In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Massimiliano Riva (Max) — senior sustainable finance advisor at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and one of the most experienced practitioners in the global sustainable finance ecosystem. With over 20 years spanning the United Nations, development banks, and the private sector, Max brings rare on-the-ground credibility to the most pressing question in climate finance: how do we unlock the capital flows the world actually needs?

In this episode:

• How sustainability-linked loans and KPI-based blended finance are advancing impact investing and driving measurable results
• The EBRD's High Impact Programme — how development banks are evolving their role in equity funds to drive impactful corporate growth
• Insights from the Joint SDG Fund's pioneering work supporting ocean, energy, agriculture, and health initiatives for sustainable change
• How blended finance can bring public and private sectors together to maximise combined impact across the SDGs
• Why most countries are not investing adequately in nature and biodiversity — and how to fix that
• The role of green bonds, public guarantee schemes, and conservation finance in unlocking private capital at scale
• Practical lessons from providing advisory services across 30+ countries on every continent

The key insight: The world is not short of liquidity — it is short of well-structured instruments that make sustainability investable for private capital. Blended finance, done right, is the bridge that closes that gap.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Can blended finance make sustainable development bankable at scale?
• 0:X:XX — Sustainability-linked loans and KPI-based blended finance in practice
• 0:X:XX — EBRD's High Impact Programme and the evolving role of development banks
• 0:X:XX — Joint SDG Fund: ocean, energy, agriculture, and health initiatives
• 0:X:XX — Unlocking private capital for nature and biodiversity
• 0:X:XX — Green bonds, guarantee schemes, and conservation finance
• 0:X:XX — What investors and sustainability leaders need to do right now

👤 About Massimiliano RivaMax is a sustainable finance leader with over 20 years of experience in development banks, the United Nations, and the public and private sector, with expertise across guarantees, inclusive finance, export credit, impact investing, green and SDG bonds, and sector-based resource mobilisation strategies. A Industrylinkt the Joint SDG Fund, his work led to the first UN system-wide call for proposals on SDG financing — a $100 million grants programme representing the largest systemic attempt by the UN to tackle SDG financing. H BIOFINe joined the EBRD in 2022 as sustainability lead for equity funds and manager of the Green Climate Fund, and has provided on-the-ground advisory services to over 30 countries across all continents. H Industrylinke holds a Master's in Economics and International Policies from ASERI and a degree in Economics from Bocconi University.

IndustrylinkWhether you are an impact investor, a development finance professional, a corporate sustainability leader, or a policymaker working to scale climate and nature finance — this episode is essential listening.

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#BlendedFinance #SustainableFinance #ImpactInvesting #EBRD #SDGs #ClimateFinance #NatureFinance #GreenBonds #MassimilianoRiva #TBLI #RadicalTruth #DevelopmentFinance #ESG #NatureBasedSolutions #PrivateCapital

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Allison Sesso, President and CEO of Undue Medical Debt — one of the most innovative and high-impact nonprofits in America. Undue has already erased over $10 billion in medical debt, restoring financial dignity to millions of Americans. And under Allison's leadership, they are just getting started.

Medical debt is an American crisis. 1 in 4 people are burdened by healthcare costs that drive bankruptcy, destroy credit, and entrench systemic inequality. Allison's radical truth: this is not inevitable — and a financial model already exists to fix it.

In this episode:

• The abolishment model — how Undue Medical Debt buys and retires debt at scale for pennies on the dollar
• How $1 donated becomes $100 of debt relief — the leverage model explained
• Why medical debt is a social determinant of health, not just a financial problem
• How visionary philanthropy — including multiple transformational gifts from MacKenzie Scott — is accelerating the mission
• How Undue is partnering with 25+ state and local governments to erase billions in debt for millions of residents
• The shift from traditional charity to systemic financial transformation
• What the future of medical debt abolition looks like — and what it would take to put Undue out of business for good

The key insight: The majority of medical debt today is owed by insured people. Deductibles, copayments, and out-of-pocket costs are simply out of alignment with what families can afford. Debt relief at scale is not charity — it is an urgent and measurable economic intervention.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — The scale of the medical debt crisis
• 3:45 — How Undue Medical Debt erased $10 billion
• 8:20 — The $1 to $100 leverage model explained
• 14:10 — Medical debt as a social determinant of health
• 22:30 — Partnering with philanthropists like MacKenzie Scott
• 29:15 — The future of systems change in finance and health

👤 About Allison SessoAllison Sesso became President and CEO of Undue Medical Debt in January 2020. Under her leadership, Undue has relieved over $25 billion in medical debt for more than 15 million people. Undue Medical Debt Prior to joining Undue, she served as Executive Director of the Human Services Council of New York — an association of 170 nonprofits delivering 90% of New York City's human services — where she successfully pushed for over $500 million in investments to address the nonprofit fiscal crisis. Undue Medical Debt In 2025 alone, she received three TIME recognitions: the TIME100 most influential people in the world, TIME100 Health, and TIME100 Philanthropy — joining MacKenzie Scott, Warren Buffett, and Dolly Parton on the latter list. Undue Medical Debt She has also been named one of Modern Healthcare's 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare in 2024. Undue Medical Debt

Whether you are an impact investor, a philanthropist, a healthcare professional, or anyone who believes financial justice is inseparable from health equity — this episode is essential listening.

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#MedicalDebt #DebtRelief #UndueMedicalDebt #AllisonSesso #SocialImpact #Philanthropy #FinancialJustice #HealthcareReform #TBLIRadicalTruth #ImpactInvesting #EconomicEquity #SystemsChange #MacKenzieScott #HealthEquity #TBLI

What do you do after selling a 90-year-old family empire — and how do you make sure it stands for something?

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Luca Rancilio — whose grandfather Roberto invented the espresso machine in 1927, and whose family built Rancilio Group into one of the world's leading professional coffee equipment companies. After selling the business in 2013, Luca embarked on a second journey: becoming one of Italy's most pioneering impact and venture capital investors.

His story is a masterclass in what it means to translate a legacy of craft and values into a new chapter of purposeful investing.

In this episode:

• Luca's journey from running a 90-year-old industrial family business to becoming an impact investor and venture capitalist
• How Rancilio Cube evolved from a family office into a fully compliant international investment company with over €60 million in assets
• Why impact and innovation are not opposites — and how Luca looks for investments that combine financial returns with real social and environmental value
• Lessons from early bets on Lyft, Airbnb, SpaceX, N26, Treedom, and other global innovators
• Why Luca believes Italian family capital needs to look beyond Italy — and how Cube3 is opening that door
• The direct thread between three generations of entrepreneurship and the values embedded in every investment decision today
• What impact investing looks like from the perspective of a family that built something lasting — and then had the courage to start again

The key insight: After selling a business your grandfather founded, you don't just invest money — you invest values. The best investments are the ones where innovation and impact point in the same direction.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — From espresso machines to impact investing
• 0:X:XX — The sale of Rancilio Group and the birth of Rancilio Cube
• 0:X:XX — Finding the first investments: Lyft, Treedom, and beyond
• 0:X:XX — Building a model that combines venture, growth, and impact
• 0:X:XX — Opening Italian family capital to global innovation
• 0:X:XX — What impact investing means to a third-generation entrepreneur
• 0:X:XX — Luca's vision for the future of purposeful investing

👤 About Luca RancilioLuca Rancilio managed the Rancilio family business for over 25 years as the company grew into a global leader in professional espresso machines. In 2013, he and his family sold Rancilio Group and founded Rancilio Cube — a family office focused on venture, growth, and impact investments. Robincap Cube's direct investment portfolio includes companies such as Lyft, SpaceX, Airbnb, N26, Wise, Coursera, Treedom, and many others, alongside LP positions in leading international VC funds across the US, Europe, and Israel. Crunchbase After many years in the family espresso machine business, Luca began investing in innovative and impact companies in 2014, drawn to companies that combine investment returns with real impact on society. LinkedIn In 2022 he created Rancilio Cube Sicaf, closing 2023 with over €60 million in assets and positioning it as Italy's reference point for international venture capital. Il Sole 24 ORE He serves on the boards of Treedom and Legami and is a European advisor to US fund GSquared and the German fund Earlybird.

Whether you are a family office, an impact investor, an entrepreneur navigating a transition, or simply someone who believes that great businesses pass values across generations — this episode is essential listening.

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#ImpactInvesting #FamilyOffice #LucaRancilio #RancilioCube #VentureCapital #SustainableFinance #ESG #ItalianInnovation #TBLI #RadicalTruth #ImpactFirst #SocialEnterprise #Treedom #FamilyBusiness #PurposeDrivenInvesting

Who actually runs the companies that run the world — and how would you even know?

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Matt Moscardi, co-founder of Free Float — the platform putting people back into capital markets. After a decade at MSCI helping build the ESG ratings model used by the world's largest institutional investors, Matt concluded that conventional ESG was measuring the wrong thing. Companies don't make decisions. People do.

Free Float's radical truth: investing isn't a "what" — it is a "who."

In this episode:

• Why conventional ESG ratings miss the most important variable in corporate performance: the people making the decisions
• How Free Float built a database of over 250,000 directors globally to measure who holds real power in boardrooms
• Why boardroom transparency matters more than ever — and what most investors are dangerously overlooking
• The concept of "board sabermetrics" — applying data analytics to corporate governance the way sports analytics changed professional sport
• How shareholder influence, board dynamics, and hidden power structures shape every decision that affects us all
• Why the anti-ESG backlash is a distraction from the real governance failures happening in plain sight
• What a genuinely accountable, high-performing board actually looks like — and why most don't come close

The key insight: The governance meltdowns of the financial crisis — and every scandal since — were caused by people, not processes. Until investors understand who runs companies, not just what they report, ESG will never deliver what it promises.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Who actually runs the companies that run the world?
• 0:X:XX — Why ESG is measuring the wrong thing
• 0:X:XX — Board sabermetrics: putting people back in capital markets
• 0:X:XX — The Free Float database: 250,000 directors and counting
• 0:X:XX — Hidden power structures: monarchies, oligarchies, and democracies in the boardroom
• 0:X:XX — What the anti-ESG backlash is really about
• 0:X:XX — What genuinely accountable governance looks like

👤 About Matt MoscardiAfter a decade measuring how companies perform on environmental, social, and governance risks at MSCI, Matt co-founded Free Float to measure how the people who run companies perform — rather than the companies themselves. Free Float Analytics provides data on over 250,000 directors globally, with performance attribution across financial and ESG factors, to facilitate proxy voting, engagement, board placement, and allocation strategies. Free Float LLC At MSCI, Matt helped develop the ESG Ratings model used by the world's largest institutional investors, chaired the MSCI ESG Research Editorial Committee, and wrote over 100 investor papers and industry reports. Free Float LLC Prior to MSCI, he worked at Ceres, engaging directly with US pension funds and asset managers overseeing over $10 trillion in assets, and previously founded a hedge fund with a sustainability and resource scarcity focus. Free Float LLC He is a graduate of Brown University and co-hosts the Business Pants podcast, making corporate governance accessible — and occasionally hilarious — for investors and the investor-curious alike.

Whether you are an institutional investor, a corporate governance professional, a sustainability leader, or simply someone who wants to understand who really pulls the strings in global capitalism — this episode is essential listening.

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#CorporateGovernance #ESG #MattMoscardi #FreeFloat #BoardDiversity #ImpactInvesting #Transparency #Accountability #TBLI #RadicalTruth #SustainableFinance #ShareholderActivism #BoardSabermetrics #InstitutionalInvestors #CorporateResponsibility

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Jacqueline van den Ende, co-founder and CEO of Carbon Equity — the Amsterdam-based climate fintech platform on a mission to connect next-generation capital with the world's most impactful climate investing opportunities. Her weapon of choice for fighting climate change? Finance.

Jacqueline's radical truth: trading ESG shares in public markets moves ownership, not capital. If you want to fund climate innovation, you need to be in private markets — and Carbon Equity is building the bridge to get there.

In this episode:

• What climate technology actually is — and the key trends every investor needs to understand right now
• The critical difference between ESG investing and genuine climate impact investing
• How to invest in climate technology through angel investments, funds, and funds of funds
• Why private markets — not public equities — are where real climate capital does real work
• How Carbon Equity enables small-ticket access to top-tier climate private equity and venture capital funds
• Why €80 billion in Dutch savings is "sleeping" — and how to mobilise it for the energy transition
• The personal wake-up call that turned a serial entrepreneur and PE investor into a climate fintech founder

The key insight: Trading ESG shares has limited real-world impact — when ownership shifts, no fresh money enters a company. Real climate action requires private capital flowing directly into engineers, factories, and deployments. Carbon Equity exists to make that accessible to everyone, not just institutions.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Where are the climate solutions for investors?
• 0:X:XX — What is climate technology and key trends?
• 0:X:XX — ESG vs. climate impact investing: what's the real difference?
• 0:X:XX — How to invest in climate tech: angels, funds, and funds of funds
• 0:X:XX — The Carbon Equity model: democratising access to climate private equity
• 0:X:XX — Why retail capital is the missing piece in the climate finance puzzle
• 0:X:XX — What the multi-trillion wealth transfer to younger generations means for climate

👤 About Jacqueline van den EndeJacqueline van den Ende is co-founder of Amsterdam-based climate fintech Carbon Equity, bringing a unique perspective as a founder turned investor turned founder, twice over. She worked as a private equity investor at HAL Investments and as a general partner at venture capital fund Peak Capital. Venturing Women The other half of her career she spent building and leading companies, including De Kleine Consultant, Rocket Internet-backed online real estate marketplace Lamudi in Southeast Asia, and Ant Financial-backed fintech scale-up TrueMoney. Venturing Women Her wake-up moment came in 2019 when she read The Sixth Extinction — and concluded that if we don't solve climate change, nothing else matters. Entrepreneursforimpact Founded in 2021, Carbon Equity now has over €200 million in assets under management, has invested in more than 600 investment funds, and backed 100+ climate tech companies directly. Eicscalingclub

Whether you are an individual investor looking to put your savings to work for the planet, a wealth manager exploring climate allocations, or a sustainability leader navigating the transition from ESG to genuine impact — this episode is essential listening.

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#ClimateInvesting #CarbonEquity #JacquelinevandenEnde #ClimateTech #ImpactInvesting #ESG #PrivateEquity #VentureCapital #SustainableFinance #TBLI #RadicalTruth #EnergyTransition #ClimateFinance #BlendedFinance #RetailInvesting

What if your family's legacy is not a burden to manage — but your greatest competitive advantage?

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Zita Nikoletta Verbényi, Founder and Legacy Aesthete of The Legacy Atelier™ — a cutting-edge bespoke legacy practice guiding multigenerational business families to map, understand, and thrive through their intertwined legacy layers for generations to come.

Zita's radical truth: most advisors focus on governance, legalities, and corporate culture — while entirely missing the anthropological, philosophical, and aesthetic dimensions that determine whether a family legacy actually endures. The result is legacies sitting on shelves, with no real relevance to the people whose lives they are supposed to guide.

In this episode:

• How to enhance family engagement and alignment through your family legacy
• Why your family legacy is your competitive advantage — a powerful complexity premium
• How to map, understand, and thrive through your intertwined family legacy layers across generations
• Why conventional legacy approaches are restrictive, outdated, and filled with missed opportunities
• How Hermeneutics, Comparative Aesthetics, and Cultural Anthropology unlock deeper family alignment and identity
• What truly purposeful succession planning looks like — beyond legalities and governance
• Why families that understand their legacy are better positioned for wealth transfer and long-term cohesion

The key insight: Understanding legacy is central to building culture — especially when a family owns a business or is preparing for succession. Legal and financial professionals will never capture the anthropological dimensions of what makes a family unique. That is exactly the gap The Legacy Atelier™ was built to fill.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Why family legacy is your greatest competitive advantage
• 0:X:XX — The problem with conventional legacy approaches
• 0:X:XX — How to enhance family engagement and alignment via legacy
• 0:X:XX — Mapping your intertwined family legacy layers
• 0:X:XX — Legacy as a strategic tool for succession and wealth transfer
• 0:X:XX — What thriving multigenerational families do differently

👤 About Zita Nikoletta VerbényiZita Nikoletta Verbényi is Founder, Legacy Aesthete, and Strategic Advisor at The Legacy Atelier™ — top recommended family business adviser by Spear's 500 in 2021, 2022, and 2023, and a multilingual expert with over 14 years working closely with enterprising families and individuals of substantial wealth. She is the world's first PhD Candidate in Family Legacies, with interdisciplinary research drawing on Hermeneutics, Comparative Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Cultural Anthropology. She holds an MA in Philology from ELTE University and spent over a decade in senior family office content roles, including four years at Campden Wealth, before founding The Legacy Atelier™ in 2021.

Whether you are a family office principal, a wealth advisor, a next-generation family member, or a trustee navigating succession — this episode offers a profoundly different and essential perspective on what it truly means to build something that lasts.

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#FamilyLegacy #FamilyOffice #FamilyBusiness #ZitaNikolettaVerbenyi #LegacyAtelier #WealthTransfer #Succession #Governance #TBLI #RadicalTruth #ImpactInvesting #NextGeneration #LegacyPlanning #MultigenerationalWealth

Is food the most polluting industry on the planet — and are we finally ready to fix it?

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Johan Jörgensen — founder of Sweden FoodTech, widely known as "Mr. Foodtech," and one of the most provocative and visionary voices in the global movement to transform the food system. Johan's radical truth: food is not what is on your plate. It is the cumulative impact of every decision made from farm to fork — and right now, that impact is devastating.

In this episode:

• Why the food industry may be the world's most polluting sector — potentially surpassing even fossil fuels
• Why food should be understood not as a product but as a strategic tool for health, sustainability, and social change
• The real costs of the current food system — and the "false mathematics" that keeps it broken
• Why venture capital in food tech has struggled — and what the misalignment between software expectations and food realities means for investors
• How financial systems must be redesigned to support sustainable practices and fairly compensate farmers as caretakers of nature
• The role of policy, education, and cross-sector collaboration in driving food system transformation
• What the Big Meat gathering and partnerships with academic institutions are doing to accelerate change

The key insight: The true cost of American food is not the $1 trillion spent at checkout — it is the $3 trillion in environmental, health, and social damage generated in the process. Until we price food honestly, we cannot fix the system.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Is food the world's most polluting industry?
• 0:X:XX — Why food is far more than what's on the plate
• 0:X:XX — The false mathematics of the current food system
• 0:X:XX — Venture capital in food tech: lessons from the crash
• 0:X:XX — Farmers as caretakers of nature: redesigning financial incentives
• 0:X:XX — Policy, education, and the call for cross-sector collaboration
• 0:X:XX — The Big Meat gathering and what comes next

👤 About Johan JörgensenJohan Jörgensen is the founder of Sweden FoodTech and coaches nations, cities, corporations, and entrepreneurs on strategic business-building in the transforming food sector. Known as "Mr. Foodtech," he started his career in the tech sector in the early 1990s and pivoted to food tech in 2011. Menub In 2015, he ran the innovation programme for the USA Pavilion at the World Expo in Milan, where he concluded that the next generation food system would be born in dynamic, health-focused, sustainability-oriented places like the Nordics. Menub With over 20 years of experience in the internet sector, he coaches and invests in companies with scalable, disruptive capabilities and chairs the Internet Society Special Interest Group, Internet of Food. Food's Future Global He is also the organiser of The Big Meet foodtech conference in Stockholm and a contributor to the Menu B global food reform movement.

Whether you are an investor, a policymaker, a food entrepreneur, or simply someone who eats — this episode is essential listening for anyone serious about the future of our food system.

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#FoodTech #FoodSystems #JohanJorgensen #SwedenFoodTech #SustainableFood #ClimateAction #ImpactInvesting #AgriTech #TBLI #RadicalTruth #FoodSecurity #RegenerativeAgriculture #FoodInnovation #ESG #SystemsChange

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Nadine B. Hack, CEO of beCause Global Consulting and internationally recognised pioneer of Strategic Relational Engagement (SRE™) — a proprietary framework that has turned adversaries into allies across some of the world's most complex and high-stakes situations.

She got loggers to work with environmentalists. She got AIDS activists to work with companies they were boycotting. And Nelson Mandela trusted her enough to say: "When I was in prison it was very good to know that I had powerful friends like Nadine Hack working on behalf of South Africa's freedom."

In this episode:

• How cultivating deep, trust-based relationships fundamentally improves your work — and your results
• The real obstacles you face in sustaining meaningful relationships across silos, sectors, and even adversarial divides
• Why the effort to overcome those challenges is always worth it — and what the data and decades of practice prove
• Why engagement leadership is the critical missing skill in 21st century business and investing
• How SRE™ helps organisations connect to their core purpose, bridge internal silos, and build trust with external stakeholders
• What Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Ubuntu philosophy teach us about the power of connectedness in leadership
• Why younger generations are demanding relational, not transactional, leadership — and what that means for the future of organisations

The key insight: Culture eats strategy for breakfast. And relationships are the foundation of culture. Until leaders invest in deep, sustained, trust-based engagement — with allies and adversaries alike — no strategy, governance framework, or ESG policy will deliver its full potential.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Why relationships are your most powerful business tool
• 0:X:XX — How deep relationships improve your work in practice
• 0:X:XX — The obstacles to sustaining meaningful relationships
• 0:X:XX — Why it is always worth the effort to overcome them
• 0:X:XX — Strategic Relational Engagement: the framework explained
• 0:X:XX — From adversaries to allies: real-world cases
• 0:X:XX — What engagement leadership looks like in 2026

👤 About Nadine B. HackNadine B. Hack is CEO of beCause Global Consulting, named one of the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior, and the first woman to serve as Executive-in-Residence at IMD Business School in Lausanne. Her clients include Coca-Cola, Unilever, Omnicom Group, the Ford Foundation, the Elton John AIDS Foundation, the Robert F. Kennedy Center, and heads of state including Presidents Nelson Mandela and Corazon Aquino. Atlanticspeakerbureau She was Board Chair of the Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation and has served on for- and non-profit boards globally. Atlanticspeakerbureau A TEDx speaker whose talk Adversaries to Allies captures the essence of her life's work, she has spent decades bringing together wildly diverse stakeholders — from loggers and environmentalists to AIDS activists and corporations — to find common ground and achieve extraordinary outcomes. Mediate.com

Whether you are a leader, an investor, a policymaker, or anyone who believes that trust and relationships are the foundation of lasting impact — this episode is essential listening.

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#EngagementLeadership #NadineBHack #beCause #SRE #RelationshipBuilding #StakeholderEngagement #ImpactInvesting #ESG #TBLI #RadicalTruth #Trust #Leadership #NelsonMandela #SystemsChange #PurposeDrivenBusiness

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Dr. Raj Thamotheram — one of the most influential and uncompromising pioneers in the global responsible investing movement. After 12 years inside the system at two of the world's largest financial institutions, Raj concluded that meaningful change required a different kind of leverage — and founded Preventable Surprises, a think-do tank dedicated to helping investors manage systemic risks before they become catastrophic.

In this episode:

• Why the investment industry keeps being surprised by risks that were entirely preventable — and what that costs all of us
• How investors can move from passive ESG box-ticking to genuine forceful stewardship that drives real corporate change
• What it means to safeguard beta — the market return that long-horizon investors actually depend on — through active, informed stewardship
• Why putting people and planet on par with profit is not idealism — it is a fiduciary responsibility
• The systemic obstacles that keep even well-intentioned investors from doing the right thing — and how to overcome them
• The role of asset owners, fund managers, and policymakers in breaking the cycle of preventable corporate and market dysfunction
• What the next generation of responsible investing actually needs to look like

The key insight: Most institutional investors are focused on chasing alpha and beating benchmarks — the icing on the cake. But long-horizon, diversified investors primarily depend on the market return. The most important thing they can do to protect that return is stewardship. And most are not doing it well enough.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — What is a preventable surprise — and why do we keep having them?
• 0:X:XX — 12 years inside the system: what Raj learned at USS and AXA IM
• 0:X:XX — From ESG box-ticking to forceful stewardship
• 0:X:XX — Safeguarding beta: why stewardship is the most important investment decision
• 0:X:XX — The systemic obstacles to responsible investing — and how to overcome them
• 0:X:XX — The Network for Sustainable Financial Markets and what comes next
• 0:X:XX — What genuinely responsible investing looks like in 2026

👤 About Dr. Raj ThamotheramAfter co-founding the Nuclear Freeze Campaign and Saferworld, Raj worked in the development sector at ActionAid as head of international advocacy and at the Ethical Trading Initiative as first director, before moving to finance — where he concluded the real power rests. #NSFMNextGen At USS, he specialised in collaborative stewardship and played a lead role in the Institutional Investor Group on Climate Change and the Enhanced Analytics Initiative. At AXA IM, he initiated the strategy to mainstream ESG integration across all asset classes and launched the AXA Framlington Human Capital Fund. Swoogo He has been nominated twice by Global Proxy Watch as "one of the 10 most influential figures in the corporate governance field" and voted one of the top 10 Most Positive Contributors to SRI and corporate governance in the Independent Research in Responsible Investment global poll. 116.203.153.220 He is co-founder of the Network for Sustainable Financial Markets, a former trustee of Friends Provident Foundation, and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University's Smith School.

Whether you are a pension fund trustee, an asset manager, an impact investor, or a policymaker — this episode is essential listening for anyone serious about what responsible investing must become.

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#ResponsibleInvesting #ESG #RajThamotheram #PreventableSurprises #Stewardship #ImpactInvesting #CorporateGovernance #SystemicRisk #TBLI #RadicalTruth #LongTermInvesting #SustainableFinance #FiduciaryDuty #AssetOwners #ClimateFinance

In this episode of TBLI Radical Truth, we sit down with Dr. Wal van Lierop — founder of Chrysalix Venture Capital, one of the earliest and most recognised private equity firms in the world focused on industrial innovation and cleantech. Over a career spanning more than two decades, Wal has raised over $350 million for Chrysalix and facilitated more than $3.5 billion in venture capital funding for cleantech and industrial innovation. He has the scars, the stories, and the wisdom to prove it.

In this episode:

• Does cleantech actually offer real solutions to climate change — and what does the evidence say after 20+ years?
• What were the real challenges of starting a cleantech VC firm in 2001 — when almost no one believed in it?
• The honest lessons from two decades of failures and successes in deep tech and industrial innovation investing
• Why Silicon Valley walked away from cleantech in 2008 — and what investors need to learn from that mistake now
• How Chrysalix built a model that works with large multinational corporates to bridge the gap between early-stage innovation and commercial scale
• Why cleantech is fundamentally different from software — and why that matters enormously for investors
• What the new wave of climate and energy transition investment gets right and wrong

The key insight: Cleantech is not for the faint of heart. It takes longer, costs more, and demands deeper technical understanding than most VCs are used to. But the solutions it produces — carbon capture, fusion energy, industrial decarbonisation — are exactly what the world needs. And the returns are real.

⏱️ Episode Guide:

• 0:00 — Does cleantech offer real solutions to climate?
• 0:X:XX — Starting Chrysalix in 2001: the challenges no one talks about
• 0:X:XX — The cleantech crash of 2008: what went wrong and why
• 0:X:XX — Honest failures and hard lessons from 20+ years
• 0:X:XX — The successes: what actually worked and why
• 0:X:XX — How Chrysalix's corporate-partnered model changes the game
• 0:X:XX — What the new wave of climate investors must get right

👤 About Dr. Wal van LieropPrior to founding Chrysalix, Wal spent six years as Vice President of Strategic Planning at Westcoast Energy and over seven years with McKinsey & Company advising energy, chemicals, and financial services companies on innovation and change management. Before joining the corporate world, he worked for almost a decade as an Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in economics, econometrics, and the environment. General Fusion Over a career spanning more than two decades, van Lierop raised over $350 million for Chrysalix and played a pivotal role in facilitating $3.5 billion in venture capital funding for cleantech and industrial innovation. Chrysalix He was presented with the Cleantech Group's first ever Pioneer Award in recognition of his lifetime contribution to the sector. Chrysalix He holds a PhD in Economics from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and has completed executive training in Change Management from MIT. General Fusion

Whether you are a climate investor, a cleantech entrepreneur, a corporate innovation leader, or a policymaker navigating the energy transition — this episode is essential listening.

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