
Our People
Our diverse expertise and experience across industries including in finance, conservation, soft commodities trading, law and fund management means we can connect our investors with outstanding investments in the Amazon rainforest that genuinely make a difference.

Aldo Soto
Co-founder and Managing Director
Aldo brings over 15 years’ experience supporting indigenous communities in the Amazon to protect their lands from illegal logging, mining, deforestation and improve their livelihoods through production of sustainable cocoa, coffee and fisheries. Aldo is a biologist with studies in forest conservation, development of rural enterprises and social finance. He structured the first Development Impact Bond in Latin America to support indigenous farmers and has led conservation and sustainable livelihoods programmes in the Amazon for WWF and the Rainforest Foundation UK.

Pajani Singah
Co-Founder and Investment Director
Pajani has over 15 years investment management experience. He is a partner and COO of Inflection Point Investments, a boutique fund management company investing in listed global technology companies. He is a Certified Chartered Accountant, President of the Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO) UK and Executive Board Member of Cybernaptics Ltd.

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.

Adam Smith
Sustainable Trade Director
Adam is an experienced business development professional. He co founded, developed and successfully exited a soft commodities business focused on trading, transport, storage and warehousing of commodities from Latin America. He is currently a director of two listed Real Estate investment funds and is a member of the audit and investment committees of both companies.
Our advisors
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.
Juan Carlos Jintiach
Juan Carlos is a member of the Shuar indigenous people from the Amazon Rainforest of Ecuador. He is the coordinator of international economic cooperation and autonomous indigenous development for COICA (Coordinator of Indigenous Organizations of the Amazon Basin).
He is also the elected official representing the indigenous peoples of Latin America in the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Green Climate Fund as well as a focal point in the indigenous peoples caucus within the UNFCCC and in the World Bank’s Forest Investment Programme.
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.
Our values
Our values guide the approach adopted by AIV’s global team, emphasising the importance of working collaboratively with indigenous communities and our other partners, challenging the status quo and finding opportunities for finance to overcome environmental and social challenges.

Empower People
Empowering indigenous and forest people is key to protect their lands and forests.

Innovation Approach
Promoting innovation and entrepreneurship leads to solve social and environmental challenges.

Long-Term partnerships
Building meaningful long-term partnerships, based on sharing responsibilities, risks and returns.

Finance for Good
Using finance for good to invest in social enterprises and maximize their impact.