Journey to Impact: United Kingdom

Danny Almagor is co-founder (with his wife Berry) and the Executive Chair of Small Giants, the founder and former CEO of Engineers Without Borders Australia and is the co-founder and Chair of the Beyond Family Office as well as the Impact Investment Group, and more recently created Sentient Impact Group. He has mentored dozens of individuals and families through their impact investing journey and through his leadership of various impact funds and advisories, overseen over $5 billion towards impact directly, and supported well over $20b to move into the sector through his support of other’s journeys, particularly through the Journey to Impact Program. Danny has been passionate about building the impact ecosystem by creating (with the Small Giants team) over a dozen for profit and non-profit organisations including Giant Leap Venture Fund, B Labs Australia and New Zealand, The Sociable Weaver, The Impact Club, The Community Well, The School of Life Australia and Beyond Creative. He has also served on the boards or advisories of numerous other organisations such as The Cape ecovillage, Pacific Biotechnologies, the Jewish Museum of Australia, Stand Up, Smiling Mind, The Gross National Happiness Centre in Bhutan and Toniic.

Gio endeavors to lead by example in everything related to value alignment and contributing to solutions to our most pressing social & climate crisis. Since 2015 she has been steering her wealth and Family Office towards value aligned investments. She sits on the board of said Family Office, manages her own portfolio and her Venture Prize 2030 Social Impact which aims to contribute to the development of impact investing in her native country, Italy. Gio has a BA from Bocconi University, an MBA from INSEAD and is passionate about furthering her personal growth.

Ingrid has 25 years’ experience which spans asset management as well as Capital and Private Markets. As Head of Impact and Sustainable Investing, she is responsible for the construction and management of the portfolios within the strategy. She joined from PDM Capital where she was a principal and previously had spent a decade at Jupiter Asset Management as Fund Management Director where she co-managed Global Managed Fund and the flagship EMEA fund. She started her career at Lazard & Co as European equities analyst. Ingrid was included in Citywire’s first ever global compilation of the 1,000 top fund managers in the world. Ingrid is a Non-Executive Director of Fair4All Finance, founded with UK dormant asset money to create positive impact by promoting financial inclusion in UK. Ingrid holds a degree in Italian and Business Studies from University College London and is fluent in four languages.

Seth is an avid proponent of regenerative, diversified, and decentralized systems. As co-founder and CEO of 42 Acres, an agri-wilding estate and wellbeing retreat in the  UK, he is devoted to developing living examples of the much-needed transformations of our times, through our connection with nature, self, and others. In 2019, he established the Be the Earth Foundation to merge impact investing and philanthropy through programs and partnerships that focus mainly on regenerative food systems. Seth serves on the boards The DO Group in Germany and Boschendal Farm in South Africa. Seth is also a musician and in early 2025 launched his debut album.

Hayley Morris is one of Australia’s leading social and environmental entrepreneurs, as well as a prominent impact investor and philanthropist. As the founder of purpose-driven organisations such as Sustainable Table, Impact Sustainability, and Rewild Agency, and serving as Executive Director of the Morris Family Foundation, she is dedicated to building regenerative economies through her work in non-profit, philanthropic, and impact investment efforts.

Alexa Firmenich is an investor, consultant and facilitator focused on climate and biodiversity. She is the co-director of SEED, a new centre of the Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich. SEED is developing the world's most holistic measure of biodiversity that reflects multiple scales of nature's complexity for any location on the planet, with the goal to steer financial and political decision-makers to crystallise the value of nature into the global economy. Alexa is also the founder of Ground Effect, an animist investment vehicle that supports early stage nature-based solutions, scientific research and new economic models. Parallel to this work, she is trained as a group facilitator in leadership development and ecological pedagogy, designing multi-day learning journeys through her role at Leaders' Quest.  She is also an author, podcast host of Lifeworlds, a founding board member of Terra Habitus – a Mexican environmental fund that operates large-landscape conservation and watershed restoration – and a wilderness guide.