Graeme is head of ESG. He was the Global Director of Occupational Health, Safety and Environment (OHSE) and Sustainability at Amcor Tobacco Packaging and was the Director of Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) and Sustainability at Alcan Packaging. He also worked at Environmental Resources Management and Shell International. Graeme holds an MSc in Environmental Management from the European Association of Environmental Management Education and an MA in Geography from the University of Glasgow.

Amelia joined Amadeus Capital Partners in 2009 and is a Partner in the Early Stage Fund. Her current investment focus is on autonomous systems, AI and machine learning, cloud computing, digital health, and medical technology.

She is a Director on several boards including Xampla, who have developed a plant-based material to replace single-use plastics; Paragraf who are manufacturing graphene-based electronic devices; Immense Simulations intelligent mobility enabling software company; Riverlane a developer of an operating system for quantum computers and SLAMcore, a spin-out from Imperial College, developing spatial intelligence for autonomous robotics and drones.

Amelia is also an active board observer at other companies including enterprise voice assistant company PolyAI and Graphcore, the developer of the Intelligence Processing Unit for next generation machine intelligence.

Prior to Amadeus, she worked at Barclays Investment Bank as a manager in the structured capital markets team with responsibility for running a portfolio of multi-jurisdiction transactions. Amelia has also worked in structured finance at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. She qualified as a chartered accountant with Deloitte in the corporate tax department.

Amelia holds a BSc in Chemistry and Biology from Durham University and is a mentor on the Judge Business School’s Accelerate Programme.

Peter leads the economic policy team in the UK. He has over 20 years of experience in advising both government and private sector clients in the UK and internationally on economic policy and impact assessment, regulation and competition, and in interpreting macro-economic forecasts for business planning. Peter is committed to helping clients use economics to make better decisions and to capitalise on the opportunities it affords. In doing so, he plays a critical role in building a better working world for clients and our communities.

James Ashton is a financial writer, speaker and adviser. He has written widely on business, the economy, technology and leadership, and authored two books, The Nine Types of Leader and FTSE: The Inside Story (co-written with FTSE’s founder). He was City Editor and Executive Editor of the London Evening Standard and before that City Editor of the Sunday Times. His podcast, Leading with James Ashton, features CEOs from business, charity, the arts and beyond, explaining how they learnt to lead and the advice the offer to the next generation. James is a senior adviser at Portland Communications, non-executive director of the FTSE250 investment trust Finsbury Growth & Income and chairman of Oscar’s Book Prize.

Jonathan Bailey, Managing Director, is Head of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Investing at Neuberger Berman and Portfolio Manager for the US Equity Impact Strategy. He joined the firm in 2017 and is responsible for the integration of material ESG factors into investment processes firm-wide. He works with portfolio managers and analysts across our equities, fixed income and private investment portfolios both to enhance existing strategies and to create new impact investing strategies. Jonathan oversees the firm’s approach to proprietary ESG analysis and impact measurement. Jonathan chairs the firm's ESG Committee and sits on both the firm's Governance and Proxy Voting Committee and its Operating Committee. He also leads client engagement and thought leadership on ESG and impact topics. Previously, Jonathan was the founding Director of Research at Focusing Capital on the Long Term (FCLT Global) a think tank backed by BlackRock, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Dow, McKinsey & Co., Tata Sons and forty other leading investors and corporates. FCLT Global developed quantitatively robust research on short-termism along the investment value chain as well as practical solutions. He spent the bulk of his prior career at McKinsey & Co where he was an Associate Partner working with asset owners and asset managers on investment strategy and ESG investing topics. Jonathan has also worked for Generation Investment Management, the sustainable investment fund co-founded by former Vice President Al Gore, and as a governance advisor for former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Jonathan holds an MBA (with high distinction) from Harvard Business School, an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and an MA (Oxon) from the University of Oxford. Jonathan is a Chair of the Board of Instiglio, a developing market social impact bond advisory non-profit.

Rami M. Bibi (London) joined KKR in 2014 and is the Head of Europe for KKR Global Impact, the firm’s private market investing platform focused on businesses that promote solutions to associated with sustainable living, climate change, lifelong learning, and inclusive economic development. He serves as a member of the Global Impact Investment Committee and Portfolio Management Committee, and co-leads KKR’s ESG taskforce in Europe. Mr. Bibi is currently on the Boards of Citation Group. Prior to joining KKR, he worked at Morgan Stanley in London and New York. He is on the Global Steering Committee of Human Rights Watch, an international non-profit. Mr. Bibi graduated from Tufts University with degrees in Quantitative Economics, Physics, and History.

Adrian Blair is the CEO of Dext. Prior to this, he was the Global Chief Operating Officer of Just Eat and the only executive team member to serve throughout the company’s transformation from start-up to FTSE 100. Before this, he led business development for Spotify in Europe and spent six years in commercial roles at Google in California and London. He is also the Co-Founder and Chairman of Circl, a next-generation leadership development programme for students from deprived backgrounds. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Dominic Blaxill is a corporate associate and a member of the firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Groups.

Dominic has worked extensively with financial sponsors, corporates and investment banks on a range of M&A, joint ventures, restructurings, capital raisings and general corporate matters across a variety of sectors.

Dominic joined Debevoise in 2015. Prior to joining the London office, Dominic was an associate in the corporate group of a leading international law firm, where he spent time working in London, Hong Kong and Australia.

He received his LL.B. (Honours) in 2008 from the University of Manchester and his legal practice certificate (Distinction) in 2009 from the College of Law, London.

Dominic was admitted as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales in 2011.

Simon is a Partner in the Sustainable Growth Funds, at Bridges Fund Management, the leading impact and sustainable investment firm. Based in Manchester, he is responsible for originating and leading Bridges’ investments across the North of England.

Simon is a highly-experienced private equity investor and non-executive director who has worked across a wide variety of sectors, including TMT, healthcare, leisure, support services, consumer goods and industrial products.

Most recently he was an Investment Director for regional private equity firm LDC. Based in the Manchester office, he spent eight years investing in businesses across the North. Notable transactions include Humberside based IT services business Giacom, Cheshire based medical consultancy business Fishawack, and Cumbrian based holiday cottage business Lakelovers.

Simon graduated from UCL before qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG in Manchester. He joined JP Morgan Cazenove’s Equity Capital Markets team in 2004, covering the small/mid-cap space, before moving onto Bank of Scotland where he provided acquisition finance to support private equity transactions. Prior to joining LDC, Simon was a Director in Lloyd’s Banking Group’s restructuring team, leading the restructure/workout of a portfolio of private equity assets.

Delaney Brown leads the team of over 40 professionals, across three offices in Toronto, London and San Francisco, responsible for investing in Funds & Secondaries in North America and Europe. The group pursues strategies ranging from mega buyouts to early-stage venture capital plus both LP and GP-led secondaries. In addition, the strategy also includes investing in passive co-investments alongside existing partners.

Prior to joining CPP Investments in 2013, he spent eight years at Hermes GPE LLP (formerly Hermes Private Equity) as Head of the Americas, focused on both private equity fund investment and co-investment. Before that, he was an Associate Director with Almeida Capital in London for five years and a Research Scientist for GlaxoSmithKline in the U.K.

He is also the current chair of the BVCA’s LP Committee.

Delaney holds a BSc (First Class Hons) in Biochemistry from the University of Leeds.

Kevin is an experienced business developer with a strong background in building relationships and sales strategy, partnering with leaders to provide business transformation. Kevin has extensive experience across multiple industries including Private Equity, Venture Capital, Technology, Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Consumer Products. At Globalization Partners, Kevin leads the Global M&A/PE/VC business solutions channel, focusing on helping firms and their portfolio companies shape their global workforce strategies while driving growth and value.

Joana Castro is Principal within the Private Equity team where she is Head of Primary Investments and a member of the Responsible Investment Committee. She joined Unigestion in September 2016.

Joana began her career in 2007 in investment banking at Goldman Sachs. In 2010, she joined the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) as Senior Analyst focusing on private equity funds investments and became Principal at EBRD in 2013.

Joana graduated in economics from Catolica Lisbon School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, Portugal.

Dr Andrew Coburn manages the External Advisory Board of the Centre for Risk Studies, coordinating the inputs of consumers of research into the Centre’s risk agenda. Andrew is the principal coordinator of the research programme on ‘System Shock’ at the Centre.

Andrew is one of the leading contributors to the creation of the class of catastrophe models that over the past 20 years has come to be an accepted part both of business management in financial services and of public policy making for societal risk. He has extensive experience in developing models and using them for business decision support. Andrew has also provided research inputs into government policy, such as House of Congress legislation on terrorism risk management policy and urban planning for disaster mitigation in Mexico, Metro Manila, and Southern Italy. Dr Andrew Coburn is a member of the senior management of Risk Management Solutions, the leading provider of catastrophe risk models to the insurance industry.

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Dr David Cooper is a recognised authority, international speaker and media commentator on the psychology of private equity. Through his firm, Cooper Limon, he advises GPs, portfolio leaders and LPs on the application of behavioural insights as a basis for boosting enterprise value and avoiding value leakage. He has over 25 years’ private equity experience, during which he has advised a wide range of firms. He has the distinction of being both a Chartered Psychologist and a Chartered Accountant. He was awarded his PhD from the Hochschule St Gallen for his research looking at leadership risk in private equity.

Maxim leads the Consumer sector team. He is also a member of the UK and Ireland regional team.

He has been involved in a number of transactions, including Allegro, Kurt Geiger, NewDay, Partner in Pet Food, Planasa and Premium Credit.

Previously he worked at Citigroup where he was involved in corporate finance within the European Retail and Consumer Group.

Maxim has an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University.

He joined Cinven in 2006.

James is the Head of the UK Structured Finance team - comprised of the Mid-Market Leverage Finance, Corporate Banking Origination, Financial Sponsor Coverage and Sector teams. These teams work to support businesses of all sizes across the country with complex loan and capital market solutions for listed, Private Equity backed and owner managed companies across a wide range of sectors.

George Davies is a Partner at Hambro Perks where he leads investments across Fintech and Enterprise Software. Hambro Perks is venture capital firm based in London with investments across Europe, MENA, and the USA. The firm focuses on both primary and secondary opportunities.

George was previously a leader of the McKinsey strategy practice and a senior advisor to Tony Blair and President Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia. George was educated at Oxford and Harvard Business School, and is also a member of the Venture Capital Committee of the BVCA.

Martin Davis is the CEO of Draper Esprit. He has more than 20 years’ experience in financial services and joined Draper from Aegon Asset Management where he was the Head of Europe, Aegon Asset Management & CEO of Kames Capital. Prior to Aegon Asset Management, Martin served as CEO at Cofunds, spent 8 years at Zurich Insurance Group, and was also CEO of Zurich’s joint venture, Openwork, the largest network of financial advice firms in the UK. Prior to this, Martin held senior management roles at Misys and Reuters. He also worked as worked as Executive Vice President International for high growth start up, Corillian, an internet banking software company. Martin also served for 11yrs in the British Army.

Martin has an MBA from London City Business School (CASS) and Diplomas from the Institute of Marketing and the Market Research Society.

Ellen de Kreij is responsible for the implementation of the Apax Partners Sustainable Investing Programme and is a member of the Apax Operational Excellence Practice. Ellen joined Apax Partners in 2002 as Director of Deal Generation and became a Director in the Investor Relations team in early 2010 focused on European investors. Apax Partners has been committed to integrating responsible investment into its investment practices since 2009 and as part of portfolio monitoring annually collects and reports detailed ESG KPI data from its portfolio companies.

Prior to joining Apax Partners, Ellen worked as an investment banker in the Mergers & Acquisitions teams at Merrill Lynch and Broadview International, where she specialised in advising transactions in the Technology sector.

Ellen holds an MA in Dutch Civil Law and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Camilla is a Partner at Eka Ventures. Eka is a £68m fund that invests in Founders creating positive system change. We work with founders building category-defining consumer technology companies that positively shape the world, making it more sustainable, healthy and inclusive. We invest £500k-£3m in early stage rounds.

Sarah is the Head of Private Equity for Europe and Asia at Allstate Investments, covering primary fund commitments and co-investments alongside growth equity and buyout managers. Prior to joining Allstate Investments, Sarah was running the international private equity platform of a large American family office based out of Switzerland. Sarah is originally from a direct investing and investment banking background and has worked in private equity for more than 20 years. She is a Chartered Accountant.

Melissa Ferraz, Managing Director, is the Global Head of eFront Insight within BlackRock. eFront Insight is a private markets data and analytics platform. As global head, Melissa is responsible for the overall strategy of Insight as well as all sales, customer success, data operations, product and engineering activities within the business. Previously, Melissa was the Global Head of Client Development, Private Markets at IHS Markit. She was a member of the executive leadership team at iLEVEL where she led the launch of iLEVEL into the European and Asian markets. iLEVEL was subsequently acquired by Ipreo and later IHS Markit. Prior to that she spent 10 years building and developing teams at S&P Global in a variety of leadership roles. Melissa holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Iowa, an MBA from the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago and a Juris Doctor from Loyola University Chicago.

Geoffrey joined USS in 2007. He has been involved in the growth of the Private Markets Group since inception, today he heads the indirect private equity activities of USS, overseeing a portfolio of over £4 billion across private equity funds and co-investments. Geoffrey has sat on the boards of many portfolio companies and numerous advisory boards.

Geoffrey has been working in private equity for over twenty years, including with Klesch & Company in London, Deutsche Bank in New York and Frankfurt and with Mees Pierson in Geneva, Switzerland. Geoffrey received an MBA from UCLA Anderson and a Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College in Vermont.

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Will joined Oxford Science Enterprises as a founding Principal in 2015. He has previously worked for the China Britain Business Council in Beijing, E.L.I. Holdings in Chengdu, Text Publishing in Melbourne and as a Publishing Director at Penguin UK. He holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Economic History from the London School of Economics. Will is responsible for investments in Alloyed, Animal Dynamics, Brill Power, First Light Fusion, Metaboards, Odqa Renewable Energy Technologies, Orca Computing, Oxford Quantum Circuits, Oxford Ionics, Quantum Motion, Util and YASA. He is a Trustee of Nekton, a marine research foundation.

Melanie Goward is an Investment Director with Maven Capital Partners, responsible for transacting new early-stage and technology private equity investments across the South and South West of England and Wales.

She joined Maven in 2016 from Finance Wales, where she was part of the Technology Ventures team and fund manager for the Wales Technology Seed Fund, providing funding to help businesses commercialise and bring to market innovative products and services across a range of sectors.

Prior to this she worked as an Investment Director with Nesta Investments, focusing on early stage healthcare investments as well as in technology sector finance at Lloyds TSB Corporate, providing debt finance to high-growth companies. With over 15 years’ experience as a specialist in early-stage investment, Melanie has completed a range of investments in technology, life science and biotechnology businesses.

Melanie has a BA (Hons) in Natural Sciences, and a PhD in Genetics from Cambridge University, which included research as part of the international Human Genome Project.

Paula has decades of private equity and consulting experience working with highly-motivated extraordinary entrepreneurs from underrepresented communities. She is also an expert in developing and deploying targeted investment funds, having helped create funds in London England, the City of Oakland, the States Connecticut and California, and for the US Small Business Administration. She is currently the Chief Investment Officer of Impact X Capital, a London-based venture capital company investing in European underrepresented communities of technology and creative professionals.

Paula recently established a fund for the City of Oakland, California to launch sustainable businesses led by economically disadvantaged entrepreneurs. Previously, Paula was a Senior Vice President at Main Street Launch a non-profit lender based in Oakland CA where she helped Oakland’s loan program to help small businesses impacted by a new transit system. Prior to Main Street, Paula ran the Alameda County Small Business Development Center, managing a staff of 15 to deliver small business consulting services and to nine cities and over 3,000 companies. Paula has also spent time in the charter school industry at Making Waves Foundation.

Earlier in her career, Paula was co-founding partner of Axxon Capital, a venture capital firm based in Boston, MA that invested in technology-oriented companies led by underrepresented entrepreneurs. Axxon was a spin-out from Triumph Capital, a private equity firm where Paula served as partner and helped grow assets under management from zero to over $800 million. She has also worked on Wall Street for Credit Suisse First Boston, in advertising for Leo Burnett and in Hollywood for 20th Century Fox Film.

Paula has a BA from Stanford University an MBA from Harvard Business School.

After some 20 years in investment banking and financial communications, Patricia now helps social enterprises attract private capital and advises companies on their responsible investment strategies through her consultancy Integriti Capital. She also works to diversify access to funding as a Director of Extend Ventures.

She is a co-founder and Trustee of Black Funding Network, a Trustee of Ballet Black, a Trustee of Theatre Royal Stratford East, Chair of Friends of International House New York UK, an Advisory Board member of Money A+E, an Associate Director of The Finance Foundation, and a member of Women in Social Finance. She was a member of BVCA’s Responsible Investment Advisory Committee from 2012-2019.

Helen Hopkins is Senior Responsible Investment Analyst at USS Investment Management, the asset manager for Universities Superannuation Scheme with over £80bn in assets under management.

Helen’s remit covers ESG due diligence across the Scheme’s diversified investment strategies and asset classes with direct and fund holdings in public and private markets. Helen is also responsible for RI ratings and monitoring of the Scheme’s external fund managers including private equity LBO and growth capital strategies.

Helen has worked in RI for over 20 years. She joined USS in 2007 to focus on stewardship and proxy voting for USS’s internally managed global listed equity portfolios, developing a particular interest in custody and the vote chain. Helen commenced her career at UKSIF, the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association, where she helped to launch the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), Social Investment Taskforce and EuroSIF amongst other RI collaborative initiatives.

Andrew Hodgson, CEO of Beck & Pollitzer since 2013. Beck & Pollitzer is the world’s leading provider of industrial installation and machine relocation services. With over 1000+ employees in over 30 offices across the UK, Europe, Asia, America and Australia. Before joining Beck & Pollitzer, Andrew was the Managing Director of Sulzer Dowding & Mills and Sulzer Pumps, responsible for strategic leadership & performance of the business with 23 sites across the UK and 2 overseas joint ventures, one in Luxembourg and one in Dubai. The business was engaged in the overhaul and repair of electric motors, generators and a wide range of mechanical services.

Andrew is a passionate leader with a proven track record of creating superior financial performance in highly competitive markets with a commitment to Continuous Improvement, LEAN and 6 Sigma to drive performance. A solid management strategist based upon professional education, training and experience.

Andrew graduated from University of Warwick and holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration and Management (MBA), resides in the UK and has lived and worked in both Europe and the Middle East.

Mike is a member of Graphite's Board and Investment Committee. He joined Graphite Capital in 2005 and has since led and structured a variety of investments, with a particular focus on the industrials, energy and leisure sectors. After starting his career as a solicitor with Clifford Chance, he founded an internet-based legal recruitment consultancy before joining the Bank of Scotland’s Integrated Finance team. He has a first class degree in Mediaeval History from St. Andrews University and an MBA from London Business School.

Jan Janshen joined Advent in 2000 and co-heads Advent in Europe. He is also a part of the Asia Investment Advisory Committee and European Investment Advisory Committee. Prior to Advent, Jan spent two years with 3i, helping to establish the firm's Hamburg office. He began his career as a consultant with Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in Munich.

Jan has a degree in Business Administration from the University of Kiel.

Throughout his career, Jan has advised on 24 investments in total; 23 during his time at Advent, including Ammeraal Beltech, Cobham, Cobham, Corialis, GE Power/Innio, Industria Chimica Emiliana (ICE), Laird Limited, Mediq and Unit4.

Jan is married, with one daughter and was once a passionate windsurfer.

Gabrielle is responsible for Rede's origination and due diligence activities including, leading the comprehensive due diligence process carried out prior to any new Rede engagement. With over 13 years’ private equity experience, Gabrielle joined Rede after spending ten years with MVision Private Equity Advisers, most recently as Senior Director. At MVision, she worked with a range of leading managers across the private equity, venture capital, private debt and infrastructure spaces. Previously, she was an Investment Analyst within the Life Sciences team at Atlas Venture, a global venture capital investor. She began her career with strategy consulting firm L.E.K. Consulting. Gabrielle holds an MA in Natural Sciences (Pharmacology) from Cambridge University.

Paul works with private equity and corporate organizations across different industries, guiding companies through digital and technology transformations. He has nearly 25 years of experience that he primarily gained leading large strategic, digitally-enabled transformation projects, as both an advisor and as a senior industry practitioner or in an interim executive role. Paul’s most recent experience has been exclusively within the fintech (payments) sector, where he has engaged with a number of private-equity-owned organizations, which benefit from his use of technology as a means to protect and enhance enterprise value in challenging conditions.

Robert King is Head of Sustainable Finance for HSBC UK and is responsible for promoting and developing the Sustainable Finance proposition and supporting our corporate clients in their transition to a more sustainable, low carbon economy. Robert has over 15 years’ experience in structured, asset and project finance.

Farhan is a Principal at Anthemis, where he leads the BBVA & Anthemis Venture Creation Partnership. He works with companies that are focused on evolving the digital finance and banking experience for consumers and companies. Previously, Farhan was a Partner at Rokk3r Labs, a global venture builder. He was also an executive at PeerIndex, a social media analytics platform that was acquired by Brandwatch in 2014, Yahoo! and various other startups and later-stage private companies. He is an entrepreneur-in-residence at King’s College London and a part-time lecturer in managing digital organizations at London Business School.

Farhan holds an undergraduate degree from McMaster University in Canada and an MBA from London Business School. When he is not geeking out on technology trends and their impact on society he’s listening to old school hip hop and watching or reading about NBA basketball.

Daniel joined the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) in March as Head of Private Equity. He manages a multi-billion pound global fund and co-investment programme. Prior to PPF, Daniel was a senior member of the funds team at Caisse de dépôts et placement du Québec (CDPQ), where he managed the European private equity fund portfolio and worked on the global venture capital and growth equity fund programme. In addition, Daniel worked as a Managing Director in the Private Equity Group at UBS Global Wealth Management and as a Managing Director and Private Markets specialist at Cambridge Associates. He started his career at Banco Santander as an analyst in the private equity team.

Justin has extensive experience in the development and implementation of operational strategies and ensuring the ongoing effectiveness of new income stream products. He has led on the development of these products for small, medium and multinational companies across the MENA & Asia regions, being solely responsible for the capitalisation of new ventures and the integration of key members into the operations. In Venture Capital Justin has led the drive for selecting the best innovative tech and science based applications from across the globe, and manages the team that drives these innovative tech businesses continued success. As the operations officer for the UK Impact Investment Fund, that focuses purely on tech that benefits society and the environment, Justin’s team has seen a 373% increase in value in this portfolio over the last 18 months.

Coming from a military background as a Commissioned Officer, he has worked in key roles around the globe. Justin also represents the business and financial interests of his family office as co-investors. He is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of Fortunis Capital, reporting to the Board the flow and subsequent management of inwards investment.

Gurpreet Manku is the BVCA’s Deputy Director General and Director of Policy. She is responsible for leading the BVCA’s response to a wide range of issues and challenges facing the industry from a legal and regulatory perspective, both in the UK and Europe. She is also the executive liaison to the Private Equity Reporting Group, the body responsible for monitoring the industry’s compliance with the Walker Guidelines on Transparency and Disclosure. Before joining the BVCA she worked at Deloitte LLP and specialised in advising private equity funds and their managers. Gurpreet studied at the London School of Economics and is a Chartered Accountant and a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.

Neil has 15+ years of value creation experience in the Industrials and Business Services sectors. He came to consulting from the Speciality Chemicals Industry, EMEA BU lead for Speciality Additives at Air Products.

Neil Spent 6+ years at AlixPartners focused primarily on VC diligence and execution. He then spent c. 2 years at Platinum Equity focused on developing and executing the operational thesis behind European acquisitions (Pre & Post C19), before joining EY to focus on value creation with PE.

Paul Miller is CEO and Managing Partner at Bethnal Green Ventures. Paul has nine years experience of early-stage investing and has been awarded an OBE for services to startup investing. He was previously a policy advisor and senior researcher, advising leading companies and governments on tech for good. Before BGV he co-founded and was CEO of an education technology venture.

Michael Moore is Director General of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association.

As private capital has continued to increase its contributions to the UK economy in recent years, Michael and his colleagues in the industry have been focused on supporting the COVID-19 recovery, delivering investment across the whole UK, making the UK one of the best places in the world to invest and do business and supporting the UK to achieve ‘net Zero’.

Over the past 30 years Michael has operated at senior levels in both politics and business. In his political career he was a Member of Parliament for 18 years and served in the Cabinet at the time of the Coalition Government, as Secretary of State for Scotland.

After the 2015 General Election, Michael became a Senior Adviser at PwC. Prior to entering politics, he qualified as a chartered accountant with the firm.

Pauliina is Engagement Director at the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA).

The WBA is a global initiative, measuring companies on their performance on the UN SDGs. Pauliina leads the WBA’s advocacy, engagement, policy and regulatory outreach, ensuring benchmarks reflect societal expectations and are relevant to the external environment they seek to change. This includes the WBA’s dialogue with companies, investors, governments, civil society and multi-lateral institutions. Pauliina has a background in finance and policy, having joined WBA from Aviva, a global insurance company and asset manager.

Patrick O’Hara is Director of Responsible Investment and Engagement at LGPS Central. In this role, Patrick leads the Company’s Responsible Investment team, ensuring Responsible Investment is further enhanced, expanded and embedded as a core part of the Company’s investment and portfolio monitoring processes. Patrick joined LGPS Central from USS Investment Management, where he was responsible for ESG integration and stewardship across public markets. Prior to joining USS, Patrick worked as an ESG analyst in the global responsible investment team at Aviva Investors. He has 20 years’ experience in the investment management industry, with over a decade of experience in ESG. Patrick has also worked for the FCA and the Market Compliance team at the London Stock Exchange. Patrick has a degree in Economics and Public Policy, and an MSC in Sustainable Development from Surrey University’s renowned Centre for Environment and Sustainability.

Peter Olds is a partner in the Private Funds Group.

He specializes in advising on the establishment of private funds in the UK, Europe and globally for private equity, private debt, infrastructure and real estate fund sponsors, cornerstone investments in private funds, and private fund carried interest and other executive incentive schemes.

Peter also advises on co-investments alongside private funds (on both sponsor and investor sides), and associated UK and European regulatory matters.

Prior to joining Proskauer, Peter has been a member of funds groups at other international law firms, and was also a director at Actis, a leading emerging markets private fund manager.

Sabina is an investment professional with a background in both accounting and corporate finance. Having joined GHO in 2015, Sabina currently works closely with Ardena and DDC, as well as previously with Caprion Biosciences prior to GHO Capital’s successful exit.

Prior to GHO, Sabina was with 123Venture in Paris where she was responsible for evaluating and executing mezzanine financing opportunities across Europe. Before 123Venture, Sabina was with Fulcrum Capital Partners in Toronto, focusing on mid-market private equity and mezzanine financing opportunities across a broad range of sectors, having started her career and qualified as a chartered accountant in the audit and corporate finance teams at PwC in Toronto.

Sabina graduated from Dalhousie University in Canada and holds a Bachelor of Commerce with a major in Accounting. She is fluent in French and has lived and worked in the UK, Europe and North America.

Eimear joined in 2018 as ICG’s Responsible Investing Officer and is responsible for further integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors across all fund strategies. She works closely with ICG’s business and investment teams as well as portfolio companies to add value to fund investors.

Prior to joining ICG, Eimear spent seven years at The Carlyle Group, where she undertook a similar role in Europe implementing an enhanced ESG framework for Carlyle Europe Partners. Previously, she spent seven years at KPMG where she was a manager in the Private Equity Audit and Assurance division.

Eimear is a Chartered Accountant (ICAEW) and holds a BSc in Business Information Systems.

Sam is the Director of Strategic Alliances & Private Equity at Globalization Partners. He has extensive experience in private equity value creation, business development, value selling SaaS, creating strategies and partnering with leaders to provide business transformation solutions. He has spent most of his career in London and New York. At Globalization Partners, Sam leads the European Private Equity business solutions channel, focusing on helping firms, and their portfolio companies shape their global workforce strategies while driving growth and value.

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br> Helen leads on stewardship, engagement and voting at Brunel Pension Partnership (Brunel). She draws on knowledge built from her BA (honours) in Business Studies and from working in different sectors. Helen is eager to improve representation within the industry and at companies in which we invest. She is a member of the Diversity Project Steering Committee and co-leads the Asset Owner Diversity Group. Helen is also a member of the PRI’s Plastic Investor Working Group and the PRI Reporting and Assessment Advisory Committee. She is passionate about the role of pension funds in moving to a more sustainable business world and is involved in industry-wide initiatives to improve standards in responsible investment and corporate sustainability.

Andrew Probert is a managing director in the Transaction Advisory Services practice at Duff & Phelps, a Kroll Business. Andrew leads the firm’s technical accounting and financial reporting offering and is the UK head of its ESG & Sustainability Advisory Services Group. He has over 20 years of experience working on projects to support a range of corporate finance related transactions and delivering value creation engagements for clients. Prior to Kroll, Andrew worked at EY and PWC.

Andrew is an accredited Sustainability Accounting Advisor and has been working with a variety of private equity and venture capital organisations to help embed ESG in to their investment decision making processes and simplify their ESG monitoring and reporting requirements. He is currently working with a number of different industry bodies (EFRAG, IFAC, Invest Europe, amongst others) to provide their members with guidance on mapping existing ESG frameworks and standards to recommend the industry best practice. Andrew also works with colleagues across Kroll’s expertise areas, including forensic investigations and intelligence, valuation and regulatory compliance, to deliver practical ESG advice, solutions and thought leadership.

Sara Rajeswaran is the BVCA’s Director of External Affairs. Prior to joining the BVCA in 2021, she worked in the UK Government as Special Advisor to the Environment Secretary. Before her time in government she was Executive Director for Government Affairs and Devolved Nations at the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry; Associate Director at Edelman; Deputy Head of the BME Research Unit at Policy Exchange; and Chief of Staff to the CEO and Strategy Adviser to the Chairman of Network Rail.

Prior to that Sarah spent 4 years working for the Conservative Party in opposition as their Transport Special Adviser. Sara has co-authored A Portrait of Modern Britain with Rishi Sunak and was researcher to Professor Alison Wolf for her book The XX Factor: How Working Women Are Creating A New Society.

Sara originally trained as an opera singer at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama and she maintains her passion for the performing arts as a Trustee of Sedos and Chair of London Drama Societies.

Silvia Rindone is a Partner for Consumer Product & Retail at EY UK&I. Silvia has extensive experience in developing growth strategies, designing and implementing operating models and leading technology-enabled business transformation programs. She has over 20 years of experience in Consumer Products and Retail having worked with leading companies in the UK, Europe and across the globe. Silvia’s focus is on business transformation, advising clients on how to shape their future and capitalize on the numerous transformational growth opportunities in a rapidly evolving digital world.

Samantha J. Rowe is a partner in the London office of Debevoise & Plimpton. Her practice focuses on international arbitration and public international law. Ms. Rowe has represented private clients and States across multiple jurisdictions (most notably, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Eastern Europe) in arbitrations governed by various substantive laws and conducted under the rules of the ICSID, UNCITRAL, SIAC, the ICC and the LCIA. She advises clients on a broad range of international law issues, including the international protection of investments, and represents her clients in associated disputes.

Ms. Rowe has been named to The Lawyer’s Hot 100 list, which recognizes the profession’s most innovative and inspirational lawyers. The magazine noted the “precedent-setting cases” she advises on.

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Padmesh is the CIO of the $19 billion TfL Pension Fund. It is a defined benefit scheme that provides retirement and death benefits to members who are eligible employees of Transport for London, the integrated transport authority responsible for running the day-to-day operation of the Capital's public transport network and managing London's main roads. It has around 85,000 members.

In his 10+ years at the Fund, he implemented major changes to the strategy and risk management framework, built its $7+ billion alternatives programme from scratch and pushed its global and progressive envelope, with international assets making up around 80% of the Fund assets today. More recently he has embedded and integrated sustainability in the Fund’s investment beliefs and every aspect of the investment process across all asset classes to align the Fund’s portfolio with the green agenda and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. He sees this as the single most important opportunity available to pension funds like his that are large, still open to accruals, have very long duration liabilities and engaged and vocal stakeholders.

Emerging markets, infrastructure and the area of carbon permits, offsets and pricing are of particular interest to him, having previously worked at the World Bank and the Centre for International Development, where he approached these issues from a policy and research perspective. He is passionate about public services and went to Harvard Kennedy School University on a full scholarship for his Masters in International Economics and Development (major in Finance). He sits on a range of company and investor advisory boards, including the CFA UK Board for Asset Owners. He is also Civil Engineering by training.

Lindsay is Triple Point’s Head of Sustainability, responsible for ensuring Triple Point continue to innovate and embrace sustainable best practice across the business. Lindsay supports all investment strategies in their ESG integration, and where applicable impact, investment commitments.

Lindsay has previously led the development of an award-winning sustainability and impact assessment tool, advised companies and investors in the UK and USA on their approach to sustainability integration, in addition to developing internal sustainability strategies and delivering sustainability training and workshops for all levels of professionals.

In 2017, she was named by Brummel Magazine as one of the top 50 influential women in Sustainability. Since 2016, she has acted as an assessor for the Unilever Sustainable Living Young Entrepreneurs Award and was previously a member of the UKSIF analyst committee and judge for the City of London Sustainable Finance Awards.

Lindsay has over 15 years of finance industry experience and has previously worked at ClearlySo, VigeoEiris, Citi, Allianz Global Investors and JPMorgan Asset Management, and has formal training in sustainability from Cambridge University.

After 20 years in both private practice and in industry, Peter’s work as a lawyer has spanned the broad spectrum of corporate activity with a particular focus on the areas of mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital, corporate governance, and corporate turnarounds and restructurings. Having developed a keen understanding of the private equity and venture capital landscape, and complementing a special interest in financing tech-enabled businesses with high-growth potential, Peter has been working with venture firm Hambro Perks serving as the Group’s General Counsel & Company Secretary. Peter also serves on the boards of portfolio companies, the boards of the Fund Manager and General Partners of the Hambro Perks Funds, and the Executive Committee of Hambro Perks Advisory LLP.

Tomas has over 25 years’ experience in advising financial sector and corporate clients throughout the investment lifecycle on environmental, health & safety (EHS) risk identification, mitigation, transfer and ESG matters including strategic advisory across a broad spectrum of industrial sectors with assets located in over 40 countries worldwide. He has also worked with clients to assess matters relating to climate change resilience and physical and transition risks. The details of recent transactions Tomas has advised on can be found on Mergermarket Profiler.

Tomas has over 25 years’ experience in advising financial sector and corporate clients throughout the investment lifecycle on environmental, health & safety (EHS) risk identification, mitigation, transfer and ESG matters including strategic advisory across a broad spectrum of industrial sectors with assets located in over 40 countries worldwide. He has also worked with clients to assess matters relating to climate change resilience and physical and transition risks. The details of recent transactions Tomas has advised on can be found on Mergermarket Profiler.

Zoë joined ETF Partners as Head of IR and Sustainability in 2019. Following a degree in statistics at Harvard University, she practiced as a lawyer in the City of London in the Environmental Finance group at Baker & McKenzie LLP, including a year working on the hybrid and electric supercar programme at McLaren Automotive. In 2013 she co-founded Accessible Clean Energy LLP, a listed fund investing across the clean energy value chain. She is a graduate of Harvard College and the College of Law, London.

Maria is responsible for sourcing investments, executing deals and monitoring portfolio companies. She currently sits on the boards of My 1st Years, MYCS, AccessPay, and Arctic Shores. Maria previously served on the boards of MyOptique, Big Data Partnership, Monica Vinader, Honeycomb.tv, Switch My Business and Skills Matter. Maria was previously Managing Director of Birchbox UK, a beauty ecommerce and subscription business. Prior to this, she was on the investment teams at Virgin Group and GMT Partners, where she made investments and monitored portfolio companies, mainly in the digital and media sectors. Maria began her career as an analyst at Goldman Sachs and an Engagement Manager at McKinsey in New York. Maria has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from MIT.

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Kristina leads Rede’s European Coverage team and also plays an integral role in Rede's client relationships.

Kristina has worked across Rede’s clients from some of the largest Pan-European managers to specialist first time funds. With over 14 years’ private equity and financial markets experience, Kristina previously worked as a Director within the Investor Relations team of Palamon. Prior to Palamon she spent seven years at Lehman Brothers in ECM, responsible for relationship and coverage of European clients and the execution of transactions totalling over $30bn. Kristina holds a BSc in Business Management, IT and Languages from the University of York.

Ian Wood joined Epiris in 2012 as an Investment Manager and has since been promoted to Partner.

Ian’s role includes originating, evaluating and executing new investment opportunities. Most recently he worked on our investments in TI Media and The Club Company. He has also worked on our investments in Audiotonix, Elian, Hollywood Bowl, Isle of Man Steam Packet Company, Parkdean and Sparrows. Ian sits on the Management, Investment and ESG Committees.

Before joining Epiris, Ian spent two years at GCP Capital and eight years at Silverfleet Capital focusing on mid-market UK and European buy-outs. Prior to that, he worked at Deloitte in corporate finance and at Andersen in the financial restructuring team.

Ian is a Chartered Accountant and has a degree in Management Science from Warwick University. Away from the office he enjoys skiing with his four children and anything petrol-related.