George Copin

Based in London, George, heads up Blackridge Partners global business operations. He is responsible for driving the flow of our exclusive ESG investment opportunities and for overall client relations on the investor side of the business.

He is an experienced investor with a demonstrable history of working in the financial services industry. Skilled in Securities, Treasury, Alternative Investment Funds, Trading, and Structured Finance. He is backed by our lead group of advisors who bring an unrivalled network and level of experience from which all our clients benefit.

Our Advisors are some of the world’s leading professionals in their fields and work with us to source dark green deal flow.

They are:

Godfried De Vidts

Godfried De Vidts is a recognised authority in the development of the European financial services industry. He advises on European financial and political issues and maintains regular contact with all the European Central Banks and Treasuries, the European Commission and European Parliament.

Godfried has worked in the financial markets since 1972. Since December 2018 he has been senior advisor to ICMA’s European Repo & Collateral Council.Prio to this he was Director of European Affairs for NEX Group, created out of ICAP plc until October 2018. Prior to joining ICAP in 2006 his last task at Fortis bank was global liquidity and collateral management while involved prior to the acquisition of Generale Bank in various trading activities. He has spent 10 years in Bahrain at KB OBU.

He is a regular speaker at conferences and frequently contributes articles related to the development of financial products and innovation in the financial markets.

Murray Hankinson

Murray is a business leader, investor, board & executive director passionate about bringing the sustainability and productivity benefits of clean tech, IoT and Industry 4.0 to business and communities across Australia and the Asia Pacific.

Willy Simon

An established Non-Executive Director & Non- Executive Chairman and former CEO and Board member of global financial institutions.
 
Experienced Member of Risk & Audit Committees.
 
His corporate career has been in the financial services industry with expertise in capital markets, corporate finance and asset management with a focus on starting new divisions or re-organising and integrating new acquisitions.
 
In both his executive and non- executive roles he has focused on expansion through organic growth and acquisitions.
 
Having worked internationally, he has a deep knowledge & successful record of interacting & bringing together multi-cultural teams in multi-national organisations to reconcile stakeholder interests.

Howard Snell

Howard Snell is responsible for Sova Capital’s UK local business strategy, as well as corporate and investor relations. Prior to joining Sova Capital, Howard was CEO of Troika Dialog’s UK subsidiary, where he was responsible for launching local and European operations. Howard previously held the position of co-head of the London Emerging Markets desk at UBS, where he was in charge of Debt Capital Markets Origination for Russia and CIS countries, working on a number of Russian bi-lateral and debt restructuring transactions.

Douglas Borthwick

Douglas is an experienced Chief Business Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Strong business development professional skilled in Financial Risk Management, Sales, Digital Securities, Macroeconomics, and Interest Rates.