Ned Hillborough
AssociateNed is a finance professional with a background in the banking and environmental land management sectors. Ned is ACA qualified, starting his career at PwC London in banking audit in 2019, working for some of the largest global financial institutions and subsequently with the Disruption & Innovation team (Strategy&) on the Net Zero Future50 initiative. After 3 years, he left PwC to complete an MSc in Environmental Technology at Imperial College London, specialising in environmental resource management. Most recently, Ned worked part-time as a nature finance analyst for Conservation Alpha, a pioneering consultancy that designs financial products to catalyse private sector investment into conservation across Africa. His focus was identifying opportunities for nature-positive enterprises at a landscape scale, through blended finance and bundled debt instruments. He worked on the UN’s global Nature Investment Facility, Rand Merchant Bank’s sustainable impact bond program, and the Tilenga Project with TotalEnergies and Ugandan Wildlife Authority.
About Greensphere Capital
A leading sustainable investor for over a decade, Greensphere excels in scaling engineered and nature-based technological solutions to solve some of the biggest systemic risks facing our generation. Greensphere was the first fund manager chosen by the UK Government/Green Investment Bank, a mandate it won in 2012 against 23 other British and European fund managers. Greensphere has invested in technology, companies and assets in the renewable energy, agriculture and forestry supply chains, always operating a triple-bottom-lined approach that invests to improve ‘People, Planet and Profit’. We have consistently measured and reported on a range of these metrics in a market-leading manner.