SIT Jury 2023

Ilonka Jankovich

Ilonka Jankovich

President of the Jury

Ilonka Jankovich is a serial entrepreneur of Dutch and Hungarian origin. She is a partner since 2022 at Rubio Impact Ventures, a leading impact VC in Europe. Rubio’s vision is a balanced economy where people and planet thrive. Ilonka is heading the People Power investment team: empowering people with education, employment opportunities and wellbeing.. []

Justina Alders-Sheya

Justina Alders-Sheya

Justina is a Fund Manager within the Financial Inclusion fund management team at Triodos Investment Management (a globally recognised leader in impact investing, making money work for positive change). In that role, she manages Triodos Microfinance Fund, Triodos Fair Share Fund and SFRE Fund. Justina has over 18 years of experience in the financial services sector, focusing on investment management, impact investing and financial inclusion. Before joining Triodos IM, she held several positions at EY and at ING Group.  […]

Elena Casolari

Elena Casolari

Elena believes in the transformative power of impact investing and the social enterprise movement, she is an advocate and practitioner of gender smart investing. She is the co-founder and partner of OPES Italia Sicaf EuVECA, which invests in impact enterprises in Italy, and OPES-LCEF Fund, an impact investment vehicle that provides financial resources and management support to early-stage social enterprises whose businesses serve low-income people and disadvantaged communities. []

Olivier de Guerre

Olivier de Guerre

Olivier co-founded GT Finance/Cristal Finance in 1987 before joining Credit Suisse Asset Management in 1998 as a Managing Director. In 2003 he founded PhiTrust in order to support families and foundations in the implementation of financial, social and philanthropic strategies, believing that investors have responsibility through their financial and social investments. []

Concepción Galdón

Concepción Galdón

Concepción Galdón is IE University’s Social Innovation Director/Academic Lead. At IE she is mandated to promote social innovation academic content across schools and programmes, encourage more research in social innovation and reach out to organisations and partners interested in social innovation. Concepción is a professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at IE. Concepción is also President of the social venture Puentes Global, which she co-founded in 2009. []

Nikolaus Hutter

Nikolaus Hutter

Nikolaus Hutter is the founder of New Paradigm Ventures, an international advisory firm. He has more than ten years of experience in venture capital investment, private equity and strategy consulting, and has held operating roles in the cleantech industry. Nikolaus advises international non-governmental organisations on impact ventures and investment and works with impact entrepreneurs around the globe. []

Pieter Oostlander

Pieter Oostlander

Pieter founded what is currently known as Shaping Impact Group in 2011 as an impact fund management and impact consulting firm. Shaping Impact Group works with investors, philanthropists, funds and foundations to generate maximum societal impact.

Pieter Oostlander’s professional background is in accountancy and finance. He held various top-level finance functions in several international companies. []

Magali Roy

Magali Roy

Magali Roy is the Investment Lead for the Norrsken Accelerator, focusing on finding the best startups at pre-seed and seed stage around the world that are having a large and positive impact. Before this, she worked at the leading market access platform for impact investing based in Geneva, Switzerland, called Symbiotics. She has also worked within the world of global public health, primarily within enabling vaccinations in []

Karin Ruiz

Karin Ruiz

Karin is Deputy CEO and a business coach at Stockholm-based startup accelerator Sting, and is responsible for Sting’s climate action agenda. She is an entrepreneur by heart, has been involved in building several of her own startups and has coached well over 50 impact and climate tech startups. Karin has 25 years of international business [