Welcome to sustainable banking

Every action, no matter how small, sets something in motion. What you do with your money every day makes a difference.

Our mission

Our values

Welcome to positive change

Triodos Bank is one of the most sustainable banks in the world. We make money work for positive social, environmental and cultural change.

How we make a difference

Triodos Bank focuses its activities across three overarching themes: Environmental, Cultural and Social. Together, these cover a broad range of sectors – from renewable energy, organic farming and social housing through to retail, charities and education.

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We lend to businesses and entrepreneurs from a variety of sectors all making positive impact.

It is embedded in our mission to only lend money to organisations in the real economy working to bring about positive and lasting change. To achieve this, we follow clearly defined criteria for our everyday lending decisions, making us accountable to our savers and investors.

Our positive approach to sustainable lending involves:

identifying sustainable sectors where we can stimulate innovation in business
selecting businesses and projects that will provide real social, cultural or environmental benefits
evaluating both the quality of the application and the motivation of the people applying for loans
ensuring selected projects meet our absolute criteria and minimum standards, which measure their potential effect on people or planet
financing clearly defined activities or projects within each organisation
monitoring closely how a loan is used
publishing the details of every single organisation we lend to; which means our savers and investors can see exactly how we’re using their money

Who won't we lend to?

We won't lend to any organisation that puts profit before people and planet. More specifically, the minimum standards we apply in making lending decisions come under two main headings:

Non-sustainable products and services

This includes all businesses involved in producing or trading in weapons, tobacco, pornography, fur or environmentally hazardous substances. It also covers the fossil fuel and the gambling industry.

Non-sustainable working practices

This covers everything from animal testing and inhumane farming methods, through corruption and support for dictatorial regimes, to breaches of fundamental labour rights.

Transparent banking

We publish details of every organisation we finance on our website, so you can see for yourself how your money is delivering positive change for people and planet

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A European bank with 700,000 customers

Our head office is in Zeist, which is near Utrecht in the Netherlands, and we are established according to Dutch law. Triodos Bank is structured and managed in a way that aims to safeguard our principles, values and objectives.

Depository receipt holders (DRH)

Since our creation, we have been an independent bank. To ensure the special character and mission of our bank remains protected, our shares are held in a dedicated Foundation, which issues depository receipts to anyone that wishes to buy them. These depository receipts are not listed on the stock exchange, but traded on our own platform. As of 2017, we have over 40,000 depository receipt holders.

SAAT

The Foundation for the Administration of Triodos Bank Shares (SAAT) manages all Triodos Bank NV's shares. To finance the shares, SAAT issues depository receipts. The Board of SAAT, Triodos Bank and its depository receipt holders communicate with, and meet, regularly. This happens informally and formally in meetings like the AGM and in meetings for depository receipt holders in the countries where we are active.

Supervisory Board

The Supervisory Board oversees and reviews the activities and decisions of the Executive Board, the development of Triodos Bank’s operations, strategy development and the bank’s overall mission. The Supervisory Board also provides advice and guidance the Executive Board. The members of the Supervisory Board are independent; from each other, from the Executive Board, and from any other party or interest that might affect the Board's operation.

Our executive board

Peter Blom

CEO

Peter Blom has been statutory Member of the Executive Board of Triodos Bank N.V. since 1989 and is currently its chair. Additionally, he is a Member of the Board of Stichting Triodos Holding, Chair of the Board of the Global Alliance for Banking on Values, Member of the Board of the Dutch Banking Association, Co-Chair of the Board of the Sustainable Finance Lab Foundation, and member of the Central Planning Committee of the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis (CPB). Peter Blom is a Dutch national. He owns one Triodos Bank depository receipt.

Jellie Banga

COO

Jellie Banga has been statutory Member of the Executive Board of Triodos Bank N.V. since 2014, after having been appointed non-statutory Member in early 2013. Additionally, she is a Member of the Advisory Board of 'Stichting Lichter', a foundation aimed at lightening the lives of low-income single parents. Jellie Banga is a Dutch national. She does not own any Triodos Bank depository receipts.

Pierre Aeby

CFO

Pierre Aeby has been statutory Member of the Executive Board of Triodos Bank N.V. since 2000. He is also a Member of the Board of Stichting Triodos Holding, Chair of the Board of Stichting Triodos Foundation, Statutory Director of Enclude Holding B.V. and Member of the Board of the Netherlands-based Flemish Cultural Centre 'De Brakke Grond'. Pierre Aeby is of Belgian nationality and owns 21 Triodos Bank depository receipts.

UK management team

Bevis Watts

MD, Triodos Bank UK

Bevis Watts has been the Managing Director of Triodos Bank UK since April 2016 having previously been Head of Business Banking at Triodos for almost five years.

Since joining as MD, the bank has delivered strong growth, launched a new personal current account and a crowdfunding platform. He has 20 years’ experience in the wider sustainability field across the private, public and voluntary sectors.

Bevis has always worked for values-led organisations, and before Triodos was Chief Executive of Avon Wildlife Trust and Head of Business Support at The Waste and Resource Action Programme (WRAP).

Huw Davis

Head of Retail Banking

Huw Davies is Head of Retail Banking with responsibility for personal and business banking products and pricing, as well as the contact centre.

Prior to joining Triodos, Huw worked for 11 years at Nationwide Building Society, where since 2007 he was savings product marketing controller, with responsibility for product development, pricing, and customer proposition development. During his time at Nationwide he also worked on mortgages, and general insurance.

Huw has a first class degree from Cambridge university, and a post-graduate diploma in marketing. He has taught English in southern India, and is passionate about realising the potential of money to do good.

Rebecca Pritchard

Head of Business Banking

Rebecca joined the bank in September 2013 and leads the team responsible for UK business banking activities with SMEs, social enterprises and charities, with particular focus on the environmental, food and farming, and social and cultural sectors.

Rebecca has nearly 30 years' experience in the financial services sector, and began her career as a corporate relationship banker with Chase Manhattan Bank in New York. She relocated to the UK in 1989 to join the bank’s Project Finance team, where she advised and financed major infrastructure projects in Europe.

Rebecca then joined accountancy firm Grant Thornton in Bristol, where she established a Government & Infrastructure advisory team advising public sector procurers and private sector contractors on long-term public-private partnerships for capital projects in education, environmental services, housing, health and blue light services.

Judy Rose

Head of Operations

Judy Rose is Triodos Bank's Head of Operations, with responsibility for customer operations, large project implementation, facilities management and ICT services.

Judy has more than 20 years' experience as a project manager and developer in the financial sector, including several years with the Woolwich Building Society, and holds an MSc in Information Systems.

Judy first started working for Triodos' forerunner in the UK, Mercury Provident, in 1993, and after a few years of freelance work returned to the bank in 2006.

Dan Hird

Head of Corporate Finance

Dan has been with Triodos Bank since 2008 and has built the corporate finance business.

Previously, Dan spent six years within KPMG Corporate finance, advising on a range of mergers and acquisitions, management buy-outs and fundraising deals. He then established his own corporate finance business that completed over 80 transactions over a seven-year period.

Dan also has five years' experience as a Finance Director of two large private companies in the retail and manufacturing sectors.

Sarah Binstead

Head of Risk

Sarah joined Triodos Bank as Head of Risk in 2017 with over 9 years' experience in the financial services industry and has worked across all three lines of defence.

She is a qualified charted accountant and worked in a variety of organisations and roles during her career, including KPMG, working in both the external and internal audit practises, and Lloyds Banking Group, as Senior Manager in Reporting, and Controls and Internal Audit Relationship Manager.

Sarah also held numerous roles in her time at Nationwide Building Society, including Head of Internal Audit, Head of Financial Controls, Financial Reporting and Tax Division, and Head of Enterprise Risk Management Framework and Governance.

Zoe Sear

Head of Marketing and Communications

Zoe joined TBUK in July 2016, from Bristol City Council, where she headed up the office of the city’s first directly elected mayor, George Ferguson (2012-2016). This included leading the marketing and communications for Bristol’s year as European Green Capital (2105) with a brief to make sustainability mainstream.

She brings over 20 years’ experience in marketing communications to her role as Head of Marketing & Communications, across a range of sectors including financial services, retail, urban regeneration, tourism, sustainability and local government.

Zoe has previously held marketing roles with Lloyds Banking Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM and HBOS Financial Services. She was a founder director of Bristol-based Brandon Hill Communications, an award-winning, integrated agency acquired by Bray Leino in 2009.

Richard Ingle

Interim Head of Finance

Richard joined Triodos as Interim Head of Finance in April 2018. He was previously Head of Financial Management for the Banking and Commercial Property divisions of Nationwide Building Society and subsequently led the finance team for the unsecured lending business of Bank of Ireland UK. Before moving into Financial Services Richard held a number of senior finance roles in the energy industry, in the UK and Germany. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, holds a joint US and European MBA and also an Economics degree. Richard is an enthusiastic advocate of the positive impact that Triodos has on the world, including with respect to his enjoyment of the natural environment.

Triodos manages over €15 billion in assets, creating impact in 65 countries

More than 8700 projects and investments are funded by Triodos worldwide.

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News, articles, features, blogs and more that show banking in a whole new light

Welcome to sustainable banking

Our mission

Our values

Welcome to positive change

How we make a difference

Transparent banking

A European bank with 700,000 customers

Our executive board

Peter Blom

Jellie Banga

Pierre Aeby

UK management team

Bevis Watts

Huw Davis

Rebecca Pritchard

Judy Rose

Dan Hird

Sarah Binstead

Zoe Sear

Richard Ingle

A vision on sustainability since 1968

Triodos manages over €15 billion in assets, creating impact in 65 countries

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Our news and impact

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