Daniela Barone-Soares CEO Snowball

Daniela is the CEO of Snowball, a diversified, impact fund that gives investors access to a global, multi-asset, multi-manager portfolio that maximises positive social and environmental impact with attractive financial returns. For the past 13 years, she has been a CEO and a Non-Executive Director at the intersection of the commercial and social impact worlds, both in start-ups and in large corporate environments leading organisations through sustainable growth, innovation and high performance. She currently chairs a technology business (Gove.digital) and is a Non-Executive Director at a FTSE 100 company (Halma plc).

Daniela is the former CEO of UK leading venture philanthropy organisation Impetus-PEF, managing a portfolio of social organisations with revenues of £250m+ and impacting two million disadvantaged people. She led two cross-sector, multi-stakeholder initiatives adding up to £200m. Daniela was founding trustee of the Education Endowment Foundation and an advisor for Big Society Capital and the G8 Social Investment Taskforce.

Much of her previous career has been in helping businesses to grow and expand internationally, working with private equity and venture capital at BancBoston Capital in the United States, Europe and in the UK (US$200m invested in growth capital). She also worked for Citibank in Brazil and Goldman Sachs in New York.

Daniela has a Bsc in Economics from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Maggie Loo Partner Bridges Fund Management

Maggie looks after client relationships for our platform of funds and has been involved with or led the raising of the firm’s eight most recent funds. These have included successive funds in existing strategies as well as the development of new strategies to the Bridges platform.

Before her current role in Client & Strategy Development, Maggie spent her first five years as a member of the investment team of the Bridges Sustainable Growth Funds and worked on a number of investments in the sustainable living theme, including the successful exit of Whelan Refining.

Prior to joining Bridges, Maggie worked at London-based Climate Change Capital, a specialist merchant bank in the environmental markets. She started her career as a strategy management consultant with McKinsey & Co in New York City. Maggie studied environmental science and public policy at Harvard University and has an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Maggie currently sits on the BVCA Advisory Group on Impact Investment and on the Working Group on Re-visioning Social Investment as part of the UK National Advisory Board on Impact Investing. She is a frequent speaker on the topics of sustainable and impact investment and the private markets industry.

Aaron Pinnock Impact Investment Analyst Church Commissioners for England

Aaron is the impact investment analyst at the Church Commissioners for England, the £8.7bn endowment fund of the Church of England. Aaron’s responsibilities include portfolio impact measurement and management, GHG emissions analysis and sourcing new impact investment opportunities. Prior to the Commissioners, Aaron was an investment consultant at PwC, developing a specific focus on sustainable and impact investment following backing from the firm’s internal innovation incubator.

James Duffield Head of Business Development Aztec Group

James heads up our Group business development initiative across all core services and major asset classes, working alongside the Group’s board, executive and product development committees to determine our commercial focus and new business strategy. Leading a team that spans the Channel Islands, UK and Luxembourg, he also oversees all business development activity, including intermediary relationship management, client pitches and proposals, and reporting.

In addition to being first point of contact for many of our current and prospective clients, James also heads up our London office and has overall responsibility for general management and operational matters.