Patricia Hamzahee OBE

After some 20 years in investment banking and financial communications, Patricia now helps social enterprises attract private capital and advises private capital providers on their responsible investment strategies.

As co-founder of Extend Ventures, she has worked to diversify access to funding for Black  and minoritised ethnic businesses and is promoting similar access for Black-led nonprofit community organisations after co-founding Black Funding Network and advancing Black philanthropy as co-founder of GiveBLACK. She is also co-founder of the Windrush Caribbean Film Festival.

She is a Board Director of Responsible Finance, on the Investment Committee of Better Society Capital and as well as a Trustee of Runnymede Trust, Ballet Black and Stratford East. She is also a member of the Steering Group for Women in Social Finance and the Diversity Forum.