Servane Mouazan, Ogunte: Networking with Investors Crucial for Social Entrepreneurs

Servane Mouazan is the CEO and Founder of Ogunte, a London based company that develops and connects passionate women leading social ventures and helps them align campaigning and commercial objectives. They also lobby and advise in private and public sectors to further social & gender responsibility. Servane has closely helped over 2000 women so far, in Europe and South America, directly impacting over 200000 individuals and organisations, providing social leadership, business modelling, and pre-incubators development programmes. Members of the network say that through these programmes, they have gained confidence, focus and leadership, increased their social impact and their capacity to connect to relevant stakeholders.She is a Board Director at Social Enterprise London, a UK Ambassador for Women in Business, and an RSA fellow. She was highly commended Social Enterprise Mentor of the year in 2007 by the Newstatesman and awarded by the Global Women Inventors and Innovators Network in 2009 for her contribution to the sector. A nominee for the Association for Coaching Honorary Award for Social Innovation 2011, she is also a mum and a capoeira player! You can find Servane on Twitter @ogunte

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Nick Flores, Investors Circle: Looking for Environmental Social Impact

Nick Flores Director Investment & Entrepreneur Services Investors’ Circle, where he oversees the organization’s investment process from start to finish. He is working to grow a robust pipeline of high-impact deals across a variety of sectors, and to maintain strong communication with all portfolio companies. At the same time, he also works closely with early-stage venture funds and IC’s affiliate fund, the Patient Capital Collaborative, to manage the deal syndication process with these partners. Before coming to Investors’ Circle, Nick managed the Capital Access Program at Green For All. There he helped generate content, launch capacity-building programs, and identify capital sources, all with the intent of supporting the development of small green businesses. Nick has also worked previously in both real estate private equity and the sports industry, most notably with the PGA Tour. Nick holds both an MBA and a BA, with honors, from Stanford University.

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Natalia Oberti, Pipeline Fund: Building Community for Female Entrepreneurs

Video Interview with Natalia Oberti Noguera, CEO Pipeline Fund Pipeline Fund is a social venture fund that trains women philanthropists into angel investors through education, mentoring, and practice. She is also the creator of #womaninnovator , a media campaign to increase the visibility of women changemakers and mainstream their stories. As Chapter Leader of New York Women Social Entrepreneurs (NYWSE), Natalia launched the network in January 2008 and has grown the community from six women to over 1,200. Her background includes work experience in the nonprofit and social entrepreneurship sectors.  Natalia holds a BA from Yale in Comparative Literature & Economics, and an MSc in International Health Care Management from Bocconi University. Natalia serves on the founding board of Fast Forward Fund, a youth-to-youth social venture fund, and you can find her on Twitter @nakisnakis

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