Reece Proudfoot — Head of Innovation and Impact Investment at WWF-Australia
About Reece
Reece Proudfoot is Head of Innovation and Impact Investment at WWF-Australia. In 2017, Reece founded WWF's 'Panda Labs' - a global innovation accelerator designed to solve some of the world’s most complex social and environmental problems in collaboration with influential partners. Successful ventures to date include ‘OpenSC’, a profit-for-purpose venture launched with BCG DV to transform global food supply chains, which raised US$4million at seed round, and ‘Impactio.Global’, a global venture and deal flow curation platform, that surfaces and supports portfolios of high impact ventures.
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Reece is currently leading WWF’s post-bushfire resilience and innovation Program “Innovate to Regenerate”, with a mission to help transition Australia’s economy to a regenerative economy and help future-proof Australian communities and natural environment, involving a $2 million innovation challenge and solutions fund, impact investing strategy, nationwide narrative and storytelling initiative, capacity and capability building and partnership engagement.
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