Michele has played a leading role in the growth of the sustainable and impact investing sector, both in the UK and globally. She was an adviser to the UK Treasury’s Social Investment Task Force in 2000, chaired the Community Development Finance Association from 2003-2005, chaired the UK National Advisory Board on Impact Investing (part of the Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group) from 2016-18, chaired a Global Working Group on Policy for the G7 Impact Investment Taskforce, sat on the BVCA Council, and played a key role in the UK Government’s Social Impact Investment Advisory Group from 2024-25.

She also served as a Non-Executive Director on the board of CDC (now British International Investment), the UK Development Finance Institution, from 2014-2022, and was a Trustee for the Bridges Impact Foundation from 2018-2024. She currently sits on the Board of GSG Impact.

Michele has over 30 years’ experience in sustainable and impact investing and international development finance, having previously worked with International Finance Corporation, the private sector financing arm of the World Bank Group, and with Shorebank Corporation, one of the leading community development banks in the USA, where she ran small business lending programmes in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe, and advised on microfinance in Bangladesh, the Middle East and Mongolia.

Michele has a BA Honours in Politics, Philosophy & Economics from Oxford University and an MBA from Georgetown University, Washington, DC. She was awarded an OBE for services to international development and social finance in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

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 has served as a member of the British Venture Capital & Private Equity Association Advisory Group on Impact Investment, the Pensions for Purpose Advisory Group, the Financing a Just Transition Alliance, the Working Group on Place-based Impact Investing, and 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.

After starting his career at a high-growth start-up, he subsequently spent eight years as a financial journalist, most recently as senior editor of Private Equity International and Private Funds Management (part of the PEI Media group), where he was named Alternatives Journalist of the Year at the 2014 State Street Institutional Press Awards. Before joining PEI, he also worked at Management Today, a UK business magazine, and Financial News, now part of the Dow Jones Group.

James has a MA in Classics from Oxford University.

Prior to joining, Octavia was a Director in JLL’s Funds Advisory team. She was responsible for fundraising on behalf of real estate investment managers, working with institutional investors across EMEA. Before that, she worked in the Investor Relations team at IFM Investors, a global infrastructure fund manager. Octavia began her career at Deloitte working in the Private Markets audit department.

She has a BA (Hons) in French and Spanish from Cambridge University and is a Chartered Accountant.

Philip joined Bridges from HSBC Asset Management, where he was part of the Venture & Growth Capital team responsible for supporting business development for the Climate Growth Partners strategy, working with institutional and wholesale investors across Asia, Europe, and North America. Before this, he was responsible for business development for HSBC AM’s private credit and structured finance strategies. He also spent time working across several other private markets strategies.

Philip holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Nottingham.

Before joining Bridges, Juliet worked as a Communications Executive at the Association of Investment Companies, the trade body for investment trusts. Prior to this, she worked as a Sales and Events Assistant in the higher education sector and as a copywriter for management training company Mind Tools.

Juliet has a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford.

Asa is ACA qualified and previously worked in private equity audit at Deloitte in London.

He holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Bath.

Henry joined from Pantheon, where he was part of the Investor Relations team responsible for supporting existing client relationships and business development activities across a number of private markets strategies with predominant focus on DACH. Before this, he started his career with IG Group, where he worked as a derivatives trader across both retail & institutional investors in Germany, Austria & Switzerland.

Henry holds a BA in German and Italian from the University of Bristol.

Before joining Bridges, he worked for Anthony Nolan, Chugai and the Nuffield Foundation.

He has a BA from Bristol University and an MA from Goldsmiths.