Our Vision:
Impact 10 million lives
Our Mission: Partnering with visionary leaders passionate about impacting lives around the world
Our story
After decades on different career paths, in diverse cultures and in different corporate sectors around the world, we first met while serving as CEOs of a large international NGO, Food for the Hungry. The insights gained from our immersion in the development sector combined with our deep corporate experience prompted us to found VGS, with the goal to act as a bridge and solve business and social problems in tandem.
We initially focused on pioneering models for impact investment, but increasing heard from the business community their growing interest not just to scale their businesses, but their heart to address social impact in parallel.
With our understanding of both these worlds, we applied our collective experience to frame our VGS methodologies for Scaling and Impact. We have been blessed to work with many visionary leaders as they pursued their dreams and goals.
Our team
Greg Vestri
Co-founder
Greg is highly relational and loves to walk closely with entrepreneurs and CEOs to apply smart business ideas to solve global social problems.
Greg served in C-Level executive positions in domestic and global organizations across corporate and non-profit sectors, as well as founding several of his own businesses. He served as a Partner at global consulting company Accenture, where he spent 19 years starting and scaling companies by applying key business strategies, built a $40M USD joint venture, as well as specialising in change management.
He lives in Austin, Texas.
Contact Greg:
greg@vestmentgs.com
Mobile + 1 512 656 7211
Skype: gregvestri
Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/greg-vestri-8a119b60
Peter Mawditt
Co-founder
Peter has a passion to invest in CEOs & business owners to fulfil their vision, using his strengths to operationalise strategy, guide change and build empowered teams that deliver.
As a C-Level executive with deep experience across international business and development sectors, acquiring a 22 year track-record in financial services executive roles in blue chip international banking across Asia and 13 years in UK public finance and several years leading and consulting with international non profits, before co founding VGS in 2012.
He is now based in the UK.
Contact Peter:
peter@vestmentgs.com
Mobile + 44 78 1309 4075
Skype pmawditt
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/Peter-Mawditt
Gary Zander
Partner
Gary has a passion for seeing businesses partner with non-profits demonstrating sustainable impact and loves to inspire others by effectively telling their stories of transformation. His strengths are in evaluating impact, creating robust information systems and training senior executives and their staff in communications principles.
As a C-level executive he applies his 30 years of international management and operations experience to develop financial systems, social impact processes and communications strategies to demonstrate the true impact of investments. As a former executive director of non-profits and 19+ years in senior communications and business development roles, Gary offers insight and process design innovation to provide cross-cultural solutions.
Gary is based in Canada.
Contact Gary:
gary@vestmentgs.com
Mobile +1 (780) 901-3513
Skype: garyzander
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/gzander