Our team

Paul brings a unique mix of private sector, government and NGO experience to this initiative. He started his career as a corporate lawyer with international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills providing advice on capital raising, M&A and private equity transactions. He co-founded wishlist.com.au, one of Australia’s first e-commerce companies, and has helped establish, fund and manage a number of other international and Australian start-ups across multiple sectors.

Paul has served as a senior advisor to two Australian Prime Ministers; was Deputy CEO of World Vision Australia and, for the last nine years, served as CEO of Save the Children Australia. He led the creation of and is a founding director of Save the Children Australia’s impact investment fund. He has degrees in economics and law with honours from Monash University, a graduate diploma in applied finance and a masters in international relations from Deakin University.

Andy is the Impact Investing Manager for Save the Children Global Ventures. He is a certified Responsible Investment professional with a track record for successfully helping shape clients’ futures for long-term value realisation. He has a diverse work history, including communications, business development, and advising UHNW individuals and family offices. Andy is an experienced program manager, working with responsible and impact investment frameworks (PRI, GRI, IMP, TCFD, SDG alignment), project management, and communications.

Emanuela works as Innovative Finance Advisor across Save the Children Italy and Save the Children Global Ventures. She has extensive experience in partnership brokering, business development, philanthropy and sustainability. For 15 years, she has led and developed strategic alliances with the business sector and high net worth individuals, supervised high performing teams and, in her former role, increased the income by 117% in four years. In her present position, she is in charge of the adoption and execution of innovative finance mechanisms and advises donors, philanthropists, corporates and foundations on how to move beyond the traditional grants to a more innovative and sophisticated approach that leverages capital and maximises social outcomes. She likes to consider herself as a market builder working at the intersection of social impact and finance.

Amanda serves as COO of Save the Children Global Ventures where she oversees operations and finance. For more than seven years she was COO at Malala Fund, the girls’ education initiative founded by Pakistani activist and Nobel Laureate, Malala Yousafzai, leading the organisation through its early start-up period into a global team with activities in 12 countries. Prior to this, Amanda was a manager at The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, a $50 million investment portfolio focused on sustainable economic development following Haiti’s 2010 earthquake. She holds a Master of Public Policy from George Mason University and resides in Washington, D.C.

Aadit has extensive experience of working in innovative finance, impact investing, entrepreneurship and financial diligence. He started his career as an audit professional with Deloitte and worked on landmark investment banking deals in infrastructure, healthcare and financial sectors at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch. He co-founded Altflo, India’s first portfolio intelligence platform for private companies. In his latest stint at KOIS, he led the transaction diligence for their impact investments in Asia and Europe and worked on the design and placement of results-based financing instruments. Aadit is a Post-Graduate in Management from IIM, Bangalore and a qualified Chartered Accountant.

Preeth serves as Chief Investment Officer with his expertise spanning impact investing, innovative finance and capital advisory. Prior to joining Save The Children Global Ventures, Preeth led Palladium Impact Capital’s US-based advisory services. He worked with a diverse range of global clients across the areas of capital raising, transaction and fund structuring, and investment strategy development, on thematics primarily related to financial inclusion, sustainable agriculture and health access.

Previously in his career, Preeth was among the earliest employees of Lok Capital, one of India’s first dedicated impact investment funds. Preeth deployed early and growth stage private equity into microfinance institutions, as the inclusive finance sector was rapidly launching. Preeth has also worked extensively in commercial management and strategy consulting with Accenture as well as Ernst & Young’s Transaction Advisory Services group.

Preeth holds a BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He currently teaches a course in Social Entrepreneurship at New York University.

Eve is the Head of Children’s Impact Multiplier Fund, bringing diverse private sector, government, INGO and development sector experience. She began her career in audit and management consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers and co-founded two startups, in youth arts education and water sanitation, before becoming an investment manager and business advisor at iungo Capital, a Dutch-based impact investment fund. Later, as the Regional Investment Manager-Africa at World Resources Institute, she aided commercial viability and investment flows into public-private partnerships through blended financing models while supporting the setup of a Climate Action Investment fund. Eve is a CPA and holds an MBA in Finance and a Bachelor’s in Commerce from the University of Nairobi, as well as a Higher Diploma in Management of Information Systems from Strathmore University.

Bilal holds the position of Director Post Investment Support at SCGV. Bilal brings a unique blend of experience from his time with Save the Children International and Standard Chartered Bank. He has been with SCI for more than 6 years and last held the role of Director CVA and Lotus20 Implementation where he provided vision, influence and strategic leadership across Save the Children International and Members in Cash & Voucher Assistance (CVA) and working towards meeting the commitments made at the Grand Bargain on behalf of Save the Children

Prior to joining SCI he held the post of Director Development Organisations with Standard Chartered Bank managing the development organisations portfolio that included Multilateral and Bilateral Agencies, Micro-Finance Institutions, Local and International Charities. Bilal brings great insight to identifying innovative solutions, building partnerships, managing compliance, aid diversion, fraud risk and rolling out innovative programmes in developmental and humanitarian settings. Bilal is a Board member for Finance and Funding thematic area at the World Humanitarian Forum –WHF and holds an MBA (honors) with specialisation in Marketing and IT.

Armando is an Executive Director, working across Save the Children Global Ventures and the Global Innovation Centre of Excellence. He brings a unique mix of investing, strategy, and impact measurement skills. Before joining Save the Children, he empowered leaders at major NGOs to use data and experimentation for better decision-making. At the start of his career, he was an Investment Banker on Wall Street and an Investment Analyst at the International Finance Corporation, working across Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Sub-Saharan Africa. He has an MBA from Berkeley and an economics degree from Stanford University.

Mauricio comes with experience in the financial and social impact sectors, spanning the UK, Latin America, Africa and India. In his most recent role as the lead for the Blended Finance practice at Big Society Capital (BSC), the UK’s leading social impact investor, he oversaw a £135 million portfolio of blended investments into social impact funds and sat in the investment committee of five of its portfolio funds. In this role Mauricio also oversaw the portfolio of investments into social banks and initiatives in the community-led and community-based sectors.

Prior to his time at BSC, Mauricio served as an Investment Manager at AlphaMundi Group, focusing on impact investments in Latin America, including areas such as education, financial inclusion, green energy and livelihoods.

With a background in international development, Mauricio spent eight years at Christian Aid (CA), where he led CA’s innovative finance initiatives and played a pivotal role in designing, fundraising, and implementing the organisation’s Social Enterprise Programme. He also worked on the delivery of payments by results contracts for donors such as DFID, USAID, and the EU. Furthermore, as a Pipeline and Portfolio Manager for Latin America and Africa at the Christian Aid-led Access to Capital to Rural Enterprises (ACRE), Mauricio sourced and supported rural enterprises, prioritising job creation, systemic benefits to value chains and improving the lives of the poor and marginalised.

Mauricio holds a degree in Economics and Management from the University of Bristol and trained as a Chartered Accountant at PwC, where he worked as a Senior Associate in the London Top Tier Department.

Mauricio remains a Senior Advisor on Blended Finance at Big Society Capital and currently sits on the investment committee of the Arts and Culture Impact Fund. He is also the co-founder and first COO of Theatre Delicatessen, a social enterprise that repurposes disused buildings in the UK, including London’s Theatre District (West End), to host highly acclaimed theatrical productions and provide working and creative spaces for artists.

Excited to contribute to the well-being of children, Mauricio looks forward to leveraging innovative financial models and Save the Children’s global delivery platform. His aim is to drive the scaling of impactful business models and programs, shaping a brighter future for children worldwide.

Gwil is Innovation Lead, working across Save the Children Global Ventures, the Global Innovation Centre of Excellence and Save the Children UK’s, Innovation Bubble. He has over 15 years’ experience working at senior levels in roles across innovation, strategy, and finance, including 7 years working in humanitarian and development contexts within various countries, including Lebanon, Kenya and Tanzania. Gwil has led several transformation projects, in different sectors, including within the UK’s largest police service, London’s Metropolitan Police Service. Gwil holds an MBA from Cranfield University, UK and a History and Politics degree from University of Southampton.

From working with individuals in their personal and health pursuits in her own business ‘Get Out and Live’ to managing the operations and logistics for groups on the Kokoda Track and throughout Papua New Guinea, Fiona has worked in diverse organisations. Her extensive experience in managing people and international cultures has optimised organisational performance and business outcomes. Fiona’s passion for helping improve the lives of others has seen her volunteering with ‘No Roads Foundation’ and ‘Children First Foundation’ by providing guardianship, training, support and collaborating between government and non-government agencies.

Annika has extensive experience of working on results based finance, social impact bonds, social enterprises, structuring, social and commercial tax reliefs in the UK, corporate governance and UK microfinance. In her 20+ years of experience, she has raised impact capital for collective investment schemes and provided tailored support to social purpose organisations as well as helped them raise repayable capital. Annika Tverin is Head of Impact and Investments at Save the Children United Kingdom. Prior to joining Save the Children Annika worked for Social Finance Ltd and the National Lottery Community Fund. Annika also worked for over a decade for Credit Suisse, ABN Amro and Morgan Stanley and as a management consultant for LEK Consulting. Annika holds an MBA from INSEAD, France, and a M.A. from The Fletcher School, Tufts University, USA.

Julianne first joined the Save the Children Australia in May 2021 as Legal Counsel, Impact Investment Fund and Social Enterprises. In 2022 she moved into the role as Head of Impact Investing. Julianne has more than 20 years’ legal and commercial experience, including advising on new commercial ventures, investment opportunities, acquisitions and divestments. Julianne spent 15+ years at Macquarie Group where she led a team as General Counsel and Global Head of Legal & Tax for Corporate Asset Finance. For the past 4 years Julianne has focused on generating finance for social impact. She was General Counsel at The Fred Hollows Foundation prior to joining Save the Children Australia.