Meet the team
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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.
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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. -
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.
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Julie Blümmel-Gascoin
Steering Group Member
Julie Blümmel-Gascoin is Associate Director, Innovative Finance at Save the Children Global Ventures, where she leads the design and implementation of blended finance solutions to drive sustainable development for children, while fostering collaboration with diverse stakeholders.
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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.
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Martina Brandli
Steering Group Member
Martina Brandli currently works as a Blended Finance specialist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
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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.
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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.
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Alex Goodenough
Advisor
Alex is an Investment Manager and Innovative Finance Lead at British International Investment, the UK’s Development Finance Institution.
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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.
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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.