Rebecca is the former UK Head of Business Banking at Triodos, Europe’s leading sustainable bank, from 2013 to 2020, where she led the team responsible for business banking activities with SMEs, social enterprises and charities, with particular focus on the environmental, food and farming, and social and cultural sectors. As member of the core management team she also provided strategic vision and governance to the UK business.
Rebecca has a keen interest in improving SME access to finance and promoting the CDFI sector and resilient communities, contributing to steering groups involved with the APPG for Fair Business Banking and Big Society Capital’s “Scaling up Community Investment in the UK”. Whilst at Triodos she was also responsible for the bank’s investment in selected CDFIs alongside BSC via the Community Investment Enterprise Fund.
Rebecca has more than 30 years’ experience in the financial services sector, spanning relationship banking at Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, project finance lending in London, and project finance advisory at Grant Thornton prior to joining Triodos.