People

Non-executive directors

Bernard Horn – Chair

Bernard Horn had a varied career with NatWest spanning 30 years, including six years as a Main Board Director of the NatWest Group (FTSE 100 company). His roles included five years as Chief Executive of the International Businesses, and a similar period as Operations Director, responsible for Operations and IT. He led significant acquisition and disposal activity whilst with the bank.

He is a graduate of the Advanced Management Programme at Harvard Business School. Since leaving NatWest he has developed a portfolio of activities acting both as Chairman and non executive director, concentrating on smaller, entrepreneurial companies in consulting and software development, (some with Private Equity backing). He is also involved in an advisory capacity with a number of Charities and was an active member of the Commission on Unclaimed Assets.

David Blood

Prior to co-founding Generation, David Blood served as the co-CEO and CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management ("GSAM") from 1999 to 2003. His responsibilities included all aspects of the global business including portfolio management, sales and client service, risk management and infrastructure (approximately 1,600 people and $325 billion in assets under management). From 1985 to 1999, Mr. Blood served in various positions at Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., including Head of European Asset Management, Head of International Operations, Technology and Finance, Treasurer of the Goldman Sachs Group, L.P. and Head of Global Private Capital Markets. He was also a member of the Partnership Committee and the European Management Committee. Mr. Blood was the first recipient of the John L. Weinberg Award in 1990, an award given to a professional in the investment banking division who best typifies Goldman Sachs' core values.

Mr. Blood received a B.A. from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Hamilton College and SHINE.

Sir Ronald Cohen

Sir Ronald Cohen is Chairman of the Portland Trust, the Social Investment Taskforce and the Commission on Unclaimed Assets. He was a founding partner and the former Executive Chairman of Apax Partners Worldwide LLP.

He was also chairman of the DTI "Tech Stars" steering committee and a member of the DTI UK competitiveness committee. He is chairman of Bridges Community Ventures Ltd and honorary president of the Community Development Finance Association.

He is a founder director and past chairman of the British Venture Capital Association, a founder director of the European Venture Capital Association and the Quoted Companies Alliance (formerly SISCO). He has served as a member of: London Stock Exchange Working Party on Smaller Companies, CBI Wider Share Ownership Committee and Executive Committee of The Centre for Economic Policy Research.

He is a graduate of Oxford University, where he was president of the Oxford Union, he is an honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, and has an MBA from Harvard Business School, to which he was awarded a Henry Fellowship.

Victoria Hornby

Victoria is an Executive at the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts and Adviser to the Charles Dunstone Charitable Trust. Her areas of work include disability, disadvantaged communities, criminal justice, the environment, paediatric palliative care, young carers and social investment.

Prior to joining the Sainsbury Family Trusts, Victoria was CEO of an operational international development charity, having previously spent four years living and working in Eastern Europe as Field Director of an aid agency.

Alongside her day jobs, Victoria is a member of the Venturesome Investment Committee and the Charity Bank Credit Committee and is a trustee of the Bridges Charitable Trust.

Wol Kolade

Wol joined ISIS in January 1993 and is Managing Partner of the business. His role encompasses overall responsibility for the strategic development of ISIS and active involvement in investments. Wol initially trained as an engineer, having studied civil and structural engineering at Kings College, London. After obtaining an MBA from Exeter University, he spent three years with Barclays in various head office roles before joining ISIS.

Wol is a council member and Chairman of the BVCA - The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. He is also a governor and council member of the London School of Economics and Political Science, chairing its Audit Committee.

Penny Newman

Penny Newman is CEO of Jamie Oliver's chef training academy the Fifteen Foundation. She was previously CEO of Cafédirect, the UK's leading Fairtrade hot drinks company which has blazed the trail for Fairtrade, taking it from a niche market and placing it into the mainstream. Today a quarter of a million coffee, tea and cocoa producers benefit from Cafédirect's trading model, with many consumers enjoying their Fairtrade products. This has resulted in Cafédirect being the leading Fairtrade hot drinks brand in both retail and out of home, as well as the 6th largest coffee brand, the 4th largest Roast & Ground brand, and one of the fastest growing tea brands in the UK. Penny is also a member of the Women's Enterprise Panel, which was formed by the Chancellor and Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in late 2004 to examine options for the establishment of a national Women's Business Council and to champion the acceleration of the development of women's enterprise in the UK.

Penny studied business and marketing and in 1993 she took a lead position at The Body Shop. She was inspired by its ethical business model and five years later she took a post at fledgling fairtrade coffee company Cafédirect. She has now grown the company to reach a turnover of over £20 million.

Geraldine Peacock CBE

Geraldine was appointed Chief Charity Commissioner and the Charity Commission's first Chair in 2004, with the remit of making the Commission 'fit for purpose' to implement the new Charities Act. She left the Commission in July 2006, having laid firm foundations for the Charities Bill and with the Commission charged and invigorated to implement it. Before joining the Charity Commission Geraldine was CEO of two major charities, Guide Dogs for the Blind and the National Autistic Society, and Chair of ACEVO (Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations), Futurebuilders and Groundbreakers.

Geraldine now works independently both in the UK and North America bringing people together and inspiring them to look laterally at issues around social entrepreneurship, investment, leadership and governance for non-profit organisations. She is currently a Patron of Autism Speaks, the Rainbow Trust and the Community Development Finance Association (CDFA), is a Member of the Social Investment Task Force (SITF), and is also a Member of the Commission on Unclaimed Assets. Her most recent appointment is as a non-executive Director at Carbon Search, a new kind of executive search and leadership consulting firm.

Geraldine sits on the Board for Social Enterprise at Harvard Business School, where she lectures on the MBA programme. She is an Associate Fellow at the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship, sits on the Said Business School Board at Oxford, and is also a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Charity Effectiveness, Cass Business School, London.

David Robinson

David Robinson is the Founder of Community Links (www.community-links.org). Community Links work with more than 50,000 people a year through an extensive network of community development projects in East London. This local experience is shared with policy makers and practitioners nationwide through the Links UK publications, training and consultancy programme. David is also the founder and, now chair of We Are What We Do (www.wearewhatwedo.org) originator and joint author of the movement's current best sellers Change The World For A Fiver and Change the World 9 to 5, co-founder of the Children's Discovery Centre, and a founding Trustee of TimeBank. Recent publications include Unconditional Leadership and, with others, Enduring Change and Living Values. He collaborated with Gordon Brown on the Prime Ministers book Britain's Everyday Heroes and now leads the Prime Minister's Council on Social Action. David's policy work has been recognised with an honorary doctorate from the Open University and he was named Morgan Stanley Great Briton 2007 for his contribution to public life.

James Strachan

James is currently a non-executive Director of Legal and General plc, Welsh Water and Care UK plc, a Trustee of Somerset House and a Visiting Fellow at the LSE (risk and regulation). Until 2006, he was Chairman of the Audit Commission, the public services regulator and watchdog.

After reading economics and English at Cambridge, he worked in the City both as a commercial and investment banker. Initially with Chase Manhattan, he then spent 13 years at Merrill Lynch, latterly as Managing Director in London and a Board member of Merrill Lynch International.

Since 1994 he has also worked in the voluntary and public sectors. He has been a Board member of Ofgem, the energy regulator; the National Lottery's Community Fund; the Disability Rights Commission and Save the Children. Now a Vice President, he has also been Chairman, Trustee and Chief Executive of RNID, the leading disability charity. He is a Leadership Patron of the National College of School Leadership. Having been a professional photographer and journalist, he is now an Honorary Fellow of the University of the Arts, London.

Philippa Stroud

Philippa Stroud is currently Executive Director at the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), an independent think tank that seeks effective solutions to the poverty that blight parts of Britain. In 2005 Philippa became the Director of the Conservative Party’s Social Justice Policy Group focusing on rethinking the Party’s approach to the family, education, addiction, debt and employment.

Prior to this she spent seventeen years in poverty-fighting projects and published a book on social injustice.

Peter Wheeler

Peter Wheeler is Head of Wholesale Banking in the West for Standard Chartered and Chairman of IPValue, a company that works with major global companies to manage intellectual property (patent) monetization. Until 2001 he spent 20 years in investment banking, where he became a partner of Goldman Sachs. This took him to New York and Hong Kong, where he headed Goldman's investment banking business for Asia. He has experience in corporate lending and loan syndication, corporate finance, and mergers and acquisitions. He continues to be an active private investor and is a Board Director of Climate Change Capital.

In addition to his business interests, Peter is a founder and trustee of the charity New Philanthropy Capital and the Chairman of Charity Technology Trust and The Young Foundation. He sits on the Investment Advisory Committee of UnLTD, a government-endowed organisation with a mandate to develop social entrepreneurs and their projects nationwide in the UK.

Executives

David Hutchison – Chief Executive Officer

David joined Social Finance in May 2009 after a 25 year career at Dresdner Kleinwort where he was most recently Head of UK Investment Banking since 2005 and a member of the Global Banking Operating Committee, coordinating the bank's activities in the UK across the full range of investment banking products, M&A, debt and equity raising and derivatives marketing. Prior to this David was Co-Head of Global Mergers & Acquisitions and Head of Corporate Broking and as such led Dresdner Kleinwort's relationships with some of the bank's most significant clients and gained a wide range of experience which included working in securities markets, structured finance, balance sheet restructuring and capital raising in both the debt and equity markets. David has a BA in History and Economics from Brasenose College, Oxford.

Toby Eccles – Development Director

Toby Eccles founded Social Finance and has been working on the Social Investment Bank since joining the Commission on Unclaimed Assets in October 2005. Prior to working for the Commission he was Director of Research at ARK, a child focused foundation, where he built programmes around education in the UK and communities with high levels of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. In the commercial world Toby worked in corporate finance at UBS Warburg, and built a next generation internet protocols business for Data Connection, a leading UK software company. He has taken non-executive and investor roles in two technology related start-ups, and is a non-executive director of Antidote, a charity developing emotional intelligence in schools, and a regional board member of the Guinness Trust, a housing association. Toby holds a BA in Maths from Oxford.

Corrinne Callaway – Chief Operating Officer

Prior to joining Social Finance Corrinne spent 16 years working in various City Institutions; including Deutsche Bank as Chief Operating Officer of Global Markets Finance and Deputy Head Of Equities London Branch at Natixis. She is a member of the Securities Institute. She also took a career sabbatical, helping to run a diving operation with Raleigh International in Belize, Central America.

Alastair Ballantyne – Director

Most recently Alastair has been acting as Adviser to the Economic Development Office of the City of London Corporation and has been co-ordinating activity related to review of City competitiveness by the Chancellor's High Level Group. Prior to this he was Head of International Government Relations and Community Affairs at Morgan Stanley International. In this role he was also responsible for developing Morgan Stanley's global environmental policy. His career at Morgan Stanley spanned 20 years, including working on bond issues and derivatives and providing investment banking advice to governments and companies concerning privatisation. While at Morgan Stanley he was a trustee of Community Action Network and an active participant in Prison Partners (mentoring Belmarsh Prison management). Alastair has an MA in Engineering Science and Economics from Exeter College Oxford.

Martin Rich – Director

Martin joined Social Finance from HSBC where he was a Director in the Financing Solutions Group with responsibility for structured financing and hedging solutions for corporate, financial and public sector clients across the EMEA region. Before this Martin was in charge of sales for the Pensions Solutions Group and prior to that had been responsible for developing the European corporate liability solutions marketing team with a specific focus on the Energy & Utility sector and the development of the bank's inflation-linked capabilities. Prior to this Martin was a Vice President at JP Morgan and head of UK corporate risk management sales and his career started at UBS Warburg in UK interest rate derivatives. Martin has a MEng in Engineering from Queens' College Cambridge.

Annika Tverin – Director

Annika joined Social Finance in September 2008 with extensive experience of advising clients on the process of raising equity capital. Notable equity capital raising transactions include the Initial Public Offerings of Telia (Sweden), Statoil (Norway) and Orange (France) and the rights issue of Ericsson. Prior to joining Social Finance, Annika worked as a Director in the Equity Capital Markets departments of Credit Suisse, ABN AMRO Rothschild and Morgan Stanley. She started her investment banking career in Mergers & Acquisitions at Morgan Stanley and worked for London-based strategy consulting firm LEK Consulting prior to becoming a banker. Annika holds a BA and MA degree in Economics from the US and an MBA (Hons) degree from INSEAD, France. A Finnish national, she is fluent in Finnish, Swedish and German.

Emily Bolton – Associate Director

Emily has extensive experience in applying business approaches in the third sector to maximise social returns. Prior to Social Finance, Emily worked at REDF, a San Francisco venture philanthropy fund investing in social enterprise. Emily was responsible for leading REDF's portfolio due diligence and managing relationships with portfolio organisations. At REDF, Emily also disseminated venture philanthropy and social enterprise best practices across the US through papers, tools and conferences.

Emily's corporate experience includes working for the strategy consultancy CVA in London, principally in the financial services sector. She also worked in the strategy group of Charles Schwab. Emily holds a BA from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and an MBA from UC Berkeley, where she was a Haas Merit Scholar.

Louise Savell – Associate Director

Louise joined Social Finance in October 2007 prior to which she was Programmes Manager for ARK, a child-focused foundation raising money from the hedge-fund industry. While at ARK she developed and managed a portfolio of care system reform programmes in Eastern Europe and helped shape ARK's broader international programmes strategy.

Before joining ARK, Louise spent time in East Africa researching and developing youth HIV/AIDS prevention programmes in conjunction with Students' Partnership Worldwide. Louise holds an MPhil in Development Studies and a BA in Philosophy, Psychology and Physiology from the University of Oxford where she was a Scholar. She holds a post-graduate diploma in Voluntary Sector Management from the Cass Business School.

Trupti Patel – Associate

Trupti joined Social Finance in March 2009 with prior experience in the investment banking division at Citigroup Global Markets, London. Her experience there consists of M&A and capital raising transactions in the oil & gas sector, as well as a 6 month rotation in the Equity Capital Markets team in Sydney. Trupti holds a BSc in Economics from the London School of Economics.

Eleanor Stringer – Associate

Eleanor joined Social Finance in January 2010, prior to which she worked for New Philanthropy Capital, a think tank and consultancy dedicated to increasing the impact of funders and charities. While at NPC, she co-authored several reports analysing social issues such as homelessness and asylum seekers in the UK, as well as examining what can be done to improve charity trusteeship. She also worked on a number of projects for NPC clients, particularly grant-making foundations. Eleanor is a governor of a primary school in south London and trustee of Nightline, and has a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Lincoln College, Oxford.

Peter Goult – Analyst

Prior to joining Social Finance, Peter was working as a strategy consultant in the Middle East for Booz & Company (formerly Booz Allen Hamilton). His work focused around market liberalization and high-speed broadband network rollout. While living in Dubai, he was involved in various charity projects with UAE based national and international charities. Prior to completing his Bachelors degree at St. Catherine’s College Oxford, he spent a year as a SSLC Officer in the Royal Artillery, where he co-commanded a gun troop for 9 months following a fast-track course at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.

Marva Gowie – PA / Office Manager

Marva joined Social Finance in September 2008 prior to which she spent ten years at Citibank working as a PA and training coordinator. Her previous career includes ten years at World Jewish Relief as Appeals Administrator and Secretary.