Malcolm Hayday, FRSA, is the Chief Executive of The Charity Bank Limited, the UK’s first general charity to be authorised as a bank. He was previously the Director of Community Finance at CAF (Charities Aid Foundation) and Director of CAF’s social investment loan fund, Investors in Society. He is in his second term (1996-2002) (2004-) as a Board Member of INAISE, the International Association of Investors in the Social Economy, a global network of social investment institutions, having been its President, 1997-2001. He was a Trustee of The Big Issue Foundation, 2000-2007 and was elected its Chairman in 2003. From 2002 to 2003 he was a founding Board member of the Community Development Finance Association (CDFA). He was also a member of the Advisory Group of global foundation leaders to the World Economic Forum. Malcolm is a member of the International Advisory Committee of NESsT, the non profit enterprise and self-sustainability team, and the Advisory Group for NCVO’s Sustainable Funding Project. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts. Malcolm has more than 30 years experience in business finance. He graduated from Exeter University in 1972 with a BA Hons. in Economics. After university he assumed progressively senior positions with City financial institutions. From 1987 he concentrated on finance for small and medium sized businesses. He joined CAF in 1993 to establish the loans service for charities. He has written a number of papers on the social economy and social investment. He was a member of the advisory group to the Small is Bankable report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (1998); the advisory group to the Development Trusts Association on asset based development (1998-9); the SEEDA social capital fund study group (2000); and the working group on social investment in Scotland which led to the development of Social Investment Scotland. He was also a member of the Arts Council of England national steering group on new financial instruments. He hung up his dancing clogs a few years ago and, having left Chailey windmill in good hands, now focuses on trying to tame a desert garden in Andalucia or getting to grips with dinghy sailing.

Shainoor Khoja, Director of Corporate Affairs at Roshan, has established an award-winning Corporate Social Responsibility Department and a multidisciplinary health clinic in Afghanistan. Roshan's CSR encompasses activities in commerce, health, social welfare and education. Initiatives include designing and deploying a telemedicine solution to address healthcare shortcomings, developing women's social enterprise projects and introducing Internet technology for e-learning for women and children. Shainoor also operates as a Business Consultant for international companies looking to establish operations in the Middle East and to companies in the area of CSR. Shainoor studied in England and Canada and holds a Bachelors of Physiotherapy, a Masters in Health Management and a Postgraduate Certificate from Cambridge University.

Lila covers the Global Consumer sector, including forestry, water, carbon, and ecosystem services, and is principally involved with the firm’s Climate Solutions Strategy. Lila first joined Generation to lead the company’s thematic research into sustainability issues such as climate change, pandemics, poverty, water, and demographic shifts. Before joining Generation she worked with American Express and Bridges Community Ventures while studying for her MBA. Prior to 2003, she worked as a consultant for clients such as Save the Children (YouthNoise). Lila also worked as a Director of Finance & Development at VolunteerMatch in San Francisco. From 1998-2000, Lila served as a Fulbright Fellow in Southern Chile where she worked on community-based forestry and conservation projects. Lila graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. (Honors) in English and Latin American Studies. She holds an MBA from the London Business School where she was President of the Net Impact Club and Chair of the Global Social Venture Competition. She speaks fluent Spanish.

Vineet has over 14 years of experience in leading innovative interventions in development sector and brings crucial hands on understanding of Social Development, Venture Capital, Micro Enterprises and Microfinance Investments. Vineet is the Co-founder and Chairman -Intellecap, a leading social investment advisory firm leveraging knowledge to channel social capital to deserving social or rural entrepreneurs. Vineet is the founder of Aavishkaar Venture Management Services, the fund advisory co. managing Aavishkaar, a unique micro equity fund as well as Aavishkaar-Goodwell Microfinance Development Company, a fund focused on making investments in MFIs. Vineet is the Managing Partner with BYST Growth Fund. Vineet serves as Director with Rural Innovations Network, a Chennai-based Non Profit company, serves on the Advisory Board of Lemelson Recognition and Mentoring Program at IIT Chennai. Vineet has been awarded Ashoka Fellowship (www.ashoka.org) in recognition of his contribution to the field of Social Entrepreneurship and Life Membership of XLRI Alumni Association.

Rodney is the CEO of ClearlySo (www.clearlyso.com).  He began his career with PaineWebber (1980), Lehman Brothers (1988) and Paribas (1994) where he held senior positions in the equity and investment banking area.  He then co-founded Catalyst Fund Management & Research in 1997, a venture capital firm (www.catfund.com ), which is a pioneering fund investing in profitable social businesses in “ethical consumerism”, health, education, energy efficiency & the environment. ClearlySo was spun out from Catalyst and launched at the Skoll World Forum in March 2009.  ClearlySo is the first online marketplace for social business & enterprise, commerce and investment.  Social entrepreneurs can access capital, services, information and each other via this pioneering site.  In addition, they host an annual autumn conference for social businesses and selected investors and sponsor the “ClearlySo in...” series of trips to study and learn from social enterprises and businesses around the world. ClearlySo also maintains the widely-read "Social Business Blog" and staff regularly lecture at leading business schools (Rod has lectured at the Said Business School (Oxford), LBS and IESE) and participate in third party produced reports on social business and social enterprise, with a focus on the practical business and investment side. Rod also advises leading social businesses and enterprises (such as the HCT Group), predominantly in the UK and currently sits on the Board of AXA Investment Managers, the Ethical Property Company and the 2020 Public Services Trust.  Rod is non-executive Chairman of The Green Thing and a former Chairman of Justgiving.com and Shelter.

Sahba Sobhani is the Programme Manager of the UNDP Growing Inclusive Markets Initiative. He is an expert on private sector in development, having previously worked with the UNDP African Financial Markets Initiative, publishing the ‘2003 UNDP African Stock Exchanges Handbook’, and the UNDP Commission for the Private Sector and Development, publishing the agenda-setting report ‘Unleashing Entrepreneurship’ in 2004.