Tim Sharpe

As Principal Consultant for TS Philanthropy, Mr Sharpe consults with nonprofit organization clients on strategic fundraising planning.  Prior to founding his consultancy, Tim served from 2008-2019 as Senior Director, Strategic Philanthropy for World Wildlife Fund (WWF-US) and as Global Philanthropy Advisor for WWF International. He was the founding director of the WWF Network Major Gifts Centre and from 2003 to 2008, Tim was Director of Gift Planning for WWF-US, helping build a program that raises $20+ million annually for conservation.  After starting his career in public broadcasting in Boston in 1983, Tim worked with his family’s gift planning consulting and publishing firm from 1987-2003.  He holds a BA in History from Swarthmore College and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.

Dechen Dorji

Dechen Dorji is World Wildlife Funds’s Senior Director for Asia, on the Wildlife Conservation team. Dechen oversees WWF-US’s wildlife efforts in Asia, working closely with leadership, WWF’s country offices and other WWF initiatives to help develop, implement and mobilize resources for wildlife conservation priorities in Asia.

Dechen served for seven years as WWF’s Country Representative in Bhutan, where he led a number of successful conservation efforts, notably the Bhutan for Life initiative, through which he worked closely with the former Bhutanese Prime Minister to raise $43 million, and launched some of Bhutan’s first nationwide conservation efforts for threatened species such as tigers, Snow leopards and Golden Mahseer. He is a strong advocate for the conservation of ‘lesser known species, that do not often receive adequate protection and resources for conservation. Dechen also received the National Order of Merit, Gold, from His Majesty the King for the Bhutan for Life initiative and his services to the Bhutanese environmental sector. 

Before joining WWF, Dechen served as a public policy researcher with the Peoples Project Office during Bhutan’s transition to Democracy in 2007-2008, and as the founding Director of Bhutan’s First Environmental Research and Training Institute. 

Dechen is passionate about finding innovative solutions, pushing the boundaries of partnership and advocating for greater engagement with the corporate sector and governments to deliver conservation impacts at scale and across borders.

Nina Pfifer  

Nina is Co-Founding Partner and Executive Director of The Conduit Capital, which she co-founded in 2019, following a successful career in international business and financial services. She is originally from Slovenia, but has spent last 20 years living in USA, South Africa, India, Turkey and has settled in London. 

Her prior corporate positions included co-Founder & Partner of 51North Partners (London), co-founder and partner of TR Squared Capital (Istanbul), Head of Business Development for River & Mercantile (London) and later also General Manager of Istanbul venture. 

Nina serves on the board of directors and advisory board of several companies and organisations, including Tulu Moye Geothermal S.A.S. (Ethiopia/Paris), BIM A.S. (Turkey), Akojo Market, and various conservationist organisations. 

Nina is strategic and experienced corporate finance and investor relations advisor, specifically skilled in the conceptualising of innovative financial solutions for a diverse client base with a focus on sustainable and impact focused investments. Impeccable communication skills and exposure working globally has provided a broad cultural awareness and knowledge of international financial markets.

An entrepreneur for the last 10 years (The Conduit Capital is her third PE platform) with a special focus on the renewable energy and infrastructure sector, has recently expanded into strategic funding opportunities for impact investing and foundations.

Nina’s passions include global conscious travel, cross-cultural networking, geopolitics and world affairs, as well as kiting, skiing and yoga.  

Jerome Ringo

Jerome Ringo is an environmental justice and clean energy advocate who founded and chairs renewable energy developer Zoetic Energy. Ringo chaired the National Wildlife Federation and was an associate research scholar and McCluskey Fellow for Conservation at Yale University. He was also president of the Apollo Alliance, a coalition of organized labor, environmentalist, business, and civil rights leaders dedicated to freeing the United States of dependence on foreign oil.

For 22 years after college, Ringo worked in the petrochemical industry. Over the years he recognized the suffering, respiratory disease and cancers impacting the lives of his many friends and relatives living just across the fence from the industry he worked for.

In response, Ringo  began his work in environmental activism, teaching people how to stop the discharge of refinery chemicals into neighborhoods, and he advocated lobbying state legislators on environmental laws, while encouraging citizens voice their concerns. After accepting an early retirement offer, he committed his life to full-time work on behalf of people beyond the refinery fences lines.

In 1998, he was the sole African-American delegate at the Global Warming Treaty negotiations in Kyoto, Japan, where he delivered an address.

As president of the Apollo Alliance, Ringo worked to educate the public and lobby in Washington, D.C. about investing in clean-energy sources, energy-efficient technology and jobs. The Apollo Alliance works to reinvest in the competitiveness of American industry, rebuild cities, create good jobs, and ensure good stewardship of the economy and natural environment.

In 1996, Ringo was elected to serve on the board of directors of the National Wildlife Federation. Since becoming chairman of the board in 2005, Ringo has sought to further NWF's partnerships with other organizations involved in combating ecological dangers in marginalized communities.

"The single greatest issue for me as an environmentalist is climate change," Ringo told Mother Jones in 2005.

Mr. Ringo founded Zoetic Energy to address issues such as energy security in the developing world. Zoetic has promoted hydrokinetic technology to ministers and leaders of countries throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America.