Can Monaco provide “The Edge” for soci A
‘first of its kind’ event will be taking place in Monaco on 11th April, aiming to showcase, connect, fund and advise worldwide entrepreneurs and investors.
The Edge is a one-day forum designed to promote innovative and socially conscious business models, opened by HSH Prince Albert II at the Oceanographic Museum, Monaco- Ville, home to the Mediterranean Science Commission made famous by environmentalist adventurer Jacques Cousteau.
In recent years Monaco has positioned itself as an attractive place to educate, advise and encourage a new wave of young entrepreneurs, with the launch of The Edge, the first event hosted in the Principality, focused on promoting socially and environmentally sustainable business models and “Impact Investing”.
The event will be staged and co-organised by the Monaco Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (MVCA) and the International University of Monaco (IUM).
The Edge is also intended to assist young entrepreneurs in accessing business development advice from highly successful business leaders, all of whom have built their own companies. Attendees will also learn more about how they can access resources from impact investors to generate profits, alongside making a positive social and environmental impact through their business.
President of the MVCA, Zsolt Lavotha, commented: “Monaco is a unique part of the European continent, a place with a special role in the world.
“Given the high-net worth of many of its residents, and the concentration of entrepreneurial and business acumen, Monaco has so much to offer young entrepreneurs by way of contacts, advice and potentially access to capital”.
“Most importantly, it’s no longer a surprise that Monaco is taking definitive steps towards becoming a place for social and environmental “Impact Investing” given its long history as a center for both environmentalism and business.
“The Edge is the perfect event to bring together these two crucial strands of Monaco’s history – and its future”.
Marika Taishoff, Director of the MBA program at IUM commented: “The essential mission of any business school today has to revolve around inspiring and forming the next generation of responsible entrepreneurs, who will individually and jointly shape our, and the planet’s, future. At IUM, the learning methodology and philosophy have always been to urge our
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MBA students to think out of the box, and in a systemic and holistic manner. Challenging existing business models and management practices to see if there could be a different, and, especially, a “better way” is a key part of this approach. The Edge is a forum whose design and purpose thus perfectly complements this mission.”
The Edge will be chaired by Julie Meyer, founder of Ariadne Capital and Entrepreneur Country as well as an investor on the online version of BBC’s Dragons Den. Throughout the day there will be value-added seminars, break-out sessions and speakers, including the co-founders of Innocent Drinks, Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou, founder of the Easygroup of companies, Nick Hughes, the founder of the mobile banking service M-PESA that has revolutionised access to banking and secure money transfers in Africa and beyond as well as Juan Villalonga, founder of Hermes Growth Partners.
The impact investment presence on the day will be represented by some of the leading figures in the industry, namely John Simon of Total Impact Advisors, William Jimerson of Africa-focused Musa Capital, Rik Vyerman of responsibility, and others.
The Edge’s closing keynote speaker is Ben Bronfman, founding member of Global Thermostat, a company that has patented the world’s first carbon negative technology for separating CO2 molecules from the atmosphere using the waste heat from industrial locations.
The Principality of Monaco is fast becoming a leading global investment centre, with over 3,000 individuals working for approximately 140, financial institutions, banks and firms in the Principality’s financial services industry.
Since the beginning of the crisis, deposits held in financial institutions in the Principality including asset management companies and funds have significantly increased, reaching over EUR80 billion deposited with credit institutions in 2011. Since the passing of new legislation in 2007 introducing and reinforcing international standards in fund regulation, growing numbers of managers and advisors of foreign funds have chosen to base their operations in Monaco.
With the world’s highest GDP per capita and longest life expectancy, it’s demographics makes Monaco attractive for firms to settle down in the Principality. There is also an active investment community of entrepreneurs, many from abroad who are being encouraged and serviced by organisations such as the Monaco Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (MVCA), whose board comprises several notable entrepreneurs in their own right.
For more information visit
www.edgemonaco.org
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