Who We Are

Geoff Burnand

Co-founder and Chief Executive

Geoffrey has twenty years’ experience in investment management within global financial institutions including Merrill Lynch and Ansbacher. 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 including the concept, strategy and coordination across UK, Channel Islands and Caribbean businesses. Experience of designing donor advisory services at The Institute for Philanthropy and Charities Aid Foundation.

Caroline Mason

Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer

Caroline has an eighteen-year track record of creative and innovative product development across a diverse range of businesses in many sectors. With Reuters, she managed the global development of real time news and television services and then pioneered the introduction of web technology products. Set up her own consulting company to work with several financial institutions to bring about fundamental business process change – examples include the introduction of electronic broking services for an inter-dealer broker and the establishment of a wealth management product suite for a private bank. She is a Board Member of the Social Enterprise Coalition, on the GIIN advisory council and a school governor.

Adrian Hornsby

Associate

Adrian Hornsby is responsible for the Investing for Good impact ratings methodology and research. He graduated from Oxford in 1999. Since then he has written on a wide variety of subjects ranging from architecture and urbanism to art, culture, and social issues. He is co-director of the Kilometer Zero Project - an international arts collective. His plays have been performed in both English and French in London, Paris, Amsterdam and New York. He is co-author of 'The Chinese Dream', a major study on the future of urbanisation in China.

Maureen Stapleton

Chief Information Officer

Maureen Stapleton is an analyst and researcher at Investing for Good. She has graduated from Villanova University (US) in 1987 and then earned a journalism degree from the Northwestern University. She was pan-European markets reporter for The Wall Street Journal and also worked for 4 years at the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and was the business and technology writer for the Chicago Daily Southtown. She is active in her community as a School Governor.

Judith-Laure Mamou-Mani

Investment Analyst

Judith-Laure joined Investing for Good as an analyst after working as a socially responsible investment analyst at Natixis Asset Management in Paris. Prior to this position, she worked as a consultant for a social investment company called SIFA in Paris (Société d’Investissement France Active). Judith has studied law for four years in Paris and at Oxford University. After having completed a master in law, Judith earned a master in finance and strategy at Sciences Po (Paris), specialising in Finance and Sustainable Development.

Ian Callaghan

Associate

Ian Callaghan brings nearly 20 years of expertise to the areas of SME finance, microfinance and finance for other “base of pyramid” products and services. From 2005 to 2008 he led the investment bank Morgan Stanley’s efforts in the field of microfinance, latterly as head of its Microfinance Institutions Group where he arranged some $250 million in loans for some 35 microfinance institutions (MFIs) in 20 countries. This included the two largest transactions completed in the sector, those with BlueOrchard in 2006/07; the second of which won the FT’s Sustainable Finance “Deal of the Year” award in 2008.
He has worked with many other MFIs and microfinance networks worldwide, and been involved in “base of pyramid” products and services such as clean water and distributed energy. He was also Senior Director of Investments at the Omidyar Network in 2008/09.
From 2000 to 2006, Ian was a specialist consultant on SME finance and risk, first with a City of London consultancy and latterly (2004/06) at Morgan Stanley. During this time he advised many of the UK and Europe’s leading banks on SME financing and risk transfer strategies.
From 1990 to 2000 Ian was a “green entrepreneur”, owning businesses operating in the tourism, event management and consulting spheres in the Western Isles of Scotland, one of Europe’s most remote and economically disadvantaged communities.
Ian brings to this wide career experience the realistic perspectives of 25 years in West Africa, where he was born and brought up.

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