Impact Investing: Catalysing Capital for Positive Impact

Katy is Managing Partner at HK-based Sustainable Finance Initiative (SFi) platform, advising and supporting family offices and financial professionals on their sustainable and impact journeys. In 2022, SFI launched the education platform New Impact Society to address the knowledge and talent gaps in the sustainable finance sector.

Katy has served as Director of Investment at RS Group, a HK-based impact investor since 2010. She led the family office’s transition from a traditional investment portfolio to one that is 100% sustainably invested. In this role, she was actively involved in designing impact and climate change strategies and implementation across asset classes (utilizing both investment and philanthropic capital). Katy remains as consultant to RS Group.

Katy is formerly an investment banker at J.P. Morgan Securities (Asia Pacific) Limited and a member of the Global Shapers Community, an initiative of the World Economic Forum. She graduated from Duke University in North Carolina with a BA in Economics and a minor on Comparative Area Studies.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

• Expand the discourse and knowledge around impact investing and sustainable finance
• Supporting impact start-ups and funds gain access to private capital
• Support finance professionals in their sustainable finance learning
• Build a diverse and active community around impact

Websites:

• https://www.sustainablefinance.hk/
• https://www.newimpactsociety.com/

Guneet Banga is an Executive Director for The Caravel Group, where he heads up Caravel Sustainable Investments , a dedicated vehicle for the Company’s investment management activities focused on Impact, ESG, and Sustainability. He is also a GP at Aera VC, an early-stage VC firm focused on climate tech.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

Reduction in use of single use items – bags, straws, coffee cups, shopping bags, etc. There is tremendous wastage still created by the volume of plastic bags, etc that we use. Simple to implement by mandating certain products can no longer be used at all (and fine those caught using), and the impact will be quite a meaningful amount.

Alex has been involved in the real estate industry for the last eighteen years, as a co- founder of a serviced apartment platform, a co-founder of an asset manager and investor and also as an angel investor into early stage companies. Alex has always had a mission to make the built environment a better place to live, work and enjoy and Undivided Ventures represents what he hopes is a part of the solution to one of real estate biggest challenges.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

Adoption of technologies to support net zero adaptation of the built environment.

Wayne Li is Partner at AlphaTrio Capital, an Asian sustainable technology fund that seeks to deliver triple returns by empowering early-stage technology companies to create innovative solutions for the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges.  He is also Managing Director at the Institute of Sustainability and Technology, a new non-profit organization with the vision to facilitate the transition and acceleration to a low-carbon economy.  Previously, Wayne served as Senior Director & Head of Investor Development (Asia-Pacific) at Fitch Ratings, Director of Corporate Finance (Investment Banking Services) at Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Regional Head – Investment Management Group at Thomson Financial (now Thomson Reuters), and Business Development Manager at Standard & Poor’s Platt’s.  He is an alumnus of UCLA and a CPA (Australia).

An Engineer by training, with experience managing technical and project teams on larger resource projects. Dom has recently pivoted in his career shifting to the intersection of blockchain and sustainability. Now working on Green Token Dom is building a team, a platform and a community that will make a meaningful impact.

My Sustainability Goals for 2022:

Waste Reduction and more specifically stopping needless consumption. I know I need to be better but I want people to understand that cheap and disposable comes at a significant cost.