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Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Responsible for the launch of the ACT Fund, from fund design to the first close. Working closely with key stakeholders, including CFC's member states, investors, legal teams, and financial advisors, to establish this innovative fund, driving positive impact in for smallholder farmers and natural capital across commodity value chains globally. For more.

Participate in investment decisions as an independent member of the IC. The Fund iprovides subordinated funding to 15-20 Financial Intermediaries in emerging markets, thereby catalysing between USD 250 million and 400 million in senior debt which will be on-lent to Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, with a focus on women. The fund is compliant with.

The Social Enterprise Fund for Agcriculture in Africa (SEFAA) is a USD 24Mn impact-first fund launched by Sahel Capital and funded by KfW. SEFAA will invest in social enterprises active in the agricultural value chain in Sub-Saharan Africa. SEFAA focuses on innovative solutions offered by Agri-SMEs benefitting smallholder farmers. The Board/ Non-Executive.

Provide strategic advice and hands-on support in the pilot phase to design the Smallholder Resilience Fund. SRF is an innovative impact-first fund to invest in those agri-SMEs that add value to the 1.4+ million farmers One Acre Fund already engages with directly. SRF intends to deploy capital to established SMEs in the value chain, alongside technical.

Independent member of the inaugural Investment Committee of the Agri-Finance Liquidity Fund - an initiative funded by KfW/BMZ and managed by Incofin IM investing in sustainable agri-enterprises in Africa and Latin-America.

Remote

AgriG8 is an innovative Agri-Fintech social enterprise offering an integrated platform empowering capital providers’ roles in sustainable food systems by bridging the financing gap with smallholder producers. By integrating remote sensing applications, crop yield predictions, and farmers’ behavioural insights, AgriG8 offers predictive modeling and active.

I work with the founding team of a successfull agri-SME Fund on the design of their successor fund. The aim is to design an impact-first blended finance fund to finance agri-SMEs in East-Africa. The design includes the formulation of the Theory of Change/ impact mission, the optimal capital structure mirroring well the impact-return-risk profile, and the.

I work with organizations, funds and teams with the aim to maximize impact in an enterpreneurial way. Assignments range from governance roles (Investment Committee, Board positions) to impact fund/ blended finance structuring advice and interim CFO/ Finance Team Management positions.

I advised a Scandinavian impact fund manager on pipeline development/ strategy in African and Asian inclusive finance sectors. Backed by the long trackrecord investing in early-stage MFIs in Latin America, the fund manager is developing a new high impact fund for making equity investments in early stage MFIs in Africa and Asia. I worked with the fund team.

Myanmar

Proximity Designs is Myanmar’s largest agricultural social enterprise offering microfinance services, climate smart irrigation products and agronomy advice to over 250,000 farmers annually. Proximity operates as a agricultural platform business through 30 branches and 900 employees across the country. As group CFO, I was in charge of the finance team.

Zeist, The Netherlands

The Triodos Sustainable Agriculture Fund provides finance to agri-businesses in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The fund was structured as a Dutch Foundation (“Stichting”) with a blended finance base from public and private investors.As Fund Manager I was responsible for overall performance (origination, portfolio management, impact & return performance).

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Appointed by the ASN-Novib Fund as it representative in the Bai Tushum Bank's Board of Directors. The bank is the leading microfinance bank in the Kyrgyz Republic, with a focus on small and medium enterprises in rural areas.

Amsterdam

Responsible for a team of investment professionals based in various locations: the Netherlands, Thailand and Georgia. Investment (debt/ equity) portfolio in MFIs and SME Banks in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Asia.

Adviser to provincial government, business associations and business training institutes in order to develop local SMEs and the income position of urban and rural poor.

Investment Officer (part-time) for the newly established Triodos Renewable Energy for Development Fund. The fund provides loans, equity and seed capital to SMEs in developing countries, who are active in the sustainable energy field (solar, hydro, wind). The Fund is active in Asia, Africa and South America.

Designed and implemented a Value Chain Development project for the GTZ (now: GiZ) Program in Northern Laos, including a market analysis, training local staff and providing advise to public and private actors agricultural value chains

As Investment Manager responsible for a portfolio of credits to businesses in food retail and renewable energy

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Project Manager with B&C Young Executives' three year management development program. Working full-time with clients (on-site within the client's organization) at 6-9 month projects in strategy and business development. Projects (often alongside an senior B&C Interim Manager) were amongst others: setting up a new business unit in a utility company, merging.

Strategic Leadership In Microfinance

Postgraduate Certificates, Development Economics

Mba Certificates, Finance & Organization

Thesis Research, Environmental Economics/ Public Policy

Ma, International Relations