Nuestra gente

Nuestra diversa experiencia y conocimientos en todas las industrias, incluidas las finanzas, la conservación, el comercio de materias primas blandas, el derecho y la gestión de fondos, significa que podemos conectar a nuestros inversores con inversiones excepcionales en la selva amazónica que realmente marcan la diferencia.

Aldo Soto

Co-fundador y Director Gerente

Aldo aporta más de 15 años de experiencia apoyando a las comunidades indígenas en la Amazonía para proteger sus tierras de la tala ilegal, la minería, la deforestación y mejorar sus medios de vida mediante la producción de cacao, café y pesquerías sostenibles. Aldo estructuró el primer Bono de Impacto en el Desarrollo en América Latina para apoyar a los agricultores indígenas y ha liderado programas de conservación y medios de vida sostenibles en la Amazonía para WWF y Rainforest Foundation UK.

Adam Smith

Director de Comercio Sostenible

Adam es un profesional experimentado en desarrollo empresarial. Cofundó, desarrolló y salió con éxito de un negocio de materias primas blandas centrado en el comercio, transporte, almacenamiento y almacenamiento de materias primas de América Latina. Actualmente es consejero de dos fondos de inversión inmobiliarios cotizados y es miembro de los comités de auditoría e inversión de ambas sociedades. Adam es un apasionado de la conservación de la naturaleza.

Pajani Singah

Co-Fundador y Director de Inversiones

Pajani tiene más de 15 años de experiencia en gestión de inversiones. Es socio y director de operaciones de Inflection Point Investments, una empresa de gestión de fondos boutique que invierte en empresas de tecnología globales que cotizan en bolsa. Es Contador Público Certificado y actualmente presidente de la Organización de Emprendedores (EO) del Reino Unido y miembro de la Junta Ejecutiva de Cybernaptics Ltd.

Lucy Singah

Chief Financial Officer

Lucy is a finance professional, with 20 years’ experience across large corporate, start-up environments and professional services. Lucy has spent the majority of her career in purpose-driven Healthcare industry with 11 years at GlaxoSmithKline plc (Corporate Development, Investor Relations, and CFO/FD roles) and as Finance Director of a Med Tech start up. Lucy trained as a Chartered Accountant with EY, advising clients across industrial and consumer sectors on M&A and Financial Due Diligence.

Carla Koffel

Governance and Impact Director

Carla is a corporate lawyer and international development professional with more than 20 years’ experience working with the private sector, international development organisations and philanthropic initiatives. Areas of expertise include promoting good corporate governance practices within both global companies and SMEs, ethical supply chain management and human rights. She has conducted social impact assessments across multiple jurisdictions and managed grants for international donors such as United Nations agencies.

Nelson Torres

Oficial de Inversiones

(basado en Perú)

Nelson aporta más de 20 años de experiencia en los sectores empresarial rural y financiero, en particular con organizaciones de pequeños agricultores. Ha diseñado productos de crédito rural, estructurado operaciones de crédito en diferentes cadenas de valor, diseñado procedimientos de evaluación de crédito y desarrollado casos de inversión climáticamente inteligente para cooperativas. Nelson ha trabajado para instituciones rurales de microfinanzas, cooperativas de ahorro y crédito, ONG y bancos de desarrollo. También es investigador en microfinanzas y desarrollo rural.

Majda Radovanovic

Oficial de Inversiones

(basado en Perú)

David de la Cruz

Conservation & Agroforestry Specialist

David has worked for the National Forest Conservation Programme of the Ministry of the Environment of Peru for more than 10 years. The programme implemented forest conservation agreements along the Peruvian Amazon. David has vast experience working with indigenous communities implementing coffee and cocoa agroforestry farms and others community investments plans, leading forest conservation commitments and land use planning processes.

Paula Perrelli dos Anjos

Communications and Social Media Manager

Paula Perrelli dos Anjos has extensive expertise in press journalism and PR management within the corporate and government sectors in Brazil. For the past 18 years, Paula has been living in the UK, where she has been consulting in global marketing and brand reputation for the third sector and start-ups. She joined AIV to enhance our communication with stakeholders and expand our social media presence. Paula also serves as the Managing Director of Projtech, an IT consulting firm. She studied Journalism, Marketing, and International Affairs, and is passionate about impactful storytelling, envisioning a sustainable future, and connecting with people from around the world through communication.

Joaquín Sancho Ferrer

Strategic Communication Consultant

Joaquin is a specialist in corporate communication and communication for development. He is an expert in conceptualizing, designing and executing creative solutions for clients internationally. Joaquin has successfully developed brands for indigenous enterprises and managed marketing campaigns for conservation and development organisations.

He is also a university teacher in Peru and Spain and has directed several documentaries in the Amazon.

Nuestros asesores

Dieter Wittkowski

Dieter has more than 30 years of experience in the areas of rural and agriculture finance, impact investing, innovative financing mechanisms, green finance, financial inclusion and social entrepreneurship, mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean.

He recently retired from a 23-year career at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), where he worked at the IDB Lab investment unit, Social Entrepreneurship Program and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Division. He holds a master’s degree in International Development from Harvard University.

Juan Carlos Jintiach

Juan Carlos es miembro del pueblo indígena Shuar de la selva amazónica de Ecuador. Es coordinador de cooperación económica internacional y desarrollo indígena autónomo de COICA (Coordinadora de Organizaciones Indígenas de la Cuenca Amazónica).

También es el funcionario electo que representa a los pueblos indígenas de América Latina en el Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica, el Fondo Verde para el Clima, así como un punto focal en el caucus de los pueblos indígenas dentro de la CMNUCC y en el Programa de Inversión Forestal del Banco Mundial.

Mark Campanale

Mark is the founder of the Carbon Tracker Initiative, best known for its work on ‘stranded assets’ and the ‘carbon bubble’. Previously, he spent twenty years in the sustainable financial markets as a co-founder of some of the first responsible investment funds such as Jupiter Asset Management, NPI, AMP Capital and Henderson Global Investors. Mark was member of the Steering Committee of UNEP Financial Sector Initiative and is founder of the UK Sustainable and Responsible Investment Forum (UKSIF). Currently, he serves on the Advisory Board of GFANZ (the Glasgow Finance Alliance for Net Zero). In 2021, Mark was winner of the CEREs/Trillium Capital Lifetime Achievement Award on Sustainable Finance, was made a Sorenson Impact Fellow, and an Ashoka Fellow in 2020.

Richard Woodhull

Richard is an emerging market private credit and impact investing professional. He currently serves as an Investment Director at British International Investment in their Financial Services Group. Before that, he spent a decade as an Investment Officer at the US International Development Finance Corp. Prior roles centered on emerging market private equity, international development consulting and impact investing. Richard serves as a board member of Working Capital for Community Needs (WCCN). Read his full bio here.

Gayle Peterson

Gayle is Associate Fellow at Saïd Business School, Oxford University, where she is programme director of Oxford Impact Investing and Social Finance Programmes. With more than 20 years’ experience as a strategist, philanthropist, and trusted adviser to social investors worldwide, Gayle has managed and assessed more than US$15 billion in philanthropic and impact investments.
She has advised social investors in more than 45 countries and has taught social investing classes worldwide.

Marc Weissgerber

Marc es asesor de estrategia de nuevas empresas globales, fondos de inversión e instituciones sobre cómo escalar soluciones e inversiones climáticas. Es cofundador y socio de Bauhaus Earth, la organización internacional enfocada en transformar el entorno construido.

Trabajó como ejecutivo internacional para uno de los principales grupos energéticos del mundo, fue director gerente y director financiero de una de las empresas de servicios ambientales más grandes de Europa y director gerente de Climate-KIC, la organización de innovación climática líder en Europa. Tiene un MBA de la Universidad de Cambridge.

Jessica Villanueva

Jessica is the Senior Director of Technical Areas of Practice at MEDA. She has more than 20 years of management experience on inclusive and sustainable agri-food market systems and innovative finance projects in LATAM, Africa and Asia. Her experience includes designing and structuring blended finance transactions that utilize different asset classes and technical assistance approaches to achieve gender equality and environmental sustainability in agri-food systems. Jessica is member of the prestigious 2X Global Forum for her expertise and commitment to accelerating gender lens investments to create a positive impact on women.
Jessica has also worked for WWF Peru (Conservation Finance Director), ResponsAbility and the IADB.

Nuestros valores

Nuestros valores guían el enfoque adoptado por el equipo global de AIV, enfatizando la importancia de trabajar en colaboración con las comunidades indígenas y nuestros otros socios, desafiando el status quo y encontrando oportunidades de financiamiento para superar los desafíos ambientales y sociales.

Empoderamiento

Empoderar a los pueblos indígenas y comunidades locales es escencial para proteger sus tierras y bosques.

Innovación

Promover la innovación y el emprendimiento conduce a resolver desafíos sociales y ambientales.

Asociaciones a largo plazo

Construir asociaciones significativas a largo plazo, basadas en compartir responsabilidades, riesgos y beneficios.

Finanzas para el bien

Utilizar las finanzas para bien para invertir en empresas sociales y maximizar su impacto.