Building Impact: Session 2 - How to do Charity Right
Best Practice & Thought Leadership
Private Roundtable discussion focused on how different families offices approach making a difference with their money from charity to impact investing.
Each session will be led by expert practitioners in their respective fields.
Family business transmission: How not to do it and how to fix it?
> Myriam Vander Elst is a member of the 6th generation of food industrialists in northern France. The family business was sold in the early 2000s and Myriam and her family witnessed a profound redefinition of the family dynamics as a direct result of the liquidity event.
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> Myriam found in philanthropy the sense of purpose that was lost after the family business sale, and she established Epic Foundation in Europe in 2015 from her London kitchen. Epic had been initially launched in NYC by its Founder, Alexandre Mars the month before.
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> A graduate from LSE and Sciences Po Paris, Myriam spent 15 years in the private sector as a communication & brand strategist for world-leading agencies such as BMP-DDB and Dentsu.
Keynote
Corporates
Company backgrounds and useful links.
Epic Foundation
Myriam Vander Elst
Family business transmission: How not to do it and how to fix it?
> Epic is a global nonprofit startup which fights to change the lives of disadvantaged youth and protect our planet.
> Epic leverages impact and giving solutions for individuals and corporations to support high-impact social organisations in 4 continents.
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> Epic has mobilised $70m deployed to 53 nonprofits. Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Management published a Case Study about Epic in 2019 and it is taught in the best universities worldwide.
