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Geoff Burnand
Co-founder & CEO
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Adrian Hornsby
Head of Research
Gabi Blumberg
Social Impact Manager
Meera Shah
Social Bonds Manager
Geoff Burnand
Co-founder & CEO

Geoff had over twenty years experience in private and institutional investment management before co-founding Investing for Good in 2004. He is Director of Fund Development at the Social Investment Business. He has a proven track record of business generation and relationship development with high net worth individuals and corporate clients, and of developing a new global wealth management business. His experience includes designing donor advisory services at The Institute for Philanthropy and Charities Aid Foundation as well as serving as Chief Investment Officer at Charity Bank from May 2010 to March 2012. He is passionate about changing the way people think about investment capital.

Adrian Hornsby
Head of Research

Adrian Hornsby is responsible for the Investing for Good methodology for impact analysis, and is author of The Good Analyst. In addition to work on impact, he has written and spoken on a broad range of subjects including economics, international development, architecture, urbanism, and cultural and social issues. He is co-author of 'The Chinese Dream' (010 Publishers, 2008), a major study on the future of cities in China. He has also written five internationally produced plays and pieces of contemporary music theatre. He graduated from Oxford in 1999.

Gabi Blumberg
Social Impact Manager

Gabi is responsible for investment analysis at Investing for Good. She has a range of experience in development finance, including corporate finance work with social enterprises seeking investment, consulting for international organisations, and field work in South Africa and Bolivia. Prior to this, Gabi worked for a global investment bank on their foreign exchange institutional clients sales team.

She holds an MPA in International Development from the London School of Economics, where she specialised in development economics, financial inclusion, and econometric techniques for policy and impact analysis. She also holds a BA in Economics from New York University.

Meera Shah
Social Bonds Manager

Meera is responsible for the management of Investing for Good's Social Bond Programme as well as overseeing the financial and impact due diligence of prospective bond issuers. Meera started her career at Citigroup in investment banking where she specialised in M&A and capital raising transactions for the consumer and retail sector. Prior to joining Investing for Good, she worked on mid-market leveraged finance deals in NIBC's structured finance team. Meera also has entrepreneurial experience having successfully started and run her own social enterprise.

Meera holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University and an MSc Development Studies from the London School of Economics.

"Investing for Good's research and market access has really opened up this asset class for our clients."

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