The Impetus board is comprised of nine highly experienced trustees, who have backgrounds in the private and voluntary sectors. Trustees include the co-founders of Impetus Trust, Stephen Dawson and Nat Sloane.
Stephen Dawson, Chairman
One of the first venture capitalists in the UK with 25 years'
board level experience as chairman, chief executive and director,
Stephen has been involved for over 20 years with ECI, a venture
capital company specialising in mid-market buy-outs, where he is
now non-executive chairman; he was until recently chairman of Ovum
PLC and is a founder trustee of the European Venture Philanthropy
Association (EVPA). Stephen was named the Personality of the Year
Award at the Private Equity Awards in April 2007.
Nat Sloane, Vice Chair
A successful entrepreneur, venture capitalist, management
consultant and social investor. Nat co-founded Impetus Trust and is
a member of the Bridges Social Enterprise Fund investment
committee. Nat was a partner in Accenture where he also chaired
their UK charitable foundation. He has established three private
businesses in the UK and US. He was vice chairman of Crime Concern
and is working on his doctoral thesis in 19th century
Anglo-American relations at the University of London.
Craig Dearden-Phillips MBE
Craig is the founding chief executive of Speaking Up, a charity
which empowers people with learning difficulties, mental ill-health
and other disabilities to take control their own lives. Speaking Up
was the first charity Impetus invested in. Outside of Speaking Up,
Craig is Non Executive Member of the Investment Committee of
Futurebuilders, the UK Government's risk-capital fund for third
sector organisations seeking public sector contracts. He is also a
Social Enterprise Ambassador for the UK Government and acts as a
mentor to five CEOs and social entrepreneurs.
Louis G. Elson
Louis G. Elson is the Managing Partner of Palamon Capital Partners,
a private equity firm he co-founded in 1999. He has been an active
member of the European private equity industry for almost twenty
years, previously as a Partner of Warburg, Pincus. He is a member
of the Research Advisory Board of the British Venture Capital
Association. He serves on the Development Board of The Prince's
Trust and is a Trustee of the Hobson Foundation for Classical
Studies.
Amelia Fitzalan Howard
Amelia Fitzalan Howard spent the first part of her career in the
art world at Christie's where she worked for 9 years. She
then left Christie's to move to the voluntary sector and started
work with School-Home Support in 1995, becoming CEO in 1998.
In 2005, Amelia moved to The Henry Smith Charity, a UK grant maker
which distributes c £25m per annum, where she is Head of Grants.
Amelia also sits as a Magistrate in East London and is a Trustee of
Andrews Charitable Trust.
Andy Hinton
Andy is co-founder of Ailsa3 Ventures Ltd, a small privately
funded, private equity investment vehicle set up in 2003. He led
the management buy-in of White Rose Environmental Ltd and prior to
that Andy held a variety of senior corporate roles in the
environment sector, including Board Director of Yorkshire
Water.
Stephen Lambert
Stephen Lambert is chief executive of Studio Lambert, an
independent production company based in London and Los Angeles. His
career includes directing films in conflict areas, creating
award-winning television programmes such as Faking It and The
Secret Millionaire, and for sixteen years, working for the BBC.
Ian Meakins
Ian Meakins is Group Chief Executive of Wolseley. Prior to
this he was Chief Executive Officer at Travelex and before
this Chief Executive Officer of Alliance UniChem plc until its
merger with Boots in July 2006. He was previously President,
European Major Markets and Global Supply for Diageo plc.
Chris Underhill MBE
Chris is Founding Director of the charity BasicNeeds, which works
with mentally ill people in eight countries in the third world.
Prior to this he founded and directed two other charities, Thrive
(formerly Horticulture Therapy) and Action on Disability and
Development (ADD). In 2000 he was awarded an MBE for his work in
disability.
In addition, our thanks go to past Impetus trustees for their contributions: Adrian Beecroft, Guy Dawson, Chris Mathias, Julia Middleton, Doug Miller, Shaks Ghosh and Michael Webber.
Impetus is the best investor of funds in the not-for-profit sector, by a mile. Of that, there is absolutely no question.
Chris Mathias
Founder of Arbor Ventures and Impetus donor