Conduit Connect announces Charles Eve and Rodney Appiah to join Board of Directors
Conduit Connect announced today that Charles Eve and Rodney Appiah have joined its Board of Directors. The Conduit Connect sources and selects high quality and high impact businesses that aim to deliver profit and purpose. To date they have selected over 60 opportunities to share with their mission aligned investment community.
Conduit Connect Chair, Annalisa Jenkins commented: “We are delighted to welcome Charles and Rodney to the board. They bring to us important, relevant skills and insights as we build for the next phase of growth and opportunity for the company. Our Conduit Connect team share a strong purpose driven energy for connecting amazing leaders and companies who are disrupting sectors to create positive change with investors who understand the importance of securing impact through the allocation of their resources.”
Charles Eve has spent a career in finance. He joined Goldman Sachs Convertible Bond desk in 1986 where he went on to expand and lead that team. In 1998 he went to Tokyo to Co-Head the Securities division and was elected Partner in 2000. Charles joined the Asian Management Committee in 2001 and the Global Risk Committee later that year. In 2002 he was promoted to Chief of Staff for the Asian region. In 2003 Charles returned to the UK where asked to become Head of the EMEA Compliance function, a position he held until his retirement from the firm in February 2018. Since then Charles has pursued a plural career. He has a portfolio of over 14 investments in social impact start-ups, is involved with several charities, a school governor and is on the Advisory Board for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Charles Eve said: “Having originally joined the Conduit Connect platform as an investor, I was really impressed by the quality of the deal flow. After attending numerous events and getting to know the team they invited to me to join the board. I hope I can bring my financial acumen and experience of early stage investing to bear. Conduit Connect is the leading showcase for social impact startups and I am thrilled to be part of it.”
Rodney Appiah is a non-executive director and finance professional with a 15 year track record of effective leadership, commercial growth and outperformance across investment banking, leveraged finance, private equity and venture capital. A serial angel investor, Rodney is co-founder and Chair of Cornerstone Partners, the leading angel syndicate in the UK focused on investing in businesses led by black and diverse founders. Rodney is currently a Director at Foresight Group, one of the UK's leading and longest established investors in private equity and sustainable infrastructure investing, and was a former senior investor at BGF, one of the most active growth capital investment firms in the world focused on regional SME investing. Rodney initially began his career at Merrill Lynch where, over a five year period, he closed more than 15 transactions ranging from £50m to £1.2 billion in size. A seasoned board director, Rodney is Chairman of the CBI London U35 Committee, a former school governor and an advisor to a number of early UK stage businesses.
Rodney Appiah commented on his appointment “I am delighted to join the board of Conduit Connect, an incredibly strong community of individuals aligned to a shared mission of investing in the world’s leading high impact businesses. Now, more than ever, investors are seeking a new generation of entrepreneurs with the talent, innovation and drive to address some of our most pressing challenges. I am excited to play a small part in that effort and look forward to working with Annalisa, Eva and the rest of the board to support the fantastic work of Conduit Connect, a platform with environmental and social impact at its core.”
“The Conduit Connect goes from strength to strength. With over 60% of our historical investment commitments taking place since the start of lockdown, it is clear that we are on a growth trajectory and this is an exciting time to be expanding our Board and bringing on new expertise as we scale. Charles is an active angel with great risk and compliance experience and Rodney is deeply connected amongst the seed investing and venture capital landscape and will help to build out our strategy around diverse and inclusive investment.” said Eva-Maria Dimitriadis, Managing Partner and CEO of Conduit Connect.
About the Conduit Connect
The Conduit Connect enables the growth of the most promising high impact businesses globally through the engagement of the Conduit Community. The Conduit Connect was established with the purpose to grow and scale the impact of businesses that are solving some of the most complex and challenging issues of our times. We do this by leveraging the knowledge and capital within our community. Since its launch the Conduit Connect has screened over 540 impact businesses and selected 64 for its private investment platform.
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