0100 CFO & COO Forum

As Director of ESG and Responsible Investing, Mr. Hill is the Chairperson of Adams Street’s Environmental, Social, and Governance Committee, and supports Adams Street’s ESG efforts across all investment strategies. He collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to analyze, measure, and report ESG performance, as well as drive improvement. Mr. Hill’s career in the fields of ESG research and sustainability spans two decades. Prior to joining Adams Street, he was at S&P Global Trucost where he played a key role in managing and delivering projects that provided data-leveraged ESG insights to leading businesses and institutional investors.

Partner at Verdane, a leading Northern European growth investor. Heading up organisation and portfolio expert teams. C-level experience from several tech companies and co-founder of a successful growth company. Elected top10 management talents in finance in Norway, 3 consecutive years (Norway, E24 2016-2018), top40 under 40 (Kapital, 2019) and top40 under 40 in global Private Equity (PEI and Realdeals, 2021).

Viviana joined Astorg in 2018. Before that she worked as Global Sustainability Manager at Barco and as European Environmental Manager at Sony Electronics. Viviana has expertise in circular economy, eco-design and supply chain sustainability. Viviana studied Sustainable Development at Imperial College London, she has a master in Environmental Technology from Oxford Brookes and an MBA from Vlerick Business School.

Steven has over 20 years of private equity experience gained within private equity firms, as CFO/COO of private equity and venture capital backed companies as well as PE M&A exposure in investment banking. He joined Frog as Partner in charge of Portfolio in 2015, specialising in finance department development. Steven represented Frog on the board of portfolio exits such as Mediatonic and EDITED and currently sits on the boards of Azimo and Winningtemp. Steven heads the Operating Partner Programme. Prior to joining Frog, Steven spent four years as CFO at Syscap, a PE backed leading provider of alternative funding to SMEs, where he managed the successful sale to Wesleyan Assurance Society. In addition to his operational experience, Steven spent four years as a Portfolio Director at Livingbridge. Steven is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (qualified with PricewaterhouseCoopers) and holds an MA in Economics from Cambridge University.

Christoph draws on his background as Business Angel and Partner with McKinsey when working with founders. Before joining Antler he served a range of leading technology organizations, amongst others from the mobility and transportation space, on disruptive strategy and building innovative business models. Building and nurturing top talent organizations is one of his key passions and a great source of inspiration for Christoph.

Vanessa is Partner and General Counsel at Beringea, advising management and senior stakeholders on all legal and regulatory matters and overseeing its legal and compliance, finance and operations functions. Vanessa qualified as a lawyer at Reed Smith LLP and has over 15 years’ experience both in private practice and in-house roles. Most recently, she was Head of Legal at Breed Reply, a specialist tech fund. Vanessa has a LLB in Law and American Legal Systems having studied at the University of East Anglia (UK) and the University of British Columbia (Canada).