How is ESG value creation propelling private markets?
How is ESG value creation propelling private markets?


Ethan Levine is Head of Real Assets and Sustainability, a member of the Investment Committee and Senior Executive Group of CF Private Equity. His primary responsibilities include due diligence, investment selection, portfolio construction, monitoring, and fundraising for the firm’s real assets and sustainability programs, which include mandates surrounding natural resources and environmental sustainability that are constructed with co-investments, direct operating platforms, secondaries and primaries. Additionally, he contributes to the firm’s buyouts, growth equity, and venture capital strategies.
Ethan originally joined CF Private Equity in 2007 as a Senior Analyst in the CF Private Equity Associate Program. Prior to CF Private Equity, Ethan specialized in energy markets at Charles River Associates, an economic and litigation consulting firm in Boston, MA. At Charles River Associates, he advised power and utility clients with their damages litigation, regulatory approval and business strategy forecasting. While at business school, Ethan worked at Rockland Capital, a power generation focused private equity firm, headquartered in The Woodlands, TX, where he conducted due diligence on potential power generation asset acquisitions and helped manage existing portfolio investments. Ethan is a member of the advisory boards of several private equity limited partnerships. He is the treasurer and former chairperson of the Board for Hillel at Dartmouth College. Ethan received a B.A., B.E. and an M.E.M. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Joining the Revaia leadership team in 2019 as CFO/ COO in charge of ESG, Revaia’s Head of ESG & Sustainability, Bettina Denis, has over two decades of corporate experience. Having graduated at from EDHEC Business School, Bettina started her career at Deloitte, where she spent 17 years as an Audit Manager and then Director of Transaction Services. From here she built her foundation that led her to Revaia. Bettina is also a shareholder of ‘Team of the Planet,’ and a Member of France Invests’ Sustainability Commission. Bettina holds a Certification AMF and Facilitator Climate Fresk from La Fresque du Climat.

Leela Ramnath is Senior Vice President and Global Head of Sustainability Strategy at Warburg Pincus, where she leads global sustainability and ESG strategy for the firm, collaborates with investment teams and portfolio companies to drive and optimize implementation, and manages key partnerships. Leela has twenty years of experience working across capital markets, emerging markets, and ESG. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, she led innovation and sustainability at an impact-focused investment firm and worked in international development as a Technoserve Fellow in East Africa and at the Millennium Challenge Corporation. She previously worked at Barclays covering emerging markets and in securitized products at a global insurer. Leela is a board member at ClimeCo, LLC and Ownership Works. She is a former Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations and holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Arts in International Relations from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Tracey is Co-Founding and Managing Partner at Future Business Partnership, a thematic impact private equity manager run by a team of sector specialists. By backing authentically mission-driven sustainability champions, FBP empowers the transition towards low carbon, resource efficient and socially positive household consumption. As UK’s highest scoring B Corp and operating a 100% impact-linked carry scheme,
FBP is tailored to be the investor of choice for a sector where environmental and social progress represents a commercial competitive advantage; a sector which is resilient, fast-growing and, as yet, is underserved. FBP’s diverse team has been securing investments in established European market leaders in sustainable household consumer products since 2022, backed by leading institutional LPs predominately representing pension funds’ PE allocations. They are now preparing to raise Europe’s first dedicated consumer-specialist sustainable transition fund.
Tracey has 20 years of private equity experience investing in consumer businesses across Europe for DB Capital Partners, MidOcean Partners, Terra Firma and NEO Investment Partners. With board-level experience at brands including Odeon Cinemas, Tank & Rast, Tom Dixon, Naif Care and Big Green Smile, she has first-hand experience of both the opportunities and complexity faced by consumer businesses of every scale. With a personal passion for the environment, her community and workplace ethics, as well as a recognition of the scale of the commercial opportunity, Tracey’s focus now is to partner with authentically purpose-driven founders and senior talent to scale the next generation of sustainable business success stories: delivering top tier financial returns at the same time as driving positive change.
Tracey is a Chartered Accountant (SA) and started her career with Deloitte in Johannesburg before coming to London and entering private equity. Tracey lives in London, with her daughter.

Wee Kii Teh is a Portfolio Manager in Allianz Global Investors’ Development Finance & Impact Credit team. Since joining the team in 2021, Wee Kii has focused on the Blended Finance partnership between Allianz and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) (completing the vehicle upsize in 2022), as well as supporting the build-out of the Impact Private Credit strategy and ongoing deployment across other credit-enhanced debt strategies.
Prior to AllianzGI, Wee Kii was at Bank of America Merrill Lynch for 6 years, where she worked on the Emerging Markets bond origination & structuring desk and subsequently the syndicated Loan Capital Markets desk, focusing on acquisition financings and general corporate refinancings for large European and Emerging Markets financial institutions and corporate clients.
Wee Kii Teh holds a Bachelor's of Science (BSc) degree in Biotechnology from Imperial College London, where she graduated with First Class Honours.
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