ESG Conference 2024 | British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) | 17 June 2024 | 155 Bishopsgate, 155 Bishopsgate, Broadgate, London EC2M 3TQ, UK

The importance of ESG and Responsible Investment has never been more relevant for the private capital industry. Sustainability issues, especially climate, biodiversity, diversity and equity and other environmental and social considerations, have become deeply embedded in global political discourse. This has spurred policymakers and regulators to design and implement a range of sustainability-related rules and disclosure requirements that affect businesses across the UK financial services industry, private capital firms included.

This full day conference will cover the full breath of ESG topics relevant to private capital including impact and how VCs are developing their Responsible Investment Practices.

Key themes:
• Horizon scanning: Politics, policies, and regulations
• ESG reporting and transparency
• Data convergence/alignment: what do LPs want
• Supply chains: an environmental and social perspective
• Net Zero and the Voluntary Carbon Markets
• ESG through a VC lens
• Biodiversity: Nature-based solutions
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

2024 Speakers

MODERATORS:

William Mason
Director General, Guernsey Financial Services Commission

Laura Callaghan
Associate Director, ESG Services, Novata

Patricia Volhard
Managing Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton

Suzi Gillespie
Head of Research, BVCA

Alistair Brew
Head of Investment Operations, BGF

Harriet Assem
Head of Sustainability, BVCA

Misa Andriamihaja
Senior Investment Specialist - Private Markets, The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change

Maria Carradice
Managing Director, Mayfair Equity Partners

Chris Elphick
Head of Venture Capital, BVCA

Jim Weight
Managing Partner, Weight Partners Capital

Henry Philipson
Co-Founder & President, ESG_VC

Sarah Adams
Director of Policy, BVCA

Ashim Paun
Head of Sustainable Investing, Triton

Bran Pathmanāban
Head of ESG, IP Group

SPEAKERS:

Matthew Chagan
Partner, Sustainable Future Ventures

Henry Hamilton
Investment Management, Mercia Ventures

Ben Kennedy
Managing Director - Renewables, Ardian

Ed Phillips
Investment Director, Future Planet Capital

Helen Hopkins
Senior Responsible Investment Analyst, USS Investment Management

Nina Kraus
Director of Sustainability, Hamilton Lane

Lucia Mancisidor
Federated Hermes

David Vyravipillai
Investment Manager, Sustainable Ownership, Railpen

Nathan Luscombe
Compliance and ESG Manager, True

Jennifer McCraight
Vice President, Permira

Eimear Palmer
Partner and Global Head of ESG, Pantheon

Chloe Dagnall
Principal, Isomer Capital

Georgia Jones
Sustainability & Communications Manager, Piper

Cassie Lloyd Perrin
Head of Industry Impact, Level 20

Jamie Butterworth
Partner, Circularity Capital

Kerstin Mathias
Policy and Innovation Director, City of London Corporation

Lorna Ritchie
Director of Public Affairs, ICVCM

Arjen Struijk
Director of Carbon, Anthesis

James MacLeay
Investment Director, Westbridge

Louise Plant
Business Development Director, Alpine

Johnnie Graham
ESG Analyst, Elysian Capital

Hannah Leach
Co-founder and Co-director, Venture ESG/Houghton Street Ventures

Aga Siemiginowska
Head of Sustainability, Oakley Capital

Lizzie Stazicker
Head of ESG and Responsible Investment, Exponent

Meghan Stevenson-Krausz
Co-CEO, Diversity VC

Sasha Afanasieva
Head of Impact, Big Issue Invest

Karen Sands
COO, Private Equity, Federated Hermes

Brennan Hodkinson
Growth & Strategy Team Lead, Apiday

Matthew Summer
ESG and Sustainability Lead, SEP

Georgina Thomas
Senior ESG Associate, Cibus Capital

Sarah Teacher
Executive Director, Impact Investing Institute

Ravi Bhatt
Director & Head of Responsible Investment, Apis

Ellen de Kreij
Lead Advisor, Impact and Sustainability, Apax

Jonny Page
Head of Social and Impact Investment, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation

Alex Shadbolt
Investment Associate, Future Planet Capital

Bhrigu Bali
CFO/COO, A/O

Sasha Kaletsky
Co-founder, Creator Ventures

Michelle Lamprecht
Head of Corporate Affairs, Cambridge Innovation Capital

Emily Matthews
Responsible Investment and ESG Manager, Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE)

Alexandra Harbour
Founder & Chair, Venture Climate Alliance

Claire Hedley
Head of ESG, 17Capital

Vincent Lemaitre
Tikehau Capital

Salma Moolji
Principal, European ESG Lead, Ares

Rhonda Nicoll
CFO & Head of ESG, Soho Square Capital

Ben Goldsmith
Founder & CEO, Menhaden Capital

Stanley Kwong
Principal, KKR

Denise Odaro
Head of ESG and Sustainability, PAI Partners

Marie-Anne Vincent
Head of Finance, AXA Climate

Malika Arshad
Business Development Associate, Future Planet Capital

Alex Bexon
Director, ESG - Value Creation Partners, LDC

Grace Savage
ESG Lead, Molten Ventures

2024 Sponsors

ASSOCIATE SPONSORS:
• Debevoise & Plimpton
• Guernsey Finance

PANEL SPONSOR:
• AXA Climate

STREAM SPONSORS:
• Anthesis
• Apiday

ROUNDTABLE SPONSORS:
• Novata
• Sweep