Sir Ronald Cohen

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Sir Ronald Mourad Cohen is a British investor who works in concert with "his pal, Jacob Rothschild". [1]

Organizations

Sir Ronald Cohen holds a leadership role in many institutions.

Apax Partners

Apax Partners was founded by Ronald Cohen as England's first venture capital firm.[1]

Apax Partners chairman Martin Halusa was one of several financiers scrubbed from the website of the Russian Direct Investment Fund after the events of August 2014.[2]

Former Apax partner Jeremy Reffin is co-director of the Text Analysis Group (taglaboratory.org) at the University of Sussex, and is a member of Demos.[3]

Former Apax partner Barbara Vogelstein is a member of Third Way and a former partner at Warburg Pincus.[4]

Future PLC

Future PLC was bought by Apax Venture Partners in 1998. Future's properties included Edge Magazine which ran several articles denouncing video games and the people who play them.

  • April 2002 cover story: Videogames are pointless. Discuss. Why academics and the mass media see you as a silly child playing silly games.
  • April 2003 cover story: Bored to death of videogames? Gaming reaches its mid-life crisis.
  • January 2004 cover story Mainstream: Why the days of hardcore gamers are numbered.

As of 2020, Future PLC's brands include:[5]

  • Anandtech
  • Cinema Blend
  • Tom's Guide (Tom's Hardware)
  • Marie Claire
  • PC Gamer
  • Space.com
  • TechRadar

Portland Trust

Portland Trust develops in PLO-controlled territories.[1] Its senior officers include Sir Michael Levy.[6]

Bridges Ventures

Also known as Bridges Fund Management. Led by Ronald Cohen and Brian Trelstad of the Bridgespan Group.

Jewish Leadership Council

Cohen is a "senior figure in the Jewish Leadership Council" of Britain.[1]

Israel Policy Forum

The Israel Policy Forum was founded[6] by Ronald Cohen and Shimon Peres in 1993 to lobby against the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and in favor of the surrender of Judea to the Palestine Liberation Organization which had pledged in 1974 to use the territory as a staging ground to invade Israel.[7]

In 2010 the Israel Policy Forum merged with the Center for American Progress, part of a project of the UK FCO to re-brand Islamist terrorist organisations as proponents of “social justice”.[8]

The Israel Policy Forum board as of 2016 included:[9]

  • Charles Bronfman of Canada, nephew of Edgar Bronfman Jr. of InterActiveCorp and co-founder of the Mega Group with Leslie Wexner
  • Susie Gelman, past president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
  • Peter A. Joseph of Palladium Partners and JLL
  • E. Robert Goodkind (Bob Goodkind) - partner in Pryor Cashman LLP and former president of the American Jewish Committee
  • Peter Kolevson, Founding Chair and Past President of the Manhattan Jewish Community Center
  • Marion Lev Cohen, Director of Adult Engagement at Central Synagogue in New York
  • David A. Halperin - executive director. Former reporter for Ha'aretz.

Notable followers of the Israel Policy Forum include: [10]

  • Lester Crown, Chicago businessman
  • Marvin Lender, founder of Lender's Bagels and former National Chairman of United Jewish Appeal;
  • Rabbi Daniel Gordis, President of the Shalem Center
  • Deborah Lipstadt, professor of Holocaust studies at Emory University
  • Bernard Nussbaum, former White House Counsel
  • Thomas Dine, a former executive director of AIPAC
  • Richard Pearlstone, former chairman of the Jewish Agency
  • Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

Global Steering Group for Impact Investment

The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment is led by Ronald Cohen, Amit Bhatia, and Krisztina Tora[11] of the Global Social Entrepreneurship Network[12] of Muhammad Yunus[13] of Grameen Bank.

The Global Steering Group claimed to control $23 trillion in assets. [14]

The American members of the Global Steering Group include: [15]

Supporting organizations:

Social Finance

Board: [16]

  • Bracebridge H. Young
  • Tracy Palandjian - President and CEO
  • Sonal Shah - vice chair and director through Dec 2016. Founder of the White House Office of Social Innovation and Civic Participation.
  • Sir Ronald Mourad Cohen
  • Alex Friedman - director through Dec 2016
  • Nancy Zimmerman - clerk and director
  • Sandra Urie
  • Laurene Sperling
  • Pamela Dippel Choney - Treasurer and director
  • Ed Shapiro - vice chair and director
  • Ian Simmons
  • Lara Metcalf - managing director
  • Navjeet K. Bal - VP and general counsel
  • Jeffrey Shumway - VP advisory
  • Caitlin Reimers Brumme - program director
  • Nirav Shah - program director
  • Joanna Vanden - program director
  • Casey Littlefield - program director
  • Rashmi Khare

Contractors:

  • Jones Day - legal services ($148k)

Social Impact Investment Taskforce

  • Sir Ronald Cohen
  • Ben Thornley - Pacific Community Ventures
  • Tracy Palandjian - Social Finance US
  • Carol Thompson Cole - Venture Philanthropy Partners
  • Seth Goldman - Honest Tea
  • Antony Bugg-Levine - Nonprofit Finance Fund
  • Dave Chen - Equilibrium Capital
  • Mindy Tarlow - Center for Employment Opportunities
  • Lori Kaplan - Latin American Youth Center

Social Finance Israel

Board:[17]

  • Sir Ronald Cohen
  • David Baruch
  • Martin Karp of the Jewish Federation of Los Angeles
  • Galia Maor of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
  • Chemi Peres of the Peres Center for Peace
  • Ariel Weiss - CEO of Yad Hanadiv, the Rothschild Foundation
  • Anath Levin, former chief investment officer of Clal, part of Russia's Alfa Group
  • Amir Levi - Board Member, Former Director of the Budgets Department, Ministry of Finance
  • Dr. Sigal Shelach - Board Member, CEO, JDC-Israel


Vatican Impact Investment Conference

Ronald Cohen is a participant in the Vatican Impact Investment Conference [18]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Nick Mathiason, The high priest of money-making, The Observer, Sunday 4 November 2007
  2. ↑ Simon Clark, American Billionaires Vanish From Russian Fund's Website, Wall Street Journal, Sept. 3, 2014, https://www.wsj.com/articles/names-of-u-s-billionaires-vanish-from-russian-funds-website-1409747234 http://archive.is/YgKSe
  3. ↑ Our People, Demos, https://demos.co.uk/about/our-people https://archive.is/KG7IL
  4. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/200805160748 20/http://thirdway.org/leadership/trustees/
  5. ↑ Our Brands", Future PLC, https://www.futureplc.com/our-brands/
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Moshe Dann, Israel Policy Forum: A Network of Intrigue, Frontpage Magazine, Thu Aug 9, 2012 https://archives.frontpagemag.com/fpm/israel-policy-forum-network-intrigue-moshe-dann/
  7. ↑ The PLO's "Phased Plan", Information Regarding Israel's Security, https://iris.org.il/plophase.htm
  8. ↑ Israelinurse, Presenting the “progressive” (Guardian approved) group, Avaaz – astroturfing for Hamas, UK Media Watch, October 19, 2011 https://ukmediawatch.org/2011/10/19/presenting-the-progressive-guardian-approved-group-avaaz-–-astroturfing-for-hamas/ https://archive.md/8ahQE
  9. ↑ Israel Policy Forum form 990, 2016 http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/900/900653286/900653286_201612_990.pdf
  10. ↑ Gil Ronen, 40 U.S. Jewish Figures to Bibi: Bury Levy Report, Israel National News, 15.07.12, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/157874
  11. ↑ About Us, Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, http://gsgii.org/about-us/
  12. ↑ Krisztina Tora, Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, https://gsgii.org/contacts/krisztina-tora/
  13. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20160115140708/http://www.gsen.global/members
  14. ↑ Chris Jurgens, Why We Invested — Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, Omidyar Network, https://medium.com/positive-returns/why-we-invested-global-steering-group-for-impact-investment-91c252511b79 https://archive.is/0dbBQ
  15. ↑ United States - GSG, Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, https://web.archive.org/web/20180210111000/http://gsgii.org/nabs/united-states/
  16. ↑ Social Finance form 990, 2016 http://990s.foundationcenter.org/990_pdf_archive/274/274620963/274620963_201612_990.pdf
  17. ↑ Board of Directors, Social Finance Israel, http://www.social-finance.org.il/category/Board-of-Directors https://archive.is/jFuOt
  18. ↑ Vatican Impact Investment Conference, https://www.viiconference.org/speakers/ https://archive.is/dGYyF
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