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Journey to Impact:

A Virtual Fireside Chat Series

The Journey to Impact is a series of virtual fireside chats with influential impact-inspired investors, founders, artists, and authors who pave the way towards change and transformation in the impact world. This series reveals a more personal narrative of several key impact leaders, offering a “behind-the-scenes” look at their journeys to impact.

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Spring 2020 Line-Up

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Lital Slavin & Orit vaknin

transitioning a family office to impact

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”tf-chat-text-box”]Lital Slavin & Orit Vaknin, together, head BEYOND Family Office, advising families from all across the globe, earning a far-reaching reputation as an innovative and thoughtful leader in the space.

BEYOND Family Office operates on the premise that one’s personal wealth and value system are inextricably linked. That our resources, like the friends we keep and the children we raise, are an expression of who we are. When we align the two, we create the unique opportunity for a double bottom line: competitive returns and measurable social and/or environmental impact, all in one.

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MORGAN SImon

ECONomics of social change

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”tf-chat-text-box”]Morgan Simon has close to two decades of experience making finance a tool for social justice. In that time she has influenced over $150B and is a regularly sought out expert on impact investing. Her book, Real Impact: The New Economics of Social Change has been featured everywhere from Harvard Business School to the United Nations.

She is a regular voice in media and active investor as Founding Partner of Candide Group, a Registered Investment Advisor.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ el_class=”tf-featured-chat”][vc_single_image image=”2261″ img_size=”250×250″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]

Ibrahim ALHusseini

Climate SOlutions

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”tf-chat-text-box”]Ibrahim AlHusseini is the founder and CEO of FullCycle; an investment firm focused on solving the climate crisis by backing companies with climate-restoring technologies, and accelerating their growth. AlHusseini – a renowned entrepreneur, investor and environmentalist – has started and sold numerous businesses and raised half a billion dollars of capital to back dozens of companies. AlHusseini made his initial fortune from his college dorm room, after starting a nutraceutical distribution company and selling the business in 1997.

Raised in Saudi Arabia by parents who are Palestinian refugees, AlHusseini moved to the U.S. for college in the early 1990s. He sits on the board of more than half a dozen organizations that focus on the positive development of our environment and humanity.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=””][vc_column width=”1/3″ el_class=”tf-featured-chat”][vc_single_image image=”2853″ img_size=”250×250″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]

berry Liberman

Storytelling & Impact

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”tf-chat-text-box”]Berry Liberman is the co-founder and creative director of Small Giants, an Impact family office based in Melbourne, Australia that invests in and nurtures businesses working towards a more just, sustainable and compassionate world. Berry is also the publisher of Dumbo Feather, a multi-platform media company that publishes long-form conversations with extraordinary thinkers and doers across the world.

For Berry, professional and personal life are inextricably linked; family is evident in the people she brings together at work as much as it is at home. She believes the stories we tell have a profound affect on the lives we lead and the world we live in, and is passionate about creating spaces and communities that foster robust, substantive conversation.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ el_class=”tf-featured-chat”][vc_single_image image=”2894″ img_size=”250×250″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]

AAROn Holm

transforming housing

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”tf-chat-text-box”]Aaron’s background is building businesses that transform industries and in 2016, he launched Blokable. Aaron has founded and led businesses and product teams, notably spearheading Amazon’s first two physical retail businesses, Amazon Go and Amazon Books. At Amazon, Aaron saw first-hand the opportunity to apply advanced technology, supply chain and logistics to enable innovative and integrated business models in the built environment. He also co-founded Industrial Color, a global leader in digital media Software as a Service, where he built a world-class team and digital media infrastructure that serviced customers like NBC, Warner Bros, Victoria’s Secret, Sony Pictures, Gap/Old Navy, CBS and Publicis. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″ el_class=”tf-featured-chat”][vc_single_image image=”3016″ img_size=”250×250″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]

ron gonen

circular economy

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”tf-chat-text-box”]Ron is the Co-Founder and CEO of Closed Loop Partners, a New York based investment firm comprised of venture capital, growth equity, private equity, project finance and an innovation center focused on building the circular economy. Prior to Closed Loop Partners, Ron was the Deputy Commissioner of Sanitation in New York City in the Bloomberg Administration. He oversaw the collection and processing of NYC’s paper, metal, glass, plastic, textile waste, electronic waste, organics, and hazardous waste as well as public policy. In 2013, NRDC and Earth Day New York named Ron as the Public Official of the Year in New York City.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=””][vc_column width=”1/3″ el_class=”tf-featured-chat”][vc_single_image image=”2978″ img_size=”250×250″ alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_circle_2″ qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]

Bettina von Hagen

Climate-smart forest management

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text el_class=”tf-chat-text-box”]Bettina von Hagen is CEO of EFM, an investment management and climate-smart forest management company based in Portland, OR and focused on natural climate solutions in the Americas. Bettina co-founded EFM and joined the company as CEO in 2008. In addition to general management, Bettina leads the firm’s acquisition and disposition activities. Previously, Bettina was Vice President at Ecotrust for forestry and ecosystem service programs and managed the Natural Capital Fund, a $40 million fund that invests in key businesses and initiatives in the conservation economy. Bettina has over 25 years of experience in fund management, impact investing, conservation finance, ecosystem service markets, commercial lending and forestry.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” background_image=”1996″ z_index=”” el_class=”tf-quotes-firechat”][vc_column][testimonials_carousel show_title=”no” show_rating=”no” author_image=”yes” author_text_font_weight=”400″ show_navigation=”yes” navigation_style=”light” auto_rotate_slides=”15″ text_color=”#ffffff” author_text_color=”#e8e8e8″ author_text_font_size=”15″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” z_index=”” el_class=”tf-row-pad”][vc_column][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]