People
Wendy LuhabeAdvisory Board Member
Wendy Luhabe is a South African businesswoman, social entrepreneur and author. She gained 10 years of national and international corporate experience with Vanda Cosmetics and for the BMW Group. In 1991 she founded Bridging the Gap, her first exercise in social entrepreneurship. In 1994 she pioneered the founding of Women Investment Portfolio Holdings, which listed on the JSE in 1999. In 1999 she was also honoured as one of the 50 Leading Women Entrepreneurs of the World. She was inaugurated as Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg in September 2006.
MORTEN SØNDERGAARD Managementmorten@gnhfund.com
Morten Sondergaard is a serial-entrepreneur and has founded and invested in more than 80 companies over the last 20 years. Morten acts as a visionary investor with a broad spectrum of skills and a vast business experience. He applies his knowledge to the companies he invests helping them to be more successful.
GUNTER PAULIManagementgunter@gnhfund.com
Gunter Pauli, is an established pioneer who translates vision into reality, often against all odds. As an innovator he has been personally involved in the design and development of +100 projects on five continents. He founded of ZERI (Zero Emissions Emissions Research Research and Initiatives) in 1994 aiming at designing a business model without waste or emissions. It operates as a network of scientists, policy makers and entrepreneurs dedicated to implementation. One of his latest books, The Blue Economy : 10 Years, 100 innovations Innovations, 10 years 100 million Million Jobs ( a Report to the Club of Rome) describes a business model that utilizes available resources to generate livelihood, provide food security, and responds to the basic needs of all with what we have while generating jobs.
Anders WijkmanAdvisory Board Member
While Anders Wijkman started his career as a politician elected at young age to the Swedish Parliament (1971), he earned his mark as head of the Swedish Red Cross (1979-1988), leading the international aid campaign against famine in Ethiopia for which he raised and coordinated distribution in the order of US$400 million. Anders created as head of the Swedish Society for the Protection of Nature the first business endorsed ecolabels (1989-1991) which set the standard in Europe. As Assistant Secretary General of the UN, and policy director of UNDP he was instrumental in crafting global climate change policies which he continued as an elected member of the European Parliament. He serves as Chairman of the Board of the ZERI Foundation and is a board member of numerous cleantech start-up companies. He is advisor to the Stockholm Environment Institute and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Prof. Dr. Kiyoshi KUROKAWA, M.D.Advisory Board Member
Prof. Kurokawa started his career as a medical doctor, with a license both in Japan and California and an acclaimed professor of Medicine at UCLA (USA). As a leading academic he has been instrumental in crafting government policies on science and technology. First as the President of the Science Council of Japan, and then as advisor to three Japanese Prime Ministers on technology and innovation. He is an avid supporter of bold government policies that promote entrepreneurship and shift the economy towards sustainability, driven by creative and yet pragmatic approaches. Today, Professor Kurokawa works closely with some of Japan's well known and established entrepreneurs building a platform to steer business to innovation and sustainability.