Akira Takenaka
Akira Takenaka is an Associate who joined Social Finance in October 2021 as part of The Analyst Programme (TAP).
Team
Social Finance is an organisation that actually makes a difference. At the heart of our model are brilliant, dedicated change-makers who do the doing as well as the thinking. We have expertise in social impact investing, data and digital, evidence-based policy, service design and systems change. Our people think big, act with integrity, and bring the commitment needed to tackle society’s toughest challenges.
Amelia Willett
Amelia Willett is a Regional Manager for IPS Grow. She joined in October 2021 to support the scale-up of IPS in drug and alcohol services, before…
Angus Kerr
Angus joined in 2022, bringing a background in research and service transformation in health, social care, housing and homelessness. His work focuses…
Ankita Saxena
Ankita Saxena is an Associate Director and leads our Employment and Skills work. She supports local and central government, VCSEs and enterprises to…
Audrey Tipson
Audrey is an Analyst supporting projects across Social Finance’s UK portfolio. She currently works across both housing and health and social care,…
Beth O’Brien
Beth O’Brien is a Talent Acquisitions Specialist.
Bethan Phillips
Bethan is a Senior Analyst in the International Team, where she supports a range of innovative finance programmes. She works with partners to design,…
Billie Andersen-Waine
Billie leads our Human-Centred Design practice and wider Community of Practice — which centre the work we do at Social Finance on the needs and lived…
Caitlin Williams
Caitlin is an Associate Director passionate about making the best use of finance to achieve the SDGs and co-leads our Education and Employment issue…
Caroline Gadd
Caroline Gadd is the Chief Executive of Social Finance. She was appointed in August 2025 after leading the team as Interim CEO through seven months…
Charlotte Haywood
Charlotte Haywood is a Director in Social Finance’s International team who focuses on building coalitions of different financial market actors and…
Chloe Taylor-Gee
Chloe Taylor-Gee is a Design Researcher. Before joining Social Finance in 2023, she was a researcher for domestic abuse charity SafeLives, where she…