Director of ESG and Business Development, Equitile Investments Ltd.
Sylvia has over 30 years of investment industry experience on the buy-side, in equities and sustainable investing. She spent 25 years managing a wide range of funds, including pensions, life funds, endowments, unit trusts and hedge funds at firms such as Baring Asset Management, Hermes Investment Management and Ennismore Fund Management. Additionally, Sylvia has enjoyed C-Suite roles at Alternative Investments boutiques, in which she has been responsible for the design and implementation of investment processes in a wide range of asset classes including Private Markets and Trade Finance. At Equitile Investments, a performance-focused Global Equities Investment Manager, Sylvia is a member of the Investment Committee and Chair of the Governance Committee. She is responsible for the continued development of the firm’s ESG programme, which is integrated in the investment process at the research, evaluation, and portfolio construction stages. Funds managed on behalf of Institutional Investors and Family Offices across Europe and Asia promote environmental and social characteristics in a way that meet the specific criteria contained in Article 8 of Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 on sustainability-related disclosures in the financial service sector (“SFDR”).
Sylvia is an active member of the CFA Society of the UK (CFA UK), where she serves as a member of the CFA UK Examinations and Education Committee, the Sustainable Working Group, the Certificate in Climate and Investing panel, and is Chair of the Certificate in ESG Investing panel (ESG panel). In her role as ESG panel Chair, Sylvia has been instrumental in leading practitioners in the design, development and launch of the Certificate in ESG Investing – the first professional qualification of its kind, delivering the benchmark knowledge and skills to integrate ESG factors into the investment process. Additionally, Sylvia is a member of the PRI Global Policy Reference Group, which aims to inform and strengthen PRI’s and its signatories’ public policy engagement on responsible investment topics. She is also a member of the Alternative Investment Management Association’s (AIMA) Global Responsible Investment Committee (GRIC). GRIC guides AIMA’s responsible investment work in regulatory engagement, sound practice, and analysis.