Impact Investment Academy

Abigail has over 20 years of investment experience, most recently as the Investment Director at Snowball Impact Management, a sustainable and impact-focused asset manager. Previously Abigail has managed Asia Pacific portfolios in Hong Kong and London. She is a CFA Charterholder and Non Executive Director of Baillie Gifford Shin Nippon, Templeton Emerging Markets and HydrogenOne Capital Growth and is a member of WHEB Asset Management’s Advisory Committee.

Seb has spent over 25 years working at the nexus of business, investment, and sustainability. Since 2012 he has been a partner and head of research at WHEB Asset Management where he is a member of the senior management and investment teams.

Prior to WHEB, Seb was head of SRI Research at Henderson Global Investors. Seb also spent ten years in senior roles at SustainAbility, a leading think-tank and consultancy.

Alice is a strategist in the Responsible Investment team, leading on the approach to Social issues across investment and stewardship. She joined Columbia Threadneedle through the acquisition of BMO GAM (EMEA) in 2021, having previously been with BMO since 2010. Between 2018 and 2022 Alice was Co-Head of Responsible Investment, focusing on Active Ownership and ESG Integration, and from 2010 to 2016 she was a fund manager in Responsible Global Equities.

Prior to joining the group, Alice gained ten years of investment experience, initially at JP Morgan Asset Management then at Henderson Global Investors, as a fund manager on the Sustainable & Responsible Investment funds and a healthcare sector specialist. Alice holds an MSci in Physics from the University of Bristol and is a CFA Charterholder.

Maria has held multiple roles at BlueOrchard since 2008 (head of Investment Team & CIO) and now leads the Blended Finance and Impact Management team. At Schroders Capital, she heads the Sustainability & Impact team, focusing on net-zero portfolios and impact-driven investments. As of Jan 2023, she is responsible for the Impact team at Schroders.

Leveraged her expertise by developing an impact management framework for private & listed assets. She is a director of sustainable finance organisations.

Bryn is the Head of Fixed Income for Rathbones, and is lead manager on the Rathbone Ethical Bond Fund, the Rathbone Strategic Bond Fund and manager of institutional mandates. He is a member of the Rathbone Strategic Asset Allocation Committee, Non-Executive Chairman of Rathbones’ Fixed Income Committee, and an adviser to the Rathbone Banking Committee.

Gavin started working in financial services and alongside the advisory community in 1989. In 2010, he founded certified B Corp, Worthstone, which was the UK’s first targeted impact investment resource platform for Financial Advice professionals.

In addition to co-authoring several ground-breaking reports, Gavin has participated in government working groups to help develop impact investing in the UK. He is also one of the founding team of Wellth, a new Impact Investment Managed Portfolio Service (MPS).

Symon has over 22 years experience across various investing disciplines, including securitization, equity and derivatives trading. He held a senior position at a large global life insurance business, in which he created a wealth management platform, as well as their investment product range for the UK.

He has built Collidr from a research business into a global investment fintech business, which includes Collidr Asset Management, and a stand-alone fintech business, Collidr Technologies.

James started as an administrator at Friends Provident in 1989. Since then he has either worked for or been a partner in firms of Chartered accountants. Working 6 years at Macintyre Hudson before moving to Price Bailey where he set up and ran the Private Client Department. James was a partner and a member of the board at Price Bailey before moving on to Tavistock PLC in 2016 where he became Managing Director of Tavistock Private Client. In 2020 he set up and now runs King Financial Planning.

Jon has been in Financial services since 1995. He heads up the Investment Committee at Trinity and also chairs the Wellth Advisory Committee. Seeing clients remains the most enjoyable part of his responsibilities. He is fortunate to surround himself with good staff.

Outside of work, Jon is a keen angler and also supporter of Portsmouth FC.

Georgia has been part of the Chamberlyns team for the last 25 years and during that time has worked her way through Adminstration and Paraplanning roles, en route to becoming a Chartered and Certified Financial Planner.

In delivering Chamberlyns’ service to new and existing clients, Georgia’s role Increasingly includes conversations and actions relating to clients’ goals for sustainability and impact – helping clients to deploy their money with ‘purpose’, and in accordance with their values and wider financial life planning.

Ben is Head of Impact Investing, leading M&G’s strategy on impact investing as well as covering sustainability issues such as climate change and the circular economy.

He has been central to the development of ESG integration within M&G’s investment processes and has supported the development of ESG solutions for clients across asset classes. Ben plays an active industry role as a member of various sustainable and impact investment initiatives. He is also a Trustee at Firefly International.

Phil is an asset and wealth management lawyer, helping firms to set up investment funds, mandates and retail services. Drawing on experience in private practice and industry secondments, including with the FCA, Phil advises on regulation, market practice, and market developments (both UK and European) and commercial agreements.

Phil is a specialist in investor disclosure, particularly in the growing area of sustainability, where he has a number of prominent industry roles.

Jamie Broderick is a Deputy Chair of the Impact Investing Institute, an independent, non-profit UK organisation that aims to accelerate the growth and improve the effectiveness of the impact investing market.

Jamie was head of UBS Wealth Management in the UK from 2013-2017. Jamie joined UBS after nineteen years at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, latterly as Chief Executive of its European operations. He joined J.P. Morgan in New York in 1993 and moved to London in 1996.

Katie joined Fidelity International in Sydney in 2018 where she was Director, Institutional Sales, managing relationships with a range of Australian institutional clients.
Katie relocated to London in 2022 to join Fidelity’s sustainable investing team where she manages Fidelity’s sustainability-related client engagement strategy and supports clients globally with their ESG needs and requirements.
Prior to joining Fidelity, Katie was Head of Legal at Schroders in Sydney.

Champions ethical and responsible investment principals and behaviours across all business activities, and works with the investment team to deliver engagement with investee companies, with specific focus on health.

Amy was listed in the financial News’ 2023 Rising Stars of Fund Management for her work on mental health in the workplace and won the Investments Week’s Sustainable Investment Awards 2023 ‘Best Sustainable Investment Engagement Initiative’ for CCLA’s Corporate Mental Health Benchmarks.

Ashley joined Royal London Asset Management in November 2013 following the acquisition of The Co-operative Asset Management (TCAM) by the Royal London Group. Ashley is responsible for our strategy and overseeing our approach to responsible investment across our asset classes.

Her team is responsible for company engagement, governance and voting, environmental, social and governance (ESG) research, data and analysis, and supporting our approach to climate transition.

James is co-Chairman of COOK, a certified B Corporation he helped to create. It now employs nearly 1,700 people. He co-founded the B Corp movement in the UK, and serves on the board of B Lab Europe. He is also a Founding Partner of Snowball, a multi-asset impact investment manager. James is married to Jennifer, and they live near London with their three children.

As Head of Impact at Paradigm Norton, a leading B Corp company, Steve leads the firm’s thinking about how to ‘do business better’. On the Investment Committee he focuses on stewardship and fund manager engagement.

Steve says he’s fairly normal, but does try to dream big. As a dad with one eye on the future, he chooses to have an optimistic outlook and relishes the opportunity to collaborate.

Michael is fund manager of the M&G Climate Solutions strategy. Prior to this role he was working as a senior analyst in the Sustain and Impact equity team with a focus on energy, climate and environmental stocks having joined M&G in September 2019 as an analyst covering global energy and chemicals.

Previously, Michael worked at Redburn where he was a partner on the energy team, with a focus on energy and alternative energy stocks. He joined Redburn in 2015 from Goldman Sachs.