Mark is the founder of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, a non-profit think tank with offices in the US and UK, having enjoyed a career in sustainable finance for 20 years. Carbon Tracker is best known for its work on ‘stranded assets’ and the ‘carbon bubble’ and providing transition analysis for the members of Climate Action 100+ These concepts are also used by the fossil fuel divestment movement; and for investors & regulators, in how to set decarbonisation pathways for the fossil fuel sector.
Keynote
Thought Leadership
Energy, Renewable, ESG
Richard Harris
G Squared
G Squared: Differentiated Growth Capital Investing
Richard Harris is Partner and Head of EMEA at G Squared, a growth-stage venture
capital fund manager that provides primary and transitional capital to world-class entrepreneurs and companies with household names—for example, Pinterest, Instacart, Snap Inc., Auto 1 Group, and Indigo. Richard leads research, operations, and investor relations verticals and has provided the visionary leadership needed to significantly expand G Squared’s business footprint in EMEA. In conjunction with his partners, he has invested in 75+ companies, contributed to 400+ transactions, and managed the deployment of $3B+ in total capital.
Keynote
Venture Capital
Technology
Conan Lauterpacht, Matthew Chagan
Sustainable Future Ventures (SFV)
Sustainable Future Ventures: Driving Sustainable Change in the Built Environment
SFV is co-led by Conan Lauterpacht and Matthew Chagan, both of whom have a long history of building, investing in and exiting technology companies. Conan launched SFV to use his experience in PropTech as a venture capitalist, start-up operator, strategic investor and angel investor to support the next generation of technology entrepreneurs. Matthew has 22 years of technology operations and investment experience in the US and Europe, across Consumer, Blockchain, RetailTech and FinTech. Since 2008, they have invested in 54 transactions across 34 companies, deploying US$100+ million and successfully realising 10 investments, achieving an average realised equity multiple of 10.4x.
Keynote
Venture Capital
ESG
Martina Sanow, Steven Batchelor, Juan Campos
HG Capital
Opportunity to invest with Europe’s largest software and services investor
Martina is a Partner and responsible for the firm’s private capital activities, leading the Hg Wealth team. Martina served as Deputy COO until March 2022, having joined Hg in 2009 from Citigoup’s Nordic M&A team.
Steven is a Partner and Hg board member, with oversight of Client Services and other non-investment related functions. He joined Hg in 2003, having previously worked at Morgan Stanley.
Juan is a Partner at Hg and a member of the Capital Markets team. Juan has over 15 years of capital markets experience, and was previously Head of Capital Markets at Lone Star Funds.
Keynote
Private Equity
SaaS
Steve Williams
Linklease LLC
Secured debt for the burgeoning leasing market in the Middle East & Africa
**Steve is a seasoned business and finance leader with over 30 years of proven regional and international experience. Prior to founding Linklease, Steve was the Group Chief Executive Officer of Gulf Finance; a leading SME financing organisation. His success in repositioning the business to deliver strong growth results and rapid GCC expansion was consistently recognised by the industry – with Gulf Finance winning the prestigious Banker Middle East Award for Small Business Finance for three consecutive years. Prior to joining Gulf Finance, Steve was the regional Chief Operating Officer and board member at Lloyds TSB (based in Dubai). **
Keynote
Investment Services
Asset Financing
John Hoyle
Sook
Building a global retail property platform for businesses to thrive in real life
John is a former Grosvenor property developer with 15 years of real estate experience spanning Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and the United Kingdom. John founded Sook in 2019. He holds an MBA and is an army veteran.
Keynote
Private Company
Technology, Software, Retail & Leisure
Corporates
Company backgrounds and useful links.
Mark Campanale
Carbon Tracker is an independent financial think tank that carries out in-depth analysis on the impact of the energy transition on capital markets and the potential investment in high-cost, carbon-intensive fossil fuels.
Keynote
Thought Leadership
Energy, Renewable, ESG
G Squared
Richard Harris
G Squared: Differentiated Growth Capital Investing
## G Squared is a global venture capital fund manager that deploys a differentiated investment strategy to deliver access and exposure to some of the world’s most exciting growth-stage technology companies. We serve as a transitional capital provider to our portfolio companies and leverage structural inefficiency in an endeavor to methodically construct portfolios that offer elite access to value creation in private markets.
Keynote
Venture Capital
Technology
Sustainable Future Ventures (SFV)
Conan Lauterpacht, Matthew Chagan
Sustainable Future Ventures: Driving Sustainable Change in the Built Environment
Sustainable Future Ventures Limited (“SFV”) is the venture capital business of PATRIZIA, a leading partner for global real assets with approximately €55 billion of real assets under management and 27 offices globally. SFV invests in technology companies that create a more sustainable, productive and efficient built environment, targeting companies across the real asset value chain. In addition to the built environment emitting approximately 40% of all GHGs, there are significant market tailwinds making this one of the largest and exciting technology investment opportunities. Current investments include technology companies in mobility, construction technology, modular housing and a marketplace for carbon offsetting.
Keynote
Venture Capital
ESG
HG Capital
Martina Sanow, Steven Batchelor, Juan Campos
Opportunity to invest with Europe’s largest software and services investor
Hg is a leading software and services investor, focused on building SaaS champions and backing businesses that provide mission critical services for many thousands of businesses globally.
Hg has delivered top quartile private equity returns to clients for over a decade, with focus on making low volatility, downside protected investments in highly recurring and cash flow generative B2B software and tech-enabled services businesses and scaling them over the long-term.
Today, Hg has over $55 billion in total funds under management, comprising $25 billion of new investible capital, which puts Hg in the top three software-focused investment firms globally and the largest in Europe.
Keynote
Private Equity
SaaS
Linklease LLC
Steve Williams
Secured debt for the burgeoning leasing market in the Middle East & Africa
**Linklease is a UAE based operating lease company who provide SMEs in the region with an alternative to traditional sources of finance – that alternative is leasing. They help businesses lease the plant, machinery and equipment they need to develop and grow. Their clients come from sectors including clean energy, logistics, manufacturing, healthcare and infrastructure. To fund their business, Linklease provide senior secured debt to investors. Their offering is asset backed and high yielding – and is serviced from visible and stable income streams.**
Keynote
Investment Services
Asset Financing
Sook
John Hoyle
Building a global retail property platform for businesses to thrive in real life
Sook is a B2B serviced retail space platform, democratising the world’s physical marketplace by allowing brands of any kind and any size to rent and operate retail space in real life by the hour. This ultra-flexible model is facilitated b y Sook’s proprietary tech-enabled store fit-out, which is fully customisable to any brand. Sook's enterprise customers include Uber, DePop, Radley, TikTok & Universal Music Group. Sook's UK portfolio of stores has been built in partnership with the UK's most established commercial real estate owners, including Grosvenor, Derwent London, Nuveen and Hammerson.
