Recap of Guest Speakers at Social Finance Forum 2008 in Toronto

DEREK BALLANTYNE

CEO of Toronto Community Housing

Derek Ballantyne has worked in the housing sector for about ten years. He has a background in the public and private sectors. Derek has worked with a variety of partners and with housing organizations to renew investment in housing and to garner support for households living in social housing. He is a Director of Family Services Toronto as well as the Social Housing Services Corporation and SHSC Financial Inc.

RICHARD BRIDGE

B.A. LL.B
Barrister & Solicitor
Non-profit and charity law

RichardBridge is a lawyer who recently relocated from Vancouver Island to
Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley. His primary area of practice is charity and non-profit law. His clients are a wide range of charitable organizations, foundations, non-profit organizations and philanthropists throughout B.C. and across Canada. Other areas
of work include: co-operative development and public sector organizations and issues. Richard has worked internationally, most recently in China, and has created courses and taught in these areas at the University of Victoria Law School and BCIT.

TIM BRODHEAD

President and CEO
J.W. McConnell Family Foundation

Tim Brohead who has served as president and CEO of the Montreal-based J.W. McConnell Family Foundation since 1995. Prior to joining the Foundation he was Executive Director of the Canadian Council for International Co-operation (CCIC), a
national organization representing over 120 non-profit Canadian international development agencies.

Mr. Brodhead attended McGill University and subsequently
spent five years in Africa with the Canadian organization CUSO. He went on to do
international development work in Africa and South Asia and co-founded Inter Pares, an
Ottawa-based non-government organization.

In a voluntary capacity he has served on a number of Boards, including currently
Vartana, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the
ETC Group (formerly Rural Advancement Foundation International) and the Calmeadow
Foundation. He is past Chair of Philanthropic Foundations Canada, the national
association of Canadian independent foundations.

In 2001 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada and in June, 2002 received
an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Carleton University in Ottawa.

MARK CONVERY

Partner, Ogilvy Renault LLP

Areas of Expertise:
Cleantech; Corporate and Commercial; Corporate Finance and Securities; Governance and Directors' Liability; Mergers and Acquisitions; Private Equity

Mark Convery is Toronto Chair of our Business Law Group. Mr. Convery has extensive experience in business law generally and in corporate and securities law specifically. His areas of expertise include mergers and acquisitions, private placements, public offerings, private equity fund formation and investments, corporate governance and investment funds. Mr. Convery has considerable experience in cross-border transactions and has advised clients at all stages of development from start-up to mature public companies, multinational companies and private equity funds.

Mr. Convery is currently a member of the Securities Advisory Committee to the Ontario Securities Commission.

ÉTHEL CÔTÉ

Board member & Co-chair, Policy Council – CCEDNET
President – Économie solidaire de l’Ontario
North America Representant – RIPESS – Intercontinental Network of Promotion of Social Solidarity Economy

Éthel Côté has been involved in the economic, social, cooperative and cultural fields for more than 25 years. As general manager for the Cooperation Council of Ontario (CCO) from 1994 to 2000, she revived this movement and fostered the implementation of some thirty work, services and production cooperatives in addition to supporting agricultural, agri-food, housing and child care cooperatives. She holds a Canadian university level certificate in Agricultural Leadership (CALL 2001) and obtained her Masters Degree in Community Economic Development from Concordia University.

In addition to teaching Community Economic Development at Concordia University between 2000-2008 and Hearst University since 2008, she has also mentored hundreds of communities and promoters of socio-economic development initiatives. She has been involved with the Canadian Community Economic Development Network for several years and Co-Chair the National Policy Council and member of the International Committee. She currently chairs the Ontario Solidarity Economy Network. She is now the Canadian representative on the Board of the Réseau intercontinental de promotion d’économie sociale et solidaire (RIPESS). Now she is responsible for social enterprise development at the center for Community Enterprise, member of the Social Enterprise Council of Canada and the Social Enterprise Ontario. She succeed to mobilized over than 16M$ to support social enterprises throughout 20 years.

DEBORA DONCASTER

Executive Director, Community Power Fund

Deborah Doncaster is the CPF Executive Director. She was the founding Executive Director of the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association formed in 2001. Under Deborah's leadership, OSEA accomplished the delivery of a Standard Offer Contract Program for Ontario. She was also one of three Project Developers with the Toronto Renewable Energy Co-operative and worked on their Exhibition Place turbine project on Toronto's waterfront. Deborah holds degrees in Philosophy, Law and Environmental Planning.

TIM DRAIMIN

Executive Director, Social Innovation Generation (SiG)
Chair, Causeway Social Finance,
Senior Fellow, Tides Canada Foundation.

Tim Draimin is the newly appointed Executive Director of Social Innovation Generation (SiG) and the Chair of CAUSEWAY Social Finance. A partnership between The J.W. McConnell Family Foundation, Toronto's MaRS Discovery District, the University of Waterloo and Vancouver's PLAN Institute, SiG unleashes the creativity of social innovators to tackle the profound social and environmental challenges facing Canadians. As Executive Director, Mr. Draimin will manage SiG's growing network of academics, field practitioners and entrepreneurs investigating ways to improve the health and resilience of our linked social, economic and environmental systems.

CAUSEWAY is a new collaborative initiative (including SiG plus Carleton University and the Canadian Co-operative Association) dedicated to enabling the accelerated development of "social finance" capital instruments in Canada.

A leader in the non-profit sector, Mr. Draimin was the founding CEO of Tides Canada Foundation, which focuses on the environment and social justice. During his time at Tides, Mr. Draimin guided the Foundation's expansion, established Canada's first national support system for social entrepreneurs – Sage Centre – and supported a world-renowned model of integrated conservation: BC's Great Bear Rainforest initiative. He will continue to serve Tides Canada as a Senior Fellow.

Tim Draimin brings to SiG 30 years of international career experience. He is the author of Canada's first national study of social entrepreneurship and a frequent advisor to government, as well as to non-profit associations and leaders. He is a past board member of the Social Investment Organization (SIO), Canadian Environmental Grantmakers Network (CEGN) and past member of the Voluntary Sector Forum's Finance Action Group.

AL ETMANSKI

Special Advisor
Plan Institute for Caring Citizenship

Al has been a leading advocate for people with disabilities and their families in Canada for more than two decades. He is widely recognized as a visionary thinker in areas of social policy, community development and individualizing services for people with disabilities.

Al is an author, advocacy consultant and social inventor who specializes in finding innovative, non-governmental solutions to social problems.

In recent years, Al has become known for his expertise in fostering social enterprise within the civic sector, converting social capital to economic capital, the innovative use of non- profit, profit and public sectors as problem solving partners and creating alternatives to legal guardianship.

He is the author of A Good Life – For You and Your Relative with a Disability and Safe and Secure – Six Steps to Creating a Personal Future Plan for People with Disabilities. Al is a parent of 5 children.

DON FAIRBAIRN

President of DCF Consulting.
DCF Consulting provides strategic advice to public and private sector clients and is focused on achieving value through public private partnerships, mergers and acquisitions and effective strategic planning.

Don has extensive experience in the development, financing and operations of infrastructure projects. He has managed the successful development of independent power generation, light rail transportation, water treatment and natural gas utility assets. He has led over $2 billion of mergers and acquisitions involving both corporate and pension fund investors. Don also assists governments and community organizations achieve successful outcomes for supportive housing and social financing initiatives.

He been an active member of community organizations and is currently the Chair of the Board of Governors of Vancouver Community College and a Board Member of Streetohome Vancouver Foundation. Don is married and has four children.

TESSA HEBB

Director
Carleton Centre for Community Innovation
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Senior Research Associate
Oxford University Centre for the Environment, UK

Senior Research Fellow
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, US

Dr. Hebb is the Director of the Carleton Centre for Community Innovation, Carleton University, Canada. Her research focuses on the financial and extra-financial impact of pension fund investment in Canada and internationally with particular emphasis on Responsible Investment and Corporate Engagement and is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Government of Canada. The Carleton Centre for Community Innovation is leading knowledge producer on social finance tools and instruments.

Dr. Hebb is also a senior research associate with the Oxford University Centre for the Environment and the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. IN 2008 she completed a multi-year research project revitalization funded by Rockefeller and Ford Foundations on the role of US public sector pension funds and urban revitalization, based at the Labor and Worklife Program, Harvard Law School.

Dr. Hebb has published many articles on pension fund investing policies and is the co-editor of the volume Working Capital the Power of Labor’s Pensions. Her new book No Small Change: Pension Fund Corporate Engagement is available for Cornell University Press as of September 2008.

BRIAN ILER

Partner, Iler Campbell LLP

Brian is a partner in the Toronto law firm Iler Campbell LLP, and advises many of Ontario’s co-operatives and non-profit organizations. For the Ontario Co-operative Association, he has had a central role in crafting the regulatory environment for co-operatives and co-operative securities. For Options for Homes, he developed the legal framework for its innovative affordable ownership housing model, and, for its now numerous successful projects, acted as development counsel. As a founding director of Toronto Renewable Energy Co-operative, which incubated the wind turbine at Exhibition Place, and as a director of both the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association and The Co-operative Fund for Community Power, he has been a principal contributor to the development of community-owned green energy generation in Ontario.

JESSICA JACKLEY FLANNERY

Co-Founder & Chief Marketing Officer of Kiva

Named as one of the top ideas in 2006 by the New York Times Magazine and called "revolutionary" by the BBC, Kiva (www.kiva.org) is the world's first online micro-lending marketplace for the working poor. Kiva lets internet users lend as little as $25 to specific developing world entrepreneurs, providing affordable capital to help them start or expand a small business. Kiva has been one of the fastest-growing social benefit websites in history, with thousands of people lending millions of dollars to entrepreneurs in over 50 developing countries.

In the midst of these successes, Kiva remains focused on a very simple idea: bringing people closer to each other. Kiva’s mission, “to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty,” and the idea that relationships are a powerful force for positive change, remain foundational for the organization’s strategy – and for Jessica Jackley Flannery’s life work.

Jessica has worked in a variety of other organizations across the public, nonprofit, and private sector, including World Vision, Potentia Media, the International Foundation, Amazon.com, and others, and serves as an active board member with nonprofits in the Bay Area and internationally. She graduated from the Stanford Graduate School of Business with her MBA in 2007, including Certificates in Public Management and Global Management.

ROBERT M. LANG

Mary Elizabeth & Gordon B. Mannweiler Foundation Inc.
L3C Advisors L3C

Robert (Bob) Lang is CEO of the Mary Elizabeth & Gordon B. Mannweiler Foundation, Inc., CEO of L3C Advisors L3C and CEO of Fabrique Cosmetique Inc. He has a BA in Economics with a minor in English from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The foundation’s focus is akin to venture capitalism in the nonprofit sector. One of the major projects has been the L3C, which is based on the use of for profit LLCs to perform socially beneficial services and use PRI funding as a source of capital, particularly equity. With the passage of the L3C law in Vermont on April 30, 2008, he intends through the very first L3C - L3C Advisors L3C to work extensively with his partners and staff to develop L3Cs all over the US. He is leading an international group in a project to develop social finance structural harmonization around the world to facilitate investment in L3C type structures worldwide. He is also an active board member of the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts, which presents free classical music concerts at the Naumburg Bandshell in Central Park in NYC. He is also a cosmetic chemist and designs and develops cosmetic systems and machinery. He lectures frequently and participates in seminars and on panels worldwide. He has been published in trade publications, popular magazines, on the web and newspapers.

RON LAYTON

Founder and Chief Executive
Light Years IP

Ron Layton has chosen to combine successful careers in economic development and Intellectual Property (IP) business to design the Light Years IP vision of engaging IP business techniques to alleviate poverty and secure higher export income for low-income producers, particularly in Least Developed countries. Since forming LYIP as an NGO in 1999, Ron Layton has been creating mechanisms for poor producers in developing countries to improve the amount and security of export income from all types of distinctive products, including primary and finished products. This process utilizes various forms of IP to assert the right to income from intangible values created and owned by poor countries. LYIP also assists producers with the products of innovation, including inventions, tribal names and all forms of designs, some traditional and mostly modern.

Ron has acted as IP consultant to producer groups, exporters and tribal groups, to businesses in fair trade and sustainable development, to the World Bank and the USPTO, and to Governments as different as Ethiopia, Niue and Bermuda. In 2004, the World Bank published a book titled "Poor People’s Knowledge" that included coverage of his work on IP and Poverty Alleviating Trade. In February 2004, Ron was elected as a Global Fellow by the Ashoka Foundation, recognition as a leading social entrepreneur working on a global level. In June, the Light Years IP publication “Distinctive Values in African Exports” was launched by the UK Secretary of State for International Development at the World Economic Forum in Cape Town. The US State Department proposed to the G8 that Ron address the G8 committee on Intellectual Property at an event in France in November, 2008.

Ron is educated in economics and mathematics and worked as lead economist on numerous development projects in more than 25 developing countries for UNDP, AusAID, SPC, the Commonwealth and many governments. He has specialized in Intellectual Property for 30 years and in Intellectual Property for Development for 20 of those years. He began in 1977-80, originating and implementing jurisdictional Intellectual Property solutions in small developing countries which are uncompetitive. He led a project covering analysis and development of jurisdictional Intellectual Property sector in several countries where IP produced over 60% of government income and over 80% of export income. To acquire direct understanding of the role of branding and other Intellectual Property in Trade, he added ten years of commercial experience in earning export income, successfully distributing film product and derivative consumer products to over 100 world markets. Now, the focus of LYIP is on countries like Ethiopia, with 80 million people aiming to overcome competitiveness constraints due to location by using IP business strategies in exporting distinctive products. In 2008, the Ethiopian Ministry of Trade and Industry reported that export income from fine coffee had been raised by around $100m per year due to the LYIP-assisted Ethiopian Fine Coffee Trademarking and Licensing Initiative.

STEPHEN LLOYD

Senior Partner and Head of Charity & Social Enterprise Department

Stephen Lloyd is Senior Partner and Head of the Charity and Social Enterprise
Department and formerly Chairman of the Charity Law Association.

He has been acknowledged for a number of years as the top charity lawyer in the UK. He is especially appreciated for his business acumen, can do approach and knowledge of charity and social enterprise law. He is the author of numerous books on law including Charities Trading and the Law, the Fundraiser's Guide to the Law and Keeping It Legal. He is also the originator of the concept of the Community Interest Company (CIC) which came into force on 1st July 2005, since when over 2000 CICs have been formed. He is Chairman of the Centre for Innovation in Voluntary Action; a trustee of the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) Common Investment Funds; Chairman of Lifehaus Plc, an environmental building company, and Chairman of CaSE – Charity & Social Enterprise Insurance Management LLP a specialist provider of insurance solutions to charities and social enterprises.

ROD MACGILLIVRAY

Vice Chair,
Board of Roots of Empathy

Before retiring two years ago, Mr. Macgillivray had 40 years experience in the investment industry during which he was based in Europe, the United States and Canada. Throughout most of his career, he advised governments and their Crown Corporations. With governments this initially involved debt financing in domestic and foreign capital markets as well as considerable work on deficit and debt reduction strategies through the 1990s. Most recently, he advised governments regarding the changes happening in the electricity industry. Over this time Mr. Macgillivray also developed a very close relationship with the publicly owned utilities in this sector.

Mr. Macgillivray was a Managing Director with CIBC World Markets and a member of its Power and Utilities Group where he led this group’s activities with public sector utility clients and their government owners. In this respect, he worked, on a wide variety of assignments with virtually every public sector entity in this industry in Canada. These assignments included the development of government policies and corporate strategies, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and disaggregations as well as corporatizations and privatizations.

In the Toronto community, Mr. Macgillivray is currently Chair of the Board of the George Brown College Foundation as well as being a Board Member of Roots of Empathy.

GUILLERMO MACLEAN

Vice President
Deutsche Bank
Quality of Life Markets

Guillermo is a Vice President in Deutsche Bank’s Global Markets and leads the development of the Deutsche Bank Quality of Life Markets.

Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, Guillermo developed the “Quality of Life Markets” concept and others as part of his own innovation consulting firm and business incubator, Santeandro Creations Boutique – Innovative Technologies for Human Capital Development. In total, Guillermo spent 15+ years in a variety of roles, from Mergers & Acquisitions, to Equity Research, Investment Portfolio Management, Corporate Development (crossing many functional and business areas) and Equity Derivatives at firms such as the International Finance Corporation (The World Bank Group), Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Putnam Investments, AllianceBernstein and Deutsche Bank.

Guillermo holds an MBA from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a BA in economics from Georgetown University. He enjoys the outdoors and graduated three times from Outward Bound Wilderness Expeditions

ROBERT MARUS

Robert Marus, Manager, Community Business Banking, Vancity & Citizen’s Bank

Robert has over 20 years experience in the financial industry with the last eight years focused on banking services for the Not-For-profit community. He brings to the table a breadth of experience garnered over his tenure at Vancity since 1984. In 2000, Robert moved from a commercial account manger role to one of specializing in lending to Not-for-Profits. In 2004, Robert was the architect of Vancity’s Community Business Banking department, a specialized area of Vancity/Citizen’s Bank which serves both the individual and organizations needs of the “under-served” and the “under-banked”.

Over the years, Robert has been led the credit union in its credit and product development as well as the manner in which it provides its NFP banking products and services. This attention to the needs of Not-For-Profits has resulted in the growth of Vancity’s NFP Portfolio to almost $600 Million.

Robert focuses his time on the development, improvement and implementation of a variety of Social Finance mechanisms within the Not-For-Profit sector. He also manages a number of key community member relationships and is an active member of many of the credit union’s internal committee’s focused on NFP’s.

Robert leads Vancity’s Financial Sustainability Workshops series, an educational component aimed to increased the financial well-being, long-term sustainability and increased capacity for the not-for-profit sector.

Robert brings to the community his extensive expertise including board involvement, international studies and participation on local, provincial & federal committees.

NANCY NEAMTAN

President and Executive Director
Chantier de l'économie sociale

Nancy Neamtan is President/Executive Director of the Chantier de l'économie sociale, a non-profit organization administered by 30 representatives of various networks of social enterprises (cooperatives and non-profits), local development organizations and social movements.

The mission of the Chantier de l'économie sociale, a Quebec-wide organization that emerged from the Quebec Summit on Economy and Employment in 1996, is the promotion and development of collective entrepreneurship.
She is the President of the Board of Directors of the Chantier d'économie sociale Trust, a $53 million investment fund offering patient capital to collective entreprises. She was founder and President of the Board of Directors of Réseau d'investissement social du Québec (RISQ), a $10 million investment fund dedicated to the non-profit and cooperative sector from 1997 to 2006. Since 1999 she has been Co-Director of the Community-University Research Alliance in the Social Economy(ARUC-ÉS).
Prior to this, Neamtan was Executive Director of RESO ( a community economic development corporatin devoted to the economic and oscial renewal of southwest Montreal) from 1989 to 1998. She was Executive Director of IFDEC (Training institute in community economic development(1986-87), and Director for Community-Development at the Point St .Charles YMCA (1984-1986).

AMY STEIN

Director of Finance, Evergreen

Amy is responsible for the financial stewardship of Evergreen’s growth, focusing on financing for Evergreen Brick Works, risk management, systems development, leasing and licensing, and cost controls. Before she joined Evergreen, Amy was Director of Investments at Social Capital Partners, providing growth financing to employment-based social enterprise businesses. Prior to that, she served as a financial consultant, advisor and board member to numerous social enterprises, and worked for several years as an investment banker with one of Canada’s leading financial institutions. Amy has an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the Wharton School, an MA in Economics and an Honours BA in Environmental Studies and Economics, both from the University of Toronto.

DR. RALPH STROTHER

Senior Program Officer, Max Bell Foundation

Ralph Strother was an Associate Professor and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculties of Medicine and Kinesiology at the University of Calgary for fifteen years. Ralph served on the Calgary Foundation, retiring as Board Chair in 2002. He was recently Vice President of Trout Unlimited Canada and currently serves on other non-profit Boards.

DR. MICHAEL SWACK

Research faculty and professor economics and management in the Whittemore School of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire

Michael Swack, a pioneer in the field of community development lending and investment joins the University of New Hampshire as research faculty and professor of economics and management in the Whittemore School of Business and Economics.

As the founder and Dean of the School of Community Economic Development, Southern New Hampshire University. Michael Swack wrote the legislation that led to the creation of the Community Development Finance Authority. In 1983, he was the founding president of the New Hampshire Loan Fund.

Michael Swack received a Ph.D in Community Development and Management from Columbia University, a master’s degree from Harvard University, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

ILSE TREURNICHT

CEO of the MaRS Discovery District

Ise Treurnicht joined MaRS from her role as President & CEO of Primaxis Technology Ventures, a start-up stage venture capital fund focused on the advanced technologies sector. Prior to Primaxis, Ilse was an entrepreneur with senior management roles in a number of emerging technology companies. She serves on a number of Boards, including the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), BIOTECanada and Aggregate Therapeutics. Ilse holds a DPhil in chemistry from Oxford University, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar.

ARTHUR WOOD

Social Financial Services Ashoka, UK

Arthur Wood brings over twenty years of experience in the finance sector to his work on social investing. He heads the Social Financial Services (SFS) at Ashoka, engaging global financial service firms in investing in the social sector. He creates strategies and delivers insight into how investors can use their capital to increase the flow and efficiency of financing to the social sector,
prior to joining Ashoka,

Arthur worked with a number of banks – both institutional and private – creating product models and services that have been widely accepted and replicated across the sector. At Coutts, the UK’s most prestigious private bank, Wood conceptualized and managed a project for the innovative use of Offshore Insurance products which has now been adopted across the private banking industry as a key planning tool.

As a Director of another leading UK bank, Kleinwort Benson Private Bank, Wood re-engineered and headed the teams associated with Product Development across the entire range of financial instruments. The group was voted the most innovative product team in an award by Private Asset Management magazine. Arthur was also head of e-commerce for the private bank, and he pioneered a model which McKinsey & Co. described as the cutting-edge of strategic web development. He attended the London School of Economics, HEC in France, and Bocconi School of Management in Italy. 

As an accomplished debater and innovative thinker on finance, Arthur brings a valued perspective on financing the citizen sector.

BILL YOUNG

President and CEO Social Capital Partners

Bill Young is the President of Social Capital Partners (“SCP”) a company he founded in 2001. SCP is a social venture capital company whose primary goal is to prove that businesses with both a financial and a social purpose can succeed at both. It provides attractive financing to a variety of businesses that employ disadvantaged populations as part of their human resources strategy. SCP facilitates the recruitment of these individuals and ensures they have the appropriate skills to be successful employees.

Before founding SCP, Bill worked for approximately twenty years in the private sector primarily as CEO of Hamilton Computers, and Optel Communications Corp. He began his career as a Chartered Accountant and holds an Honours BA from the University of Toronto and an MBA from Harvard. Bill currently sits on the boards of Inner City Renovations, Vartana, Renaissance and a number of Advisory Boards.