Alex Sloan has spent his career investing in and successfully growing entrepreneurial for-profit and nonprofit organizations that seek to drive financial and/or social impact. Sloan currently serves as vice president of strategic partnerships and communications at Tides, a global philanthropic partner and nonprofit accelerator that facilitates effective grantmaking and impact investing for individual and institutional donors and also provides infrastructure and nonprofit management services to hundreds of social change organizations nationwide. Sloan leads Tides’ marketing, communications, and client engagement efforts and serves on Tides’ executive team. He was previously director of innovation investments and portfolio director at the Skoll Foundation. He serves as founding chairman and president of Excelerate Foundation and on several other charitable boards.

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Dolph Habeck and his team are responsible for executing new issuance of sustainability and green financings across currencies at Morgan Stanley. They work with issuers to design marketing and roadshow programs, direct the positioning of the offering with investors, guide an efficient allocation strategy, and ultimately price the transaction. Additionally, Habeck has senior responsibilities across Morgan Stanley’s Investment Grade Corporate, Emerging Market, and Non-Bank Financial syndicate desks. Habeck joined Morgan Stanley’s London office in 2011 to focus on leading debt financings for Investment Grade Corporates and Emerging Markets borrowers and moved to Morgan Stanley’s New York office in 2016. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Habeck was responsible for Emerging Markets Syndicate (CEEMEA) with Goldman Sachs, also in London.

Mark Allen is responsible for managing strategic partners across Merck’s program portfolio, including Merck for Mothers’ (MfM) partnership with the Global Financial Facility.  Allen also has oversight of MfMs’ digital portfolio. Previously, Allen was the managing director for Africa programs with Malaria No More, managing the organization’s investments across six countries. He started his professional career in international development at the Touch Foundation, a McKinsey & Co.-founded organization focused on building human resource capacity in the health sector in Tanzania. Prior to the Touch Foundation, he lived in rural Kenya as a Peace Corps volunteer. Allen has over 20 years of experience in both the private and international development sectors.

William Center is responsible for the day-to-day account management for bi-lateral and multilateral organizations based in the United States. Center has had an extensive international diplomatic/business career encompassing tours of duty at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the World Bank, and various diplomatic/commercial assignments in Taipei, Hong Kong, Shenyang, Shanghai, Paris, Johannesburg, and Islamabad.  He is a recipient of the highest honorary award given by the U.S. Department of Commerce, and he was admitted into the ranks of the Senior Foreign Service.

With strong project management skills and a background in CSR analysis, Charlotte supports companies in the financial services, consumer products, transport and logistics, and information and communication technology industries with advice on sustainability strategy, supply chain, and human rights.

Charlotte leads BSR’s financial services practice in Europe. Before joining BSR, Charlotte was an analyst for nearly five years at Innovest and Vigeo, two socially responsible investment rating agencies. Through her work as an analyst, Charlotte covered the energy, automobile, retail, and software sectors. Charlotte is bilingual in French and English.

She holds an M.A. in CSR Management from the University of Paris XII and a B.A. in International Affairs from the University of Colorado.