We all have an idea of what impact investing means, but how do you measure and systematise it? Conduit Connect is an impact venture capital investor and we have asked Senior Investment Manager Gabby Morgan on to discuss this. She was hands-on in developing their own impact framework and reporting so understands the issues and can talk about how Conduit Connect solved them.
In a wide-ranging discussion, we talk about:
With the new SDR Regulations coming in, this is a very timely discussion. Gabby has thought deeply about many of the issues and applied them in practice, so has some great insights.
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Gabby Morgan is a Senior Investment Manager at Conduit Connect, responsible for screening and performing due diligence on opportunities for the Conduit EIS Impact Fund. She is also responsible for fundraising and investor relations for the Fund. She is an investor mentor at Carbon13, a leading climate-focused accelerator, and a Board Advisor at Thalamos, one of the Conduit Fund’s portfolio companies. She has advised early-stage impact ventures through the Huckletree Alpha programme, Village Capital and Founders Intelligence.
Prior to joining Conduit Connect in 2019, Gabby was an investment research analyst for Align Impact, a US-based impact investing firm, supporting the investment research and direct investment strategies. She completed an MBA at Said Business School at the University of Oxford, where she focused her studies on impact investing and social entrepreneurship. During her MBA, she was a Director of the MBA Impact Investing Network and Training (MIINT), Oxford Said Chapter, and was accepted into the annual Impact Lab run in coordination with the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship. Gabby was also a director at Euromoney Institutional Investor in New York City where she founded and ran a number of private investment memberships for wealth managers, family offices, HNWIs, pension plans and large asset managers.
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