Judging Panel
Phillip Bate - Director of Business Banking - Triodos Bank UK
Phillip manages a team of co-workers covering all aspects of lending, corporate finances and lending operations at Triodos. He first joined the business banking team in 2018 as a Relationship Manager and was most recently the Team Leader for South West and Midlands, before taking on his current position in January 2023. Prior to his roles at Triodos, Phillip worked across finance, risk and business banking departments.
Phillip loves to work with organisations focused on driving positive social and environmental change in the world and, through finance, helping to scale the impact they can have. He is a qualified chartered accountant with Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and a trustee for a Bristol-based charity providing alms housing.
Roshan Bharwani - Co-founder, Venture Advisor & Transformation Consultant
Roshan is a seasoned business leader in banking & capital markets transformation. Over her 16 year career at JPMorgan and other firms she has led several award winning transformation initiatives including large, multi-year programs with extensive budgets. She specializes in building and scaling product solutions while leading diverse, global teams with industry leading best practices. She now leverages her experience to re-shape and innovate in traditional industries using the power of new technologies like Web3, AI, ML. She focuses on projects in DeFi, sustainability and ESG using blockchains and those that use decentralisation as a concept for improving parity in society. Roshan has advised pre-seed startups in Web3 through venture capital platforms & academia and is also building her own project related to objective measurements of gender diversity and governance. She was associated with Blockchain Founders Group VC incubator & DLT Talents program (Frankfurt school of business). She is a strong advocate for women in STEM, mentoring the next generation & actively promoting them to take up roles in new and challenging sectors and sustainability.
Jude Brooks - Social Purpose and Marketing Consultant
Jude Brooks is an award-winning business leader and social intrapreneur with an extensive track record of delivering transformative initiatives that generate substantial commercial outcomes alongside meaningful social impact. With over 30 years' experience in customer-centric organisations including Coca-Cola and Tesco, Jude now helps responsible companies unlock the business case for social purpose and empowers NGOs to amplify their commercial reach. During her five-year tenure leading CSR at Aviva, Jude unified all social impact activities under a cohesive communications and impact framework, developing programmes supporting environmental and financial wellbeing outcomes. As Vice-Chair of Citizens Advice North Herts, she led the creation of a three-year strategic plan, and serves as a Board Advisor at BERRI, a clinical evaluation tool for children with complex needs. Driven by a passion for balancing profit and purpose, Jude asks the tough questions needed to achieve meaningful, systemic change.
Alice Chapple - Founder - Impact Value
Alice Chapple is a sustainable finance and impact expert with over 30 years of experience. Through her company, Impact Value, she advises funds, financial institutions, and companies on integrating social and environmental impact into their financial strategies. She also collaborates with NGOs to promote systemic change. Alice serves as Development Impact Advisor for Gridworks and FSD Africa, focusing on capital flows and energy infrastructure in Africa. She designed and teaches Cambridge University's Sustainable Finance course. Alice holds various roles, including Director at Schroders BSC Social Impact Trust, Non-Executive Director at I(X) Net Zero, and Chair of the Tracker Group. She is also involved with advisory and investment committees for WHEB Asset Management, Acre Impact Capital, and the Development Guarantee Group. Previously, Alice was Director of Sustainable Financial Markets at Forum for the Future and worked at BII, developing ESG tools and impact frameworks. She has an MA in Economics from Cambridge and is a chartered accountant.
James Daley - Managing Director - Fairer Finance
James Daley has been a consumer campaigner and financial journalist for over 25 years. Before launching Fairer Finance in 2014, he worked for the consumer group, Which?, where he campaigned for a better deal for customers of banks and insurers in the wake of the financial crisis.
James is frequently interviewed on national television and radio, and has regularly appeared on shows such as Watchdog, Rip-off Britain, Dispatches and Moneybox. Before working at Which?, James spent 10 years as a business and finance newspaper journalist, latterly as the The Independent's personal finance editor and cycling columnist.
James is a member of UK Finance's Consumer Advisory Group, and the Association of British Insurers' Consumer Advisory Group.
Ivana Gazibara - Director, Systemic Investment Programmes - TransCap Initiative
Ivana is a director at the TransCap Initiative, an open innovation non-profit focused on building the field of systemic investing, where her work focuses on investment vehicle strategy and design. Ivana has a background in foresight and systems change, with more than 15 years of experience in sustainability strategy and innovation. She has previously led Forum for the Future’s futures practice, and incubated and led The Futures Centre, the only open, participatory futures platform focused on advancing a sustainable future. Ivana has an MSc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and a BA in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Toronto.
David Hall - Social Sustainability Director - Lloyds Banking Group
David is passionate about developing and delivering purpose driven strategies and programmes; doing so over the past 10+ years in consumer and commercial banking, leveraging the systemic levers of organisational and societal change necessary to deliver sustainable performance. Working alongside key partners such as Channel 4, JLL, Small Business Britain and Korn Ferry, key highlights have included:
Leading a multi-million, multi-year environmental and social sustainability portfolio, from insight to strategy to delivery
Overseeing the Lloyds Bank flagship black entrepreneurs programme delivering 40,000+ hours targeted support to 10,000+ small business owners over the past 3 years, underpinned by the delivery of the first UK financial services sector dedicated Black Business Hub.
Sponsoring the commissioning of extensive research on the barriers faced by black-owned, disabled-owned and Northern women-owned businesses
Leading the successful integration of innovative sustainability standards into financing products for small and medium sized housing developers
Delivering sales to service focussed culture transformation programmes to 40000 colleagues servicing 25m+ customers
David currently focuses on developing a ‘targeted universalism’ approach across the corporate bank’s products and services, leading Lloyds’ active participation in the development and delivery of the government backed Lilac Review whilst enhancing social sustainability data and insights organisational capability. He has also served as a lead governor at one of the UK’s largest state primary schools for the past ten years whilst helping drive stronger collaboration amongst the broader East London schools network.
Dan King - Co-founder - Insurance DataLab
Dan launched Insurance DataLab with former colleague, Matt Scott, to provide benchmarking insights on the performance of insurers, MGAs, and brokers to help finance, strategy, and compliance teams. He’s worked in the media and business intelligence sector for more than 25 years, managing market leading brands for many of the UK’s most respected publishing groups. Much of his career has been spent in the insurance world having worked on the launch of Health Insurance magazine in the 1990s, led Insurance Times as publisher and worked closely with the founder of Fairer Finance in the 2010s, and more recently has been responsible for Global Reinsurance and the huge growth in its Dubai World Insurance Congress event. Away from work, Dan lives in South London and is often found traipsing around the country following his home-town football club, Plymouth Argyle.
Katharine Lewis - Partner - Trowers & Hamlins LLP
Katharine is an experienced banking and finance lawyer who acts for banks, financial institutions, corporates and public sector bodies in relation to a broad range of conventional and Shari'ah compliant finance transactions.
Katharine's focus is on inward investment into UK real estate and she regularly advises both lenders and borrowers on senior and mezzanine syndicated facilities, bilateral loan facilities, security and other ancillary finance documents for use in the acquisition and development of all classes of real estate asset. She is also experienced in working with local authorities on project finance and the financing for investment into local housing companies.
Emily Murrell FRSA - Director, Policy Programme - IIGCC
Emily is Director of the Policy Programme at the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, an organisation which brings over 400 members of the investment community together to make significant progress towards a net zero and climate resilient future by 2030. She is also an Advisor in the Public Policy Workstream of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero.
Prior to joining IIGCC, she was the UK Climate Lead and Acting Special Representative to the UK and Ireland at the World Bank Group and Head of Sustainable Finance and Future Cities Policy at HSBC’s Global Headquarters. Before this, Emily was a civil servant in the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change and a Senior Policy Advisor in the Cabinet Office, which included being part of the UK Government team focused on getting the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals agreed in 2015.
Emily is a Trustee and Board Vice Chair for environmental charity Earthwatch Europe and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She has a BSc in Social Policy with Government from London School of Economics and Political Science and a Masters in International Relations and Diplomacy from the College of Europe.
Susan May Robbie - Sustainability and Communications Consultant - dDigital
Susie is passionate about empowering disadvantaged people, particularly youth, through education and employment opportunities. A former corporate lawyer, she led Social Investment at Investec plc, where she developed award-winning community programs and engaged employees in impactful volunteering and fundraising. Susie also served on the bank’s Gender Diversity Steering Committee. She has experience as a corporate fundraising manager for a children’s charity, securing significant partnerships with major firms like Bank of America and Goldman Sachs. Now a business owner and Sustainability and Communications Consultant, Susie helps corporates achieve their purpose by unlocking ESG opportunities and balancing impacts on people and the planet. As an experienced B Corp B Leader with an MBA Essentials certificate from LSE, she advises businesses on aligning core values, enhancing employee engagement, and building community partnerships. Susie also serves as a non-executive director of the Diversity Trust social enterprise and is a trustee for Care for Wild UK.
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