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SAN FRANCISCO—Womble Bond Dickinson’s Impact Business Group are well-represented at #SOCAP18 , as attorney and Impact Business Group Leader Pam Rothenberg and Director of Impact Strategies Mark Newberg both are speaking at the conference.
Rothenberg and Newberg are speakers in a workshop titled “Make It Happen: How to Effectively Invest for Impact”. This interactive workshop discusses the tools needed to invest in the impact economy, including a practical framework for evaluating opportunities, examine concrete case studies, and explore innovations in the impact space.
Joining Rothenberg and Newberg are Julia Sze, Founder of Julia Sze Consulting, and Emily Winslow, CEO of Peak Impact Consulting.
Rothenberg also will speak in a session on “Cracking the Code on Workforce Housing” . In many markets, working families have been priced out of housing, which negatively impacts communities.
Rothenberg will be joined Deborah Campbell, VP-Capital Initiatives at Community Housing Capital; Jim Cauley, President of Motive Investment Partners; and Richard Hannum, CEO of Forge Land Company.
In addition, Newberg will be a speaker at the Oct. 24 Afternoon Mainstage discussion . This session will discuss the impact economy increasingly becoming mainstream, with major financial institutions making prominent commitments to impact.
Joining Newberg for this session are
- Andrew Lee, Managing Director, Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing, UBS AG;
- Warren Valdmanis, Managing Director, Bain Capital Double Impact; and
- Jackie VanderBrug, Managing Director at Bank of America Global Wealth Management.
SOCAP is the world’s leading conference activating the capital markets to drive positive social and environmental impact – convening the marketplace at the intersection of money and meaning. The conference brings together impact investors, social entrepreneurs, philanthropists, business leaders and other innovators from across the world in a unique cross-sector approach to catalyze collaboration for change. Kicking off a new decade of impact at SOCAP18, organizers have gathered over 20,000 people in the past ten years to accelerate the flow of capital for good.
The 2018 conference is taking place Oct. 23-26 in San Francisco.
Pam Rothenberg counsels companies in the growing Impact Economy, ranging from large legacy businesses to newly formed entrepreneurial ventures, to facilitate their participation in Impact. She also has extensive experience in a wide range of commercial real estate transactions, having worked with clients to acquire, sell, develop, lease and finance major commercial, multi-family, and mixed-use projects.
Mark Newberg is Director of Impact Strategies for Womble Bond Dickinson. He leads the firm’s Impact and ESG-focused strategic consulting work, building on his decade of experience at the leading edge of the Impact Economy. Over that decade, Newberg has led Impact/ESG-related initiatives ranging from for-profit business strategy development, to Federal policy creation, to high-growth entrepreneurship, to disaster recovery, and beyond.
