Attendees

Fiona Macintyre

fiona@formingimpact.com

Fiona founded Forming Impact in 2014. Now nearly 10 years later, we have a global community of successful entrepreneurs, investors, creatives, business leaders and executives who bring together their knowledge, capital and ideas for sustainable impact. Championing the bold, the brave and the changemakers, giving a voice and telling the stories of those who have all of the ideas to make the world a better place.

I build enjoy creating platforms, communities and opportunities for people to realise their full potential; and achieve the pioneering change they are striving for.

Setting up the Forming Sustainable Development Foundation as a 501c3 in 2020 has allowed us to ignite more impact within the community.Aligned with the UN’s sustainable development goals, we focus primarily on partnerships for the goals, in 4 key areas: education, climate change, wellbeing and peace.

I believe in humans, heart and hard work. I love to have fun while also leading with purpose. What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?

My passion for people, connection and growth.

Elias Groll elias@codesphere.com

I studied Computer Science at 15, eventually joining Google full-time at 19. Having seen the tooling used for development, I decided to quit and build a high-quality developer experience in the cloud for anybody else.

About CODESPHERE: Spend less and ship faster. Codesphere leverages the cloud for an amazing developer experience.

-Trivial to deploy

- Efficient to collaborate

- Easy to scale and monitor

What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?

Moving development (and ultimately everything) to the cloud, and also just building cool things with tech!

Travis Pittman

travis@touradar.com

Originally from Darwin,Australia,Travis has lived in Europe for nearly two decades, calling Vienna,Austria, home for more than 15 years. In 2010, together with his brother, Shawn,Travis foundedTourRadar to help enrich the world through organized adventures.TourRadar aims to become the leader in the $200bn OrganizedAdventure industry through itsAdventure Booking Platform, which connects travelers, operators, distribution partners (TravelAgents, OTAs, GDSs, airlines), influencers, and content providers.Travis has had a lifelong passion for adventure, stemming from his youth camping and fishing in the rich rainforests and meandering rivers ofAustralia’s NorthernTerritory and Queensland. When he’s not leading a team of more than 200 adventurers,Travis enjoys mountain biking, wakeboarding, running, soaking up the great outdoors and spending time with his two beautiful daughters Charlie (10) and Selma (7). Under his leadership,TourRadar has grown into a diverse team of more than 50 nationalities collaborating together on oneAdventure Booking Platform boasting 50,000 organized adventures in more than 160 countries.TourRadar has raised more than $60 million from world-class investors such as Cherry Ventures, Endeit Capital, Hoxton Ventures, Speedinvest, andTCV.

What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?

1. Company Culture - bringing people together to achieve great things while still having fun

2. Leveraging tech and data to build great products that: a) solve real customer challenges b) transform an entire industry c) democratiseAdventure and make meaningful and sustainable travel accessible to as many people around the world as possible.

3. Continuously learning and upgrading myself as the company grows to new heights and scale

4. Networking and public speaking - really enjoy attending events/conferences to meet fellow industry members, like-minded people from different categories and sharing my knowledge where relevant through keynotes / panels rostam@worldwithin.org

Growing up in Georgia, Rostam Zafari is infused with two great tea cultures--Ancient Persia and the South. He is the CIO of Sage Hill Investors. SHI is a family office driven by the desire to make a positive impact on people and the planet by partnering with visionary founders to build innovative companies across agriculture, sustainability, healthcare, food, and technology.At SHI, Rostam has led 150+ early-stage investments in purpose-driven founders and fund managers across the US, Europe, India, andAfrica. SHI’s philanthropic arm, World Within, pursues philanthropy in three ways. World Within Ventures makes impact investments in projects in emerging markets that expand access to essential services and create equitable jobs to deliver lasting economic development. World Within Corps makes grants to support global human rights, democracy, and culture — with an emphasis on the struggle of the Iranian people for a secular and democratic nation. World Within Studios funds films and other forms of media to raise awareness and support our work across impact investing, economic development, human rights, and culture. He is eager to meet and collaborate with other Forming Impact members who are serious in their pursuit of impact investing and philanthropy.

What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?

Working with amazing people! Key focuses: impact investing, philanthropy, economic development, filmmaking/storytelling. I'm really passionate about working for a secular, democratic, and prosperous Iran!

Ricardo Pires

ricardo.pires@semapa.pt maheen@grantmakersforgirlsofcolor.org

People driven person believes that the power is in each one of us and in working as a team. Experienced Board Member with a history in investment and innovation. Has developed his professional experience in Negotiation, Business Planning, Venture Capital, M&A, BusinessAngel and Capital Markets.

Proudly married and father of 3 children. Loves Sports and Education a (where also invests as a BAto have a positive impact in the world).

What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?

Talent and developing new products and companies.

Maheen Kaleem, Esq. is a human rights lawyer who has dedicated her life to creating a world where girls and gender-expansive youth are safe and free. She is the Vice President of Programs and Operations at Grantmakers for Girls of Color, a philanthropic organization dedicated to amplifying and mobilizing resource to supportive transformative organizing work led by girls and gender-expansive youth of Color. In less than three years, Maheen has co-led efforts to raise and regrant $25 million to more than 370 organizations in the U.S and territories.

She over two decades of experience supporting youth and families impacted by interpersonal and state violence to lead efforts to advance racial and gender justice. She has decades of experience supporting youth and families impacted by interpersonal and state violence, and making way for those traditionally marginalized from formal sites of power to lead efforts to advance racial and gender justice. In the various roles she has held, she has always grounded her work in the wisdom of women and girls of color who have survived the carceral and criminal legal systems, sexual exploitation, sex trafficking, and abuse. She served as Program Officer at the NoVo Foundation, and led a global philanthropic effort to support organizations projects that close on-ramps into the sex trade and open exit ramps for survivors. Prior to joining NoVo, Maheen advocated for the successful passage of numerous laws and policies to address conditions impacting girls of Color impacted by violence at the international, federal, state, and local levels. She has co-authored several reports includingThe SexualAbuse to Prison Pipeline:AGirls’Story, and Beyond the Walls:ALook at Girls in D.C.’s Juvenile Justice System. Maheen holds bachelor’s and law degrees from Georgetown University. Maheen is a first generation Pakistani-American who was raised mostly in the bay area of California, on Ohlone land. She was an Equal Justice Works Fellow, a Stoneleigh Emerging Leader Fellow, and National Juvenile JusticeYouth Justice Leadership Institute Fellow.

What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?

Working directly with girls and women who otherwise would never be recognized as leaders and creating opportunities for them to lead, control, and have decision-making about how resources are distributed to their communities greg@hillentgroup.com

Growing up as anAthens, Georgia native, I have spent the last three decades calling Nashville home. I got my start in Nashville’s music industry through publishing, and after working with several successful publishing endeavors, I opened Greg Hill Management in 2001. Five years later, I was asked to merge my company and oversee Red Light management’s expanding Nashville presence. In 2011, my reputation for being a skilled leader led me to take an opportunity as President of McGhee Entertainment Nashville office. After a few years, I realized that my heart was truly in entrepreneurship, and that led me to found Hill Entertainment Group. As the current president of HEG, I spend the majority of my time focusing on building relationships and brands in the entertainment space. Some of my current and former clients include RodneyAtkins, Dylan Scott,Tiera Kennedy, Josh Kelley, Naomi Judd, Phil Vassar, Jana Kramer,Third Day, Luke Bryan, Granger Smith, and many others. I have also had the opportunity to develop Legendary Coaches, which is a collection of some of the biggest names in College Football coaching history and the honor of founding Music City Gives Back, an annual free concert benefiting W.O. Smith School.The free concert has provided an excellent platform to showcase several of Nashville’s artists while helping provide much needed music lessons to Nashville’s most underserved populations.

Throughout the course of my career, I have made significant business, cultural and philanthropic contributions to the City of Nashville. I am a past director on the Country Music Association, theAcademy of Country Music Board of Directors, currently serving on theAcademy of Country Music Lifting Lives Charitable Board, as Vice Chair of Music City Inc (Nashville Visitors Bureau Foundation board) and Vice President of the WO Smith Music School, in addition to numerous philanthropic endeavors. I have worked diligently to build relationships with executives on all levels. As the industry continues to grow and morph at an unprecedented pace, I believe it is more important now than it has ever been to learn as much about the different aspects of the music industry as possible while simultaneously strengthening relationships and opening dialogues with leaders across the board. I am a firm believer that with growth always comes opportunity, and I realize that I have been given a unique opportunity to make a tangible difference.

In my free time I enjoy flying airplanes and spending time with my wife and three children.

What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?

I enjoy exploring new models and working with creative teams.

Saffert

josephine@sapphiredevelop.com

Joséphine is a German-native and came to the Nashville,TN area as a D1-Track athlete recruit in 2011. Joséphine sponsored her Green Card by providing ground-up housing opportunities in MiddleTennessee adding to theAmerican economy as a young real estate developer.As part of making her American Dream as reality, she built Sapphire Development Group, a vertically integrated real estate development and investment firm. Her team delivers a one-stop-shop experience from offering off-market deals, developing ground up multi-family to helping others build and sell real estate portfolios.

Joséphine is currently working on her first brownfield project that entails redeveloping a former metal plating facility site for 32-townhomes. She loves to travel and explore new cultures and places.As a former collegiate athlete, Joséphine stays active by hiking, jogging, and learning new sports.

What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?

Building communities that are exciting, innovative and enhance people’s lives forever.

Markus Fuhrmann

markus@fuyomo.com

Engineering Degree in Biochemistry and Genetics - Business School (dropout before writing my thesis) - Started first company in 2000 (massive multiplayer gaming), second company in 2004 (mobile gaming) - sold in 2006 - 4 years Shanghai to help companies launch in Chinese ecommerceco-founding of a food delivery company (Delivery Hero); IPO 2017 - started two venture funds (Cavalry, BITKRAFT) - about 1 billion USD under management - 2019 founded GROPYUS - digital, affordable, sustainable and automated multi family home production - co-founded OneUkraine - NGO for supporting Ukraine especially in rebuilding the housing sector I played tennis, basketball and semi-professionallyAmerican Football and like good food.

What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?

Building cool technology that solves meaningful problems

Making a real impact on people's life's (housing, Ukraine)

Udo & Sabrina are both also invested in tech, which will play a major role in the triad of companies Factory Berlin JMES World teech in the near future.

Can’t reveal too much regarding this upcoming project, but I’m sure Udo and Sabrina will be able to share some details on the island regarding this combination of education, tech, art & creative minds.

What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?

One of Sabrina and Udo’s shared passions is alternative education and in this spirit, Sabrina founded NewSchool in Berlin, the first accredited high school in Germany which has a project-based curriculum. https://newschool.de/