Jan Dewijngaert is Regional Director EECA &amp; Director Private Equity. EECA stands for Eastern Europe and Central Asia. He is responsible for coordinating Incofin’s entire EECA portfolio, both debt and equity.
Jan has 4 years of experience in impact investing and is a Board member of several financial institutions including Crystal (Georgia), Inecobank (Armenia), Arnur Credit (Kazakhstan) and Arvand (Tadjikistan). He is also member of the Supervisory Board of FIEC (Financial Inclusion Equity Council). He joined Incofin in 2015 as Director Private Equity.
Prior to Incofin, Jan was a partner at Gimv, a European Private Equity firm. While at Gimv, he founded and managed 7 funds that focused on investments in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia and Kazakhstan. He was a member of the Investment Committee of 10 private equity funds and a regular speaker on international conferences on private equity in CEE. Prior to Gimv, he worked as an advisor on international loans at KBC Bank in Brussels, New York and Bremen.
Jan holds a Msc. in Construction Engineering and in Industrial Policy at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). He also followed the Advanced Management Program at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Regional Director EECA & Director Private Equity, Incofin

Jan Dewijngaert

Caspar Sprokel joined Triodos Investment Management’s Emerging Markets team in July 2012. As Head of Equity he is responsible for global equity investments in inclusive finance. He is a member of the management team and Investment Committee and has served on Boards of SME and microfinance banks in Africa and Asia. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Centenary Bank, which is one of the top-3 banks in Uganda. Caspar has over 20 years of banking and financial sector experience in Europe, Africa and Asia. He was Investment Director at SDG, a Botswana-based private equity fund that focuses on the African financial sector and Missing Middle Markets (2008-2011). Prior to that, Caspar held Senior Investment Management positions with financial institutions in Africa (2003-2006) and was a consultant to the World Bank, KfW and USAID on financial sector reform, SME banking and microfinance (2006-2007). From 1997 to 2003 Caspar held various investment management positions with the Dutch development bank FMO. Caspar started his career with ING Bank in the Netherlands as a management trainee, where he held various commercial and SME banking positions. He has an MBA from the University of Groningen and holds certificates in Banking &amp; Finance, French and Corporate Law from various universities.

Head of Equity, Triodos

Caspar Sprokel

Philip Brown is an Impact Banker. As a founding member and Managing Director of Risk for Citi Inclusive Finance Group, Philip developed the policies, programs and risk tools to enable Citi’s global businesses to commercially engage in inclusive finance (including Inclusive Fintech).  Cumulatively, Citi’s Inclusive Finance Group has structured nearly $1 billion in lending to over 3.3 million micro borrowers (93% women) and raised more than $4 billion in inclusive financing. With over 40 years’ experience within Citigroup across multiple divisions and functions, Philip has a wealth of experience in many different facets of financial services.
Philip’s current non-executive and advisory roles include the Governing Council of the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, the Investment Committee of Habitat for Humanity’s MicroBuild Fund, Chair of the Credit and member of the Finance and Risk Committees of Root Capital and member of the Finance, Audit and Risk, and Lending Committees of Big Issue Invest.
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Impact Banker and Senior Risk Officer

Philip Brown

Paul DiLeo has been engaged in development finance since the early 1990s, launching an investment fund in Russia, small business financing programs in Eastern Europe, a USAID program in the Caucasus, the Gray Ghost Microfinance Fund, and Grassroots Capital Management.
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Managing Director, Grassroots Capital Management

Paul DiLeo

Orsolya Farkas is Equity Manager for Financial Institutions at Triple Jump. She joined Triple Jump in 2008 and has over 15 years of investment experience in private debt and private equity. At Triple Jump, she was previously responsible for the Financial Institutions debt portfolio in Africa and Asia. Prior to Triple Jump, she worked at the Council of Europe Development Bank financing social development projects in Eastern Europe. Orsi holds a Master of Public Affairs degree from Princeton University. She is a Hungarian national and speaks English, French and Hungarian.

Equity Manager for Financial Institutions, Triple Jump

Orsolya Farkas

Yrenilsa Lopez is an Investment Officer with Women’s World Banking Capital Partners, LP directing private equity investments into gender-focused inclusive finance institutions. She was previously with BlueOrchard Finance in Lima, Peru where she executed private debt investments and managed a portfolio of private debt investments to financial institutions serving the bottom of the pyramid. Prior to this, Yrenilsa was the Relationship Manager for Latin America for Developing World Markets based in Stamford, Connecticut. Yrenilsa began her career with the SME Finance department of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC). She has completed all three levels of the CFA Institute exam series. She speaks fluent Spanish and conversational Portuguese.

Sr. Investment Officer, Women’s World Banking

Yrenilsa Lopez

Advisory Board

Deborah Drake was a member of CFI&#8217;s staff from its inception in 2008 until 2022. Currently, she serves as a consultant to CFI and Accion. In her previous role as vice president of investor engagement and research, Deborah led CFI’s investor engagement and governance efforts to strengthen the inclusive finance ecosystem. She directed the <a href="https://centerforfinancialinclusion.org/about/what-we-do/fiec/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Financial Inclusion Equity Council</a> (FIEC), a membership organization of private entities making equity investments in financial institutions in the developing world. She also led CFI’s research work in the impact investing space.
Before the establishment of CFI, Deborah held multiple leadership roles at Accion focused on developing and implementing financial initiatives to facilitate microfinance institutions’ access to capital. She managed Accion’s $9 million guarantee fund for Latin America and the United States, and led the financial analysis unit, which collected and analyzed data to achieve greater financial transparency and establish international standards of financial performance for microfinance institutions. Deborah also was responsible for the development and delivery of training to microfinance institutions in the areas of transformation, governance, and investment readiness.
Deborah is co-editor of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Commercialization-Microfinance-Balancing-Business-Development/dp/1565491548" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Commercialization of Microfinance: Balancing Business and Development</a>, and the co-author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Alchemists-Poor-Ngos-Financial-Institutions/dp/9589550908" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alchemists for the Poor: NGOs as Financial Institutions</a>. Before joining Accion, she was a banking specialist at the World Bank and a commercial banker.
Deborah holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University and an MBA from Babson College. She speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Consultant

Deborah Drake

Shradha plays a leading role in framing research and insights for CFI’s investor engagement and governance efforts that focus on strengthening the inclusive finance ecosystem. Shradha joined CFI in 2020.
Previously, Shradha was a budget and strategic planning manager with Accion, where she led Accion’s annual budget process and worked closely with senior management in stewarding Accion’s resources. Before Accion, she worked with a clean energy investor supporting their investment and portfolio management activities.
Shradha holds an MBA in finance from Bentley University. She speaks English and Hindi.

Research Director

Shradha Modi

Garrett supported the investor engagement and research team, for whom he contributed to research on the intersections between investment, social impact, and governance. He also helped organize CFI’s stakeholder convenings and trainings.
Before joining CFI, Garrett served as a loan officer and state lead for Accion in the U.S. In that role, he led Accion in the U.S.’s expansion into Texas and developed targeted financial products for small and startup businesses. Prior to Accion, Garrett worked on multiple political campaigns. He also volunteered with a microfinance non-profit in Mexico that supports women entrepreneurs in the informal economy.
Garrett holds a bachelor’s degree in international affairs and a minor in finance from The University of Colorado, Boulder. He also holds a certificate in digital money from the Digital Frontiers Institute and The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Garrett is fluent in English and Spanish.

Former Research Specialist

Garrett Jaso

Tom Roose has extensive business leadership experience with focus on strategic planning, finance, marketing, project management, and organization design &amp; development. During his 30 years with the financial services subsidiaries of Hewlett Packard, Compaq Computer Corporation, and AT&amp;T he was responsible for leading global functions to establish business strategy, design organizational structures, and implement operational capabilities to address new market opportunities, and manage merger/acquisition and integration activities which resulted in the establishment of five significant financial services business units. With AT&amp;T Capital Corporation from 1985–1997, Tom was Vice President of Corporate Development responsible for global M&amp;A activities. Tom was a member of the Accion Presidents Council for more than 15 years, and served for six years on the New England Advisory Council of Accion USA. Tom holds a BA magna cum laude from Amherst College, M. Ed from Smith College, and MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College where he was a Tuck Scholar.

FIEC Advisory Board