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Arthur Wood Founding Partner Total Impact Advisors & Chair World Sanitation Financing Facility Geneva Area, SwitzerlandPhilanthropy Current Total Impact Advisors, World Sanitation Financing Facility, L3C Advisors Previous Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, Kleinwort Benson Private Bank, Coutts Group Education SDA Bocconi 500+ connections Send a messageMore options ch.linkedin.com/pub/arthur-wood/0/a3/a3b/ Contact Info Activity Arthur Wood joined the group AlumniBocconi Join Group2 days ago Cliff Prior endorsed the skills and expertise of Arthur Wood Arthur is endorsed for Social Entrepreneurship and Social Enterprise. Endorse Connections Like Comment 3 days ago See More Background Summary Europe based - but with US, Canada, Asia and UK experience in both for profit and not for profit worlds. Acknowledged thought leader in Social Finance / Impact Investing and rethinking how you create collaborative intra and inter sectoral collaboration (http://bit.ly/of3jE9) 1 -Scaling / Introducing new innovative hybrid (social / economic) legal structures such as the L3C in the US and the SELLP in the UK to the social capital market - http://stlouisfed.org/publications/br/articles/?id=1857 2 - The World Sanitation Financing Facility (WSFF) an intra / inter sector collaboration using Sanitation to prove a broader systemic outcome model - www.sanitationfinance.org 3 - Total Impact Advisors - Founding Partner - A Social Merchant Intermediary - www.totalimpactadvisors.com Acknowledged innovator in impact investment - work (conceptualizing or launching) has included the Ashoka / IAPB / DB Eye Fund ; L3C - Co Creator and similar global initiatives ie SELLP ; Social Impact Bond in the UK - world's first contingent 'bond'; Social Investment Entrepreneurs at Ashoka. Board Member Big Issue Invest and (UK Social Merchant Bank) and Ecolint (Largest and oldest International School) Sit on a number of Global Advisory Boards in South Africa, UK, Sweden Former Global Head of Social Financial Services at Ashoka in DC, NY and London www.ashoka.org - the world's largest supporter of Social Entrepreneurship. Prior to that a Senior Director of Kleinwort Benson. A creative thinker with a track record of managing complex International projects with multi-cultural teams Extensive experience of change management processes and management of related organizational, cultural, financial, legal and administrative issues. Education : MBA in France (HEC) and Italy (Bocconi), BSc (Econ) in UK (London School of Economics). Financial training including US Security Exams in the US (Merrill Lynch - Series 3,7,15, 63). Specialties:Philanthropy, Social Finance, Impact Investing, Social networks / Media, Strategic planning,Change Management, Business development,Product Development,Project Management, Strategic Partnerships,International experience, Not for Profit, Art Industry, Private Banking, Investment Management, Alternative Investments Experience Founding Partner Total Impact Advisors September 2009 – Present (3 years 10 months) Impact Investing Intermediary Chair World Sanitation Financing Facility September 2009 – Present (3 years 10 months) A Group of the leading top down bottom up players commited to solving the MDG Goal on Santiation Strategic Advisor L3C Advisors May 2006 – Present (7 years 2 months) New hybrid legal structure - using partnership law and LLC to leverage private capital SVP Ashoka: Innovators for the Public June 2005 – September 2009 (4 years 4 months) (Open)1 recommendation Ben Metz Independent Arthur has one the most strategic and high level views of the emerging world of social finance that i know. a force of nature!View LGM - Vice President Social Financial Services Ashoka June 2005 – September 2009 (4 years 4 months)Washington DC, New York, London Ashoka is the world's largest organization specializing in Social Entrepreneurship - www.ashoka.org. My role was to engage the major global Financial institutions to fundamentally change the nature of financing within the Philanthropic and social capital market. We had substantive success in engaging and working with a number of global major banks and foundations in laying the foundations for actual Impact Investing, Director / Head of Product Development and E Commerce Kleinwort Benson Private Bank August 1999 – January 2004 (4 years 6 months) Product Development • Defined created and re-engineered the Product Development Process of the bank • Lead teams driving all new product proposals to effective delivery • KBPB won the Private Asset Management Award for Product Innovation - 2003 Marketing • Initiated segmentation process • Proposed IT solution – integrating all businesses across KBPB on a single platform • Overhauled the compliance / audit delivery process E-Commerce • Defined and created e-commerce strategy. The Solution encompassed a framework for substantial cost reduction and extension into new market segments, allowing group economies of scale to be made. • Strategy and structure was described by consultants [McKinsey, KPMG, Clifford Chance, PWC] as “highly innovative. • Managed Project team consisting of 40+ Consultants and 200+ of KBPB staff to deliver inside 6 months and on budget • Regular invited speaker at Industry Forums. Senior Manager Coutts Group August 1993 – June 1999 (5 years 11 months) Private Banking Banc Assurance – Conceptualized this major strategic initiative for the bank. Established and project managed an international team to the launching of a global Insurance Company. We were the first organisation to offer US Offshore HNW policies out of an EU jurisdiction and to create the template for marketing these policies in a US context. • Analyzed all strategic options - Build internally / JVs / Outsource. • Negotiated and managed external JV relationship with two global international partners – Marsh and Swiss Re. • Project managed over 70+ staff in many different functions within the bank (and externally through JV) including Audit, Compliance, Finance and IT. • Secured first ever Euro capitalization of the entity by the parent Nat West Bank. Associate Director Muir Carby Bottkjaer February 1987 – January 1990 (3 years) Muir Carby Bottkjaer was a boutique US Institutional Broker • Institutional Analyst broker in US Aerospace Defense and Capital Goods – companies covered included GE, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, TRW, and Loral. • Two person team generating $1.8 million in commission. • Clients were major London, Scottish and Swiss investment and pension funds. • Responsible for launch of geo-political product targeted at asset allocators of Major Pension Funds advising on Demographics, German Reunification, and Iran / Iraq issues. • Organized the largest investor conferences for Paris and Farnborough Air shows. Financial Consultant Merrill Lynch September 1984 – February 1987 (2 years 6 months)London, United Kingdom The London office was rated the top global Merrill Lynch Office during this period • Advising and investing for High Net Worth individuals in Funds, Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities, Options, Forex, Asset management and General Private banking services. Languages French Professional working proficiency Norwegian Limited working proficiency Italian Limited working proficiency Spanish Limited working proficiency English Native or bilingual proficiency Publications Market Based Solution to Philanthropy - Ashoka / UBS SSRI December 1, 2005 The Inefficiency of the Social Capital Market 2 authors Arthur Wood Founding Partner Total Impact Advisors & Chair World Sanitation Financing Facility Max Martin How to Turbo Charge Social Imapct Bonds(Link) Social Enterprise Magazine October 1, 2011 How Social Impact bonds can be leveraged by hybrid legal frameworks and how to create Outcome models The Hague Framework(Link) November 1, 2011 A systems approach to Development based on the delivery of Tangible Outcomes (Open)7 authors, including: Arthur Wood Founding Partner Total Impact Advisors & Chair World Sanitation Financing Facility Ambassador John Simon (Rtd) HERMAN MULDER chairman GRI, True Price; impact investor Brad Clark President at Agspring Can Philanthropy Learn from the Military(Link) Pioneers Post November 30, 2012 The amount of Capital we deploy to Social Causes is insufficient, un-leveraged and un-annuitised, If US Foundations were to allocate 20% of their core capital by 2020 into social investment. It would generate $125 bn - $500bn at a cost of $1-$5bn or less Reformes de la Philanthropie(Link) L'AGEFI January 16, 2013 Article (in French) - Front page and page 3 on the inefficiency of the Social Capital Markets and the need to apply modern capital market techniques TV Interview on Impact Investing(Link) L'AGEFI January 30, 2013 The solution to our substantive social issues lies in Innovation and Change management Skills & Expertise Most endorsed for... 71Strategy 38Social Entrepreneurship 34Philanthropy 33Entrepreneurship 28Investments 26Strategic Partnerships 18Strategic Planning 16Non-profits 12Alternative Investments 9Social Enterprise Arthur also knows about... 9Corporate Social... 8Change Management 5Private Banking 5Nonprofits 4Economics 4Product Development 4Impact Investing 4Start-ups 4Public/private... 4Funding 2Capacity Building 2Sustainable Development 2International... 1Strategy Development 1Social Business See 1+ Education SDA Bocconi MBA, Business September 1990 – December 1991 Selected as exchange student from SDA Bocconi to the leading French Grande Ecole the Institut Superieur des Affaires - Groupe HEC, Jouy en Josas, France (Other schools in Exchange Group include Kellogg, Stern, Colombia and Wharton) Activities and Societies: • Top 5 % for Project Work - Sponsorship Marketing Project to raise funds for charity in conjunction with an All Party Group of the UK Houses of Parliament and members of the Italian Government • Top Quartile in Strategy, Marketing, Organisational Theory and Banking. • Elected Student Representative. HEC School of Management MBA, General Business 1990 – 1990 London School of Economics BSc (Econ), International Relations September 1980 – June 1983 Activities and Societies: • Elected Student Union Executive. • Co-Chairman (Students) International Students House (Largest Intl. Student House in London). • President Grimshaw Club (International Relations Staff Student club). Canford 1974 – 1980 Additional Info Interests Languages Mother Tongue: English; Good Working Knowledge: French; Working Knowledge: Italian, Spanish, and Norwegian Additional information • ABSA - Business sponsorship in the Arts – helped redraft strategy for the National Poetry Society - 2001 • Traveled extensively - Europe, US, Asia, Africa; lived in USA, Norway, France, Italy, and Argentina and Switzerland • Tour Director (Globus Gateway) escorting up to 50 Americans on 18 day tours, British Isles & Eire - Two seasons - 1982-83 • Lifeguard, Poole, Dorset - 1981 • 1980 - Studied History of Art, John Hall Venice, Italy & Scuba Diving Instructor, Vermont, USA Personal Details Birthday October 8 Marital Status Married Advice for Contacting Arthur E Mail me ! Organizations Ashoka Recommendations Received (1)Given (3) Peter, would you like to recommend Arthur? Recommend Arthur SVP Ashoka: Innovators for the Public Ben Metz Independent Arthur has one the most strategic and high level views of the emerging world of social finance that i know. a force of nature! March 14, 2010, Ben worked with Arthur at Ashoka: Innovators for the Public ConnectionsShared (25) Kevin Doyle Jones1st Building the social capital market Ian Callaghan1st Head, Transaction Advisory Services at ShoreBank International Gary Kochubka1st Managing Director & Lead Analytical Manager, U.S. ABS Surveillance at Standard & Poor's Pablo Halkyard Illanes1st Consultant, McKinsey & Company Sushmita Ghosh1st President at Ashoka Zia Ahmed, PhD1st Managing Partner at SEAF Ventures Management LLC Edward Jackson1st at Carleton University Uday Shankar P1st Regional Director South Asia at water.org Donn Berghofer1st Principal, IC berg, Impact Consultants Bramer Sørensen1st Adviser at VikingCoach.Me contact me for your FREE coaching hour! 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