In the latest of our new series of interviews with last year's Women In Investment Awards winners, Investment Week editor Katrina Lloyd talks to Downing's Julia Groves.
Julia took home the Change Excellence award at last year's ceremony. She joined Downing LLP in March 2016 to lead the crowdfunding business www.downingcrowd.co.uk, offering asset-backed bonds to retail investors. Since co-founding the British Airways website in 1994, Julia has spent most of her career investing a combination of her time and money in a series of new businesses in the digital and environmental sectors, including most recently Trillion Fund, a loan based crowdfunding platform for renewable energy projects. She co-founded the UK Crowdfunding Association in 2012, and ha...
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