FONDAZIONE OPES-LCEF, MILAN
OPES-LCEF TRUST, LONDON
FONDAZIONE OPES-LCEF, MILAN
FONDAZIONE OPES-LCEF, MILAN
OPES-LCEF TRUST, LONDON
FONDAZIONE OPES-LCEF, MILAN
FONDAZIONE OPES-LCEF, MILAN
FONDAZIONE OPES-LCEF, MILAN
OPES-LCEF TRUST, LONDON
OPES-LCEF
Via Abbondio Sangiorgio 13 - 20145 Milano, Italy - Tel: +39 0282875666
Consolidated Bank House - Second Floor, Suite 203/205 - Koinange Street - P.O Box 50064-00100, Nairobi, Kenya
c/o Tc Citroen Wells Limited - 5th Floor, 3 Dorset Rise, London EC4Y 8EN - United Kingdom
email: info@opesfund.eu | job@opesfund.eu
Carolyne Kirabo brings more than 15 years of experience in investment finance, management consulting and business advisory support. Carolyne is a recognized Impact and Gender Lens investing pioneer in East Africa, having led funds including Mango Fund, Yunus Social Business and Mercy Corps Ventures.
During her work she has successfully built expertise in supporting impact investment funds and enterprise support organizations to adopt gender smart strategies. Some of these strategies included integrating gender considerations across investment processes, designing pre and post investment support with a gender lens, and designing impact management strategies that drive fair representation of gender across value chains.
She holds an MBA from Edinburgh Business School and is an Alumni with the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
She has served as a steering committee member of the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs East Africa Chapter and on the Board of Directors of Finding XY and United Social Ventures.
Carolyne Kirabo vanta oltre 15 anni di esperienza nel campo della finanza d’investimento, della consulenza gestionale e del supporto alle imprese. Carolyne è una riconosciuta pioniera degli investimenti d’impatto e di genere in Africa orientale, avendo guidato fondi come Mango Fund, Yunus Social Business e Mercy Corps Ventures.
Nel corso del suo lavoro ha acquisito un’esperienza nel sostenere i fondi di investimento a impatto e le organizzazioni di sostegno alle imprese ad adottare strategie intelligenti dal punto di vista del genere. Alcune di queste strategie comprendono l’integrazione delle considerazioni di genere nei processi di investimento, la progettazione di un supporto pre e post investimento con un approccio gender lens e la progettazione di strategie di gestione dell’impatto che favoriscano un’equa rappresentazione di genere nelle catene del valore.
Ha conseguito un MBA presso la Edinburgh Business School ed è Alumni dell’Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
È stata membro del comitato direttivo dell’Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs East Africa Chapter e del Consiglio di amministrazione di Finding XY e United Social Ventures.
Elena Casolari is Managing Partner of OPES Italia Sicaf EuVECA, cofounder and executive President of the Opes-Lcef Foundation and Trustee of the Opes-Lcef Trust. For 10 years, Elena has been CEO of Acra, one of the main Italian NGOs, and prior to that she worked for 12 years in various investment banks covering emerging markets (HSBC, Dresdner and Nikko Security). She currently serves as Director at Selco India, Fondazione Umano Progresso, Social Impact Agenda per l’Italia, Life Based Value srl and she is member of the General Council of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo.
Nicola Drago, born in 1978, was appointed CEO of De Agostini Publishing, the global leader of partwork publications, at the end of 2016.
From 2013 to 2016, as CEO of Zodiak Active, he turned the company around, span it off from its parent Zodiak Media, the leading independent TV producer globally, and re-focussed its core assets.
Previously, as CEO Latin America, he led the development of Zodiak Media in the region, as well as with the main US Hispanic broadcasters.
He joined Zodiak Media in 2008, where he was first business controller and then M&A Director at the Group HQ in Paris.
Prior to joining Zodiak, Nicola was an investment banker at New York-based M&A boutique Sonenshine Partners (now CapM Advisors) and a consultant at McKinsey in Milan.
He holds a BA from Bocconi University and a MBA from Columbia University, he co-funded London-based, early stage venture capital firm Connect Ventures, and seats on the Board of Banijay Group, Opes Impact Fund and Fondazione De Agostini.
Director and Co-Founder of MainStreet Partners, he previously served as Executive Director at Goldman Sachs, co-headed the institutional investors department for Franklin Templeton Investments in Italy, worked as Derivative Sales for Salomon Smith Barney and Market Analyst for the Italian Trade Commission in Hong-Kong. Rodolfo graduated in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan and is a member of the UK Chartered Financial Analyst Society.
Currently an independent financial advisor, Giovanni ha over 25 years of experience in the Asset Management industry in Italy having worked for some of the most important financial institutions like Credito Romagnolo, now Unicredit; Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, now Group BNP Paribas; and finally with Generali Asset Management. He has been in charge of mutual funds whose focus were the financial markets in Asia and other emerging markets worldwide where he has gained experience through direct contact with local companies, mostly listed ones, making numerous and regular business trips to visit the local operations and to keep in close touch with the local management.
Paolo Grigolli was born in 1965 in Trento, where he current lives. He earned a degree with honors from the Faculty of Economics at the University La Sapienza in Rome in 1989 and, in the same year, founded and managed ECON Pian Ltd. to promote business between Italian and Central-Eastern European companies. After obtaining a Masters Degree in Marketing Management, he worked in Milan and London at Arthur Andersen. From 1993 to 2003 he was Deputy Director and then Director of the Academy of Trade and Tourism, a business school established by the Trento Chamber of Commerce. In 2003, Paolo launched TSM (Trentino School of Management), a spin-off of the former, where he is currently Director of the School of Tourism and Cultural Management, focusing on planning, marketing and management of vocational training programs and research. In addition, Paolo has served as a consultant on several projects related to local development and tourism in Romania, Croazia, Altaj Republic, Caucasus, Chile, Uzbekistan and Vietnam, among others. In 2006 he co-founded Microventures (now Credit Access), the first Italian investment fund specialized in microfinance. He was also a co-founder and the first president of “Il Margine”, a publishing company based in Trento. He joined the Board of Fem Onlus, and subsequently the Foundation, contributing actively to the India project until its closure. Paolo is a member of the Scientific Committee of AITR (the Association of Italian Responsible Tourism Companies) and Natourism, an Italian company the promotes sustainable tourism. In 2017, he co-founded Wonderful Italy, financed by investment fund Oltre Venture, to promote tourism in private homes in Italy. He has been heavily involved with OPES Fund as a Board Member since its initiation in 2012.
Co-founder of former Opes Fund (now OPES-LCEF Fund), a social entrepreneur and director in several social enterprises and cooperatives active in Italy in various sectors, including ASM-Abitare Sociale Metropolitano Srl (social housing) Consortium Laboratorio del caffè Onlus, Chico Mendes scsrl Onlus, Altromercato Consortium (fair trade) and AltraEconomia Edizioni scrl (Editor). Vice President CGM Finance (Financial facility of Cgm group). Member of the Board of Directors Solidar Monde, S.p.A. in France for five years. Stefano has been also engaged in social enterprises in India, Argentina and Burkina Faso.
Birgit Wenz has been driving / heading strategic projects at Lufthansa Cargo with focus on customer service, restructuring and setting up strategic partnerships in the last few years. She has deep knowledge in project management, process design and change management.
Before this Birgit held different Business Development and Global Account Management Positions at Lufthansa Group and Bosch. She is very experienced in developing new markets and customers and in leading complex negotiations.
She has a very target driven personality and is an inspirational leader having built up several international teams. She holds a MBA from University of Cologne and Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo Japan and is fluent in German and English as well as a good knowledge of French and Japanese.
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