Meet the team

  • Alex Stephens-Whatmuff

    Steering Group Member

    Alex is an Investment Director athttps://bettersocietycapital.com/ Better Society Capital. She works within the Social Lending market system, leading on the Blended Finance strategy.

  • Chloe Stables

    Steering Group Member

    Chloe is the Director of Partnerships and Advocacy at Access- The Foundation for Social Investment. She works with partners including foundations, infrastructure bodies and government to help secure long-term support for blended finance and enterprise development in the sector.

  • Dani Adams

    Steering Group Member

    Dani is currently Senior Lead – Innovation Strategy and Engagement at Save the Children UK. She co-founded their first disruptive innovation team, and oversees strategy, portfolio, operations and commercial activity for the Innovation Hive team.

  • Francesca Fauvet

    Steering Group Member

    Currently part of the team developing Save the Children’s capacity in Innovative Finance and enterprise support, Francesca is an Innovation Lead at Save the Children UK.

  • Giulia Todres

    Steering Group Member

    Giulia is an Investment Manager at Better Society Capital. She works across BSC's social lending and venture portfolio, managing existing investments and supporting the evaluation of prospective investments.

  • Kaylyn Fraser

    Steering Group Member

    Kaylyn Fraser leads the blended finance function at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, for promoting the best practice and well governed use of blended finance in the multilateral development bank’s operations.

  • Martina Brandli

    Steering Group Member

    Martina Brandli currently works as a Blended Finance specialist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

  • Mauricio Preciado Awad

    Steering Group Member

    Mauricio leads the Blended and Innovative Finance strategy at Save the Children Global Ventures that is dedicated to launching and managing impact investment products and innovative finance structures. He also leads Save the Children UK's Corporate Venturing function.

  • Seb Elsworth MBE

    Steering Group Member

    Seb is the CEO of Access- The Foundation for Social Investment. Seb has overseen the significant impact of the Foundation, working in close partnership with a range of organisations, to increase access to finance for community based charities and social enterprise right around England.

  • Alex Goodenough

    Advisor

    Alex is an Investment Manager and Innovative Finance Lead at British International Investment, the UK’s Development Finance Institution.

  • Ina Lee

    Advisor

    Ina Lee, Associate Director, Market Building. Ina leads the Global Impact Investing Network’s Market Development Platform, which curates dialogue amongst impact practitioners to pollinate market intelligence, test and refine investment products, and remove barriers to capital flows towards impact outcomes.

  • Tanishtha SenGupta

    Tanishtha is the Partnerships and Stakeholder Manager at Access- The Foundation for Social Investment. She leads on supporting a number of key networks, including the Blended Finance Collective.