Max Rutten

Principal
Helix Ventures LLC

Max is the founder of Helix Ventures LLC, a family office style investment and advisory platform located in New York.
Entrepreneur and investor, committed to building stronger and more sustainable companies that score higher on non-financial performance metrics than their peers and therefore yield higher financial returns to investors.
Corporate and strategic adviser, committed to integrating non-financial return metrics and frameworks with traditional operational and financial processes and therefore enhancing financial returns to investors.
Member of the founding Board of Advisors of GIIRS (2005 - 2008), the Global Impact Investing Rating System, a rating system that allows SME's and fund managers to measure the impact they make on community and environment.Member of the Financial Services Committee of SASB (2012 - current), the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board, which is the sustainability version of FASB, where non-financial reporting and accounting standards are integrated into financial reports.

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Main Conference Day 2 -

Thursday, October 9th, 2014

10:10 Panel Discussion: ESG Experts Panel: If you don’t pay attention to ESG, you leave money on the table

- How is money to be made through ESG? The time has come to recognize the financial benefits and dividends

- Private equity – best-in-class ESG practices so far

- For what other reasons should you pay attention to ESG? (Transparency, risk management, reporting, due diligence and branding blinding, among other reasons)

- What do the nuts and bolts of ESG implementation look like for LPs and GPs?