Press Release: Impact Asia Pacific / The Intermedia Group
Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific to scale new heights with support from leading media and events business
Impact Asia Pacific (“IAP”), producers of the globally rated Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific, is pleased to announce an exciting partnership with The Intermedia Group (“Intermedia”), a leading Australian publishing, event management and technology business.
Since its inception in 2015, the Impact Investment Summit has doubled in size with over 450 delegates from Australia, New Zealand, Asia Pacific, US, and Europe attending the last Summit. With amazing participation of leading figures from both the Australian and international impact investing sector, the Summit has become a cornerstone event.
To facilitate the Summit’s growth to new heights, IAP founders Alex Feher and Rob Irving have chosen Intermedia to provide their considerable event expertise and resourcing to lift the capacity and capability of the IAP team in their purposeful quest to shift capital as a force for good in Australia and across the region.
Experienced impact investor and Intermedia representative, Kerry Series, and Bethanie Tobin, Intermedia’s Head of Events, will join the Board of IAP and Bethanie will have an active role in the day-to-day operations. In addition, Intermedia will acquire a 25% stake in IAP and contribute capital and resources.
Commenting on the development, Alex Feher, Founder and CEO of IAP, said: “We are excited about partnering with Intermedia and how our combined strengths will help to catalyse our business for the benefit of the impact investing sector. This is the injection of additional operational capacity at just the right time to take the Summit and our planned suite of community offerings to the next level, enabling us to pursue our prime purpose to mobilise community and capital for the benefit of people and the planet and driving wisdom, courage and action”.
IAP has scheduled the next Impact Investment Summit Asia Pacific in October 2021 at the International Convention Centre, Sydney as a hybrid event of digital and face-to-face experiences. Ahead of that, there will be a series of online convenings and the ImpactConnect Funds Day in May 2021.
Simon Grover, CEO of Intermedia, said: “I love the passion of the IAP team and their success in building the pre-eminent event in the impact investing sector. As specialists in events, Intermedia can provide the operational support to allow the team to focus their efforts on delivering engaging content that is relevant and important to the development and scaling of the sector”.
For further information, please contact:
Alex Feher alex@impactinvestmentsummit.com (0419 605 349)
Rob Irving rob@impactinvestmentsummit.com (0418 633 410)
Bethanie Tobin btobin@intermedia.com.au (0413 762 757)