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Investing in Inclusive Business in Asia: a Regional Forum 1 26 Nov 2012 ASIA INCLUSIVE BUSINESS FORUM 28-29 November 2012, Manila, ADB Office Resource Speakers James ADDO is the Senior Manager of SNV‟s Impact Investment Advisory Services practice. He manages the development and execution of global impact investment strategy across SNV‟s 36 countries and 4 continents. James is an experienced investment banker with a specialty in private equity and venture capital opportunities. He is a well-rounded Investment Banking Professional with broad experience in conventional and impact investments. James has multi-year experience in establishing and managing development finance programs in 6 sub Saharan African countries. He brings to SNV‟s impact investment advisory practice, the rigor of the private equity and venture capital investment process to together with an understanding of multi-sector development venture finance. He served until April 30 2010 as Group Chief Executive Officer of Securities Africa Limited, a full service Pan-African investment bank with offices in UK, US, Malta, Bermuda and 7 countries in Africa‟s main markets. He covered all 53 countries and 25 capital markets. Prior to that he was a Portfolio Manager of Finch Africa Fund, a $50MM Africa focused equity fund. James, in the previous 8 years, worked in development venture investments with the US Government. He was a Senior Investment Banker from 1992 through 2001 with major firms, including Merrill Lynch. James received his BA from Dartmouth College and completed his MBA from Frank Zarb School of Business (Hofstra University) and Stern University both in New York in 1992. Anurag AGRAWAL is a Co-Founder, Board member and Chief Operating Officer at Intellecap, a firm founded in 2002 which provides innovative business solutions that help build and scale profitable and sustainable enterprises dedicated to social and environmental change. The company focuses on market oriented approaches that improve the quality of life of people at the Base of the Economic Pyramid (BOP) through their various Practice Areas - investment banking services, consulting services and knowledge services; Initiatives – the Sankalp Forum which is Asia‟s largest social enterprise forum that recognizes the most innovative, sustainable and high impact social enterprises, and the Intellecap Impact Investor Network (13N) which is India‟s first „angel‟ network for high net worth individuals and institutional investors seeking investments in early stage social enterprises; Incubations – Intellecash, Intellegrow and Intellecap Software Technologies Limited; and Strategic Relationships – Legatum as their strategic investor, and with Aavishkaar for a strategic collaboration. In a career spanning more than a decade, Anurag set up and built the Company's Investment Banking Practice Area with a specific focus on assisting early and growth-stage multiple bottom-line enterprises to raise capital. He has worked with several socially oriented investors assisting them in identifying suitable impact investment opportunities and facilitating investment transactions. Before joining Intellecap, Anurag worked at ICICI Bank in the Cash Management and Operations Department. He has a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Commerce Degree from Madras University, Chennai (India), and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from TA Pai Management Institute, Manipal (India). Fahim AHMED is a Managing Director at Small Enterprise Assistance Funds (SEAF), an investment firm that provides growth capital to small and medium enterprises (SME) in emerging markets. Headquartered in Washington D.C., SEAF operates across 21 global offices and has invested in over 340 SMEs, generating both strong financial returns and development impact. Since joining 2 SEAF in late 2009, Mr. Ahmed has led the establishment of SEAF Bangladesh Ventures, an investment fund that provides long-term growth capital to mid-sized businesses in Bangladesh. At SEAF, he is responsible for sourcing, appraising, structuring and monitoring investments in Bangladesh. Mr. Ahmed brings with him extensive investment expertise through his professional experience in the United States, coupled with his advisory experience working with various investor groups in the assessment of opportunities in Bangladesh. Prior to joining SEAF, Mr. Ahmed was a Vice President in the New York office of Royal Bank Equity Finance (RBEF), the private equity investment affiliate of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) with over USD 2 billion in committed capital. At RBEF, he led the evaluation of credit and equity investment opportunities in North America. Mr. Ahmed also served as an investment professional at American Securities, a leading middle-market private equity firm based in New York with USD 3 billion in committed capital. At American Securities, he evaluated and executed several investments in power and energy, business services and healthcare sectors. He began his career in finance as an investment banker at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Mr. Ahmed graduated summa cum laude from Middlebury College with a B.A. in economics, and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. He was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and is fluent in Bangla and English. Mary Anne AMORIM is the founder/shareholder and President of Pupa, a company in Brazil working with the Danish multinational toy company LEGO to provide learning tools for children and kindergarten in the slums of Brazil. PUPA is a “PP – Profit and Purpose” company designed to improve early childhood care in low-income communities (BOP – Base of Pyramid Markets). PUPA Educational Enterprises is a private company with social mission in Brazil targeting low-income children, parents and caregivers with educational training and products. Training is integral to Pupa‟s operations using a program designed by Brazil‟s leading Early Childhood specialists in health, education, music and communication. Basic health, nutrition and violence prevention is included to insure materials are used effectively while improving preschool learning capacities thru playful activities and adding value to caregiver‟s services. Pupa is the brainchild of ZOOM Editora Educacional, a family-owned company that has sold more than 1.5 million kits, comprised of text books and LEGO Education sets – for which is the exclusive representative in Brazil – to school children aged 5 to 17. Previously, Ms. Amorim served as the Chief Executive Officer and Board member of ZOOM Group, an Educational company that designs contents based on LEGO Education technology and exclusively distributes in Brazil. Prior to such experiences, she accumulated several important business leadership roles – as President of MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company), a leading world container transport company and in its multimodal subsidiary, as president, of Sunlog/Medlog Logistics of Brazil and of Uniter of Brazil. She has also served as vice chairwoman of Centronave (Centro de Navegação Transatlântica), the main shipping owners association. Ms. Amorim holds a graduate degree in International Relations from Tufts University in Boston, and a bachelor‟s degree in Business Administration from Mackenzie University in São Paulo. Minhaz ANWAR is the CEO of Better Stories, a consulting company in Bangladesh that was engaged by ADB for the inclusive business study for the country. Armin BAUER is Principal Economist in the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Mr. Bauer has been working with ADB since 1995 in various functions in the operational, strategy and policy, and knowledge management departments. One of Mr. Bauer‟s recent initiatives is a cooperation with ADB‟s Private Sector Department and with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and other development partners on promoting inclusive business investments in various Asian countries. The initiative comprises (a) market scoping studies in 10 Asian countries on inclusive business at the base of the pyramid, (b) the development of an inclusive business impact assessment tool, and (c) the possible establishment of investments funds for inclusive business in cooperation with development partners. Mr. Bauer, a German national, has more 3 than 20 years of development experience, a PhD in development economics, a M.A. in Political Economy (1987), and a BA in Administrative Science. Prior to working at ADB, Dr. Bauer was with the German technical assistance agency (GIZ, 1991-1995), the German Development Bank (KfW, 2003-2006), and grassroots NGOs in India (1984, 1988-89). Noah BECKWITH is an impact investment specialist focused on the design and structuring of debt and equity vehicles investing in social and environmental sectors. His current mandates include the design of several BOP (base of the pyramid) – orientated private equity funds for the Asian Development Bank and the establishment of a new investment company for ResponsAbility, one of the world‟s leading microfinance investors. In addition, Noah heads the Banks and Angel Investors Programme at BiD Network, a Dutch organization which channels capital to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across the emerging markets. Prior to working independently, Noah was responsible for fund raising, business principles and development impact assessment at Aureos Capital, a global leader in SME investing. Whilst at Aureos, he created one of the first development impact assessment systems, the Aureos Sustainability Index. Previously, he spent two years with the Commonwealth Development Corporation, and four years with the Economist Group as a Senior Economist for
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