Divya Seshamani
Managing PartnerDivya is a private equity and venture capital investor with over 26 years of experience growing and investing in businesses in sustainable technology, infrastructure, energy, sustainable agriculture and forestry.
Educated at Oxford (BA (Hons) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics) and at Harvard (MBA, Harvard Business School), she built her track record at industry-leading organisations including Goldman Sachs, Parthenon, Unilever Ventures, GIC (Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund) and the global private equity firm TPG, where she was a Partner.
Divya is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader for her work in sustainable and impact investing and has served on the Investment Committee of the Global Innovation Fund anchored by USAID and the UK’s DFID. She was previously a Council Member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), re-elected for two consecutive terms, and has served on the boards of a number of listed companies in the UK and USA, including most recently the FTSE-250 company Forterra, where she was Chair of the Risk and Sustainability Committee for 9 years. In 2019, Divya was appointed by the Secretary of State to advise the UK Government as a member of HMG’s Council for Sustainable Business, where she leads the Net-Zero Initiative.