David joined Social Finance in May 2009 as Chief Executive. He leads a team of over 20 professionals drawn from social and financial backgrounds. Together they identify ways of mobilising capital from outside the public sector to invest in organisations and entrepreneurs seeking to drive better social outcomes. This follows a 25 year career at Dresdner Kleinwort where he was most recently Head of UK Investment Banking and a member of the Global Banking Operating Committee, coordinating the...
Senior management
Development Director
Toby founded Social Finance in 2007. He assembled the initial team and led the development of the Social Impact Bond from first concept to implementation. As Development Director, Toby oversees all our Social Impact Bond work. From 2005, he acted as secretariat for the Commission on Unclaimed Assets, where he helped develop the recommendation for the creation of a Social Investment Bank. Prior to this, he was Director of Research at ARK, a child focused foundation, where he built programmes...
Director of Research and Communications
Alisa is Director of Research and Communications at Social Finance. She has extensive experience in Communications, including serving as the British Embassy’s spokeswoman in Tel Aviv between 1999-2005. In 2006, she became Sir Ronald Cohen’s Head of Communications and aided him in his capacity as Chair of the UK Social Investment Task Force, Chair of Bridges Ventures, Chair of the Commission on Unclaimed Assets (which recommended the establishment of the Social Investment Bank) and Chair of...
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...
Director
Ben Jupp is a Director at Social Finance. He leads work on developing Social Impact Bonds in health and other fields, investment in mutuals and larger social sector providers of public services and engagement with Government on aspects of social investment policy.
Prior to joining Social Finance at the start of 2011, on secondment from the civil service, Ben was Director of Public Services Strategy at the Cabinet Office. In that role Ben led work across Government to improve public...
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.
Director
Emily is a Director at Social Finance having joined the team in November 2008. She leads Social Finance’s work to create Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) to reduce crime and offending. She is also leading the development of SIBs to improve recovery from drug addiction. Emily led the development of the first Social Impact Bond in Peterborough.
Prior to joining Social Finance, Emily worked for REDF, a venture philanthropy fund in San Francisco, and as a strategy consultant. Emily has a BA from...
Director
Janette Powell joined Social Finance on 1st July 2010 and will lead the implementation of the first Social Impact Bond to reduce re-offending. She has 17 years experience working with vulnerable adults and families facing homelessness and social exclusion. She holds a degree in Housing & Social Work and is a corporate member of the Chartered Institute of Housing. For the last 8 years she has specialised in managing services for offenders, both within a custodial setting and in...
Director
Prior to joining Social Finance in 2011, Jonathan served as Acting Director of Pro Bono Economics, a charity which introduces economists to charitable organisations to help address questions around measurement, results and impact. Previously he spent over 25 years as a Corporate Finance adviser within the investment banking sector, principally at Dresdner Kleinwort. As a banker, Jonathan has wide international experience of advisory and equity capital markets transactions across a number of...
Director
Kate joined Social Finance as a Director in August 2011 after a twenty year career in corporate finance and consulting. Her focus is investor relationships and product development. In her previous work at Merrill Lynch and GE Capital, Kate originated, structured and executed transactions including tax advantaged capital raising, acquisition finance, and asset based lending in the US, UK and Europe. In her most recent position, Kate set up and led a private family office in London.
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Director
Lisa is a Director at Social Finance having joined the team in September 2010. She leads our work on Social Impact Bond development around children and families. She joined from Bridges Ventures where she was an Assistant Director. There, she focused on making private equity investments which would yield both financial and social returns. Prior to this Lisa founded an e-government software business and worked as a strategy consultant for Marakon Associates. Lisa started her career as a...
Director
Louise is a Director at Social Finance with a focus on the development and delivery of new initiatives. In this capacity, she plays a significant role in the strategic development of Social Finance. Louise helped establish the organisation in 2007 and played a key role in the development of the Social Impact Bond approach. She has also led much of Social Finance’s research, policy and financial inclusion work.
Before joining Social Finance, Louise was Programmes Manager at ARK, a...
Director
Martin joined Social Finance as a Director in April 2009. He focuses primarily on developing the investor base for social impact investments and structuring products to link capital with demand. Martin spent 13 years in international investment banking working on structured debt and derivative products. His last role was in HSBC’s Financing Solutions Group with responsibility for structured financing and hedging solutions for clients across the EMEA region. He was previously in charge of...
Associate Director
Trupti joined Social Finance in March 2009 and is an Associate Director. She leads Social Finance’s work on structuring future Social Impact Bonds having worked on the first Social Impact Bond in Peterborough. Prior to joining Social Finance, Trupti was an investment banker at Citigroup Global Markets, London. Her experience consisted 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...