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An incredible array of talented social entrepreneurs, investors and innovators appeared at Good Deals 2011. Check some of them out below:
Julie Hanna, chair of the board, Kiva
Nick O'Donohoe, CEO Big Society Capital
Liam Black, co-founder, Wavelength
Bernard Horn, chair, Social Finance
Arthur Wood, founding partner, Total Impact Advisers
Amra Dautovic, MD, MyTime CIC
David Hutchison, CEO, Social Finance
Jeremy Nicholls, CEO, SROI Network and Chair, Fair Pensions
Charlie Green, director, Private Equity Foundation
Jo Hill, head of UnLtd Ventures
Bob Thust, head of corporate responsibility, Deloitte
Faisel Rahman, founder, Fair Finance
Stephen Rockman, founder, Merism Capital
Becky Booth, co-founder and programme director, Spice
Servane Mouazan, MD, Ogunte Ltd
Theresa Burton, CEO & co-founder Buzzbnk
Dave Dawes, project lead, Nurse First
Jonathan Jenkins, CEO, Social Investment Business
Antony Ross, director, Bridges Ventures
professor muhammad yunus
Born in 1940, Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi economist and founder of the Grameen Bank an institution that provides microcredit (small loans to poor people possessing no collateral) to help its clients establish creditworthiness and financial self-sufficiency. In 2006 Yunus and Grameen received the Nobel Prize Peace Prize “for their efforts to create economic and social development from below”.
Yunus’s other honours include Bangladesh’s prestigious Independence Day Award (1987), the World Food Prize 1994, and the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom (2009).
He is the author of several books including the international best seller Banker to the Poor and most recently Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
Julie Hanna
Julie Hanna is Chair of the Board at Kiva, a TIME Top 50 Website and the world's largest micro-lending marketplace for poverty alleviation. She is also a board member at Socialtext, the leader in social enterprise SaaS; and advisor to tech startup incubator, Idealab, and a number of startups and social impact businesses in the US and Europe.
An accomplished entrepreneur, Julie's work is driven by her belief in technology as a democratizing force for social, political and business disruption, and in entrepreneurship as the world's greatest change agent. Her natural aptitude for market timing combined with her hands-on experience developing industry-defining products adopted by tens of millions of people informs her work as a board member, advisor and angel investor today.
Nick O'Donohoe
Nick O’Donohoe is Chief Executive Officer of Big Society Capital. At the end of 2010 he was asked by the government to advise it on the establishment of (what was then referred to as) the Big Society Bank. Prior to taking this he was a member of the Executive Committee of JP Morgan Chase where he worked for 15 years including serving as Global Head of Research from 2005. He was also responsible for supervising the firm’s Social Finance Group and led research studies on Microfinance and Impact Investing as an Asset Class.
Before joining JP Morgan, Nick worked 14 years at Goldman Sachs.
He holds a BA from Trinity College Dublin and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Liam Black
Liam is one of the co-founders of Wavelength (www.thesamewavelength.com). He is a social entrepreneur who has created and/or lead some dozen social business ventures. With Jamie Oliver he grew Fifteen into a global brand.
He is a board member of the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (Nesta), the UK's largest independent endowment (£350 million) and he oversees Nesta's annual spend into social innovation in Britain (www.nesta.org.uk).
In 2011 he was elected as the President of the Friends of Grameen, an international solidarity group created to protect and promote the legacy of Muhammad Yunus (www.friendsofgrameen.com).
Bernard Horn
Bernard Horn had a varied career with NatWest spanning 30 years, including six years as a Main Board Director of the NatWest Group (FTSE 100 Company). His roles included five years as Chief Executive of the International Businesses, and a similar period as Operations Director, responsible for Operations and IT. He led significant acquisition and disposal activity whilst with the bank.
Arthur Wood
Arthur Wood is a former banker (Merrill, Coutts Kleinworts) , educated atthe London School of Economics, SDA Bocconi in Italy, HEC in France and Merrill Lynch in New York. Now Geneva based, he is a Founder Partner of Total Impact Advisors (TIA www.totalimpactadvisors.com). A Social Finance entity whose clients are the major foundations looking to enter Impact Investing and social entrepreneurs looking to scale - and whorecognise blended value requires blended capital expertise.
He is also the current Chairman of the World Sanitation Financing Facility (WSFF- www.sanitationfinance.org) and Strategic Advisor to the Americansfor Community Development (www.americansforcommunitydevelopment.org)
David Hutchison
David joined Social Finance in May 2009 as Chief Executive. He leads a team of over 20 professionals drawn from social and financial backgrounds. Together they identify ways of mobilising capital from outside the public sector to invest in organisations and entrepreneurs seeking to drive better social outcomes.
This follows a 25 year career at Dresdner Kleinwort where he was most recently Head of UK Investment Banking and a member of the Global Banking Operating Committee, coordinating the bank's activities in the UK across the full range of investment banking products, M&A, debt and equity raising and derivatives marketing.
Jeremy Nicholls
Jeremy Nicholls is the chief executive of the Social Return on Investment (SROI) Network, which is a membership organisation for individuals, organisations and companies supporting principles and standards in accounting for social and environmental value.
He is the chair of FairPensions, a director of the FRC Group (a social business based in Liverpool UK), a trustee of the Social Impact Analysts Association, and a director of Social Evaluator (an online platform for the analysis of social returns). He lectures at several Universities including The Said Business School at Oxford University; Cambridge University; and the University of Western Australia.
He has written ’There is no business like Social Business’ with Liam Black, ‘More for your money, A guide to procuring from social enterprises’ with Justin Sachs and worked with others to write a number of SROI guides including, most recently, the UK Government supported ‘Guide to SROI’.
Charlie Green
Charlie Green is a founder and director of the Private Equity Foundation and currently a non-executive director of several small businesses for whom he has raised new investment. He was previously a managing director of Candover, a private equity firm, and prior to that a director of Morgan Grenfell and Deutsche Bank.
Phil leads a new social enterprise "Cool2Care", aimed at supporting families with disabled children. The organisation was established in 2007 and helps families across England find support.
Bob Thust
Bob started his career with Andersen before moving on to Deloitte. Seven years ago, Bob moved out of the commercial practice to take an internal role leading the firm’s flagship community education programme, the Deloitte Employability Initiative and from there moved into a wider role as head of the UK firm’s community programme, one of the largest in the UK with an annual contribution over £11m and with more than 80,000 hours of volunteer time and pro-bono services provided to the community each year.
Bob is now the Head of Corporate Responsibility at Deloitte, coordinating the firm’s wider Responsible Business and sustainability agenda and leading the firm’s exciting plans for social innovation. Bob is a trustee on a grassroots community arts charity in London and continues to play football regularly indulging his other great passions.
Phil Conway
Phil leads the award-winning social enterprise "Cool2Care", aimed at supporting families with disabled children. The organisation was established in 2007 and helps families across England find support.
Phil has a professional background in international business, having worked for IBM for 20 years in various international roles. These include general management, strategic planning, marketing, Business Transformation & change management. He spent four years working in IBM Asia Pacific HQ, based in Tokyo.
Tamzin ractliffe
Tamzin Ractliffe is the CEO of Nexii, a global impact investment advisory firm with deep roots in Africa and a strong track record established over more than a decade. Widely credited with having started the first social investment exchange in the world, Tamzin was a visionary leader for GreaterGood South Africa and its impact investment social advisory business Greater Capital building it from inception to a leader in South Africa over the past 12 years.
Stephen Rockman
Merism Capital provides seed funding for early stage social businesses: supporting entrepreneurs with equity investments of £50k to £150k for both financial and social returns. Stephen founded Merism in 2010 having discovered social enterprise’s challenges and opportunities whilst mentoring entrepreneurs for NESTA and UnLtd.
In 2011 he co-founded Impact Venture Labs, based in Hub Westminster, the first incubator in Europe dedicated to investing in and creating better, more sustainable social entrepreneurs and championing innovation and impact across Europe.
Previously Stephen spent twenty years in IT in various commercial roles with global software and services companies before becoming an advisor to and angel investor in start-up web and mobile companies.
Theresa Burton
Theresa is CEO and Co-founder of Buzzbnk, an on-line crowd-funding platform to bring social ventures looking for start-up or growth capital together with like minded people keen to fund with small amounts of money. It is a new way for people to support and participate in social investment and change.
Before co-founding and setting up Buzzbnk in 2009 with serial social entrepreneur Michael Norton OBE, Theresa spent 16 years as a senior manger in the private sector, delivering global e-business, internet and internal business solutions for two large international corporations, the most recent with Swiss Re. In 2008 she completed a Sloan Fellowship MBA/MSc at London Business School. Most recently she was selected as a “Make a Wave” fellow in the Ogunte programme for women social entrepreneurs.
Jonathan Jenkins
Jonathan Jenkins has recently taken up the position of CEO of The Social Investment Business, the largest lender in the social investment market. He was previously the Director of Ventures at UnLtd, the UK’s largest supporter of start-up/early stage social entrepreneurs.
Jonathan has over 15 years experience in fundraising for SMEs from his City career, which included time at a UK merchant bank, and culminated in his role as managing director of Plus Markets, a stock exchange created by his family to enable access to capital for smaller companies. In his time at Plus, over 500 companies raising over £1bn.