Karen has been a member of the Company’s Board since its IPO in 2018. She has extensive experience in project finance, private equity and asset management, and has been an adviser to hedge funds, family offices and private equity houses for a number of years.

Karen started her career at Citibank, where she worked on various multi-national project finance transactions, and worked at CDC (now known as British International Investment), the UK Government’s development finance institution, where she held a variety of positions in equity and debt investing, portfolio management, fund raising and investor development. Karen currently serves as an external panel member of the Albion Capital VCT investment committee.

Past non-executive appointments include chair of Keystone Positive Change Plc and non-executive director of HeiQ Ltd and of ABRDN Japan Investment Trust Plc.