by Robert Rubinstein
Radical Truth is a podcast produced by TBLI Group and hosted by Robert Rubinstein. TBLI is making the financial system work for all. Our podcast cover the wide range of ESG and Impact Investing topics. What it is? Why is it booming? Is it really helping? Is Impact regenerative in nature? How will climate change impact investments? There will be regular interviews with thought leaders, some known and some not known, but all brilliant and we will have engaging conversations with all of them. Let’s make the financial system work for all. This is Radical Truth. Visit https://tblicircle.com/
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April 29, 2025
<p>Michael Madden has over 30 years of experience in Financial Services. His success has been built on inventive business intelligence, the ability to engage with international partners, and most importantly, as a leader and consensus builder. Michael has significant knowledge of the payments industry, both cards and digital, the retail banking sector, and as a business leader and entrepreneur in emerging markets.Michael is the Managing Partner of Ronoc, an investment business he founded in 2008, which invests in financial services businesses with a focus on Central and Southeast Asia. He is the longest-serving board director of XacBank where his company Ronoc is a significant shareholder. In Myanmar, he is the founder and Chairman of OnGo, a market-leading digital payments business, that he launched in 2016.In 2003, Michael joined the Renaissance Capital Group as the founding CEO of Renaissance Credit. During his tenure, it grew to one of the largest consumer finance banks in Russia, he established a bank in Ukraine and a financial services joint venture with IKEA where he was the Chairman of IKANO Russia. At the time of his departure in 2007, the Renaissance Credit business was valued at $498 million. Before that time, beginning in 1989, Michael had a successful career with American Express, holding various positions in Ireland, then establishing the American Express Card business across Russia and the former Soviet Union, and finally in the UK as Vice President and Head of the European Dollar Card business and Head of the EMEA franchise business, with responsibility for seventeen markets.An active and engaged student of the world, Michael has a passion for sports, travel, and giving back to the community. He has visited over seventy countries, and his sense of adventure and curiosity has extended to include space, as a 2008 pioneer of the Virgin Galactic Future Astronaut program. He has also completed six marathons and multiple half marathons.What will you learn:-How do you launch a fintech company in a country that lacks everything?-How do you keep your staff safe during a coup?-What are the greatest challenges in frontier markets?<br></p>
April 22, 2025
<p>Martin Rich is the Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer of Future-Fit Foundation. He is a sustainability and impact investment specialist, with over 25 years experience in both mainstream and social investment.Martin co-founded Future-Fit Foundation over 10 years ago with a vision of helping create a society that is environmentally restorative, socially just, and economically inclusive. He previously spent 7 years as Sales Director at Social Finance Ltd, where he focused on developing the investor base for social impact investments. Before that, he worked for 13 years in international investment banking on structured debt and derivative products for JP Morgan, HSBC, and UBS.Martin also holds several senior non-executive and advisory roles, including for Access Foundation and WHEB Asset Management, and was formerly a member of the Asset Allocation Working Group for the G7 Social Investment Task Force.What will you learn:- Critically evaluate ESG's strengths and weaknesses- Explore Future-Fit alternatives- Uncover actionable strategies<br></p>
April 15, 2025
<p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/audrey-selian/?originalSubdomain=ch" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Audrey Selian</a> serves as Director of Artha Impact (Rianta Capital Zurich), a dedicated advisory to the Singh Family Trust and is co-founder of Artha Networks Inc. (ANI), a SaaS platform that has been licensed to various ecosystem-building organizations working to support investment discovery and collaboration across various sectors and geographies. </p><p><br></p><p>Audrey’s focus within the Artha portfolio has been on the deployment of private capital to high impact businesses serving the underserved in India in the agri, health and education sectors, among others.Audrey has served as an advisor to Halloran, is co-founder of ImpactforBreakfast.com, a network of over 3,500+ people across 33+ cities, and is also co-founder of Impact Hub Yerevan in Armenia and of Baraka Impact (an emerging market focused health-focused investment platform). </p><p><br></p><p>Audrey holds degrees from the Fletcher School at Tufts University (PhD, MALD), the L.S.E. (MSc) and Wellesley College (BA). In 2003-4 she was a doctoral fellow at Harvard in 2004-5. In 2022, she co-edited a book called “The Business of Building a Better World" with Prof. David Cooperrider from Case Western Reserve, published by Berrett Koehler Publishers in 2022.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Three things people will learn from this podcast:</strong></p><ol><li>What not to do in the impact finance sector</li><li>How to find the good people who get s*** done</li><li>How to avoid the posers and the imposters</li></ol>
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