Team

David has a wealth of global investment experience across multiple disciplines. As a serial entrepreneur he has always been in the forefront of emerging investment themes, from China in 1984, Climate Change in 2004 to Natural Capital in 2020. His experience enables him to focus on, governance, fund raising, investor and stakeholder engagement, while providing oversight and advice on investment processes.

David was inspired by the 1992 Rio World Summit into Climate Change action. He holds strong traditional values on integrity, truthfulness, honesty and transparency.

Pip Blake is an investment associate. She takes ownership of various financial models across the business, ensuring appropriate sensitives, market behaviours and retrospective knowledge are reflected. Alongside this, Pip helps Regenerate Outcomes maintain their budget model in a similar manner.

Prior to joining the Regenerate team, Pip spent over four years working in KPMG’s audit practice, specialising in Corporate, Listed and Regulated entities. This gave her exposure to senior leadership teams across several industries, most recently retail, construction, and life sciences. She has audited numerous accounting topics, favouring those of a modelling nature which complement her Mathematics degree from the University of Nottingham. In conjunction with work, she qualified as an ICAEW Chartered Accountant.

For more than 20 years, Erik has been part of creating some of the most visionary businesses driving impact and transformation of the global food industry. A master of creating and growing climate positive, regenerative businesses and brands, Erik has been instrumental in the success of his own companies as well as organisations such as Groupe Danone, Linda McCartney Foods, Daylesford Organic, Duchy Originals, Rebel Kitchen, Numi Tea, Grosvenor Group and many more.

Drawing on his specialist experience and track record to craft successful partnerships, Erik supports our value creation through product development, brand establishment and distribution for European investee businesses.

Erik is a board member, non-executive director and mentor to a number of organisations focused on climate, regenerative agriculture and food supply chain. He speaks five languages, holds a BA and a MBA’s in international business and in his spare time alongside his passion for the healing power of nature he enjoys family, friends who are family, runs, hikes and hot yoga.

Nicholas Burlington is the Head of Investor Relations at Regenerate Asset Management. He is a Chartered Accountant with over 15 years of experience in private markets fundraising, investor relations (IR), and general partner (GP) management.

Nick has raised more than EUR 4 billion across various asset classes from global institutional investors, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals, partnering with several leading European asset managers.

He brings deep expertise in scaling IR functions to support significant institutional AUM growth, and has additional experience in ESG and impact advisory, fund structuring, and GP financial control. Nick also serves on the board of the UK-focused children’s charity Raise Your Hands and is a Freeman of the City of London. He holds a degree in Finance and Accounting from the University of Newcastle.

Ryan is a founder and the CIO of Regenerate Asset Management.

Ryan’s experience has centred on real asset based private equity investments across Europe and the UK over the past twenty years. He has a successful and proven track record investing in and exiting European renewable energy businesses, with a focus on extracting value from land management and asset centred companies. Ryan is responsible for fundraising, origination, investment and risk management.

Ryan’s ambition is to lead a market-based response to resolve climate change with speed and scale through demonstrating returns.

Robert is an experienced professional in the agriculture industry with deep commercial and operational experience across production, supply and processing sides ranging through large scale livestock, grains, vegetable, permanent cropping with a specialty in irrigation across Europe, Central Asia, Middle East, and North Africa. He has spent his entire career in agriculture, and has built and operated some of the biggest agricultural operations in the world.

Robert’s role is to support the investment process and integration of operational and management systems of our investee companies.

Over the last 15 years he has been heavily involved in introducing and operating reduced and zero cultivation, reduced inorganic inputs, driving operational efficiency combined with improving sustainability on very large-scale farms.

Robert has always embraced change in agriculture and has a keen interest in supporting the development of transitional models for regenerative farming which will contribute to future proofing the industry.

Robert studied Agricultural Economics at Newcastle University and is originally from a traditional mixed family farm in Lincolnshire. The farm was focused on grains, poultry, and beef, which he started running at the age of 20 due to family circumstances, and today is rented out but still in his family’s ownership. In his spare time, he can be found fighting age and gravity in his running shoes or ski boots and later laughing about the day with his family under a hot sun.

Tom is the Managing Director of Agroecology Development at Regenerate, Co-Head of Outcomes and is responsible for regenerative farming development, playing a key role within the team in integrating regenerative transitions for specific assets from a farming practical and business perspective as well as creating the commercial opportunity with farmers on the ground. Tom supports the Private Equity and Ventures teams with technical and regenerative farming development expertise as well as an extensive history in insurance, essential within real assets.

Tom has a farming background rooted on the family farm in Northumbria, and his deep interest in farming issues led him to become the founding architect of the Hadrian Bond, the cornerstone asset of the Regenerate Outcomes platform.

Prior to Regenerate, Tom worked for a Uruguayan agri-business and is at the forefront of designing blended finance models to support regenerative farming enterprises. He has also worked in the trade credit and political risk insurance markets as both a broker and an underwriter since 2012.

Elle Hampson is a Commercial Asset Manager at Regenerate Asset Management, where she supports the firm’s across asset management and operational initiatives. Elle is CIMA qualified and has a degree from the University of Leeds in Accounting and Finance.

Chris is the Chief Operating Officer at Regenerate, the Co-Head of Outcomes and serves on various internal committees of Regenerate.

Chris is responsible for establishing and managing the operational foundations of the business and financial strength of investments by bringing together his skills and experience in risk, financial structuring, debt capital market and equity investments.

Having advised on and established highly complex project finance structures for over three decades, Chris brings a rare blend of political and commercial insight into sustainability through holding senior roles the private and public sectors.

Prior to Regenerate, he was the inaugural CEO of the Global Infrastructure Hub, a G20 company based in Sydney working directly with OECD, UN, the IMF the World Bank and the AIIB. Chris has also served on the board of Thames Water, held senior positions at banks and funds such as Lloyds, West LB and Macquarie. Chris procured the first ever project bond for the London DLR Lewisham Extension in 1996.

Matt is the Soil Carbon & Data Specialist at Regenerate and is responsible to set frameworks for soil testing methodologies as well as analysis and management of soil carbon data, carbon modelling and oversight, alongside feeding into the product, investment, and asset management teams of Regenerate. Matt plays a key role across Outcomes, Private Equity and Ventures strategies bringing technical, academic and data modelling expertise.

Matt is a published academic and has recently completed a DPhil at the University of Oxford, which analysed the impact of Regenerative Agriculture practices on soil carbon and agricultural productivity.

Ananya Manna is an investment director responsible for sourcing, due diligence and deal execution in the RESA fund.

Ananya is an experienced PE/VC investor with more than 7 years focusing on the agri-food sector. At ECBF, a climate tech venture capital fund, Ananya invested in agtech startups with an objective of reducing GHG emissions from agriculture.

Previously she invested in the agri-food businesses in Southern Europe with MCH Private Equity. She invested across the agri-food value chain, including analyses of olive, citrus, Iberian pork, and almond producers. She is passionate about the ability for different farming practices, appropriately supported by technology, to make agriculture sustainable and climate resilient.

Philippa is responsible for financial control activities across Regenerate taking charge of establishing processes and procedures to ensure the integrity of the company’s ledger working closely with the Executive Team. In addition to control, Philippa will oversee and manage corporate and fund professional advisors and outsourced administrators delivering services to subsidiaries and sister companies within Regenerate Group.

During her career, Philippa has specialised in establishing and high growth companies and joins Regenerate bringing this core skill in support of our cross-integrated verticals. Philippa has a background in farming, and joins the team with a deep enthusiasm for our climate and impact based mission with its foundation rooted in the agriculture and food supply chain ecosystem.

Philippa has previously worked for an advertising agency and guided the company through several mergers and rapid expansion. She is an ICAEW Chartered Accountant who enjoys horse riding, hiking with the dogs and travel. With experience in agriculture, land management is of a personal interest as well as professional and is passionate on the importance of maintaining a sustainable environment for the future.

Ben is a founder and the CEO of Regenerate Asset Management

Ben has focused on sustainable private equity and venture capital investments across Europe and the UK over the past fourteen years. He has a successful and proven track record investing, managing and exiting European renewable energy businesses. He has a long history of successfully selecting and establishing new markets, while managing teams to deliver value through development and growth. Ben is responsible for fundraising, origination, investment and business development.

Ben is an advocate for the natural environment and financing projects which drive change as well as excellent returns.

Jeremy is an Investment Director with Regenerate Asset Management. His core focus is to manage investments and operational functions within the Private Equity team and collaborates on specialist initiatives across the organisation.

Jeremy brings with him international experience in farmland investments, asset management, and water resources. With an education in sustainable business and agriculture, he previously played a leading role in the valuation, investment, and execution processes for a leading Canadian agricultural investment firm. Most recently, he completed a Master’s of Science at the University of Oxford where he researched the environmental and economic value of freshwater resources in agriculture.

Jeremy is particularly interested in supporting the development of sustainable landscapes, watersheds, and value chains through his work with Regenerate.

Addy is an Investment Manager responsible for fund raising support, investment analysis and portfolio management with a focus on Regenerate Ventures, the venture capital team of Regenerate.

Addy plays a key role in investor relations focused on fundraising for our EIS funds, often our first point of contact for companies seeking capital and investment screening.

With a unique blend of experience, Addy has developed specialized skills having worked in agri-tech, VC and regenerative agriculture businesses.

She understands both sides of VC investment as she has also been a food entrepreneur, who founded and grew a ‘Grab and Go’ restaurant business with pop-up locations across London.

Prior to Regenerate, Addy held positions at Imprimatur Capital, Forward Food Tech and Wildfarmed, Europe’s largest regenerative farming project, with a focus on end-to-end supply chain.