We are a community of finance professionals, investors, private-to-public entrepreneurs, CEO’s, systems change architects, leadership coaches, filmmakers, poets and philanthropists who recognize the power of unleashing capital for global systemic change, and believe that change starts from within.
Heidi Cuppari is a meta-leader in social impact investing and women’s leadership. Her firm, Anastasia Impact, brings relationship-based innovations to traditional support approaches. It activates — and supports maximizing the global impact of — Millennials and women investors through strategic collaboration and collective paradigm alignment.
Her projects range from co-funding and co-launching The Posner Center for International Development — a global program of 60+ innovation-focused NGOs and companies with a shared mission of developing global poverty solutions — to being a lifetime member of Impact Hub Boulder, and Advisory Board Member for TreeSisters.org, a global women’s network accelerating global reforestation and shifts toward sustainable living.
She is the creatrix of the iDE Ambassador Group: a consortium of high net-worth benefactors who invested time, capital, and skill directly into the iDE. Other projects range from co-funding and co-launching The Posner Center for International Development — a global program of 60+ innovation-focused NPOs and companies with a shared mission of developing global poverty solutions — to being a Board of Trustees Member for TreeSisters.org, a global women’s network accelerating global reforestation and shifts toward sustainable living. And while at UBS, her meta-niche was increasing global systems shifts through broadening the scope of investment opportunities and retargeting their financial resources specifically on constructive social change.
Heidi walks her mission's talk: manifesting a peaceful, healed planet through aligning significant, positive social impact with collaborative, collective action.
Heidi Cuppari
Founder & CEO
Heidi Cuppari
Founder & CEO
Heidi Cuppari is a meta-leader in social impact investing and women’s leadership. Her firm, Anastasia Impact, brings relationship-based innovations to traditional support approaches. It activates — and supports maximizing the global impact of — Millennials and women investors through strategic collaboration and collective paradigm alignment.
Her projects range from co-funding and co-launching The Posner Center for International Development — a global program of 60+ innovation-focused NGOs and companies with a shared mission of developing global poverty solutions — to being a lifetime member of Impact Hub Boulder, and Advisory Board Member for TreeSisters.org, a global women’s network accelerating global reforestation and shifts toward sustainable living.
She is the creatrix of the iDE Ambassador Group: a consortium of high net-worth benefactors who invested time, capital, and skill directly into the iDE. Other projects range from co-funding and co-launching The Posner Center for International Development — a global program of 60+ innovation-focused NPOs and companies with a shared mission of developing global poverty solutions — to being a Board of Trustees Member for TreeSisters.org, a global women’s network accelerating global reforestation and shifts toward sustainable living. And while at UBS, her meta-niche was increasing global systems shifts through broadening the scope of investment opportunities and retargeting their financial resources specifically on constructive social change.
Heidi walks her mission's talk: manifesting a peaceful, healed planet through aligning significant, positive social impact with collaborative, collective action.
Simona Musilkova
Operations, Financial Analyst, and Spiritual Coach
Simona Musilkova was born and raised in the Czech Republic. Simona served as a Director of Investment Banking at Internet Securities and sourced, structured, and implemented corporate finance transactions in financial services, real estate, alternative energy, water, agriculture, and clean technology industry sectors. Prior to Internet Securities, she served as a Vice President for the Capital Access Group at Merriman Curhan Ford & Co. where she developed and managed fundraising activities for external hedge funds, venture capital firms, and private equity funds. At Capstone Investments, Ms. Musilkova participated in extensive research and development efforts in order to provide portfolio managers and traders with sophisticated and effective trading software platforms. Her focus was to provide advanced trading solutions to help clients enhance returns by lowering their trading costs. At the Custom House Group, Simona administered offshore funds for U.S. and European hedge fund managers and established and maintained an extensive client base in the U.S.
She holds a B.S. in Finance from Santa Clara University. Ms. Musilkova possesses FINRA Series 7, 63 and 65 licenses.
Along with being in corporate finance for 18 years, in 2008, Simona graduated from a Clairvoyant and Energy Healing program at Berkeley Psychic Institute as a licensed Spiritual Counselor. She also holds a certification in Yoga Nidra – iRest Level I from the Integrative Restoration Institute in California.
Over the past 13 years, Simona has studied indigenous wisdom and shamanic practices from all over the world. Since 2008, she has led workshops, sacred ceremonies, and ecstatic dances across the U.S. and in Bali.
Simona Musilkova
Operations, Financial Analyst, and Spiritual Coach
Jennifer Menke is Project Director of Regenerative Economy Lab, and President of Regenerative Earth a 501(c)3 non profit corporation. In 2015, she was nominated as an emerging global leader by the Academy for Systems Change and resides as a fellow of the organization. Jennifer has been managing a project in the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica for the past 3 years, facilitating local communities and governments to develop and implement a regenerative rainforest economy in which the community, ecosystem, and economy all thrive. Jennifer’s community resource mapping and facilitation techniques translate to diverse projects around the world, facilitating the rapid evolution of sustainable economic models. She also curates nature-based immersion retreat experiences for executives, investors, and leaders in their field.
Through 15 years of dedicated training to actualize her vision, she started with a BA in environmental studies and ecopsychology from University of Colorado and Naropa University. She deepened her studies with 13 different North and Central American indigenous cultures, nature based spiritual elders, social sustainability entrepreneurs, and the Earth directly. For 11 years during this time she apprenticed with John P. Milton and The Way of Nature, spending over 500 days combined in nature solitary retreats, and has worked as a senior guide of Sacred Passage for the past 5 years. Currently studying with La’ne Saan Moonwalker, an internationally recognized Native American spiritual teacher and healer, Jennifer has been initiated as an environmental guardian and is following a traditional path to become a spiritual elder herself. Through her work Jennifer has brought many individuals into deep relationship with all living things, opening hearts to the realization of Source, and regenerating native ecosystems in urban environments through her landscape design business and nature based retreats. Her guidance has inspired leaders in their fields to create sustainable change within themselves, their communities, and their businesses, to the benefit of all. More recently she has been lead to collaborate on projects and initiatives that address the interface between social, economic, and biological systems and how to bring these into optimal harmony for the purpose of regenerating some of our most critical ecosystems globally.
Jennifer Menke,
Co-Facilitator
Amber Nystrom, Co-Founding Principal, 5th Element Group; Co-Founder and CEO, Fifth Element Fund
Ranked as one of the top global 2018 “Real Leaders 100” by Real Leaders Magazine, Amber is among the world’s foremost innovators of large-scale global systems change, and a leading pioneer in impact investing. She is a founding Principal of the 5thElement Group, a next economy for-benefit company that is harnessing the most innovative blockchain and smart contract technologies into new impact capital vehicles and products of digital value exchange to deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She also serves at Co-Founder and CEO for the Fifth Element Fund, a fully independent Donor Advised Fund (DAF) that distinctly bridges highly tax advantaged and philanthropic giving and digital crypto and token currencies towards de-risking and mainstreaming moonshots to meet the SDGs. Together, these sister impact platforms serve as a Supercluster of Innovation and global collaboration destination to bridge historic last mile innovation gaps and to begin to take true quantum leaps for humanity’s future.
Amber is credited with numerous world firsts across sustainable finance and global innovation ecosystems. She has shaped impact strategies for HNW/UHNW families and finance firms with over $13.5 trillion in AUM, and marshaled $200 billion into sustainability globally. She serves with 5th Element as the architect and President of the Decade Of Women, a decade solutions campaign to complete the gender equity revolution; and the Curator of the SDG Finance Summit, mobilizing women, millennials and the $60 trillion wealth transfer they will receive into meet the SDGs. She is a committed mindfulness practitioner, Master Global Systems Change Facilitator; Guide for the Heroes Journey; and advocate for a dignified and regenerative future with women and the feminine leading the way. She is also a Co-Producer of the SDG Heroes Series and of the first of book trilogy of intimate photographs and interviews of women leaders in their power – “Women of Iceland in Their Power: Daughters of Fire and Ice.”
Amber Nystrom
Strategic Advisor
Leslie's lifelong career interest has been to help transform global finance and energy systems to enable a peaceful, just and sustainable world.
She was the first woman entrepreneur, Co-Founder and Chairman of a solar energy manufacturing company. She co-founded two solar companies: LightPath Technologies which as Chairman and CEO, she later repositioned as an optical technologies developer/manufacturer and took it public in 1996; and Solaria Corporation in 1999, which is a developer/manufacturer of advanced solar modules and systems solutions. While active, her companies raised a combined total of over $300 million from private and public markets and employed hundreds of people.
Leslie began her career as a documentary filmmaker working with Alaskan indigenous people to protect their subsistence resources and rights. She produced films with funding from Corporation of Public Broadcasting (PBS), Alaska Humanities Forum, US Department of Interior, State of Alaska, and the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission.
Leslie holds two patents, was named the New Mexico Inventor of the Year in 1997 for the invention of GRADIUM glass, and was featured in many periodicals including Business Week and the Wall Street Journal. In 2004, she worked with Susan Davis to create the Solar Circle, a network of solar energy experts. From 2000-2002, she served as Chairman of the Worldwide Indigenous Science Network which is dedicated to preserving and furthering the wisdom of indigenous mind. In 2000, she co-initiated Equal Access which was created to bring information access to the most remote and underserved regions.
Currently, Leslie serves as an Advisor at Anastasia Impact, and is an advisor to TreeSisters, Ethical Markets, and WorldBlu . She is a Sisters on the Planet Ambassador which is an OxFam Initiative, and is a member of the Solar Circle and the CareFirst Innovation Network.
Leslie is a long time meditator and has been dedicated to her own spiritual journey for over 40 years. Through her work, she is now focused on supporting others in their personal transformational journeys. She currently lives in the mountains of Crestone, Colorado.
Leslie Danziger
Strategic Advisor
Praful Shah grew up in an Indian village without electricity and running water. After high school, he came to New York City for college where he obtained his B.S. in Chemistry. He obtained his MBA degree in the evening program while working at Pfizer. He went on to obtain his PhD in Pharmaceutics. He spent over thirty years as a scientist and an executive in research and development of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.
Since his retirement in 2007, he has been an entrepreneur and a successful private angel investor in the Boulder area and has invested in over 25 startup companies including BhaktiChai, PharmaJet, Lassy Project, Sundolier, Aunt Bertha and TeamSnap. Praful invests in companies that blend improving the lives of people, society and significant financial returns. He recently published an article on the Huffington Post about his social impact investing journey: It's Time to End the Misconception That Impact Investing Isn't Financially Profitable
Praful is also a co-founder for Principium, Angel in Residence for Innosphere, Board of Director for Rockies Venture Club and a member of Investor Circle.
He is forever grateful to all the people and organizations that helped him achieve his potential beyond imagination; and that is what he wants to do for others. He is a strong believer in good karma and its multiplying effect. His passion is to alleviate poverty of all kind (especially ignorance) and provide richness to lives. He has been married to Karen for over 35 years. They enjoy outdoor lifestyle of Boulder as well as traveling.
Praful Shah
Strategic Advisor
Summer (12) believes that there should be more “girls” (women) in leadership. She noticed that all of the US Presidents have been "boys" (men), and that all of our paper money has pictures of men. She noticed that most of the mayors in the country are men. She asked why, since girls make up a little more than half the planet.
Summer advised that nature is an important component for women when we are trying to feel joy and connectedness to ourselves. Thus, Anastasia added this element to our programs.
Summer's current two entrepreneurial projects are MS. Potions and Kids Life: with Story Architects and Kid Critic Youtube Shows, under the mentorship of Dream Tank. Summer donates 7% of her profits to Dream Tank, a kids entrepreneurship accelerator she, her mom, brother, and mentor created, and 7% to the Kiva Center, which she and her brother Cody helped launch.
Summer Cuppari Gould
Strategic Advisor