Dominic Llewellyn, co-CEO and Founder of Numbers4Good

How can we smash down walls between the haves and the have-nots? How can we make sure that the have-nots, and the people who don’t have much of a chance in life have that chance in life, and how can we use finance and business as a way of helping tackle poverty and tackle disadvantage and generate opportunity? And that for me has been a real motivator for why I do what I do.

There can be a lot of hype about the social investment space, but actually social investment means nothing if it doesn’t tackle disadvantage or generate opportunity. And that ultimately is why we do what we do. I think success for us obviously means creating financial deals that enable poverty to be tackled. We can often say that capitalism and the financial markets do not serve people well, therefore there’s an incumbency on us to say “how can we create deals that enable that?”.

Dominic Llewellyn, co-CEO and Founder of Numbers4Good

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