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l to r: Keynote speakers Ralph Simon, founder of Mobilium Global & Sir Ronald Cohen, getting ready to take the stage before a capacity audience of 2,500 Our Crowd Summit attendees, at the Jerusalem International Convention Centre.
Sir Ronald is one of Britain’s greatest entrepreneurs & philanthropists: he created the world’s first Social Impact Bond. Chairman of The Portland Trust & Bridges Ventures, Trustee of the British Museum, he was the founding partner & former Chairman of Apax Partners, a member of the Harvard University Board of Overseers & Dean’s Advisors at Harvard Business School, member of Oxford University’s Investment Committee & Founder Director & Past Chairman of the British Venture Capital Association & former Director of NASDAQ Europe. He showed the world that private investment could be mobilised to tackle even the most complex & intractable social problems & that risk-taking for financial return can be combined with achieving social impact to change the world – in it’s own right, worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize.