Room151’s LGPS Place-Based Impact Investing Roundtable & Dinner

Neil has been the Principal Investment Manager for the £12billion Tyne and Wear Pension Fund for over two years. The role is responsible all aspects of the Fund’s investment portfolio including setting the Investment Strategy and asset allocation, managing the investment structure and implementing the responsible investment policy.  During his time at the Fund he has been heavily involved in developing the response to climate change as well as supporting the pooling Agenda and making new investments Residential Property and various private market funds.

In previous roles Neil worked at PIRC in client relations with a focus on the LGPS Performance universe and he also spent 10 years at CIPFA running the Pensions Network. This involved a range of activities supporting the LGPS from producing various guidance documents, delivering advice and training and facilitating conferences and other networking events. Neil is a CIPFA qualified accountant who has worked in or around Local Government for over 25 years.

An experienced sustainability leader who has worked on multiple net zero and green finance projects, across sectors and geographies. I wear two hats at the moment – the Green Finance Lead for the North West Net Zero Hub and I’m also the founding director of the Green Finance Community Hub CIC. As a CIC we are incubating Project Collette which aims to be the UK’s first community-owned offshore wind farm. We’ve recently done Collette’s Community integrated investment model & Project Collette was first developed in our Green Investment Cumbria Plan.

Ross Morrow is a Co-Founder & Executive Director of DunPort Capital Management. Prior to establishing DunPort, Ross was a Senior Analyst at BlueBay, where he was responsible for the origination, execution and management of debt investments in Irish SMEs. Ross also worked in the debt advisory and restructuring team at Lazard, where he advised European middle market and high yield borrowers. Prior to Lazard he worked for Hawkpoint’s debt advisory & restructuring practice, Acision as Group Treasurer and Anglo Irish Bank as a leveraged finance banker focused on the UK and Ireland.

He has a BComm degree in Finance from University College Dublin, an MSc in International Business from the Michael Smurfit Graduate School in Ireland, is a CFA charter holder and has an MBA from Cass Business School in London.