Seasoned policy expert takes helm from founding CEO Sarah Gordon, at crucial time when impact investing is moving to the mainstream.
In brief
- The Institute has announced the appointment of Kieron Boyle as chief executive officer replacing Sarah Gordon, the founding CEO, who recently left to take on a different role
- Boyle joins after seven years as CEO of Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation
- He has extensive experience at the centre of UK policy making, and was instrumental in the creation of Big Society Capital
The UK’s Impact Investing Institute has announced the appointment of Kieron Boyle as chief executive officer. Boyle takes over from Sarah Gordon, the founding CEO, at a crucial time when the UK impact investing market is moving from the fringes to mainstream, and with social inequality and climate change at the forefront of the minds of investors and policymakers.
The Institute is an independent, non-profit organisation with the mission to accelerate the growth, and improve the effectiveness, of the impact investing market in the UK and internationally.
Boyle said: “The world faces intense economic, social, and environmental challenges, and I have seen first-hand how capital markets can be one of our most effective levers of change. I look forward to working with… the team and our very many partners in taking that impact to the next level.”
He joins the Institute following seven years as CEO of Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation, one of the world’s oldest foundations, and itself a pioneer in incorporating impact investment into the investment strategy of its £1bn endowment.
Boyle has extensive experience at the centre of UK policy-making. Before Guy’s & St Thomas’ he worked in government as director of impact investment at the Cabinet Office, and a key architect of the government strategy to make the UK a global hub for impact investing, including creation of Big Society Capital.
Before joining the Cabinet Office, Boyle also served in No.10 Downing Street, the Department for Business, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit.
Boyle will join the Institute on 15 May 2023. Until then, senior Institute executives Bella Landymore and Sarah Teacher continue to serve as interim joint CEOs. Teacher leads the Institute’s place-based investing initiative, driving institutional capital into underinvested regional communities.
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In brief
- The Institute has announced the appointment of Kieron Boyle as Chief Executive Officer replacing Sarah Gordon, the founding CEO, who recently left to take on a different role
- Boyle joins after seven years as Chief Executive of Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation
- He has extensive experience at the centre of UK policy making, and was instrumental in the creation of Big Society Capital