Speakers at Seminar 'Sustainable Investing'

Ben O’Donnell joined Climate Asset Management (a partnership of HSBC) in 2020 and is CIO of the Natural Capital Strategy, which targets sustainable investments in agriculture, forestry and environmental assets in developed markets. He has more than 20 years’ experience in fund management and investment banking. Previously, O'Donnell worked at Macquarie Infrastructure & Real Assets and led agriculture coverage within Macquarie Capital.

Diana Wesselius is a Managing Director Impact Investments at Anthos Fund & Asset Management. She is responsible for originating investments, managing relationships, and helping to execute strategies for the fund portfolios dedicated to impact investing across all asset classes including private, listed and real assets. She has over 25 years of experience in both private equity and (project finance) debt, mostly in the infrastructure and energy sectors, having started her career at ING Group and subsequently holding various positions at FMO, the Dutch development bank. Wesselius holds a master’s degree in Business Administration from Nyenrode Business University and concluded an Executive Master in Energy Management at the Norwegian Business School.

Huub Ten Holter is Investment Leader bij Mercer. Hij is verantwoordelijk voor de beleggingsadvisering aan institutionele beleggers, zoals pensioenfondsen, verzekeraars, vermogensfondsen, family offices en not-for-profit instellingen bij Mercer Nederland en voor op maat gemaakte beleggingsoplossingen voor klanten en het ontwikkelen van commerciële relaties. Eerder in zijn carrière werkte hij onder meer als Senior Wealth Manager bij Van Lanschot Kempen (2016-2019) en als Institutes Director bij Staal Bankiers (2007-2016).

Paul Lamacraft covers Schroders Capital Private Equity investment activities in Europe and is Head of Sustainability & Impact. Before joining Schroders in 2020, he worked for 8 years in private equity and public markets investing with an emphasis on direct venture and growth equity transactions. Prior to this he spent over 12 years advising companies in their private equity fundraising and M&A activities, including 5 years at Deutsche Bank. Lamacraft started his career at EY where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He is a qualified ACA and holds a BSc in Economics & Accounting from the University of Bristol, UK.

Siegfried Kok has been active as an investor for more than 23 years, first at Kempen where he was a Fund Manager European Equities, and then at ABN AMRO Asset Management where he was jointly responsible for the Transeurope Fund. For the past 10 years he has been active at OBAM as Senior Portfolio Manager of the global equity fund and also jointly responsible for the sustainability policy at OBAM. Kok holds a master's degree in International Financial Economics and earned his MBA degree from the Erasmus University of Rotterdam.