ChairSmall Foundation
Tim Brosnan
Tim Brosnan is founder and Executive Chair of Small Foundation (SF), an Irish-registered charity (www.smallfoundation.ie).
Tim worked 15 years in Ireland’s Department of Finance and its development bank, ICC, and then setup and managed an Irish-based investment banking business for a multinational bank. Between 1987 and 2000, he founded and/or financed a number of successful start-up businesses in international finance that were subsequently acquired by large companies. In 2000, he co-founded Abbey Capital Ltd (www.abbeycapital.com), an investment management company specializing in global managed futures and is its non-executive Chair. He is CEO and CIO of Cavendish Capital Ltd, the holding company for Abbey Capital and a trader in international futures markets.
Small Foundation
Small Foundation’s vision is Africa permanently free from extreme poverty and chronic hunger by 2030. It seeks to catalyse the proliferation of sustainable income-generating opportunities for extremely poor people in rural sub-Saharan Africa by supporting highly-leveraged interventions that improve the business ecosystem for on-farm and off-farm micro, small and medium rural enterprises through expanding access to knowledge, finance, technology, and markets.