- As Balderton’s first devoted place centered solely on affect and the agency’s Sustainable Future Targets (SFGs) method, Elodie may have a important position in driving ahead Balderton’s affect and sustainability technique
- Appointment underlines Balderton’s dedication to delivering on its SFGs whereas regularly bettering its method and ambition, and sharing all insights and learnings with its 100+ lively portfolio corporations
- Elodie joins from Deloitte the place she gained in depth expertise working with giant corporates on defining their sustainability method to leverage their core enterprise mannequin for good
London, UK – tenth August 2022: Balderton Capital has welcomed Elodie Broad, an skilled chief in company sustainability and sustainable finance, as its first Head of Affect and Sustainable Future Targets (SFGs).
The appointment follows the publication of Balderton’s inaugural SFG report in December 2021. The report launched Balderton’s ten SFGs – which had been modelled on and impressed by the UN SDGs – to seize the agency’s imperatives and ambitions throughout a spread of sustainability-related matters together with local weather change, gender equality, and financial integration. The report supplied an preliminary OKRs (Aims & Key Outcomes) evaluation alongside Balderton’s three affect axes: its inner operations, its funding determination making, and the Balderton portfolio. Elodie’s position will see her lead this work and maintain Balderton accountable to the values underpinning the SFGs, whereas regularly difficult and bettering Balderton’s sustainability ambitions and affect. She will even share greatest practices with the 100+ lively corporations inside Balderton’s portfolio, and can be chargeable for monitoring the sustainability and affect investing panorama and factoring in each new market developments and technological innovation to form and evolve Balderton’s SFGs method.
Elodie Broad
Elodie joins Balderton from Deloitte’s Sustainable Finance crew the place she oversaw ESG technique, transformation and regulatory readiness within the funding administration sector with a specific concentrate on personal fairness. She has in depth expertise working with corporates, each small and enormous, on defining their sustainability method to leverage their core enterprise mannequin for good.
Bernard Liautaud, Managing Accomplice at Balderton, stated: “We’re delighted to nominate Elodie as Balderton’s first Head of Affect and SFGs. We’ve been impressed by Elodie’s work exploring the position of economic methods in enabling, incentivising and accelerating the transition to a extra sustainable financial mannequin. With Elodie on the helm, we’re trying ahead to repeatedly bettering and delivering on our Sustainable Future Targets, and sharing all the things we be taught with our portfolio corporations.”
Having all the time labored on the intersection of technique and innovation, sustainability and sustainable finance, Elodie has a ardour for serving to companies and traders perceive their sustainability dangers and alternatives and factoring these into their technique. Elodie’s transfer to Australia in January 2019 strengthened her dedication as she noticed the devastating results of local weather change first-hand through the bushfire disaster. She performed an instrumental position in organising Deloitte Australia’s Bushfire Response and Local weather Motion programme, with the purpose of setting an exemplary method to decreasing the agency’s personal carbon footprint and inspiring and supporting different corporates on their local weather method.
Elodie stated: “I’ve lengthy been passionate concerning the position of traders and corporates in taking accountability for his or her affect and driving a extra sustainable future. Not solely as a result of it’s the suitable factor to do, however as a result of it makes enterprise sense. I really feel notably impressed by the position and affect potential of personal capital; enterprise capital has an enormous half to play in guaranteeing that the companies of tomorrow are constructed on sustainable foundations. I’m actually enthusiastic about becoming a member of Balderton and look ahead to making use of my dedication and experience to assist take the fund’s sustainability dedication and ambition to the subsequent stage, working alongside the funding groups and portfolio corporations.”
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Contact: India Phillips | iphillips@balderton.com
About Balderton Capital
Balderton Capital is a number one enterprise agency centered on backing the most effective European-founded expertise corporations. Within the 20 years since its founding, Balderton has labored with lots of of extraordinary founders and raised $4.5bn throughout ten funds to help companies at each early and development stage. Earlier investments embody Depop (Etsy), Digital Surgical procedure (Medtronic), Frontier Automobile Group (OLX Group), Flywire (NASDAQ: FLYW), Nutmeg (JPMorgan Chase), Peakon (Workday), Recorded Future (Perception Companions), Dawn (Microsoft), Talend (NASDAQ: TLND) and Yoox Internet-a-Porter (BIT: YNAP). Balderton’s present portfolio contains: Aircall, Magnificence Pie, Carwow, Citymapper, Contentful, ComplyAdvantage, Darktrace (LSE: DARK), Dream Video games, GoCardless, Graphcore, Healx, Infarm, Kobalt Music, Labster, Lendable, Prodigy Finance, Revolut, Sophia Genetics (NASDAQ:SOPH), Tessian, THG (LSE: THG), VanMoof, Vestiaire Collective and Zego.
