Steven is an investment banker by training, having joined Palladium in 2014, after working in the investment banking teams at Merrill Lynch (now Bank of America) and Citi in both London and Johannesburg. In these firms, he specialised in corporate finance (balance sheet optimisation, structuring equity and equity-linked financings and debt advisory), before taking on wider coverage roles (which also included M&A).
Read MoreKatharina is an Impact Manager at DEG. Trained as a development economist, she focused on the question of assessing gender equality and women's empowerment through microfinance. After leading a digital innovations team at a German NGO, she now supports DEG’s investment teams to integrate a gender lens in their projects and mainstreaming gender considerations throughout all activities. Doing so, she works on research studies and evaluations as well as incorporating gender indicators in DEG’s impact measurement system.
Read MoreDanielle Roubin (she/her) is a gender equity practitioner, with over a decade of experience facilitating and applying intersectional gender analysis in a variety of contexts. At Criterion Institute, she has developed gender strategies for gender lens investing initiatives including those focusing on addressing gender-based violence, co-designed a gender analysis framework for private sector market development program and facilitated learning and design sessions with gender lens investing actors on gender concepts, analysis and strategies for greater impact. Danielle currently contributes to Criterion’s Translation program to support the role and influence of gender equality organisations and gender analysis in the field of innovative finance.
Read MoreAs a Director of the firm and senior member of the investment team, Rowena is actively involved in building Sweef Capital’s investment approach and deal pipeline and proud to lead their coverage in her home country of the Phlippines.
Read MoreJessica is the CEO of Equilo, gender equality and social inclusion data analytics-as-a-service platform, offering a broad range of tools to support gender smart investment. She is a gender equality and social inclusion expert with 20 years of experience conducting gender analyses, action planning, and integration support globally across sectors. She enjoys co-imagining and creating, new ways to facilitate gender lens investment.
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