Mana Impact Partners is an impact investment and advisory firm focused on catalyzing a more circular and regenerative economic system. Our areas of work interest include Food & Agriculture, Ocean Health and Nature Based Solutions.

Silverstrand Capital is a single family office with a strong impact mandate. Our goal is to catalyze positive system change, specifically in the areas of agriculture, food and land use.

A global community of High Net worth Individual, Family Office, and Foundation asset owners who are active in seeking deeper impact in all investments, and in their lives.

• Oversaw the implementation of projects in China and developed a regular project reporting system.• Monitored and evaluated quality of project implementation, training activities and materials developed.• Research and identification of potential partners to formulate new strategy in China. • Project Management and relationship management of several project partners.

• Designed and implemented financial performance indicators to enable fact-based target setting.• Reviewed and evaluated strategic projects to ensure achievement of objectives and financial targets.• Managed a portfolio of internal cross-functional projects with high strategic importance.

• Managed a $5M portfolio of community program grants in the area of microfinance, SME, environment, and education.• Developed annual corporate social responsibility strategy and created innovative and sustainable community programs.• Built and maintained relationship with various local and foreign non-profit institutions as well as private corporations.• Ensured effective program monitoring and evaluation and performed analysis and impact assessments of ongoing and past community programs.• Prepared reports and communication materials on program achievements for internal and external stakeholders.

Provision of technical and economic management consulting services, particularly in the banking sector, including training of loan officers, execution of credit analyses, calculation of cash-flow and balance-sheet analysis.

•Managed a US$20 million technical assistance and investment facility to enable the downscaling of commercial banks into microfinance.•Coordinated and liaised with sponsors/banks interested in accessing funds from the facility.•Conducted financial analysis, undertook risk assessments on microfinance institutions and prepared project proposals for management evaluation.

•Conducted research on public policy issues related to international trade, economics and finance. •Evaluated news developments and prepared analyses reports on customer strategy and business impact.•Assisted managing staff in building a marketing database of business and media contacts.

•Planned, designed and implemented the UN Global Micro Entrepreneurship Awards contest in China.•Assessed and evaluated the performance of microfinance projects in several villages in Shanxi province. •Conducted research on rural cooperative reforms in Mexico, Brazil and China for a comparative report.•Participated in the creation and design of the China Microfinance Web Portal

•Initiated and managed account relationship of twenty Latin American Banks and Asian companies.•Prepared write ups on customers and completed research on countries for credit committee presentation.•Participated in steering committee to restructure non-performing Argentine loans.•Coordinated various bilateral and syndicated trade finance and working capital transactions exceeding $400M.•Cooperated with the structured finance and capital markets group to create new banking products.