Panel Livestream

Measuring the Impact of the Family Business Ecosystem

Wednesday, October 4, 2023 From 17:00 to 18:30 (CET) Centre International de Conférences Genève - Room B
Asset Owners Emerging Markets & Impact Investing

Leading business families are uniquely positioned to create positive impact. They have access to assets they can leverage to help accelerate the SDGs. The session will show examples from how some families are starting to tackle this challenge of impact measurement and explore how to help them better measure their collective impacts, and build bridges to accelerate systemic change.

Speakers:

Benjamin Firmenich

Executive Director - Impact Finance Management SA

Benjamin Firmenich is an impact investor and entrepreneur. He co-chairs the Management Committee of Impact Finance Management SA, which has disbursed, since October 2011, $213 million in agricultural value chains in Latin America. He developed Kharmax Impact Monitoring System, the company’s proprietary tool to enable portfolio companies to report on impact.

Farhad Forbes

Co-Chairman - Forbes Marshall

Farhad Forbes represents the 2nd Generation of Forbes Marshall, responsible for the Industrial Process Automation and Control Group of the Company. He has been in the company since 1982. Forbes Marshall is one of India’s leading companies in the fields of Steam Engineering, Energy Conservation, Utilities Management, and Industrial Process Automation and Control. It employs over 1100 people and has Joint Ventures and alliances in Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Japan.

Maria Ahlström-Bondestam

Co-founder & Honorary Chair - The Eva Ahlström Foundation

Maria is a 5th gen member of the Finnish Ahlström family whose companies were founded in 1851. Together with 25 female cousins Maria co-founded The Eva Ahlström Foundation and has as Chair actively developed the operations of the family foundation which continues the work for underprivileged families, especially women and children, that her great grandmother started in the late 19th century. In 2020 Maria initiated Ahlström Collective Impact, a unique collaboration between companies, foundations, and stakeholders within the Ahlström Network with the aim to make strategic investments to support the realization of the United Nation’s SDGs in partnership with UNICEF.

Alfonso Libano Daurella

Vice Chairman - Cobega, S.A.

Alfonso comes from a family with a long history in the Family Business since the 19th Century. He is Vice Chairman of COBEGA, S.A and holds a number of company directorships within the Coca-Cola system, such as Director of the Board & Chairman of the CSR Committee of Coca-Cola European Partners (the largest European Coca-Cola franchise), Chairman of Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company, S.L.,(Coca-Cola franchise for 13 African Countries), and Director of The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt. He has also been Trustee of The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation since 2004.

André Hoffmann

Vice chair - Roche

André Hoffmann is a businessman, environmentalist  and a passionate advocate for business as a force for good. André is Vice Chairman of Roche Holding AG, the family business. He also sits on the Board of SystemIQ, the Board of Trustees of the World Economic Forum, and the Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. André has a distinguished career in nature conservation and sustainability. He is the President of Fondation Tour du Valat and board member of Capitals Coalition. He is also Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Hoffmann Global Institute in Business and Society at INSEAD.

Alexis du Roy de Blicquy

CEO - FBN

Alexis is the CEO of The Family Business Network (FBN), the world’s leading network bringing together over 4,200 business owning families, 20,000 individual members in 32 chapters covering 65 countries. Prior to FBN, Alexis held senior positions, at Lhoist, Verlinvest, Armonea and IFC (World Bank Group). For 6 years, he was Chairman of ToolBox, supporting NGOs by offering professional consultancy. A Belgian-Swiss citizen, Alexis holds a Master in Management Science (Solvay Business School), is an INSEAD IEP and IMD HPL Graduate.