Speakers at Seminar 'Beyond ESG and Impact Investing: from nice-to-have to must-have'

Caroline van Tilborg is Carbon Asset Manager at Climate Asset Management. She has over 20 years’ experience in designing, investing, implementing and managing of a portfolio of renewable energy and landscape restoration projects worldwide. She started to work in the international carbon market from 2002 onwards, has a deep understanding of the associated complexities and transacted a billion in carbon credits with multiple benefits including community, biodiversity and water. Some of her recent work includes the assessment of the carbon credit potential of large landscape restoration and conservation projects in Sub-Sahara Africa and Australia, particularly around protection of native forests, reforestation, sustainable grazing and agroforestry and the implementation thereof.

Don Gerritsen is Director en Sustainable Investment Leader bij Deloitte. Hij begeleidt vermogensbeheerders, verzekeraars, pensioenfondsen en banken met strategische duurzaamheidstransities. Daarvoor bekleedde hij diverse leidinggevende functies bij de PRI, de Verenigde Naties en KPMG in de VS, het VK, Kenia en Nederland. Hij is auteur van ‘Guidance to Inspirational Leadership’ en Oprichter van het pro-bono mentoring initiatief ‘Pay It Forward’. Gerritsen heeft een Executive MBA in Strategie en een Master in Bestuurskunde.

Jaap van Dam is the Principal Director of Investment Strategy at PGGM. He is chairman of the Dutch Association of Investors for Sustainable Development (VBDO), of the European chapter of the 300 Club and of the International Advisory Board of EDHEC. He holds a Master’s Degree in Finance from Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Van Dam has performed many roles within the field of investment management, ranging from fundamental and quantitative analysis to external manager selection and portfolio construction. He joined PGGM in 2005 as Head of Internal Equity Management. In 2006 he was appointed Chief Strategist. Van Dam is a member of the NEST (UK) Investment Committee and ICPM’s research committee. Together with prof. Kees Koedijk and prof Alfred Slager, he authored the book Achieving Investment Excellence, a practical guide for Trustees of Pension Funds, Endowments and foundations (2019).

Krispijn Bertoen is Head of Responsible Investment (RI) at MN and leads the RI team. He is member of the Management Team of MN Fiduciairy Management. Bertoen is responsible for the integration of ESG issues in all MN's investment decisions and for all MN's RI policies, including exclusion, voting, engagement, impact investment and a pioneering Climate Risk program. He started his career in banking (ABN AMRO and Deutsche Bank). In 2010, he shifted his focus to responsible investing and impact investing, working in consultancy (Steward Redqueen), ecosystem development (Social Impact Factory) and now institutional investing (MN).

Melissa Brown is Head of Applied Research at Qontigo. Prior to joining Axioma (now part of Qontigo) in 2011, she was Managing Director and Head of the institutional business at Wintrust Capital Management. Before that she spent 10 years at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, most recently as a Partner in the Quantitative Investment Strategies (QIS) Group. She was previously Director of Quantitative Research at Prudential Securities. Brown is a Chartered Financial Analyst, holds a BS in economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in finance from New York University.

Piet Klop is Head of Responsible Investment at PGGM Investments. He develops PGGM’s ‘investing in solutions’ portfolio, including SDG impact measurement. He also manages a number of special projects including ESG integration. Before joining PGGM Investments in July 2011, Klop was at the World Resources Institute in Washington DC and held senior positions at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the private sector. As water expert he worked at the World Bank and United Nations. Klop holds master’s degrees in Water Resources Management from Wageningen University and Applied Environmental Economics from University of London.

Rishma Moennasing is Lead Funds and Sustainability at Rabobank. She is responsible for the sustainable investment strategy and mandates. Also project lead SFDR, Mifid ESG and EU green taxonomy, responsible for the implementation of all green EU rules for investments. She has been with Rabobank since 2008. Before Rabobank she had a similar position at ABN AMRO Private Banking & Asset Management. She is also active for the VBDO where she is involved in the active ownership activities related to sustainable topics with listed Dutch Companies.

Ulrike Beyrich (CAIA) is a Director in the Manager Research Solutions team of Kempen where she has worked since 2010. She started her career as a fund analyst in 2005 in Berlin. Before Kempen, she worked at Skandia Investment Management Limited in London (now Old Mutual). At Kempen, Beyrich is responsible for the Private Debt investments. She also has been very much involved for years in embedding sustainability in the manager selection process including the development of a proprietary ESG manager scoring framework.