Goodwell was founded and is managed by an international team of professionals:
Wim van der Beek
Vineet Rai
Els Boerhof
Bernadette Blom
Bob Assenberg
Leonie Haakshorst
Annette Broerse-Nijsen
Pradeep Pathiyamveetil
'Tokunboh Ishmael
Patricia Safo
André Plomp
Wim van der Beek (1960)
Founding Partner The Netherlands
Wim van der Beek is a social venturer with two decades of experience in financial structuring, investment funds and cross border direct investments. In 2004 he decided to 'walk his talk' and founded Goodwell Investments, a social investment firm focussed on high impact high return investment solutions.
Before launching Goodwell, Wim co-founded and managed an institutional fund advisory company. Prior to that, he was a partner in the financial services international tax practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Amsterdam. Wim is advisor at Intellecap and Aavishkaar in India and board member of BASIX in India.
Vineet Rai (1971)
Founding Partner India
Vineet is a serial social entrepreneur and leading microfinance expert. He has been involved in innovative finance mechanisms for over a decade. He has experience in small business incubation, SME sector, microfinance and venture capital investments. Vineet co-founded Rural Innovations Network and Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund, arguably the world's first for-profit micro-equity fund. He founded Intellecap, a leading development finance consultancy and innovator consisting of 30 professionals and operating out of Mumbai, Hyderabad and Varanasi.
Vineet is an Ashoka Fellow, and serves on the advisory board of L-RAMP at IIT Chennai (Lemelson Foundation India Initiative), and the Joint Task Force of the Government of Uttranchal on Social Venture Capital.
Els Boerhof (1970)
Partner The Netherlands
Els is a development finance specialist. She was six years with FMO before joining Goodwell in 2008. At FMO she was the Manager of the Micro & Small Enterprise Fund MASSIF, which she expanded from €200 mln per end 2005 to over €300 mln per end 2007. She was a non-executive board member of Acción Investments in Microfinance (USA) and member of the Credit Committee of the AfricInvest Financial Sector Fund and OxfamNovib (later Triple Jump). Previously she held the positions of Manager Business Development and Investment Officer Asia. Els also worked for MeesPierson in International Trade & Commodity Finance and has a Master's Degree in Development Economics from Tilburg University.
Bernadette Blom(1968)
Partner the Netherlands
Bernadette Blom is an investment professional. Before joining Goodwell Bernadette co-founded and was managing director of Corporate Connect , a financial advisory firm with strong focus on emerging markets and alternative products, for nine years. During this period she advised various investors and social investment funds with regard to strategic issues, deal structuring and fundraising. Prior to Corporate Connect Bernadette worked for Accenture(Amsterdam) as senior strategy consultant for financial services and Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi investment banking (London). Bernadette started her career
at ABN AMRO Bank where she spent five years within the investment banking global clients division (Amsterdam). Bernadette has a master's degree in financial economics from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.
Bob Assenberg (1967)
Partner the Netherlands
Bob Assenberg is an allround investment and finance professional with 20 years of experience in investments, fund management and general management. Bob has a decade of impact investment experience in developing countries. Before joining Goodwell, Bob worked at Triodos Bank where he was responsible for management of a microfinance fund as well as management of equity funds for renewable energy, both in Europe and developing countries. Also he was a board member and investment committee member with microfinance institutions in India. Prior to Triodos Bank, Bob was General Manager at ProCredit Bank in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Previously Bob spent a number of years with FMO and at the start of his career eight years with multionational companies in the Netherlands and UK. Bob has a Master's Degree in Business Economics from Groningen University.
Leonie Haakshorst (1971)
Fund administrator / mid-officer
Leonie Haakshorst has a background in rural business development and financial management, inter alia at a sustainable food company FairConnect and at the Dutch development organisation ICCO. She manages fund administration matters and is in charge of connecting the streams of information and money between our more than 30 investors in our five investment companies and their investees through our investment teams in four countries. Leonie has a Master's Degree in Development Studies from Nijmegen University and a Master of Science in business administration. She also followed a Microfinance Training Course at Nairopa University in Boulder, USA.
Annette Broerse-Nijsen (1972)
Senior Investment Manager The Netherlands
Annette Broerse-Nijsen is an investment professional with experience in investment banking, asset management and strategy consulting. She worked for ABN AMRO Bank for almost ten years in various positions in several countries. She decided to make a move away from haute finance to focus on microfinance and within Goodwell she is involved in several projects in the field of integrated microfinance, renewable energy and water and sanitation. Annette has a Master's Degree in Economics from the University of Groningen.
Pradeep Pathiyamveetil (1972)
COO Investment Team India
Pradeep is COO of the investment team in India, with extensive experience in project finance, private equity investing and business development in rural India. Pradeep joined Aavishkaar in March 2002 as a Project Manager. Since then he has become a specialist in financial analysis and evaluation of small and medium size enterprises (SME's) and microfinance institutions. Previously he was six years with Rajshree Sugars and Chemicals in Coimbatore as Deputy Manager, Finance. Pradeep holds an MBA degree from the T. A. Pai Management Institute in Manipal, India.
'Tokunboh Ishmael (1966)
Partner Nigeria
Tokunboh is an investment professional with almost 20 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, technology and new business development in the USA, Europe and Africa. She is one of the two founders of Alitheia Capital, a Nigerian alternative asset company, established in 2007, and was previously country manager for Aureos Capital in Nigeria.
‘Tokunboh is a director on the board of the African Venture Capital Association. She is a CFA charter holder; holds an MBA from the London Business School and a Masters (MSc) degree in Advanced Computing Methods from the University of London.
Patricia Safo (1969)
Partner Ghana
Patricia is an entrepreneur with extensive experience in business start-ups, fresh product procurement and exports out of Ghana. She has established and (co-) owns two companies in fresh fruit and fish farming, the latter being the first one in Africa to use floating net cages. She was one of the founders of
Blue Skies, a fruit cutting and packaging company, which has won a Queen‟s award for Sustainability in 2008, ten years after its operations in Ghana started.
In 2004 she started JCS Investments, an advisory firm which in 2006 obtained the mandate to manage the first venture capital fund established by the Ghanaian government. Patricia holds a BA in Economics and Information Technology and an MSc. in Financial Management from MiddlesexUniversity in the UK.
André Plomp (1947)
Special Advisor
André is the former managing director of Barclays De Zoete Wedd in The Netherlands, with a long career in capital markets and the investment industry.
Local Entrepreneurs
Lakshmamma was able to buy a buffalo of Rs 12,000 with a loan of Rs 10,000. The buffalo produces 4 ltrs milk a day, at Rs 14 a liter. Twice a day she can deliver the milk at a government dairy point, 1 km from her house. She makes about Rs 330 a week, minus Rs 220 repayment on her loan: nett profit Rs 100 (USD 2). Affordable loans enable women to build their own business, to increase and stabilize their income, and to reduce their vulnerability.
