Readings

Alison Taylor is Clinical Professor at NYU Stern School of Business and Executive Director at Ethical Systems.

Adam Gazzaley is a neuroscientist, neurologist, inventor, author, photographer, entrepreneur and investor. He’s also the creator of the world’s first digital medicine to be approved by the FDA to treat children with ADHD.

Summa Equity is acquiring a majority stake in cybersecurity leader Logpoint, investing from its EUR 2.3bn Fund III in European cybersecurity resilience and the protection of the global digital transformation.

Sir Ronald (Ronnie) Cohen is a preeminent philanthropist, venture capitalist, private equity investor, social innovator, and impact pioneer who is driving forward the global Impact Revolution. He’s also chairman of the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment and The Portland Trust, the Impact Weighted Accounts Initiative at Harvard Business School, as well as co-founding Apax Partners.

The document reflect the most recent regulatory guidance and learnings from Summa investments made to date. Over time, we will continue to refine these guidelines based on the latest thinking and accepted standards for impact investing. Our hope is that this serves to create more transparency for Summa’s work and contributes to ongoing dialogue in the space about how to invest with impact intentionality.

Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at the Harvard Business School, has recently written a new book coming out this fall: The Right Kind of Wrong: The science of failing well. Why? Because in our modern world, it really matters that we learn to navigate failure.

Summa Equity welcomes new Partner Stephanie Caspar to the position of Head of Portfolio and Via Summa.

John W MacArthur is Senior Fellow and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Development at the Brookings Institution, and co-founder and co-chair of 17 Rooms, a partnership between the Center for Sustainable Development at Brookings and The Rockefeller Foundation.

With a background in the social sector focused on supporting mission-oriented founders and organizations, Zoe Bulger, Impact Manager at Summa Equity, is all about integrating impact and ESG across the investment process and across portfolio companies, as well as the reporting side of it.

Stockholm, 12 January 2023 – New company Velsera was announced today at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, California. The vision for Velsera is supported by thematic-focused impact fund Summa Equity (“Summa”).

Roberto Verganti is Professor of Leadership and Innovation at the Stockholm School of Economics, and Design Theory and Practice at the Harvard Business School. Roberto firmly believes that reframing is the most advanced leadership skill leaders can possess. But what is reframing?

Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland is a physician, politician, and the former Prime Minister of Norway, as well as former Director General of the World Health Organization. In 1983, the World Commission on Environment and Development, known as the Brundtland Commission, was established and chaired by Gro. Then, in 1987, they published a report called The Brundtland Report.

For the third time in a row, Summa Equity won the award for best Nordic LBO fund and Best ESG Private Equity Initiatives.

Tariq Fancy, founder of Rumie Initiative, an education tech company using innovative mobile based micro learning to bring free digital learning and to close learning gaps, last year wrote a manifesto outlining how he had gone from evangelizing sustainable investing for the world’s largest investment firm BlackRock, to criticizing sustainable investing as a dangerous placebo that harms the public interest.

Raj Sisodia is Distinguished University Professor of Conscious Enterprise, Tecnológico de Monterrey; co-founder of the Conscious Capitalism movement and co-author of The Healing Organisation. But what is conscious capitalism and how can it help us evolve to where we need to go?

After many years in the finance industry, including a spell at Goldman Sachs, Mirja Lehmler-Brown, founding Managing Director and partner at Hayfin Capital Management Private Equity, decided to set up her own company.

As an incredibly value driven individual, Mirja found that in too many larger organizations collaboration, diversity and a sense of responsibility get lost.

But when you start your own business from scratch, she says, you get to set the culture, set the purpose, determine the behaviors that link to the purpose. There’s no legacy to bear in mind, and every single person you hire should have the same values or be driven by the same sense of purpose that you are.

Harvard Business School Professor, George Serafeim, is known as the rockstar of ESG. He’s the man blazing the trail, measuring, driving and communicating corporate performance and social impact – a passion he developed growing up in Athens, Greece.

“I witnessed the value of meritocracy and what happens when you don’t have meritocracy in a society, in an environment, and why it is extremely important to be able to give opportunities to people that deserve those opportunities.”