Mark Bickford

Mark Bickford currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Social and Sustainable Capital since August 2023 and as a Non-Executive Director at Brook Aspire, which focuses on sexual health and wellbeing. Bickford has previously held the position of Trustee/Director at Delta Education Trust, overseeing schools for excluded and SEN pupils from March 2017 to December 2023. Bickford also served as Chief Investment Officer at Social & Sustainable Capital from August 2018 to September 2023 and was the Head of Social Investment at The FSE Group between 2014 and July 2018, specializing in mezzanine debt for charities and social enterprises. Other notable experiences include consulting for Merlin Entertainments plc on financing new projects, serving as Managing Director at Lloyds Banking Group, and as Senior Director of Leveraged Finance at Barclays Bank. Bickford holds a degree from Oxford Brookes University.