Agents of Impact
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
New leadership at Kapor Capital doubles down on diversity and impact
06 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
David Bank is joined by the incoming and departing leadership teams at Kapor Capital. Mitch and Freada Kapor, veteran tech entrepreneurs and investors...
Jonathan Rose on building green, affordable communities of opportunity
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
David Bank is joined by Jonathan Rose, founder and president of the real estate development company of the same name, to talk about building green and...
Fairview Capital’s emerging wisdom about emerging and diverse fund managers
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
David Bank talks about diversity in asset management and allocation with Larry Morse, CEO of Fairview Capital, Christine Looney from the F...
The Whole Earth, then and now: John Markoff on Stewart Brand
21 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John Markoff, the longtime New York Times tech writer and author of a new biography of Stewart Brand, joins David Bank to talk psychedelic drugs, the ...
Governance Risks in China with Isaac Stone-Fish
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Transparency is elusive as investors assess governance risks in China. There are by now dozens of ways to measure corporate exposure to climate ...
Surdna Foundation's Don Chen
25 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Don Chen, president of the billion-dollar Surdna Foundation, joins David Bank to discuss Surdna's 100 million dollar commitment to impact ...
Emmanuel Lagarrigue, CIO of Schneider Electric
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Emmanuel, the Chief Innovation Officer for Schneider Electric chats with David about decarbonized, decentralized and digital energy.
Generate's Jigar Shah
13 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
David chats with Jigar Shah, president of Generate, a San Francisco investment firm at the forefront of sustainable infrastructure financing. Jigar wa...
Institutional Shift: The Great Burp forward in 2021
18 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Institutional Shift: Dave and David look back on some of the predictions from February's episode, and look forward to the trends we'll be seeing a lot...
Zach Knight
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Bank speaks with the co-founder and CEO of Blue Forest, a nonprofit fund financing forest resilience through an innovative pay for performance m...
Institutional Shift with Dave Chen
21 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the latest edition of our Institutional Shift series, David Bank speaks with Dave Chen of Equilibrium Capital Dave about food system re...
KKR's Pete Stavros
12 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Pete is the head of U.S. private equity for KKR, the international investment giant. He spoke with David Bank about their employee ownership strategy ...
Ceniarth’s Diane Isenberg
16 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The founder of Ceniarth -- a family office that provides capital for positive impact in marginalized, primarily rural, populations-- speaks with David...
CDC Group's Nick O'Donohoe
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David speaks with Nick about how CDC Group, the UK's Development Finance Institution, is approaching risk during the COVID crisis, and more...
Leapfrog's Andy Kuper
09 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Bank speaks with LeapFrog’s Andy Kuper about impact, exits and scaling growth in emerging markets through the COVID crisis.