Simon is Resonance’s chief investment officer. He joined Resonance in 2012 to establish and grow its award-winning impact investment fund management business, building on Resonance’s 20 year heritage in UK social enterprise. Resonance’s impact property funds now manage c.£330m across its three themes of homelessness, learning disability and vulnerable women, and are attracting institutional investment. In addition, Resonance operates a number of more specialist impact investment funds supporting social enterprise through its Impact Labs.
Simon has over 27 years of investment experience and was previously at Rothschild & Co where he focused on advising on energy and infrastructure projects across Europe and Asia. He has first-hand experience of social enterprise having previously served as a Trustee for a pioneering London-based homelessness charity and for the Transformational Business Network, which focuses on impact investing in Africa and Asia.