David joined Social Finance in May 2009 as Chief Executive. He leads a team of over 30 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, Ben was Director of Public Services Strategy at the Cabinet Office. In that role Ben led work across Government to improve public services, such as through developing...
Associate Director
Diane joined Social Finance in June 2010. She is mainly involved in the development of Social Impact Bonds around children and families. Prior to joining Social Finance, Diane worked at the International Growth Centre at the London School of Economics, which offers independent advice on economic growth to countries in Africa and Asia. Before that, Diane worked in the Policy and Research team of Transparency International, where she was the contributing editor of the organisation’s flagship...
Director
Emily is a Director at Social Finance having joined the team in November 2008 and led the development of the first Social Impact Bond in Peterborough. Emily leads Social Finance’s work to partner with foundations to develop new impact investments. 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 Cambridge University and an MBA from Berkeley where she was a Haas Merit Scholar.
Chief Operating Officer
Fiona is COO of Social Finance and is also the director responsible for coordinating the Investment Contract Readiness Fund work.
Fiona is an experienced entrepreneur who has run three businesses over the last ten years in the profit and not-for-profit sectors creating significant economic and social value. Her early career was in finance at Goldman Sachs and Murray Johnstone Private Equity. She has an MA in History / International Relations from St Andrews University and an MBA...
International Director
Jane joined Social Finance in 2012 as International Director. She leads work on developing an international network of impact investment intermediaries to develop Social Impact Bonds. She joined from The Social Investment Business, the UK’s largest social investor, where she was Director of Governance and Company Secretary; prior to which she was a senior corporate partner at a leading international law firm, Simmons & Simmons, where she advised a wide range of clients across the...
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...
Sales 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 over 12 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...
Director
Nick is a successful and respected property banker, who, after a career with Barclays, is now using his knowledge and business expertise for a wider social benefit. This carries a specific focus on housing, regeneration and social business.
He has rapidly built a portfolio of varied non-executive and advisory roles where he brings added value from his banking and property background and is working with Social Finance on a consultancy basis, looking particularly at housing and related...
Director
Peter has over 25 years of management and project experience at the World Bank, including serving as Director of a five country Department in Southern Africa. He has focused on delivering projects with measurable and sustained impact, and on results-based country strategies. His experience ranges from environmental assessments to budget management, and from community-based social projects to the fiscal impact of mining investments. He has worked with countries in Africa, South Asia and the...
Associate Director
Peter joined Social Finance in September 2010. He is mainly involved in the development of the Social Impact Bond market, looking at the wider application of this financing product beyond the criminal justice sector. Previously, Peter spent six years working in auditing and consulting roles at KPMG, most recently focussing on commercial due diligence and strategy consulting projects. In addition, Peter has worked in the microfinance field, helping to set up a micro-lending programme with...
Associate Director
Richard joined Social Finance in July 2011. He works on the development of the Social Impact Bond market in the UK and internationally, focusing on the fields of health & social care and homelessness. Prior to joining Social Finance Richard worked in corporate finance at Rothschild, specialising in debt restructuring, M&A and capital raising transactions. Richard has a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Associate Director
Tim is an Associate Director, having joined the team in November 2011. His work is focused around vulnerable children, criminal justice, housing and unemployment. Tim previously worked at Goldman Sachs for seven years, where he was a Vice President in the Global Investment Research department in London, most recently leading the European Capital Goods Research team. Tim is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and holds an MPhil in Economics from Oxford, and a BA in Economics from Cambridge.