TheIMPACT
Investing in Tech and Sustainability
On the latest segment of TheIMPACT, our host Rachel Pether is joined by Matt Salloway, Co-founder at SIP Global Partners & CEO of GSI Ventures.
Matthew Salloway is an international business executive, entrepreneur, investor, and attorney. His experience includes serving as the CEO of a Top 50 Global Family Office, focusing on venture capital and cross-border business development for portfolio company market expansion to the MENA region.
Watch this insightful interview and learn about the opportunities for sustainable growth in Saudi Arabia, the evolution of the impact space, SIP Global Partners' latest tech-investment, and much more.
SIP Global Partners is a venture capital firm with a strategic focus on market-expansion, value-add investments in high-growth technology companies. Based in New York, Tokyo, Riyadh, and Boston, the fund leverages its team and experience to accelerate international growth for such portfolio companies in enormous markets with underserved entry points, including Japan, ASEAN, and GCC. SIP's limited partners include Global Tech 50 corporates and top-tier family offices.
GSI Ventures is a global single-family office. "GSI" stands for Growth, Sustainability, and Integrity and consists of a non-profit foundation, an investment company, and a private equity business.TheIMPACT focuses on ESG, Impact Investing, and advancing the 17 United Nations-supported Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The show profiles people and companies committed to changing lives and creating a sustainable world.
India’s Fastest Growing Institute
On the latest TheIMPACT interview, our host Kavita Gupta is joined by Avanti Learning Centres Co-founder, Akshay Saxena.
Akshay is an award-winning entrepreneur and teacher with a passion for building organizations that create an equitable world. Through Avanti, he is helping students across India get into the top engineering and medical schools.
Watch this inspirational story today to learn how Avanti helps millions of students become better learners, aspire to bigger dreams, and succeed.TheIMPACT focuses on ESG, Impact Investing, and advancing the 17 United Nations-supported Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The show profiles people and companies committed to changing lives and creating a sustainable world.
Financial Access Through Technology
TheIMPACT focuses on ESG, Impact Investing, and advancing the 17 United Nations-supported Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The show profiles people and companies committed to changing lives and creating a sustainable world.Alternative Circle is a FinTech innovator whose mission to provide financial access through technology to over 200 million users globally.
Please join our host, Leah Ngari, and Kevin Mutiso, CEO of Alternative Circle, to learn more about what this incredible Kenyan disrupter is doing.
Kenya the Hub for Film & TV Production
In this segment of TheIMPACT, we are joined by Timothy Odhiambo Owase, CEO of Kenya Films Commission. To discuss the potential of Kenya film industry, estimated to generate KSh.200 billion annually.
Watch this illuminating conversation from our Africa Edition and learn:
What steps is the government taking to realize this projection?
What are some of the untapped opportunities?
Partnership with the Ministry of ICT
TheIMPACT focuses on ESG, Impact Investing, and advancing the 17 United Nations-supported Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The show profiles people and companies committed to changing lives and creating a sustainable world.
Financial Protection for Unexpected Times
From Africa, our host, Leah Ngari, is joined by Adelaide Odhiambo, CEO of BlueWave Insurance Company.
Adelaide was inspired by the story of one of her earlier customers, who were unable to raise enough money to help his wife's treatments. BlueWave was then created to make insurance accessible to everyone.
Learn more about how they are integrating with financial services, bridging the gap created by traditional African methods of insurance, and much more on The IMPACT.TheIMPACT focuses on ESG, Impact Investing, and advancing the 17 United Nations-supported Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The show profiles people and companies committed to changing lives and creating a sustainable world.
Resources + Capital = Community Change
TheIMPACT focuses on ESG, Impact Investing, and advancing the 17 United Nations-supported Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The show profiles people and companies committed to changing lives and creating a sustainable world.In this episode of TheIMPACT, our host Vince Molinari welcomes special guest Michael Anderson, Founder, and CEO of MPAC Solutions. Michael is the artist behind the 10-part music-centric social justice commentary titled "Billions in my Thirties," as well as one of the driving forces behind the #BlackDadsMatter movement across the internet.
As both a father and an advocate for social awareness and change, Michael discusses the injustice for African American fathers face daily, systemic racism, how we can fix it, and what the American flag truly means to many African Americans.
African Americans are going through the unequal distribution of criminal punishment and unfair police action, resulting in profiling and destroying homes for thousands of families across the nation.
Michael dives deep into the real heart of the issue that faces African American communities and people of color even today in the year 2020. These topics are both eye-opening and amazingly educational from all different angles of the discussion.
Watch the full segment and take a closer look at our African American communities' struggles day in and day out. Be prepared to be challenged, educated, and driven towards a better future for all African American men, women, and children.
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Proposal for Transparency in ESG
During climate week, Moody’s Investors Service published a request for comment to the market on proposed ESG scores for all rated issuers. To discuss the proposed scores' details, our host Jeff Gitterman is joined by Swami Venkataraman, Senior Vice President in Moody’s Investors Service Environmental, Social, and Governance group.
Some of the question we will cover in this interview are:
Moody's ESG strategy, and what motivated you to propose these ESG scores?
How do these scores relate to the integration of ESG in credit ratings? Will ratings be changed based on these scores?
Moody's owns Vigeo Eiris, which also produces ESG scores. How will you differentiate between the two offerings? Is there even a need for two different scores?
Disclosure is a significant problem in the ESG space. Where will Moody's get the data needed to produce these scores?
How does Moody's expect investors to use these scores?
Will all sectors receive these ESG scores, and when can we expect to see them published?
TheIMPACT focuses on ESG, Impact Investing, and advancing the 17 United Nations-supported Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The show profiles people and companies committed to changing lives and creating a sustainable world.
Multimillion-Dollar Sustainable Business
On this segment of TheIMPACT, our host Kavita Gupta interviews Sandeep Patel - Founder & CEO of NEPRA, a multi-million dollar leading waste management company in India.
Today NEPRA has multiple operations, offering work to more than 450 people and having an operational capacity of 600 tons.
During this interview, Sandeep discusses how he started with waste management handling, NEPRA growth trajectory, and the impact made on different people throughout India.TheIMPACT focuses on ESG, Impact Investing, and advancing the 17 United Nations-supported Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The show profiles people and companies committed to changing lives and creating a sustainable world.
African Women in theEnergy Sector
Learn how AWEaP is accelerating women entrepreneurs’ participation in the Africa energy sector -
On the latest segment of TheIMPACT, our host Irene Kiwia is joined by Bertha Dlamini, Founding President of African Women in Energy & Power.
Watch the full interview and learn:
- Women in Energy & Power Sector
- Investment Allocation to achieve Gender Equality in Off-Grid Energy
- Accelerator Programs & PlatformTheIMPACT focuses on ESG, Impact Investing, and advancing the 17 United Nations-supported Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The show profiles people and companies committed to changing lives and creating a sustainable world.
Transformation of Artificial Intelligence
TheIMPACT focuses on ESG, Impact Investing, and advancing the 17 United Nations-supported Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The show profiles people and companies committed to changing lives and creating a sustainable world.Dr. Jacques Ludik is a smart technology entrepreneur, Artificial Intelligence (AI) expert, founder of multiple AI companies, author, AI ecosystem builder, and award-winning AI Leader with a Ph.D. in Computer Science (AI & Machine Learning) and 25+ years' experience in AI, Machine Learning & Data Science and its applications.
He currently Founder & Group CEO of Cortex Group, an AI-focused holding company building value in the 4IR and focusing on various parts of the AI ecosystem: Cortex Logic as AI Engine for Business (that he founded in 2016), Cortex Health, Cortex Asset Management, Cortex Labs, & Cortex Ventures; and Founder & President of the Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa (MIIA).
He has also founded CSense Systems (Africa's first AI company that was sold to a multinational company, specifically General Electric in 2011), Bennit.AI, Mosaic, and SynerG.Dr. Jacques Ludik talks about AI potential use cases in Africa, including precision medicine, virtual consultation, high-quality personalized education, and the fascinating potential applications in multiple industries worldwide.
AI has matured over the last decade with all the data being generated and cloud computing. Companies like Amazon and YouTube use AI to give you a personalized journey.
Watch the video and learn how AI can positively impact your life or your business.
To Learn More About CortexLogic visit:
https://cortexlogic.com/
The Future of Finance: From GDP To SDGs
In this segment of FINTECH.TV's TheIMPACT, our host from NYC, Vince Molinari, is joined by the incredible Hazel Henderson of Ethical Markets, to discuss her tenure from Washington DC to impact investing dating back to the 1980s to the transition from fossil fuels to the "Solar Age."
Hazel is genuinely an "OG" for impact investing, given her scientific background and approaching a sustainable future through strict, "pure-play" empirical lens as an e-textbook for everyone to use in their investment strategy.TheIMPACT focuses on ESG, Impact Investing, and advancing the 17 United Nations-supported Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The show profiles people and companies committed to changing lives and creating a sustainable world.