Building Impact: Session 4 - How to balance the "impact" and "investment"

Gerald Weigl is an Executive Director at elea. In addition to being a member of the investment team, he leads our impact value creation, where he is responsible for the continuous strategic support of our investment companies across our portfolio. Gerald also spearheads the further development of our “agricultural value chains” investment theme as part of a practice group that provides sector-specific expertise in support of the investment process. He represents elea on the boards of J-Palm, Oorja, Pricepally, and Ricult. Before joining elea in June 2018, Gerald worked as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in Vienna, focusing on corporations in the financial and industrial goods sector in Germany. Furthermore, he was active in their Social Impact Practice and acted as a mentor in an accelerator program of the Impact Hub in Vienna. He started his career in Financial Risk Management at KPMG. Gerald graduated from the University of Cambridge with a MPhil in Finance and from the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria with a BA in Accounting in Finance. He spent a semester at the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Canada.