Sophie Persey is an Impact Principal at Bregal Sphere. Prior to joining Bregal in 2024, Sophie spent eight years at Rainforest Alliance, where she led the development and launch of LandScale, a tool to assess, validate, and report landscape sustainability impact, and helped to grow the market for Rainforest Alliance Certified products in the UK. Prior to Rainforest Alliance, Sophie lived and worked in Indonesia for six years, initially managing a conservation project for the Zoological Society of London and later as the Group Sustainability Manager for a London-listed palm oil producer.
Sophie holds an MSc in Biodiversity, Conservation, and Management and a BA in Biological Sciences from Oxford University. Originally from the UK, she is fluent in English and speaks Bahasa Indonesia.
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Our experienced global investment team seeks to create long-standing relationships and drive lasting impact within our portfolio companies, which are active across Europe and North America. The firm consists of over 250 professionals, from the investment teams to finance, ESG, investor relations, tax and legal, and marketing and communications. We employ people from diverse backgrounds across the organisation and we believe we are a better firm because of it.[[1]]
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