Advisory Board

Michael Cook is the Founder, CEO, and Co-CIO of SouthernSun Asset Management, Inc. (1989). Michael serves on the Advisory Council of the Fogelman College of Business and Economics at the University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, and the boards of Cave Pictures Publishing, Omeq Medical and Thriving Cities Group, He is also an Associate Fellow and member of the Principal’s Circle at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford and co-founder of Blackbay Global Advisory.

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Peter Doyle served as CFO and Head of the Family Office at The Grosvenor Estate until 2018. Prior to that Peter worked at KPMG, including 16 years as a partner in the London office and latterly as Head of Financial Services. Peter is a Governor at Eltham College, a Trustee at Wycliffe Hall Oxford and chairs the Black Stork Charity, formed to build the Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre. He serves as a member of the Audit Committee at the University of Cambridge. Peter serves on the advisory board of Kinrise.

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Dr. Mary Johnstone-Louis is Director of the Ownership Project and a Senior Research Fellow at Said Business School, University of Oxford. Mary researches, teaches, and builds programmes on how business leaders design strategy around areas of public good. Her current focus is on how ownership influences impact and sustainability. She is Head Tutor for Oxford’s Leading Sustainable Corporations Programme a World Economic Forum Global Future Council Fellow and Chair of the Board of B Lab UK. She has worked on five continents including fieldwork in Bangladesh, South Africa, and across Latin America.

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Simon is a Founder and Managing Director of Pacific Equity Partners (PEP), the largest private equity manager in Australia and New Zealand. PEP’s business comprises buyout, value-added infrastructure and structured credit funds. Simon chairs the firm’s Executive and Operating Committees. Prior to PEP, Simon was a partner with Bain & Company in Singapore and Sydney. Simon also previously worked in the USA with Goldman Sachs and consulting firm The LEK Partnership. He has worked across a broad range of industry sectors as a consultant and investor, and has served as a director of a private and public companies ranging from consumer foods to cinemas to financial & business services. In addition to his roles at PEP, Simon also serves as a trustee on a number of charity boards.

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Ilaria is currently the Group Advisor to Grab (Southeast Asia's most valuable technology company), focusing on advancing diplomacy, thought leadership and social impact reach. Prior to this role, she served as a Corporate Finance executive and helped drive Grab's $5 billion Series H fundraise - the largest in the history of Southeast Asia. Ilaria was formerly an Executive Director at the Sales & Trading division of Goldman Sachs New York, focusing on Asia Equities. She is currently also a global keynote speaker, serves on the Board of Trustees of humanitarian organizations CareForChildren and Emancipaction, an Operating Advisor to Owl Ventures (largest Education Tech focused venture capital fund in the world), an advisory committee member to GlobalSF's Women Empowerment Initiative.

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Reuben Coulter is Partner at Ignis Global, Senior Advisor to Faith Driven Investor and a Senior Fellow at Belmont University. Prior to this, he was CEO of Transformational Business Network, a global impact investment network, and Associate Director for Africa at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. He has served as a trustee of Bristol City Funds, a place-based impact fund and was Chair of the Irish Humanitarian Committee. He completed an Executive Masters in Leadership with Wharton, Colombia, London and INSEAD Business Schools and a Masters in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.