Sustainability Committee

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The Sustainability Committee supports the BVCA by shaping members’ knowledge, building policy positions and promoting policy asks on the sustainability agenda. This includes wider net zero, climate change, social and impact investment issues as well as other relevant topics.

The Committee also plays a key role in empowering industry members to integrate sustainability and or impact investing approaches into their business strategies by offering practical guidance and insights, creating tangible value for companies.

 

Committee Objectives

The Committee focuses on five core sustainability themes: green finance innovation; impact investing; sustainability regulation and reporting; diversity, equity and inclusion; and sustainability value creation.

The Committee objectives are as follows:

  • Assist the BVCA in guiding members to integrate sustainability considerations into their business approaches to drive best practice and value creation by addressing environmental, social and governance factors. The Committee must ensure this dialogue is strategically aligned for limited partners, general partners and portfolio companies.

  • Assist the BVCA in the promotion of the impact investment (or “profit with a purpose”) sector in its development in the UK, seeking to influence government policy and strategy around this sector as well. 

  • Engaging with key stakeholders such as Government, Civil Servants, Regulators, other relevant BVCA committees and industry bodies to influence sustainability-related policy, regulation and legislation ensuring private capital is well understood and considered appropriately including through sharing examples of best practice and information about the economic and social impact of private capital investment.

  • Ensure the member base is equipped with the knowledge and tools to develop their sustainability approaches by supporting collaboration with key stakeholders facilitating knowledge share, developing guidance and signposting and promoting best practice whilst avoiding duplication of existing guidance or initiatives. This includes keeping members informed about relevant legislative and regulatory changes and their implications for responsible investment and or impact investing.
     

The BVCA Governance Handbook provides directors, members and employees of the BVCA with a summary of our governance structure. This includes information on how our Council, Committees and Advisory Groups are constituted and is supplementary to the Articles of Association.

 

Committee Structure

The Committee comprises a core Sustainability Committee of member representatives and five associated Taskforces aligned with the Committee’s focus and objectives. The Sustainability Committee will meet four times a year and the Taskforces will meet at a minimum twice per year and as required beyond. 

The core Sustainability Committee and each Taskforce have a Chair, with the Chair of the core Sustainability Committee having overall responsibility. The Taskforce Chairs will be selected from the core Sustainability Committee body to ensure connectivity and flow of communication. The core Sustainability Committee and Taskforces will each have a designated BVCA Sustainability Policy lead.

Committee Members

 

Lucie Mills, Chair

NorthEdge

 

Alex Shadbolt

Future Planet Capital

 

David Torbet

Bowmark

 

Genevieve Taylor

Deloitte

 

Matthew Johns

IH International Advisors

 

Sarah-Jane Denton

Travers Smith

 

Zoë VanderWolk

ETF Partners

Adinah Shackleton

Permira

 

Ben Robson

Molten Ventures

 

Eimear Palmer

Pantheon

 

Jennie Galbraith

Inflexion

 

Maggie Loo

Bridges Fund Management

 

Tim Clare

Anthesis

Aga Siemiginowska

Oakley Capital

 

Caroline Löfgren

HG Capital

 

Elsa Palanza

ICG

 

Michael Marshall

Railpen

 

Rachel Richardson

Macfarlanes

 

Valerie Monk

Montagu Private Equity

Taskforce Members

 

Green Finance
  • Alex Shadbolt, Future Planet Capital – Chair
  • David Pollock, Consilium Capital
  • Jessica Stewart, Systemiq
  • Jonathon Pollock, Elbow Beach Capital
  • Matt Feehily, Simpson Thatcher Bartlett
  • Siddarth Shrikanth, Just Climate
  • Victoria Crisp, Better Society Capital
Impact Investing
  • Maggie Loo, Bridges Fund Management – Chair
  • Alex Pitt, Mustard Seed
  • Dougie Sloan, Better Society Capital
  • Ellen de Kreij, Apax
  • Jamie Butterworth, Circularity Capital
  • Jonny Page, Esme Fairburn Foundation
  • Lindsay Smart, Triple Point
  • Mehdi Lichani, Lightrock
  • Nikesh Arya, HSF
  • Ollie Wilmott, PWC
  • Sarah Forster, Good Economy
  • Zoe VanderWolk, ETF Partners
Diversity
  • Jennie Galbraith, Inflexion – Chair
  • Annelise Sauter, Better Society Capital
  • Biral Joshi, ICG
  • Fiona Moore, ECI
  • Imogen Richards, Pantheon
  • Jenn Barnett, Grant Thornton
  • Mattias De Beau, Adams Street Partners
  • Mei Lim, Anthemis
  • Rebecca Hunter, Cinven
  • Valerie Monk, Montagu Private Equity
Sustainability Regulation & Reporting
  • Sarah-Jane Denton, Travers Smith – Chair
  • Aga Siemiginowska, Oakley Capital
  • Allegra Day, Cinven
  • Caroline Lofgren, Hg Capital
  • Douglas Bryden, Freshfields
  • Elsa Palanza, ICG
  • Finlay Taylor, YFM Equity Partners
  • Graeme Ardus, Triton Partners
  • Michael Marshall, Railpen
  • Nathan Luscombe, True Capital
  • Rachel Richardson, Macfarlanes
Value Creation
  • Genevieve Taylor, Deloitte – Chair
  • Adinah Shackleton, Permira
  • Ben Robson, Molten Ventures
  • Chase Wisnowski, Malk
  • David Torbet, Bowmark
  • Eimear Palmer, Pantheon
  • Matthew Johns, IH International Advisors
  • Michelle Lamprecht, CIC
  • Lizzie Stazicker, Exponent
  • Lucie Mills, NorthEdge
  • Roshni Bandesha, BGF
  • Tim Clare, Anthesis

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