Who We Are

Anne is a Dutch Strategy & Finance professional. She began her career in the Netherlands at Rabobank, working in Special Asset Management and Corporate Finance. She then joined Karmijn Kapitaal, a private equity fund with a strong focus on investing in diverse management teams, as an Investment Manager.

After five years of working with a wide range of companies, Anne decided to focus her efforts on a single organization—ideally one with a clear purpose. She joined BIYU - a sustainable tech startup - as a CFO. The experience deepened her passion for impact investing, as she recognized that access to patient capital is essential for purpose-driven companies to drive systemic change.

This led her to found Investing For Purpose, an initiative in Greece now evolving into an Impact Fund supporting seed-stage companies. Alongside IFP, Anne advises several sustainable start- and scale-ups.

Anne holds an MSc in International Economics and Business and loves to be outdoors: whether it is hiking, running, sailing or skiing. She also enjoys reading books (fiction & non-fiction), but most of all loves to spend quality time with her family and friends.

Richard is a sustainability specialist with a background blending Impact and Communications. After a spell as a screen media analyst, he co-founded a not-for-profit tasked with transforming the quality of housing and communities across the UK. Over the next decade, he delivered initiatives across government, private and public sectors including conferences, published research, over 50 educational films and collaborative interventions to transform planning system processes, resulting in measurable impacts to the quality of housing delivery and community wellbeing. He later set-up a strategic communications consultancy including film and documentary creation for Microsoft, Santander, Expedia, Standard Chartered and The Economist.

Richard holds an MSc in Sustainable Regeneration from UCL and a Business Sustainability Management qualification from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership.

Richard enjoys hikes in nature with family and friends, sea swimming, medium distance running, documentaries, natural history and marble sculpting.

Eleonore is a Private Equity Investor Relations and Operations professional, having worked in London, New York, Paris and Hong Kong. Throughout her career, she has helped build and develop investment and advisory firms. She ran numerous strategic, advisory and capital raising efforts.

Eleonore advised on several mid-market and VC impact funds and organised investor roundtables on impact investing. She is an advocate for action towards climate change and social impact and is eager to help in the allocation of capital to address social and environmental issues.

Eleonore enjoys pilates, yoga, hikes in nature, dancing, baking with her kids, long lunches with friends and family and relaxing on a quiet beach.

Markos is a highly experienced financier with tried-and-tested M&A, structuring, financial analysis and investment appraisal skills. He has an in-depth, hands-on track record and strong personal interest and expertise in social impact and environmental projects.

He has extensive board experience, including at Nireus, Greece’s leading food exporter, and TANEO, which was set up to promote the venture capital market in Greece. He is also chairman of Filisia, an EdTech impact start-up in the special educational needs sector and a board member of the award-winning Greek NGO METAdrasi.

He loves trekking, yoga, woodwork, photography and torturing the clarinet.

Ifigenia is a finance operations professional with experience in multinational environments, supporting AR/OTC cycles and structured financial processes across telecom, technology, and FMCG organisations. She focuses on clarity, accuracy and smooth collaboration across finance, legal, billing, and commercial teams, helping translate operational needs into actionable processes. 

She holds an MSc in Quality Assurance & Statistics and a BA in Political Studies & Public Management. 

Outside of work, she enjoys music and spending time outdoors.

Yiannis brings over five years of expertise in business strategy and financial operations. As a finance professional, he has honed notable entrepreneurial and leadership skills. He has significant experience in financial projections, budgeting, and financial control through hands-on involvement in the financial operations of Almar LTD.

He holds a BSc (Hons) in Finance, from Deree-The American College of Greece. Throughout his studies, he demonstrated a keen interest in entrepreneurship ,finance and new technologies, engaging with various start-up projects.

Yiannis is fascinated by how new technologies and start-ups can be merged to deliver impactful market solutions.

His perfect day off includes music, playing the guitar and tennis.