TreFoil initiates sustainability projects, developing new concepts for Energy solutions and Real Estate opportunities. TreFoil's unique threefold approach combines Sustainability, Finance and Media strategies to create new opportunities for private and public organizations.

The TreFoil-model.
As mentioned above TreFoil operates at the intersection of three domains: Sustainability, Finance and Media/Networking. In the development and realization of projects, it combines some essential qualities of each:

I. Sustainability.
Incorporating approaches and practices that contribute to more sustainable ways of living and working, resulting in a cleaner world. It builds on ecological values (such as low-carbon footprint and recycling), but goes beyond ’organic’ and includes qualities such as a long-term perspective, well-being, social purpose, design, sharing, as well as affordability.

II. Finance.
In all business endeavors financial returns are essential. In addition TreFoil strongly believes: Investing in success and building capital need to be sustainable vis-a-vis other issues too, such as durability and its contribution to well-being and the planet. It widens concepts such as 'assets' and 'return on investment', to include not only concerns from the world of financial institutions, business and capital management, whilst taking into account that we now live in a world where both sustainability and social purpose are becoming part of the equation.

III. Media / Networking.
Enhancing community and communication value, through making media and networking strategies (such as web-based connections and user-involvement) an integral part of ventures. Not only does this create added value to Trefoil's projects (e.g. as branding and marketing), it represents a quality in and by itself. It connects to the globalized networked world, and employs different networking modes for communication, exchange and sharing, including those in the digital domain (e.g. internet tools, web communities and net presence).

TreFoil Founders
TreFoil was founded in 2009 by Christiaan van Nispen and Benno Schwarz. Christiaan has over 9 years of banking and investment experience at ING and Citibank in New York, Amsterdam and Latin America. Benno is a young entrepreneur and early adopter in sustainability, with experience in the creative field in Amsterdam and London. The shared belief that sustainability has the future in business has been the underlying impetus for bringing together the partners of TreFoil.