Andrew Shadrake MPhil, LLB

• Experienced manager and chief executive, having started and developed three successful businesses, and managed a large community development finance institution (CDFI) social enterprise.
• Particular expertise in evaluating financial initiatives, and designing innovative mechanisms to help private businesses, social enterprises and disadvantaged individuals to access finance.
• Researched and edited report of a ten country study for the International Finance Corporation assessing financial initiatives in Pacific Island states.  The report recommended a regional equity fund and a pilot national fund was launched in Samoa as result.
• Extensive strategic development experience including leading the development of Wessex Reinvestment Trust’s strategy and business plans and Business Link Devon and Cornwall’s social enterprise business support strategy.
• Experienced facilitator, able to help trustees, board members and senior managers to develop strategies, identify opportunities and resolve conflicts, offering technical knowledge where appropriate.
• Particular interest in promoting sustainable solutions to assist people facing disadvantage – experience of doing so in conflict zones, developing countries and the UK.
• Specialisation in legal structures for enterprises with charitable aims, including the benefits of combining charitable and non-charitable companies.
• Specialisation in social enterprise support with a good understanding of the need to balance financial and social drivers.
• International community/SME development experience in many developing countries.  Academic and practical skills in gender and cultural analysis.