The Intersection between Regenerative Finance and Systemic Investing
Part of Impact United Academy's ongoing webinar series on Systemic Investing hosted by Ilse Treurnicht and Tracey Robertson
Date: Tuesday, December 8th from 1:00-2:30pm PT / 3:00-4:30pm ET
Regenerative finance and systemic investing have grown from different roots. Regenerative finance asks how capital can serve life rather than extract from it. Systemic investing asks how capital can be deployed to shift whole systems rather than fund isolated projects. Both approaches are systemic, and share the goal of improving the overall health of the system. This session looks at where they reinforce each other, where they diverge, and what practitioners in each could learn from the other.
We'll open with lightning shares from three practitioners working across South Africa, Australia, and Canada. Participants will then move into small-group conversations with the speakers over two breakout rounds.
Guest speakers
Andre Sturmer, Co-founder and Steward of atreyu and ria
Hanae Bezad, Global Fellow at Impact United Academy
Josh Devine, Collaboration & Systemic Investment Lead at Regen Melbourne
Come prepared to share and ask questions!
Our webinars are meant to be participatory and interactive. After the lightning shares, you'll join breakout conversations with two of the three speakers, one in each round.
About the speakers
André Sturmer is the co-founder and steward of atreyu and ria, developing the field of regenerative investing with the ultimate aim to bring capital into service of life. Since 2009, André has been supporting young businesses in South Africa in a capacity as coach, chairman, fundraiser, and as an investor – both on his own account and as MD of TriVest, a German-owned VC based in South Africa. Before that, he was an investment banker in London & Johannesburg with JP Morgan.
Hanae Bezad is a systems strategist, entrepreneur, advisor, and author working at the intersection of innovation, social finance, entrepreneurship, and international development. Through Beehane Advisory Group, she advises foundations, governments, investors, corporations, and mission-driven organizations on ecosystem development, capital strategies, partnership building, and systems transformation.
Josh Devine is a proud Wonnarua man based in Naarm (Melbourne). He began his career in consulting focused on economic development and in impact investing in the Indigenous business sector, before becoming the Systemic Investment Lead at Regen Melbourne, an organisation driving systems-level collaboration and learning in service of Greater Melbourne. In this role, Josh works at the intersection of finance, systems thinking and place-based approaches to develop the investment infrastructure that will accelerate the capital flowing in service of regeneration. Alongside this, he serves on the Advisory Board of The Nature Conservancy Australia and on the First Nations Advisory Board of Dilin Duwa, the Indigenous Business Leadership Institute at the University of Melbourne.