Halla Tómasdóttir is CEO and Chief Change Catalyst for The B Team, a group of global business and civil society leaders driving a better way of doing business for the well-being of people and the planet. As well as having leadership roles in Corporate America with M&M and Pepsi Cola, Halla was the first female CEO of the Iceland Chamber of Commerce and later went on to co-found Auður Capital, an investment firm with the vision of incorporating feminine values into finance. In 2016, Tómasdóttir was an independent candidate for President of Iceland, earning nearly 30% of the vote.

Halla joined GenderSmart to share her thoughts on the changes (or lack thereof) she has seen within the gender lens investing world over the past fifteen years, why we need to embrace feminine models of leadership and why she believes that quotas can benefit everyone.

As we open the GenderSmart Investing Summit 2022 today, Suzanne Biegel reflects on the key actions needed to move the field forward and shift the needle in both numbers and impact. What do we most need to do to move more capital with more velocity and to greater effect?

Katherine Pease is Managing Director at Pathstone, an investment advisory firm working with family offices and institutions across the US. We spoke to her about the challenges in unlocking larger pools of gender-smart capital, what clients are paying attention to, and why it’s critical to get better at communicating gender’s relevance across investment portfolios and thematics.

Aunnie Patton Power is the founder of Intelligent Impact, an innovative finance advisory firm and a university lecturer on Innovative Finance, Impact Investing and Technology for Impact. She is also the author of Adventure Finance: How to Create a Funding Journey that Blends Profit and Purpose, and is starting a new book about alternative funding structures. We spoke to her about the most impactful lever and strategies for getting more capital flowing to women (and especially women of colour) - and how traditional structures can fall short.

Ruth Shaber is the Founder and President of Tara Health Foundation, a co-founder of Rhia Ventures, and an active gender focused investor in her personal portfolio. She is also co-author of a new book which makes a persuasive data-led financial case for investing with a gender and broader diversity lens for as-yet-unconverted mainstream allocators. We discuss the risks of not paying attention, and what it will really take to shift the status quo.