Oryx Impact
Teresa Guardans is a co-founder of Oryx Impact, where efforts focus on unlocking Africa's growth potential through impact investing, mobilizing capital to foster inclusive, sustainable societies while addressing inequalities and promoting financial returns. Additionally, Teresa serves as a Non Executive Board Member at SI Capital Private Equity, an Environmental Impact Private Equity Fund, and collaborates externally with Pictet Group and formerly with Rothschild & Co. Teresa also has extensive experience in wealth management, having held the title of Director at UBS Wealth Management and Associate Director at SBC Warburg Investment Banking. Educational credentials include an MBA from IESE Business School and a BSc in International Relations from The London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Oryx Impact
Oryx Impact is an impact investment firm dedicated to investing capital into the African continent to generate local and regional jobs and economic development, mitigate climate change and promote gender equality, while generating attractive financial returns. Oryx Impact unlocks growth opportunities in Africa and increases private capital flows by investing in funds with strong local presence and networks and by seeking co-investments into companies, ultimately providing growth capital to SMEs and businesses generating essential goods and services. Oryx Impact applies a gender lens at SME and fund level, proactively seeking women-led management teams that in turn are more likely to invest in female-led businesses. Oryx Impact fosters the eco-system of impact fund managers investing in Africa, with a substantial focus on local, women-led and emerging fund managers. For that purpose, Oryx Impact will support emerging funds with a Technical Assistance (TA) facility to professionalize ESG and Impact measurement and management (IMM) practices.