Swiss Impact with Banerjis

Host - Sveta and Ben Banerjee

Topic: Money with a Purpose

Guest:
Ville Korpela, Founding Partner of Impact Innovation Institute and a Senior Faculty Member at Dubai Future Academy. 
Petri Kuusisto CIO experience from 2 largest pension funds in Finland (Eur 40+ bn) and a Sovereign Wealth Fund in Middle East

The weekly show on how Impactful investments and businesses are helping to implement the 17 UN SDG’s worldwide to preserve the world for future generation.

Banerjis have enlightening and in-depth conversations with newsmakers, celebrities, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, project owners, investors, politicians and business leaders and encourage them to act now.

Ville Korpela is a professional futurist and impact strategist. He is a Founding Partner of Impact Innovation Institute and a Senior Faculty Member at Dubai Future Academy. Ville has worked extensively with emerging markets, previously he has been Head of European Operations at Vunani Capital (South Africa) and Business Development Director at Christofi Group (Cyprus). Ville started his professional career at a Finnish public affairs consultancy Eurofacts and later with Ernst & Young and the leading Russian investment bank Renaissance Capital in Moscow, as part of their corporate finance and M&A teams. Currenty, Ville resides in Dubai.
Ville is a member of several World Economic Forum projects, such as the Nature Action Agenda, Inclusivity Quotient, African Growth Platform and Global Plastic Action Partnership. Ville is passionate about impact investing, systems thinking and social entrepreneurship. In his spare time Ville likes to travel, write poetry and listen to the Blues.

Petri Kuusisto has 30+ years of direct CIO experience from 2 largest pension funds in Finland (Eur 40+ bn) and a Sovereign Wealth Fund in Middle East. 

During last 10+ years he has been a serial entrepreneur/investor having among other things launched and sold 2 asset management companies, one being the first global timberland management company. He has also acted as a consultant for several institutional investors on investment strategy and financing issues.

Recently he co-founded Impact Innovation Institute, a for benefit research and advisory think tank. He is currently writing series of academic articles on Impact Investing and has coined the term Sustainable Portfolio Theory, a needed extension to Modern Portfolio Theory and current Strategic Asset Allocation thinking. His ongoing action research is focusing on Blended Finance.