Holds a Master of Science in Engineering & Management from Linköping University in Sweden. 30 years of experiences within the power and automation industry, abroad assignments in Germany, Ecuador, USA and Denmark. Competences from several roles from engineering, internal auditing, controlling to management positions. Today she is responsible for developing new IoT services for the mining businesses including Virtual, Augmented, Mixed, Extended Reality and Drones. In parallel, an industrial PhD student at Mälardalens University focusing on the subject Energy & Safety Diagnostic for Underground facilities.
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Gaëtan Herinckx
Gaëtan Herinckx is a senior investment professional passionate about working with growing businesses having positive impact on societies.
He is Manager at BIO, the Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries. He oversees BIO’s direct investments SME and Corporate (including Agribusiness). BIO invests in financial institutions, enterprises, infrastructure and funds across Africa, Latin America and Asia with an objective to promote economic and social development.
Gaëtan has been working in sustainable investment field over the last 19 years. He first worked for Candriam Asset Management as Head of Sustainable and Responsible Investment. He then participated to the launch of Sustainable Capital, boutique asset manager focusing on investment in Africa (ex-SA) investments. In 2016, he joined BIO with a focus on providing funding to SME and Corporates.
Mr. Herinckx hold a Msc in Business Engineering (UCL, Louvain-La-Neuve), a post-graduate in Financial risk management (Saint-Louis, Brussels) and an International Management Program – MBA (Stern Business School, New-York)
Aaron Berger
Mr. Berger joined the UBC team in 2003 and has since served in a range of diverse roles leveraging global capabilities in the execution of peri and post marketing product development programs and Real World Evidence generation. In this role, Mr. Berger supports the development of RWD / RWE architectures and solutions to drive greater insight into the safety profile and value proposition of medicines.
Mr. Berger received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Kansas, holds the Project Management Professional credential and Six Sigma Green Belt certificate.
Clare Sarvary Fourrier
Veteran of global oncology clinical operations, with in-depth experience in phase 1–3 oncology and hematology research as well as early-phase studies. Builder of world-class oncology research teams and leader of strategic growth of resources and operations across Europe. Keenly focused on study delivery, mitigation of study risk, and client service.
Bob Izlar
ROBERT L. IZLAR, RF, CF
HARLEY LANGDALE, JR. CENTER FOR FOREST BUSINESS
WARNELL SCHOOL OF FORESTRY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
ATHENS, GEORGIA 30602-2152
bizlar@uga.edu
Bob Izlar has been founding director of the UGA Harley Langdale, Jr. Center for Forest Business since 1998. He has 24 years of operational forestry experience in forest industry.
Izlar is a retired United States Army Colonel with 36 years’ service.
Michael Hoelter
Michael joined the Sustainable Investments team of DWS in 2011 as portfolio manager and focuses on funds that invest into debt products targeting businesses active in the food-, trade- and renewable energy sector which includes electrification. Michael oversees the investment activities for the group on the African continent and is the responsible portfolio manager for the Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund. Part of the Sustainable Investments team, Michael pursued the initiative to accredit Deutsche Bank AG with the Green Climate Fund as the first private, international bank that obtained approval for an investment concept from the GCF. The mandate focuses on climate mitigation and targets investments in decentralized energy supply solutions from renewable sources designed to expand the availability of clean electrical energy across five African countries.
Michael holds a degree in international business administration from the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
Sydney McConathy
Sydney is responsible for leading HNRG’s Business Development team specifically focused on capital raising, distribution, marketing operations and product development across our global institutional and high net worth markets. Prior to joining HNRG, Sydney was a Managing Director for Beacon Hill Financial Corporation, a Boston-based private placement firm with clients in the private equity buyout and energy sectors. Prior to Beacon Hill, Sydney was Manager of Project Finance with Alpine Energy Group, a private-equity funded power development firm. Early in her career, Sydney was a strategy consultant with The Parthenon Group where she performed a number of strategic consulting initiatives for global fortune 500 companies. Sydney holds a B.A. in International Studies and Art History from Middlebury College and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. She is registered with John Hancock Distributors LLC and holds Series 7 and 63 licenses.
Petteri Seppanen
- Currently working as Investment Director at Dasos Capital Ltd in Helsinki.
- 10 years of experience in timberland investments in Europe and emerging markets.
- Previously worked also as forestry consultant in plantation forestry related assignments in Latin America, Africa and South-East Asia.
- 20 years of hands-on plantation forestry experience in eucalyptus and teak operations in Latin America.
- MSc degree in forest sciences at University of Helsinki.
Alan Batista
“Alan is the Investment Specialist at WRI Brasil and is responsible for investment advice and valuation of alternative investments, focused on impact investments on land use. Prior to joining WRI Brasil, Alan began his working career in the pulp and paper sector, afterwards he joined Ibá (Brazilian Tree Industry), which is the forest industry association in Brazil. He holds a degree in Forest Engineering from the University of São Paulo (USP) and a Master of Science in forest economics from the Erasmus mundus program at the University of Freiburg in Germany and the University of Eastern Finland. Alan is also a member of Financial Innovation LAB, and he is a CFA level III candidate.”
Tuomo Kauranne
As the founder and President of Arbonaut Ltd. I am in charge of all of its operations, including global services to timberland owners and forest administrations in twenty odd countries on six continents. Technological innovation and related application development and IT systems integration have been close to my heart even longer, as well as customer relations in many different cultures and parts of the world. My personal background is rather theoretical and I have also served as a Professor of Mathematics at Lappeenranta University of Technology as a second occupation.