs across 15 countries, he embedded a deep commitment...

Professor Tim Spector has spent three decades asking: why do people respond so differently to the same food? As a genetic epidemiologist at King’s College London and founder of the Twins UK registry, he built one of the world’s richest long-term datasets on health, genetics, and environment. The insight that our gut microbiome may matter as much as our genes when it comes to metabolism a...

Edward Booty is founder and CEO of reach52, getting essential healthcare products and services to people the system doesn’t reach. Edward has spent his career working across health systems in low and middle-income countries, where access isn’t just about clinics or medicines, but trust, distribution, and behaviour. Through reach52, he’s building a community-driven model that combines digital platf...

Didit Indraputra is founder and CEO of Primaku, a fast-growing digital health platform transforming how parents in Indonesia access trusted guidance on child health and development. Muhammad, or “Didit” as he is known, began his career in finance, but a defining personal moment shifted his trajectory. Becoming a parent sharpened his awareness of how confusing, fragmented, and unequal early childho...

For nearly twenty years, Katie Oliver has been a driving force behind one of the UK’s most significant education charities, Ark. She was at the forefront of growing the Ark network from one academy to dozens of schools. In 2019, she took on a new mission: founding Ark Start, a group of five London nurseries that are built alongside the Ark schools network and is in the process of expanding across...

João Abreu is a Brazilian public health innovator and the co-founder and executive director of ImpulsoGov, a non-profit scaling data-driven tools and technology into Brazil’s universal public health system - the world’s largest single-payer public healthcare network. Founded during the COVID-19 pandemic, ImpulsoGov has grown to partner with governments in hundreds of municipalities, helping h...

Luke Tryl is executive director of More in Common UK, the research organisation that has become the reference point for understanding what British voters actually think - and how often the political class misreads them. In this episode, Luke walks us through More in Common's seven-segment model of British values, built on Jonathan Haidt's Moral Foundations Theory and Karen Stenner's work on author...

Rafi and Adam reflect in this 20 minute conversation on the past 7 guests. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we're joined by a legend of the climate change movement. Once a Cambridge mathematician, manufacturing executive and then on to the UN high level climate champion for COP26, Nigel Topping has spent decades bridging the gap between factory floors and the likes of the Paris Agreement. Now, as chair of the UK Climate Change Committee, Nigel is steering the UK towards its 2050 targets...

This is the next episode in our latest series with our friends at 100X Impact. Kruti Bharucha is CEO of Peepul, bringing over two decades of leadership across some of the world’s most demanding institutions from McKinsey and the World Bank, to the IMF becoming an advisor to global CEOs on finance, risk and organisational performance. She could have stayed in global boardrooms. Instead, she chose t...

In this episode, Adam and Rafi speak to Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez, co-founder and co-CEO of Notpla, a company replacing single-use plastic with materials made from seaweed. What began as a student experiment has become a manufacturing business operating across nine countries, supplying packaging to stadiums, global brands, and major food service providers. Notpla has been recognised with the £1 mill...

Nick Hurd is the fourth consecutive generation Conservative MP in his family, the UK's former Minister for Civil Society, and he now chairs the Foundation for Social Investment and the GSG Impact network, which spans 48 countries. In this episode, Nick shares his family's tradition of public service (his father was Margaret Thatcher's Foreign Secretary), former Prime Minister David Cameron's visio...

To mark Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, on 13th April, Rafi and Adam interview three remarkable figures in British public life: Professor Sir Anthony Finkelstein, Lord Daniel Finkelstein OBE, and Dame Tamara Finkelstein DCB. The children of two survivors who endured the camps of the Holocaust and the wastes of the Siberian Gulag, they have together risen to eminence in journalism, the civi...

As Chief Executive of Yorkshire Housing, Nick Atkin leads the region’s largest provider of affordable, eco-friendly homes. He also chairs major regional partnerships and is pushing the government to treat housebuilding as a national priority. His team is at the vanguard of using data, sensors and AI to make housing services work better for the people living in those homes. In this episode of The I...