Tom Rotherham-Winqvist – Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Value Creation

Tom has spent the past 25 years advising governments, companies and investors on sustainability and helping asset owners to innovate in private markets. He helped build Wafra’s Capital Constellation, the largest institutional GP anchoring platform.

Tom leads Featherlight’s post-investment value creation process to ensure we contribute proactively to the core drivers of our GPs’ business success, building on over a decade of deep relationships with the institutional world. Tom also contributes to manager sourcing and diligence.

Experience:

• Managing Director, Head of Europe at Wafra, and led Value Creation for Capital Constellation
• Head of Content, Institutional Investors Roundtable (IIR) and Fiduciary Investors Roundtable for Innovation and Partnership (FIRCAP)
• Managing Director, Private Markets, BT Pension Scheme/Hermes
• Founding Chair, UN PRI PE Steering Committee
• Early career: Head of Sustainability Consulting (corporates); Trade and sustainable development policy advisory (governments) 
• Education & Academia: BA Economics & Environmental Studies, McGill University; Researcher at INSEAD; Guest Lecturer at Imperial College and Harvard Law School; and Guest Tutor at Oxford Saïd Business School

When he is not helping scale climate finance, Tom likes talking with taxi drivers en route to theatre, dance and dinner with friends.