The Impetus Advisory Council is composed of a group of international leaders from the private, public and social sectors who offer their vast expertise and advice to Impetus on issues of strategic importance to society.
Ian Armitage
Chair, HgCapital
Ian has led HgCapital since 1990 having joined in
1988. As Chairman, Ian is also a member of HgCapital's Investment
Committee and Valuation Committee. He previously spent ten
years with 3i plc, in London and Dublin. Ian has made over
forty investments across a wide range of industries. He is
chairman of LPEQ and has also served as chairman of the Investor
Relations Committee of the British Venture Capital
Association. He is a frequent speaker on private equity
and has a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from
Oxford University.
David Carrington
Independent Consultant
David is an
independent consultant working with charities, companies and the
government on the funding and governance of charities and social
enterprises and on the promotion of personal philanthropy. His
clients have included the European Foundation Centre and many
endowed and corporate foundations, including several 'venture' or
'engaged' philanthropists. He has also worked closely with the
European Venture Philanthropy Association since it was first set up
in 2004. He is a member of the Supervisory Board of Triodos Bank
NV, a founder Director of the Trust that publishes the journal
Alliance and a Director of Big Society Capital.
Jamie Cooper-Hohn
Co-founder of Children's Investment Fund and Foundation
(CIFF)
Jamie Cooper-Hohn currently serves as CIFF's President and CEO.
Prior to the establishing of the Foundation, Jamie was Co-Director
of Shine Trust, a grantmaking trust supporting children in poverty
in England through educational initiatives. She also served as Vice
President of Strategic Planning and Development for Gould Partners
in New York City, a non-profit collaborative effort aimed at
expanding educational opportunities for inner city children and
their families.
Martin Dickson
Deputy Editor, Financial Times
Martin took up his current post in 2005 after a
long career at the FT as an editor, reporter and columnist,
focussed primarily on business and finance. His reporting
assignments have included covering US business, and African
politics and economics. Before starting in journalism he spent a
year on Voluntary Service Overseas, teaching in northeast Thailand.
He played a large role in establishing the FT's annual seasonal
charity appeal to readers and heads the committee that vets
charities for it.
John Elkington
Founding Partner & Executive Chairman, Volans
John is a world authority on corporate
responsibility and sustainable development, whose work has been
celebrated and supported by awards including the UN Global 500 Roll
of Honour, among many others. His work at Volans focuses on
finding, exploring, advising on and building innovative scalable
solutions to the great global divides that overshadow the future.
John also co-founded SustainAbility and Environmental Data
Services. He has been named by The Evening Standard among the "1000
Most Influential People" in London, and placed fourth in a CSR
International survey (after Al Gore, Barack Obama and the late
Anita Roddick, and alongside Muhammad Yunus). John has written or
co-authored 17 books, is a Fast Company blogger and a columnist for
a number of publications. As a public speaker, John has addressed
over 500 conferences all over the world and was a faculty member of
the World Economic Forum from 2002-2008.
Sabine
Gardener
Director, Cobalt
Partners
Sabine is a Director at Cobalt Partners, a Pan European search
firm that works with Private Equity firms and their portfolio
companies. A Graduate of Oxford University her career combines six
years in investment banking with Nomura and CSFB and six years with
Spencer Stuart focused primarily on Private Equity assignments. She
then spent two years in Private Equity as Head of Deal Origination
with Duke Street Capital. She left in 2000 to set up Cobalt
Partners. Sabine focuses on healthcare, education and social
care.
Alastair Gibbons
Partner, Bridgepoint
Alastair joined Bridgepoint in 1984. He led
Bridgepoint's UK business until 2001 and then its German business
until 2006. Alastair now focuses on Bridgepoint's business
development and cross-border investments. He currently sits on the
board of TüvTurk, a provider of vehicle inspections in Turkey and
UK headquartered LGC, the leader in chemical and biological
analytical services and reference materials. He is a graduate of
University College, Cardiff and qualified as a Chartered Accountant
at Coopers & Lybrand.
Grant Gordon
Director General, Institute for Family Business
In addition to being Director General, Grant is
also a co-founder of the Institute for Family Business (UK),
established in 2001 as an independent not-for-profit association
promoting the success and sustainability of family
firms. Grant has been on the board of Laurent-Perrier SA as a
non-executive Director since 1999. He is Chairman of the Thames
Community Foundation, a charity serving local communities in South
West London. He is a Steward of the Worshipful Company of
Distillers, Keeper of the Quaich and member of the Ordre des
Coteaux de Champagne.
Michael Green
Independent economist and writer
Michael Green is an economist and writer, based in London.
Together with Matthew Bishop, he co-authored
Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World.
Michael has worked in aid and development for nearly 20 years. He
was a senior official in the British Government where he worked on
international finance, managed UK aid to Russia and Ukraine, served
as head of the communications department at the Department for
International Development, and oversaw £100 million annual funding
to nonprofits. It was through his role in government that he saw
the rising influence of the philanthrocapitalists in the fight
against poverty.
Dianne Jeffrey CBE
DL
Chair, Age UK
Dianne graduated from the University of Sheffield
in Psychology. She spent 20 years as a successful director of
merchandising and management training in the furniture retail
sector. In 2008 Dianne was appointed to chair Age UK, the new
charity formed from the merger of Help the Aged with Age Concern.
She is also the chairman of Digital Outreach and Anchor Trust.
Dianne has chaired two NHS Trusts and in 2001 she was invited to
serve on the Government's modernisation action team in preparation
for the NHS Plan. She has since served on the national Children's
task-force as well as the Child and Adolescent mental health
taskforce. From 2000 - 2003 she chaired the NHS Confederation.
Dianne served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire in 2002 - 03.
Josh Lerner
Professor of Investment Banking, HBS
Josh is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of
Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, with a joint
appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management
Areas. He graduated from Yale College with a Special Divisional
Major that combined physics with the history of technology. He
worked for several years on issues concerning technological
innovation and public policy, at the Brookings Institutionand on
Capitol Hill. He then earned a PhD from Harvard's Economics
Department. He has led an international team of scholars in a
multi-year study of the economic impact of private equity for the
World Economic Forum. He is the winner of the 2010 Global
Entrepreneurship Research Award.
Ian Meakins
CEO, Wolseley plc
Ian was appointed Wolseley Group Chief Executive
in July 2009. He was previously Chief Executive of Travelex
Holdings Ltd' and prior to that, Chief Executive Officer of
Alliance UniChem plc, until its merger with Boots in 2006. Ian also
spent over 12 years with Diageo plc in a variety of international
management positions including four years as President, European
Major Markets and Global Supply. Ian spent the early part of his
career with Procter and Gamble, joining as a graduate trainee
before moving into marketing and then brand management.
Subsequently, he joined Bain and Company, where he advised a
diverse range of blue chip companies. He then spent three years
running his own Management Consulting business. Ian has a degree in
Natural Sciences from Cambridge University.
Henrique de Campos
Meirelles
Former President, Brazil's Central Bank
Henrique earned a Bachelor of Science degree
in Engineering from the University of São Paulo in 1972 and an MBA
from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Coppead two years
later. He attended the Harvard Business School Advanced Management
Program in 1984. Henrique also holds an honorary degree from Bryant
College, Rhode Island, USA. He spent most of his working career at
BankBoston, where he rose to be president of the bank's Brazilian
operation, from 1984 to 1996. In 1996, he became President and
Chief Operating Officer of BankBoston Corporation and in 1999 was
named President of Global Banking for FleetBoston Financial. He has
also held academic council positions at various American
universities, including Harvard and Boston College.
Elizabeth
Riker
Managing Partner, New
Profit Inc.
After ten years in management consulting and education, Elizabeth
joined New Profit and now serves as Managing Partner. Before
joining New Profit, she was a consultant at Monitor Group, working
with both corporate and non-profit clients on issues of strategy
and organisational development. Previously, Elizabeth worked as a
consultant at Arthur D Little Inc. In the field of education,
Elizabeth has taught and worked on educational development projects
in the US, Latin America and Africa.
Ryan Robson
Acting CEO of World Class Learning Group
Ryan has worked in private equity since 1993 and
has led a large number of successful private equity investments,
whilst at HSBC and Gresham. He co-founded and was Co-Managing
Partner of Sovereign Capital. Ryan was integral to the development
of Sovereign Buy & Build strategy and its team, where he led
the education and training team. His transactions included
educational Buy & Build successes SENAD and Alpha Plus,
training providers Employability and Skills Group and Paragon, and
more recently international schools group, WCL. Ryan will continue
to assist his portfolio companies after his tenure at
Sovereign. He has also chaired and contributed to a number of
policy reviews on educational disadvantage and children in
care. Ryan has a BA in History from the University of
Cambridge.
Julian Salisbury
Partner, Goldman Sachs & Co
Julian is head of the European Special Situations
Group (ESSG), which invests in a wide range of asset classes,
including performing and non-performing debt, public and structured
equity, rescue finance and others. He was a founding member
of ESSG in 2003 and from 2007 to 2008, he established ESSG's
business in Moscow. Prior to that, he worked on the Distressed Debt
Trading desk from 2001 to 2003. Julian joined Goldman Sachs in
1998. He was named managing director in 2005 and partner in 2008.
Prior to joining the firm, Julian worked at KPMG, qualifying as a
chartered accountant, ACA, in 1998. Julian earned a BSc, first
class honours, in Sports Science and an MSc in Biomechanics from
Loughborough University in 1993 and 1994, respectively.
Joseph Schull
Managing Director and Head of Europe, Warburg Pincus
Joe joined Warburg Pincus in 1998 focusing on the
firm's European technology, media and telecommunications
investments, as well as its investment activities in Eastern
Europe. Joe has been involved in Warburg Pincus investments in
cable television, broadcasting, telecommunications, business and
information services, digital media, as well as pharmaceuticals.
Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, he was Deputy Director of the
International Affairs Program at the Ford Foundation. Joe holds a
BA and MA from McGill University andreceived a DPhil from Oxford
University, where he also was a University Lecturer from 1990 to
1991. Joe is currently a director of leading companies Mach and
Ziggo. He is also a member of the international board of the
Non-Profit Enterprise and Self-sustainability Team (NESsT).
Finlay T K Scott
Entrepreneur and Management Consultant
Finlay has been both an entrepreneur and
management consultant working with private equity companies and
banks for twenty years. He has run a wide variety of businesses,
like Tragus, Whitecross and MJP, as well as hi-tech Virtuality. He
is currently taking a sabbatical and managing his private business
interests and farm. During his sabbatical he is devoting
considerable time to the charitable sector, he has
been involved with several institutions including: CAF, NHS
Trusts and The Clink Charity, of which he is Chairman.
Andrew Sibbald
Founder and Managing Director, Lexicon Partners
Andrew founded Lexicon Partners in
2000. Lexicon focuses on providing M&A, capital markets
and strategic financial advice to companies in the financial
services, utilities, infrastructure and energy sectors. He
has a degree in economics and accounting from Bristol
University. He is married with four young children and lives
in south west London.
Anne Wade
Senior Vice President and Director, Capital International
Research, Inc
Anne has been at American asset management company
Capital for 15 years, and is currently responsible for analysis and
investments in European-based global infrastructure and utility
equities. In past roles she was the research portfolio coordinator
for UK equities, and managed the summer associates program.
Anne also sits on Capital's Corporate Contributions
Committee. Anne is a board member of GuideStar International
and a member of the Acumen Fund's partnership community in the
USA. Previously, she served as a consultative reader and
provided financial analysis training for New Philanthropy
Capital. Anne has a BA from Harvard and an Msc in
International Political Economy from the London School of
Economics.
Richard Wilson
Senior Partner, Apax Partners
Richard has followed a career in private equity
since 1995, when he joined Apax Partners from INSEAD. Initially he
invested in venture and growth capital deals, then for a number of
years focused on buyouts, leading the Tech and Telecoms sector team
globally and sitting on Apax's Investment, Exit and Portfolio
Committees. Richard changed roles in 2009 and now chairs Apax's
Tech & Telecom Advisory Board. He is the Chairman of
the European Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (EVCA),
is a Council Member of the British Venture Capital and Private
Equity Association (BVCA), and chairs the BVCA's Research Advisory
Board.
Patrick Younge
Chief Creative Officer, BBC Vision
Productions
Patrick is responsible for the teams delivering hit BBC shows
including Strictly Come Dancing, Top Gear, Antiques Roadshow,
EastEnders, Dragons' Den, Miranda, Frozen Planet and The One Show.
Before his current role he was President and General Manager of
Travel Channel, Head of Programmes and Planning for BBC Sport,
Commissioning Editor for Multicultural Programmes at Channel 4, and
a Series Producer for BBC Current Affairs.
"We value the thorough due diligence and regular monitoring of charities that Impetus undertakes and feel confident the portfolio charities will develop significantly as a result of their engagement with Impetus."
Sir Peter Lampl, The Sutton Trust,
Impetus partner