Kiron is a Founder Partner of Collington Capital, non-executive Director of the global sustainability NGO, International Social and Environmental Accreditation and Labelling Alliance, and a member of the Credit Committee of Innovate UK Loans, a subsidiary of UK Research and Innovation which finances innovative UK SMEs.
Kiron’s career to date has been in capital markets, fund management, private equity, banking and entrepreneurship, primarily focused on emerging and frontier markets. His experience includes investing across asset classes as well as advisory work with governments and corporations across Asia.
Kiron read Economics at Magdalene College, Cambridge and was later awarded an MPhil in Economics from Oriel College, Oxford. Thereafter, Kiron worked with Goldman Sachs for 11 years in London and Hong Kong working in investment banking and capital markets.
Subsequently Kiron took up investment management roles as a Partner at an India-focused fund and as the CIO of Brummer & Partners’ Frontier Fund. More recently Kiron was co-Founder of a media investment company based in Southeast Asia.
Kiron worked for 21 years in Asia and was an early investor in several emerging and frontier markets, when he managed funds in both private and public markets. Kiron has raised capital from investors globally for projects, enterprises and funds in developing economies.
Currently resident in London, Kiron maintains a base in Asia with personal links to Hong Kong, Malaysia, and India where he is an Overseas Citizen. Kiron speaks Bengali and French.
Having worked with businesses and entrepreneurs in some of the poorest parts of the world, Kiron believes that impact investing and the movement of blended finance into the mainstream is essential to mobilise commercial capital at scale to solve the greatest problems facing the world.
The developing world presents some of the most difficult challenges in the focus areas for Collington Capital. However, the impact investing ecosystem is rapidly evolving and there are growing pools of capital, for example, owned by the first-generation wealth creators in much of Asia, who are now considering impact investing for the first time. Collington Capital will raise awareness of impact investment and blended finance globally. Kiron will have a particular focus on markets in developing and developed Asia.
