Brendan has been a financial markets professional for over 30 years, mainly in the Capital Markets environment. I spent the first 2/3rds of my career successfully building business/product development teams which gave me the opportunity to appreciate and understand the value chain from front-to-back, in my case from pre-trade through execution to post trade requirements.
I have spent the last third of my career applying that knowledge and experience to identify opportunities through innovation roles, deal investment and management, seeding and forming VC structures, setting up a small SEIS fund, advising, consulting, investing and mentoring within the FinTech space and having Executive and Non-Executive Board positions in large to small companies.
I wrote ESG Investing for Dummies as I found that a number of peers were unclear on the key aspects that companies needed to embrace to achieve ESG credibility and how companies' relative ESG ratings can inform their investability in the future.