Team
Edmund Truell – Chairman
Edmund was founder of Duke Street Capital and is currently Director of Pension Corporation. Edi's interest in the environment is long standing, having made several investments in conservation, waste management and early stage cancer therapies. He is also a Trustee of the Galapagos Conservation Trust.
+44 (0)20 7280 9700
truell@disruptivecapital.com
Cédriane de Boucaud – Director
Cédriane has over 14 years experience in venture capital and corporate finance working in the US, Europe, Russia and Asia working to fund and build businesses with a focus on energy and infrastructure. She has been involved in funding and growth for more than 20 technology companies. Cédriane has been part of the Sustainable Technology Fund from the beginning and assisted with the raising and closing of the fund and was part of the team that spun out into Disruptive Capital Finance.
Cédriane is on the Board of ECO Plastics, Q Chip, Lysanda and Pyropure.
+44 (0)20 7280 9702
cedriane@disruptivecapital.com
Lizzy Mallett – Fund Administrator/Research Analyst
Lizzy joined the Sustainable Technology Fund team in April 2008 and has assisted with the spin out of the fund and the set up of Disruptive Capital Finance. Lizzy assists on all STF transactions and co-ordinates the Fund administration as well as working on research for the current portfolio and on new investment opportunities. Previous to Disruptive Capital Finance, Lizzy gained a Bsc (Hons) from The University of Bath and joined E-Synergy in her first role within Venture Capital.
+44 (0)20 7280 9700
lizzy@disruptivecapital.com
Jeffrey Belkin – Finance Advisor
Jeffrey Belkin qualified as an accountant with KPMG in 1986. He had responsibility for group reporting in various roles at HSBC and then at Schroders, where he was head of management reporting for the Investment Banking Group and for the consolidated plc group. From 2001 to 2009 he was Group Finance Partner at Duke Street, the mid market UK and France private equity and debt management group where he was responsible for all reporting to investors and stakeholders. Since 2009 he has worked full time for Edmund Truell on all aspects of his family and professional asset management.
Peter Gangsted – Advisory Partner
Peter started his career with Unilever where he was a financial, operational and managing director for a number of Unilever businesses around the world. He then jointly founded Allianz Capital Partners, the direct investment arm of Allianz AG before joining Cinven as managing partner of their Frankfurt office. Amongst other investments, Peter successfully acquired, developed and exited the plastic packaging companies Kloeckner Pentaplast and Schmalbach-Lubeka. Peter now has a number of business interests, including working as Chairman of ECO Plastics, the plastic recycling business in the STF portfolio and with Disruptive Capital Finance on new investments.
