Bio:
Steve has been called a maverick social entrepreneur and a visionary (often by the same people). Driven by an ever growing disdain for the unsustainable financial markets which have so much power to do good, and yet do none, and of the critical market failure which overlooks so many significant areas of social, health, environmental, educational and sustainable areas of global concern, yet having a belief in the power of change and in a working market, Steve has made it his social business, and life’s work, to correct market failure on a scale that can make a difference.
With a business background in marketing, psychology, finance and education, and motivated by the call to action in ‘An Inconvenient Truth’, Steve created the initial idea for The Global Sustainability Challenge in late 2006. GSC came to fruition and developed into Transform Capital Management last year.
Transform Capital Management (TCM) is a model for, and aims to operate, a Global Impact Investment Bank which will link a number of large-scale, public and private funds, with both the developed and developing worlds.
Currently in advanced fund-raising mode, the goal is to re-engineer how the global capital pool finds, funds and enables massive increases in sustainable development and climate change action, with managed risk and fair, long-term, triple bottom-line returns.
For further details of what we are trying to achieve, or to register for news and event details, visit www.transformcapitalmanagement.com.
Interests:
My interest in joining NSFM is to raise awareness, support and interest in the important task at hand and to connect with like-minded people, who have the ambition, power and influence to do good and do well.
Interests include: True definition of fiduciary duty (long term v short term); climate risk as a threat to long term asset values; using the law to uphold responsible investment practice; the power of beneficiaries to influence trustees; public policy methods to rein in speculation and encourage long term investment; legal methods to force, or encourage, balanced / responsible capital allocation; madness of crowds v wisdom of intelligent groups; education of trustees and investment managers.
e-mail: steve@transformcapitalmanagement.com
