Whitni Thomas

Whitni Thomas invests equity capital in growing social and environmental businesses for Triodos’ venture capital funds.
Since joining Triodos Bank in 2006, she has made investments in Barefoot Botanicals, a natural skincare business, and Historic Futures, a supply chain traceability business.
Whitni worked in investment banking at JP Morgan for six years in New York and London, structuring leveraged finance for management buy-outs.
She arranged senior debt, mezzanine and high yield debt for private equity clients for over 15 transactions in wide ranging sectors such as pub chains, paper manufacturing and automotive parts.
Whitni was Head of Access to Finance at the New Economics Foundation where she led the think tank’s research and consultancy work on improving access to finance for financially excluded individuals as well as social businesses.
Whitni has a BSc in Business and an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics.