Tim West has been working in the space where business and social mission meet for well over a decade. He leads mission-focused PR and marketing agency Matter&Co, is founder of Good Deals, the UK’s foremost social investment conference, and is founding editor of Pioneers Post, an online newspaper and learning platform connecting social innovators across the globe.

With Royal Bank of Scotland he created the RBS SE100 Index of high-growth, high-impact social businesses – a market intelligence tool that aims to help social businesses prove their worth as mission focused businesses.

Tim is a qualified journalist, has a degree in Music from Oxford University and studied business at Warwick and Cranfield. He is an advisor to Deloitte’s groundbreaking Social Innovation Pioneers programme; a trustee of ECT, one of the UK’s leading transport charities; a mentor for the Young Foundation’s Accelerator programme; and he has just been appointed a director of Big Issue Invest, a leading UK impact investor.