Sarah Mcgeehan Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Trillium technologies is a systems design and engineering contractor which develops innovative technologies and services in the areas which we believe to be the fundamental Grand Challenges of this era:OCEAN | CLIMATE | SPACEAt the heart of how we work is Trillium’s “Mission Oriented” approach - however, we don’t do it alone. Part of our methodology.

I have been working on a portfolio of projects including designing and managing a £10m Investment and Contract Readiness Fund for social ventures in the UK (www.beinvestmentready.org.uk), developing social return on investment metrics and models for charities and social ventures and the 1st pop up social enterprise think tank (www.popse.org.uk).

London, United Kingdom

Lead UK based consultant advising TNP clients on practical and strategic approaches to fostering systemic innovation in commercial settings. Recent projects include a structured discovery innovation programme for a large, international full service bank, advising an independent family led Foundation on developing a Shared Value programme locking together.

I led the Regional Innovation Fund Advisory service – a joint venture with NESTA - which is supporting the management and disbursement of the £220 million NHS Regional Innovation Funds across the 10 English strategic health authorities (SHA). Each SHA has a fund to stimulate the invention, implementation and spread of innovative ideas in their area. RIFAS.

I led NESTA's £4 million risk capital programme to give high growth social enterprises the resources they need to scale. I worked with partners to test capital supply routes and opportunities - through funds, individual investors and market information. These supply-side initiatives were complemented by a programme of projects to investigate effective.

As a founding member of the senior management team (with the Chief Executive) I was responsible for the growth and development of this young, dynamic trade association which supports UK-based community development finance institutions (CDFIs). Our focus was to grow and professionalise this new sector to provide radically different solutions to financial.

I joined the New Economics Foundation at a time of great excitement and interest in new ways of solving old problems. As the head of community development finance within the Enterprising Communities team I had a broad range of roles and responsibilities. These included developing strategy, planning and implementing a variety of policy programmes to achieve.

I carried out the consultation work and wrote ACORD's micro-finance policy. I also investigated the role of micro-credit in hyper-inflationary contexts and assisted in the development of the micro finance consultation paper in liaison with ACORD field staff. I contributed to a new consultative gender policy drawing on reports from field programmes and.

Ma, Anthropology Of Development

Awarded SOAS bursary

Ba 1St, Linguistics And Social Anthropology; Social Anthropology Dept