Norman Wooding, Founder and CEO of SCRYPT, joins Johny Fernandez as the Swiss-based institutional digital asset platform, the largest stablecoin venue in Switzerland, expands its local settlement capabilities to include UAE dirhams, a significant development for institutional adoption in the region.
His most important observation is on what institutions consistently get wrong when entering digital assets: they obsess over the execution layer and underestimate everything...
Today on Square One with Romeen Sheth, we are joined by Ash Fontana, Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners, to discuss Artificial Intelligent. Ash has built a career building and investing in startups - he was an early and senior member of AngelList and, since joining Zetta, has been in generational AI-first companies like Canva, Invenia, and more.
Join us in a conversation between Pat Mitchell and Meagan Fallone as they discuss Meagan's commitment to developing women as agents of sustainable change and helping communities to develop their own capacity to meet the challenges within the developing world.
In this session, we hear from Karl Burkart, Deputy Director of One Earth; Rachel Kropa, Managing Director of Nonprofit + Science at Robert Downey Jr's environmental organization FootPrint Coalition; and Jonathan Schulhof Managing Partner of FootPrint Coalition Ventures, an aligned media, and investment company focused on sustainable technology. One Earth will share how the organization collaborates with HNW individuals and a network of scientists to create strategic grantmaking portfolios, and FootPrint Coalition will discuss its role in funding innovative climate solutions using a unique model that combines venture capital, science, and storytelling to mobilize individual participation.
In this fireside chat, Jeff Gitterman will speak with co-CEO of Greenbacker, David Sher, to reflect on the last decade and discuss Greenbacker's future plans operating at the confluence of multiple megatrends.
Global climate change regulation and data remain intricate and ever-changing. Ashley Lester Ph.D. and Sarah Bratton Hughes, Ph.D., joined Jeff Gitterman on The Great Repricing to discuss the international regulatory developments and global coalitions they monitor closely as part of their daily operations. They also share their views on how they see global cooperation, policy, and data moving as we head to COP 26.
In this fireside chat, Jeff Gitterman talks to Zeena Dahdaleh of RBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited about how green infrastructure is a major multi-decade theme for the firm's portfolios, and the investment sub-themes, including electric vehicles, renewables, and transition metals, that are set to be the fastest-growing within emerging markets.
Climate change is testing the limits of our ecological, political, economic, and social systems, and does not impact all communities equally. In conversation with Monique Aiken of The Investment Integration Project (TIIP), Stephan Nicoleau will explain how FullCycle focuses on infrastructure that can abate the Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) with highest near-term warming potential to invest and develop solutions that make an impact.
This week on the Digital Asset Report, Kavita Gupta talks to Kyle Samani, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Multicoin Capital and Haseeb Qureshi, Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Dragonfly Capital on their journey in the world of cryptocurrency, the evolution of the decentralized finance (DeFi) space, and much more.
Join us in a fireside chat with Diana Glassman, Director of Engagement of Federated Hermes, as she explains what goes into a successful engagement and why investors might choose to engage versus divest, especially with respect to fossil fuel companies.
Don’t miss this opportunity to get specific examples of how particular companies responded to engagement dialogue and other shareholder tools, collaborative initiatives the investment industry is undertaking for climate change, and what investors can do to help drive positive change.
Adapting to a changing climate has now become a necessity for communities around the world. However, learning how to respond and plan for climate change is a complicated and often misunderstood concept.
In this session, leading climate scientists Dr. Kimberley R. Miner and Dr. David Schimel will share insights into the latest climate science, the additional risks we face as we head towards dangerous tipping points, and much more.
Michelle Davey brings her personal example & professional experience to the herculean task of delivering positive outcomes in healthcare. In this conversation with Romeen Sheth, she expands on the building blocks of virtual care innovation, beyond "bringing a broken system online".
We are grateful to Michelle for sharing her thoughts on the pathways for Wheel to deliver value across the clinical infrastructure spectrum: from a variety of ways to provide lab services to developments in patient monitoring, and pharmaceutical services. Michelle and her team aim to make the pieces of this complex puzzle work together in a way that fits with the regulatory expectations, drives down the costs, and drives up the satisfaction of stakeholders in the healthcare value chain.
After an extensive investment banking career with Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley, Vikram Gandhi turned his attention to impact investing in India and emerging markets. In this interview with Akshay Saxena, Vikram shares the insights from Asha Impact and his work as an early-stage venture capital investor.