Cameron Neil

Co-Founder
LendForGood and Red Hat Impact

Cameron is co-founder and director of Red Hat Impact, a small Australian impact investment and advisory business.

Red Hat Impact is pioneering crowd lending approaches to bridging the missing middle in impact finance to help founders, entrepreneurs and business managers grow businesses with positive social and environmental impact. Together with StartSomeGood, Red Hat Impact is launching the LendForGood platform to enable more lenders and enterprises to harness crowdlending to grow impact in their communities and around the world.

Title: Financing The Big Shift: Stories of Innovation from the Field

Synopsis: Making The Big Shift in our society that we need means getting capital to those enterprises who are doing the hard work. How capital works needs to shift as well. This panel presents three new models for how this is happening and how you can be involved.

Early Ethical Entrepreneur Pitch Judge

Date: 22nd of February 2023

Time: 11:00am to 12:00pm

Venue: Prest Theatre (University of Melbourne, FBE Theatre 1, Room G06) 111 Barry Street, Carlton 3053

Panelists: Cameron Neil; Ally Atmadja; David Carbines and Arjun Agarwal

Date: 23rd of February 2023

Time: 6:30pm

Venue: The Woodward, Level 10 Law Building, Carlton VIC 3053

Finalists:
Jess McDonald, Founder of High Tees
Morris Misel, Advisory Board Member of Enabled.vip presents Dr Gary Allen
Kiana Mei, Youth Markets Melbourne
Jenni Harding, Founder and Managing Director Greatest Good
Nathan Lee, Co-Founder at Stint Community
Vonne Yang, Founder of InRo

Judges:
Liz Ellis, Strategic Communications & Engagement Specialist | Performance Leadership coach | Mentor| Consultant | NLP | DISC
Cameron Neil, Co-Founder Lend for Good and Red Hat Impact
Georgina Tilleyshort, Head of Client Services at Common Code
Phil Ore, Co-CEO and Chief Mentor of 25eight
Jonathan West, Partner/Auctioneer Nelson Alexander
Tom Dawkins, Co-Founder and CEO of StartSomeGood

Special Guests:
David Titeu, Founder and Director at Linkmate
Amanda Morgan, Director/Head of Research and Development - Fungi Solutions
MC:
Chloe Beavers, Experience Curator at Curate Space
Entertainment:
Elena Konikkos, Melbourne Musician and Singer
Art activity:
The Connect Project