Spotlight: Recent Episodes
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tickr Founders Matt Latham and Tom McGillycuddy go back to back with leading lights in finance and commerce who are championing better business. Get to know the B Corp founders, impact investors and finance experts who are making the world a better place.
Venture capital shapes society – but who is shaping venture capital? Michael Tefula traces the origins of VC, discusses gender and racial inequalities within the sector – and the initiatives aiming to address these disparities through the not for profit he co-founded, Diversity VC.
Where does real change come from? Former Labour MP Chuka Umunna now helps businesses improve their Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) credentials – and asserts that a greater impact can be made through the private sector, than through politics.
Business shapes our world, so why not shape it into something good? Wanting businesses to create value for people and the planet – and not just their shareholders – James Perry pioneered the B Corp movement in the UK.
Head of Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) at OP Asset Management – one of Finland’s biggest banks – Annika Manninen is tasked with embedding ESG into all aspects of the investment process. Because good practices should be central to the conversation.
What if instead of just extracting value from nature and society, the financial system supported them? Daniela Soares is CEO of Snowball, a company helping professional investors to see the full picture when it comes to managing impact and profit. Their aim? To improve the society we live in.
If you want to disrupt an industry, learn from the best. Exporting a fairer economic ethos from Bangladesh and applying it to the UK market, Faisel Rahman, founder of Fair Finance, is dismantling the notorious payday lending scene in the UK. Faisel discusses taking inspiration from microfinance to build trust and reduce poverty.
How can investors and founders rethink what growth means? Impact investing expert and founder of Intelligent Impact, Aunnie Patton Power, discusses her work finding new models of funding and what it means to be a successful and sustainable business.
Did you know that one third of all food is thrown away? Saasha Celestial-One, co-founder of the game-changing food-sharing app Olio, discusses food waste, her hippy upbringing and developing Olio from a pilot WhatsApp group to a 3.7 million strong community.
Though it’s a relatively new sector, impact investing is dominating how young people think about investing. Eric Rice, Head of Impact at BlackRock – the biggest asset manager in the world – traces his career to date while explaining exactly what impact investing is and how quickly it’s gaining traction.