Can Digital Innovations Unlock Partnerships to Scale Impact?
Thursday, April 14, 2016
Session Description
Digital tools offer the promise of efficiently reaching the underserved—especially as more communities become accessible through mobile phones and the Internet. But when is technology more of a distraction than an asset for a social entrepreneur? When can digitizing finance or operations excite or require the engagement of an institutional partner? This panel will explore practical solutions that are being implemented at scale through multi-sector partnerships aimed at addressing stakeholders’ social, economic, and environmental needs.
FORMAT: PANEL DISCUSSION
Time & Location
Time:
10:45 - 12:00, Thursday, April 14, 2016
BST
Location:
SBS, Rhodes Trust Lecture Theatre
Speakers
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Speaker
Treasurer, SABMiller plc
NAME : Luis Manuel Guzmán Pardo Figueroa
ORGANIZATION : SABMiller – UCP Backus & Johnston SAA (Peru Operation)
TITLE : Treasury Director
Economist
MBA in Peruvian University
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Speaker
Deputy Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Jason Lamb is the Deputy Director, Digital Enabling Environment in the Financial Services for the Poor initiative at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to joining the foundation in November 2009, Jason spent 6 years at Washington Mutual Bank where he managed the Consumer Checking portfolio, product strategy, and team. In addition, he spent time managing the operational risk strategy for the retail bank and as an organizational consultant to the Executive Committee and their teams. Jason gained experience in the financial institutions sector during his seven years at McKinsey & Company, where he spent time advising banks in Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and North America. He was a founding member of the McKinsey Budapest office. Jason holds a BA in Economics and History from the University of California, Davis and an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
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Speaker
As a professional, I have worked in marketing, public relations, sports management and fundraising. I co-founded Riders for Health, together with my husband, Barry Coleman, in 1996. The organisation is now 26 years old and operating nationally in four countries, working with ministries of health and other health focussed entities. The programmes in Africa have been African led from the outset and my work and focus now is to give resource support for the African leadership and to seek, with them, ways to have their authentic voices heard about their valuable health systems operations at the established global health level.
Together with two social entrepreneurs, Mel Young and Chris Underhill, we have founded the Elders Council for Social Entrepreneurship.
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Moderator
Global Director of Inclusive Finance, Citigroup, Inc.
Bob Annibale
Global Director,
Citi Community Development and Inclusive Finance
Bob leads Citi’s partnerships with global, national and local organizations to support inclusive finance and community development through economic empowerment. He also leads Citi’s commercial relationships with microfinance financial institutions, corporations, investors and municipalities, working across Citi’s businesses and geographies to expand access to financial services in underserved communities.
Since joining Citi in 1982, Mr. Annibale has held a number of senior regional and global treasury, risk and corporate positions in Athens, Bahrain, Nairobi, London and New York.
Bob serves on the U.S. FDIC Advisory Committee on Economic Inclusion and the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs Advisory Council on Financial Education and Inclusion. He serves as a Founding Member of SAGE’s Housing Advisory Council supporting the senior LGBT community, and serves on the board of the Citi Foundation, Accion International and the Bedford Stuyvestant Restoration Corporation.
In 2014, Bob was honored by the Obama Administration as a White House Champion of Change for his work leading Citi’s programs promoting immigrant integration and citizenship in the United States. His leadership contributed to Citi’s recognition by Euromoney as the inaugural “Best Bank for Financial Inclusion” and “Latin America’s Best Bank for Sustainable Finance”. Bob was individually recognized by Euromoney as a “Global Impact Banking Champion”. In 2018, he was again named by the Financial Times as one of the OUTStanding Top 100 LGBT Business Leaders for the fifth consecutive year.
Bob, a U.S. and U.K. national, holds a B.A. in History and Political Science from Vassar College, New York, and an M.A. in African Studies (History) from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies.
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Speaker
Andrew Youn co-founded One Acre Fund in 2006. Most of the world’s poor are farmers, and One Acre Fund helps make them more productive. One Acre Fund provides finance, farm input delivery, and training to smallholder farmers in East Africa. One Acre Fund has 9,000 full-time staff who serve 1,600,000+ families per year, plus 2,000,000+ more families through partnerships across 9 African countries. Andrew graduated from Yale, is a former management consultant at Oliver Wyman, and received his MBA from Kellogg School of Management.
