David Gowenlock

Seeing growing interest in Impact Investing at leading business schools, I created an MBA career guide to introduce people to this exciting area of finance and offer a range of tools, frameworks and literature to start out ahead in their new impact career.

Cambridge Associates has been a leading voice in building investment portfolios for institutional investors for over 50 years. The firm's Sustainable and Impact Investing team conducts research of investment managers with social or environmentally focused investment strategies across asset classes, and supports client teams implement client objectives such as net zero commitments or impact investing carve outs.

Founded in 2008, ClearlySo is Europe’s leading impact investment bank and has helped 200+ clients raise in excess of £400m from an extensive network of European investors. Working on the firm's Funds Advisory and Placement team, I advised private markets asset managers on launching impact vehicles and raising capital for them through a network of European LPs.

Fixed-term contract supporting Social Tech Trust with track record analysis and seed portfolio construction for a £30m venture capital fund.

Making sustainable agriculture PE investments in emerging markets, GSCM seeks to deliver marker-rate financial returns alongside social and environmental impact measured by the firm's propriety Sustainability Impact Score.

Led a team of eight across various workstreams including career development, training sessions and the club's annual 400-person conference 'Doing Good Doing Well'.

TRADEBE is a European leader in solvent recovery and other hazardous waste reclamation. • Produced detailed market reports of European speciality chemicals and API industries – used to determine best investment strategies for growth of existing and new businesses • Conducted interviews to identify acquisition synergies and analyse potential value generated – presenting recommendations to M&A team and project update to UK executive committee • Evaluated sourcing methodology, found new targets using new sourcing strategies and overhauled target database to ensure better tracking and sharing of targets

Southern Broadcast supplies specialist engineering products and services to national radio and TV broadcasters. • Implemented new cloud-based inventory management system to improve stock control - gross profit margins increased by more than 10% • Built model capable of estimating transportation costs across product lines and allowing supplier price variations to be imputed – this enabled more accurate cost-benefit analysis for business and accurate quotations for clients • Designed a strategy to target more profitable market (Australia), organised convention in Sydney to showcase products to potential clients and presented feedback and analysis of opportunity to the CEO • Instigated multi-channel marketing campaign leading to a 20%+ increase in number of total client accounts • Conducted detailed technical analysis on transmission coverage, RF combiners and antenna systems to determine best location for client transmission sites for maximum coverage and minimal cost whilst meeting license requirements

BW Broadcast is a respected manufacturer of high-performance broadcast equipment with distributors in 44 countries. • Promoted to Sales Manager after showing initiative in trouble-shooting issues and implementing successful, profitable solutions such as CRM system and cross-selling scheme - increased order frequency and value by 5%+ • Collaborated with 2 other managers to formulate the company's goals and strategy for the year ahead, presented to company CEOs for approval • Led sales team to generate an annual revenue of £2m, responsible for marketing and team training budget of £120k+ • Active participant in acquisition of competitor brand and confident negotiator of distributor re-assignments • Interviewed and recruited staff for the company and implemented performance appraisal scheme to ensure better development and retention of company talent

• Designed and executed new support strategy including staff training, custom management software and remuneration scheme after analysing feedback and identifying inefficiencies with customer support - service time dropped by 50% • Managed distributor training at worldwide conferences, promoted products through technical demonstrations and sales pitches and led large international tender bids • Identified market requirements by speaking to clients and analyzing competitor’s products - defined new design specifications to engineering team • Determined product launch deadlines after completing detailed technical analysis and testing

Docobo specialises in telehealth solutions for managing patients with long-term illnesses. By monitoring stable patients in their home or community Docobo's products ease the strain on both the NHS and patients. Focused on a future product revision, I worked to integrate audio hardware to a hand-held healthcare device. The hardware was to allow the user greater communication functionality.