Ben Goldsmith

WHEB Ventures

Partner

With nine years’ clean technology investment experience, from originating, analysing and executing venture investments to ongoing value addition to investee companies, Ben Goldsmith is recognised as a leading clean technology investor and a pioneer in the sector. In 2002 Ben co-founded WHEB with Rob Wylie and Kim Heyworth with the intention of building Europe’s leading specialist green investment business.

Ben is an active Partner of WHEB Partners (private equity) but maintains a hands-on involvement with the three other WHEB companies: namely WHEB Asset Management (long only equities), WHEB Infrastructure Partners (project finance) and RUSTON wheb (executive search).

Ben is also actively involved in supporting the environmental movement as a donor, through the JMG Foundation which funds campaigning and advocacy work around a small number of key environmental issues. In 2003, Ben founded the Environmental Funders’ Network (www.greenfunders.org) which now brings together more than 80 grant-making organisations with a combined annual budget of more than $80m.