A vibrant, catalytic platform to advance and strengthen the practice of social investment globally to deliver sustainable, high-impact solutions to pressing social challenges
The Opportunity
Acute social and environmental challenges around the globe requires the mobilization of private impact-oriented capital to supplement traditional public and development finance funding. With a growing diversity of suppliers of impact capital, it is imperative for all forms of capital to take a collective approach to build back better.
Issues like climate change, economic inequality, education, health, and gender discrimination are globally relevant, but require highly localized solutions. This requires a globally coordinated effort leveraging local capital and local implementation.
The team behind IVPC has been building this ecosystem for the past 17 years – Starting in Europe, then Asia and now Africa and Latin America – building the foundation for global and local influence. Now with thousands of key stakeholders across 60+ countries, IVPC is looking to leverage this unprecedented footprint to mobilize capital on a global scale.
IVPC aims to connect suppliers of impact capital with their peers globally to:
- Share successes, failures and learnings with one another.
- To inspire more capital to become active.
- Improve the effectiveness of capital for impact.
- Accelerate the development of the ecosystem for impact capital globally.
Our Mission
To move more capital towards critical impact areas that require a global approach with local implementation
Our activities are geared towards:
- Educating funders to be more effective at providing capital for impact.
- Providing opportunities to activate capital - globally and locally.
- Highlighting global and local insights to adapt, replicate and scale effective solutions.
The four regional networks combined represent the only existing global network with leadership by the Global South as well as active engagement from the leading impact capital providers in the Global North.
Their ecosystem building approach has afforded the networks great influence with local capital, governments, and civil society as well as unprecedented access to data and insights in markets where the lack of transparency can be an enormous impediment to progress.
Who We Are
Board
Douglas Miller
Founder and Chairman
Chairman
Former private equity professional and founding board chair of the EVPA and AVPN.
Paul Shoemaker
Non-Executive Director
Non-Executive Director
Senior Consultant & Speaker, Author of Can’t Not Do, Founding President of SVP International.
Steven Serneels
Non-Executive Director
Non-Executive Director
In 1992, Steven started his own company specialized in Supply Chain and Operations Strategy. As business entrepreneur, he grew the company internationally before selling it in 2008.
In 2011, he joined Ashoka Global in Washington as strategic advisor, focussing on how social entrepreneurs and corporations can work together successfully.
Today, Steven is impact investor, supporting (social) enterprises, as well as investor & board member of SI², a for profit social impact fund, and chairman of Kampani, a social impact investment fund unlocking the potential of entrepreneurial farming in the South.
He was appointed CEO of EVPA in April 2018.
Naina Batra
Non-Executive Director
Non-Executive Director
Naina joined AVPN as our CEO from September 2013, and has been appointed as Chairperson in May 2018. Naina’s leadership over the past 6 years has grown the AVPN membership by more than 4x and elevated the organization into a truly regional force for good. Under her direction, the organization has grown from focusing only on Venture Philanthropy to supporting the entire ecosystem of Social Funders from philanthropists to impact investors and Corporate CSR professionals. She was instrumental in developing AVPN’s innovative services that connect, empower and educate the now 600+ members of AVPN. In 2019, Naina was awarded one of Asia’s Top Sustainability Superwomen.
Prior to joining AVPN, Naina was a member of the senior leadership team of a purpose driven unit of The Monitor Group, a leading global strategy consulting firm, aimed at catalyzing markets for social change. Naina was also partner and Co-Founder of Group Fifty Private Ltd, curating contemporary Indian art with a view to provide a medium for upcoming and established Indian artists to showcase their work directly to a large and diverse audience.
Naina has a master’s degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University where she graduated at the top of her class. She also holds a bachelor degree in Economics and International Relations from Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA and a General Course Diploma in economics from The London School of Economics.
Pablo Gabriel Obregón Santo Domingo
Board Member
Board Member
Pablo Gabriel has chaired Fundación Mario Santo Domingo for 32 years. During this period, he has promoted numerous programs aimed at addressing poverty issues and improving the quality of life of vulnerable groups.
Chair and Member of Latimpacto’s Board of Directors. He has also served as Permanent Representative of Colombia to UNESCO, with the rank of Ambassador.
Team
Partner
Founding director of the US Social Innovation Fund; former Executive Partner at New Profit, Inc.; senior advisor and co-founder of the Bridgespan Group.
Allie is the COO of IVPC. She formerly spent 5 years on the leadership team of AVPN in Singapore and Vietnam. Prior to that, Allie worked in brand management and marketing for more than a decade at Mondelez, Richemont and Roberto Coin. Allie has an MBA from NYU Stern and a BA from Villanova University.
Andrew Muirhead
Senior Advisor
Senior Advisor
Founder of Inspiring Scotland, a major VP fund in the UK, and former vice-chair of AVPN overseeing its early development.
