Team

Simon has forty years’ experience in the insurance, pensions and asset management industries. He is a UK qualified actuary by training and has lived and worked in six countries around the world including as CEO of Mercer in Australia, in the UK, in Europe and in the USA/ Canada. He was a member of the UK’s Nuclear Liabilities Financing Assurance Board until it submitted its final advice on Hinkley Point in 2015 and served as a Non-Executive Member of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s Audit & Risk Assurance Committee. He was formerly a Non-Executive Director of Alexander Forbes Group Holdings Ltd and Mercer Africa Limited.

Julia has deep experience of capital markets in the financial services sector. She is a former Managing Director at Credit Suisse where she led the Central Bank and Sovereign Wealth Fund teams globally as well as co-heading Non-Japan Asia Fixed Income Sales. Julia serves as a Non-Executive Director to several private and public sector organisations, including UK Strategic Command, the British Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office, and International Public Partnerships.

Lyle has considerable experience within the wealth, asset management and asset servicing space. He is currently Vice Chairman of Northern Trust, the latest role in a career within the Chicago-based financial services company spanning more than 20 years. Prior to joining Northern Trust, Lyle worked at Bank of America (formerly Continental Bank) in Chicago, where he held several leadership positions, including as a Senior Vice President in the Private Bank and Domestic Portfolio Management Group.

He serves as a Non-Executive Director to several organisations, including The Field Foundation of Illinois, Heidrick & Struggles International and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, and as Trustee of the Impax Funds Series Trusts.

Lyle holds a B.A. degree in Accounting and Economics from Florida A&M University and an M.B.A. degree in Finance from the University of Chicago.

He currently holds a non-executive directorship at BNP Paribas Asset Management France and is President of Queens Field SAS. He was previously a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank Asset Management and has also worked at Barclays Wealth, Standard & Poors and BIM private equity fund. Arnaud has been a visiting Adjunct/ Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School since 2005 and is the author of several books on finance, economics and investment management.

With more than 20 years’ experience in the private equity and venture capital sectors, Annette brings with her a wealth of experience from her previous roles as Partner and COO of Finch Capital, and as founding CFO of Palamon Capital Partners, a European growth investor. Annette also worked in the insurance industry for FTSE 100-listed company, Sedgwick, an insurance broker, and as Chief Financial Officer for LSE-listed Windsor. She started her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Annette is a graduate of the University of Johannesburg. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a member of the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants. She serves as a non-executive director and adviser to several international companies, and is also founder and Chair of the Board of Trustees of ADHD Embrace, a UK-registered charity.

Prior to joining Impax in 2007, Hubert was a partner at Cambrian Capital. He also spent nearly a decade at BlackRock working as a portfolio manager in European equities. His first role was at MeesPierson in The Netherlands.

Hubert has a master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration from Maastricht University.

Prior to joining the firm in 2006, John served as Vice President of Legal and Compliance, and then Vice President and Chief Regulatory Officer at the Boston Stock Exchange from 2000-2006. Before that, he held various legal and compliance positions at T. Rowe Price and Chase Bank. He also served as an Assistant Prosecutor for Monmouth County, New Jersey, from 1988 to 1990.

John earned his Juris Doctor from Vermont Law School and also holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science, cum laude, from Rutgers University. He is a member of the New Jersey Bar.

Before joining Impax in 2021, Catherine spent five years at the UK Government’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, including acting as Director General, responsible for around 500 staff tasked with developing the UK’s Net Zero Strategy and International Climate and Energy policy. She also chaired the UK Government’s Climate and Energy G7 Presidency in 2022. Before this, she was Global Head of Environmental Sustainability at Australian financial services firm ANZ. She was also Chief Operating Officer at Low Carbon Australia and Head of International Development at the Carbon Trust.

Outside of Impax, Catherine is on the Board of the Met Office and is the Chair of its Remuneration Committee.      

Catherine holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy from the London School of Economics, a master’s degree in Environmental Science and Management from Oxford University and a bachelor’ degree (Hons 1st) in Chemical Engineering from The University of Queensland.

Emily joined Impax in 2021, where she worked initially as Head of Compliance for Impax’s Irish operations, before moving to her current role in October 2022.  Emily is an Irish qualified lawyer. 

Prior to Impax, Emily was a legal adviser in private practice and in the Central Bank of Ireland before moving to senior compliance roles in BlackRock, LGIM and Eaton Vance.  

Karen is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 25 years’ financial and operational experience in financial services. Before joining Impax in 2022 Karen was transformation CFO at Virgin Money plc, focused on the integration of Virgin Money and Clydesdale Banking Group. Prior to that she spent nine years at Aegon in various strategy, transformation and finance leadership roles, laterally as Chief Financial Officer of Cofunds. Having qualified with KPMG, she spent her early career with GE Capital, a global financial service provider, and Lloyds Banking Group. Karen is also a founder and board member of a digital start up, Legado Technologies Ltd.

Karen is a fellow of the Irish Institute of Chartered Accountants and holds a BSc and MSc in Finance /Accounting from Queen’s University, Belfast.

Ed joined Impax in 2021 from Natixis Investment Managers where he held multiple distribution leadership roles in London and Boston over the span of 12 years. Prior to that, he worked in sales and sales management for Fidelity Investments, Fidelity Charitable Services and Pioneer Investments.

With a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of New Hampshire, Ed also holds the FINRA Series 6, 7, 24, and 31 registrations, and is a registered representative of Foreside Financial Services, LLC. He serves on the World Surf League advisory board, the Levitate Foundation and the sustainability advisory board at the University of New Hampshire.

Prior to Impax, Dineen held leadership positions supporting companies with hyper growth, whether organically or through mergers and acquisitions. Dineen studied Human Resource Management and Women in Leadership.

Before joining Impax in 1999, Bruce worked as a utilities analyst at Bankers Trust and as an environmental consultant for Environmental Resources Management.

An Oxford graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Bruce also holds a master’s in Environmental Engineering Technology, and an MBA from IESE Business School in Barcelona.

Prior to Impax, Darren held a similar role for family office Talisman Global Asset Management and his previous experience has included roles at RAB Capital, AXA Investment Managers, and Legal & General.

Darren sits on the board of several charities and organisations, including St Mungo’s, the UK’s largest homeless charity, and the investment advisory board of Comic Relief. He is a prominent advocate of diversity issues across financial services, is co-founder of TalkAboutBlack, sits on the CIC board of the Diversity Project, which aims to accelerate progress towards an inclusive culture in the investment and savings industry, and is on the Standing Committee for Investment 20/20, an organisation providing school leavers and graduates from non-traditional backgrounds with opportunities in asset management.

Adrian joined Impax in 2021 to establish and grow the newly authorised IAMI management company. Prior to Impax, Adrian worked as Senior Vice President of Kleinwort Benson Investors (now KBIGI), with responsibility for marketing and distributing to institutional clients in the North American market, and more recently with BCP Asset Management in Ireland where he was a member of the investment committee, Head of Client Development and a Director of BCP Fund Management which focused on providing regulated fund services to domestic, UK and European clients.

Adrian holds a bachelor’s degree in business and legal studies (International) from University College Dublin.

Daniel has significant business and senior transactional experience with blue chip companies within the energy and utility sectors. Prior to joining Impax he was responsible for Babcock & Brown’s Northern European infrastructure investment activities. Prior to this, Daniel was Director in the European Energy and Utilities team at Deutsche Bank with a strong focus on M&A activity in Europe and a member of Citigroup’s Utilities team.

Daniel holds an MBA from Cologne University (Germany) and studied International Business for one year under a scholarship at Sophia University in Japan

Before joining Impax, Paul held a similar role at Federated Hermes and, before its takeover, Hermes Investment Management. With a career starting in 1997, Paul has worked in distribution and business development throughout his career in asset management with spells at GE Asset Management and Neuberger Berman.

Paul holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Studies from ESC Bordeaux and ISER Rotterdam. He is fluent in English, French and Dutch.