Meet The BwB Team
Angus Forbes
Chairman / Board
Angus worked in the City for 20 years, at James Capel, Smith New Court / Merrill Lynch and GLG Partners respectively.
Alexander Wiese
Managing Director, Global Head Biodiversity, Food & Agriculture
Alexander is sector lead for Biodiversity and Food & Agriculture he is a member of the Operations & Strategy Group of the firm.
Rufus Grantham
Managing Director, Global Head Urban Transition Finance
Rufus is sector lead for Retrofit and Built Environment. Rufus spent two decades working in investment research advising asset management clients on their investment strategies
Andrew Hughes
Managing Director
Andrew worked in the City of London as a sell side analyst for 35 years, covering the Retail sector. He was latterly a MD and team head at UBS.
Jennifer Faust
Managing Director
Jennifer has nearly twenty years of institutional investment, development finance and international private equity experience.
Vuk Srdanovic
Managing Director
Vuk spent eight years building the international business of Dutch asset management house Kempen Capital Management.
Jeremy Davies
Executive Director
Jeremy spent 16 years in the investment industry in both public and private markets, latterly running global special situations.
Sumbo Eludire
Executive Director
Sumbo has 5+ years of trading experience in the emerging markets FX space with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa.
Christine Zhou
Vice President
Christine has spent six years in front office roles at a couple of major investment banks. Most recently, she was the lead Leisure equity research analyst at Royal Bank of Canada.
Alex Shapiro
Vice President
Alex works in Impact Venture Capital at the Conduit Connect, leading due diligence seed and series A impact deals globally.
Christopher Czura
Analyst
Chris studied Geography at the University of Colorado and received his MBA in Responsible Investment and Finance from SUMAS.
Prerna Sukhija
Analyst
Prerna previously worked as an analyst with the Technology and Disruptive Commerce banking team at JP Morgan Chase & Co., and with the Government of India
Lesley Warren
Operations
Lesley is a member of the Operations & Strategy Group of the firm. "Lesley spent 15 years at Hogg Robinson Business Travel as Head of Operations for various large corporates including her last role at HSBC.
Rupesh Madlani
CEO, Global Head Nature & Circular Finance / Board
Rupesh is sector lead for Nature Based Solutions and Circular Economy, he is a member of the Operations & Strategy Group at the firm.
Asen Charliyski
Managing Director, Global Head Sustainable Cities Finance
Asen is sector lead for Cities. He brings diverse experience in structured finance, corporate finance, and financial markets.
Tenke Zoltani
Managing Director
Tenke Zoltani, Founder of Better Finance, is an expert in the field of impact investing, focusing on structuring, direct investments and portfolio integration of ESG principles.
Steven Bowen
Managing Director
Steven worked at Berenberg, setting up and running the sustainability team within the Investment Bank. Prior to this, he worked for 12 years in the investment industry.
Mark Buisseret
Managing Director
Mark's career in financial markets spans equities, derivatives and fixed income trading, capital markets and risk management. He worked at Goldman Sachs as a Managing Director and head of risk for the Equity Division.
Harald Kinzler
Executive Director
Harald has gained considerable experience, in a variety of roles, during a 25 year career across three financial centres; London, New York and Frankfurt.
Christian Zenner
Executive Director
Christian spent over 15 years in cross-asset derivatives sales roles for international investment banks.
Rajni Kumar
Executive Director
Rajni has over 15 years of experience in cross-asset derivatives trading. Currently, she is a Senior Director at Barclays in Equity Derivatives Trading.
Emre Eren
Senior Analyst
Emre previously worked with PwC in the corporate finance department, as an Insurance broker at ESL insurance, as Head of marketing.
Matteo Scalabrino
Senior Analyst
Matteo spent one year working in financial risk and sustainable finance for MLAdvisory, an international consulting company.
Harry Wain
Analyst
Harry has previously held roles in a Morgan Stanley-backed ABS structuring and asset management company and as a portfolio manager at InvestUK
Isaac Caiger-Smith
Analyst
Isaac graduated in 2021 from the University of Sussex, with a first-class degree in philosophy, politics, economics.
Chris Smith
Managing Director, Global Head Debt Finance
Chris is sector lead for Debt and is a member of the Operations & Strategy Group of the firm. He worked in the City of London for 15 years up to 2009.
Stephen Smith
Managing Director, Global Head Carbon & Forestry
Steve worked at Morgan Stanley for 28 years in European and then Global equity sales.
William Watts
Managing Director
William had a long career in traditional money and bond markets in the UK, US and European Rabobank.
Johannes Haubrich
Managing Director
Johannes Haubrich is Head of Product Management for Fixed Income & Equity Solutions at Nordea Asset Management (NAM).
Iain Torrance
Managing Director
Iain has over thirty five years experience of working in the City with various institutions in lending and corporate finance.
Julien Roques
Executive Director
Julien worked at Santander as vice president in their investment banking division based in Paris.
Sonal Biyani
Executive Director
Sonal has over 12 years of experience in capital markets, fund raising (IPO, PE) and Mergers & Acquisitions in India.
Jade Bouhmouch
Vice President
Jade was previously a senior analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in San Francisco.
Yang Zhou
Vice President
Yang has over 12 years of professional experience in various advisory and asset management roles..
Barbara Truyers
Vice President
Barbara started her career in finance as an investment advisor in 2007. In 2019, she joined the myclimate foundation to help finance institutions integrate climate protection in their daily business.
Ben Hikmet
Analyst
Ben graduated from the University of Southampton in 2018, having achieved an Upper 2:1 (Hons) classification in BSc. Population and Geography.
Tommaso Buso
Analyst
Tommaso previously worked in the ESG retail practice of Amundi AM and the sustainable finance division of Deloitte France where he advised large European banks and asset managers on their climate risk and sustainability strategies.