Keynote announcement
We are pleased to announce that this year we have two keynote speakers at our conference. Further details on both of our speakers can be found by scrolling down.
- Guy Singh-Watson - of Riverford fame will speak about the power of business and how it can achieve real positive impact.
- Dr Rhian-Mari Thomas - Chief Executive of the Green Finance Institute will discuss how finance achieves positive impact. What has been successful, what hasn't?
This will be followed by two expert panels hosted by the WHEB team. The first on progress on the energy transition followed by a second panel on SDR and how it achieves the aim of getting more funds invested with a positive purpose.
The impact investment team will then present a strategy update, followed by an open Q&A session with the WHEB team.
The event will close with a vegetarian lunch and the opportunity to network with peers, colleagues and the WHEB team.
Our keynote: Guy Singh-Watson
Guy Singh-Watson has over the last 37 years taken Riverford from one man and a wheelbarrow delivering homegrown organic veg to friends, to a national veg box scheme delivering to 70,000 customers a week. Tired of meetings, brands and the assumption that greed is our predominant motivation, Guy converted the business to employee ownership in 2018, using the proceeds to buy a small farm and return to growing organic vegetables.
In common with many of Riverford’s co-owners, Guy is an advocate of using business to shape a part of the world, however small, to be kinder, more considerate, and sustainable; more like the world most of us want to live in. A self-professed ‘veg nerd’ Guy’s weekly newsletters connect people to the farm with refreshingly honest accounts of the trials and tribulations of producing organic food, and the occasional rant about farming, and ethical business issues he feels strongly about.
Our keynote: Dr. Rhian-Mari Thomas OBE
Rhian-Mari Thomas is Chief Executive of the Green Finance Institute, an independent organisation at the forefront of shaping how finance can be used to facilitate real economy transition.
Rhian spent 20 years in investment banking and corporate finance and was the first person to be awarded an OBE for services to green banking.
She is a former member of the Taskforce on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and co-chaired the launch of the Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) – having served as a senior adviser to the TNFD since its inception in June 2021. Rhian is a Trustee of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) UK, and chairs the independent National Wealth Fund Taskforce.
A fluent Welsh speaker, Rhian holds a PhD in Physics from Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Annual Investor Conference 2023
Watch the event video on the right for highlights from last year's event or visit the 2023 event page for full presentations.
The event agenda will be released soon. We look forward to seeing you there.