Helen is a social investor and the founder and CEO of Seebohm Hill Ltd, a Liverpool-based social economy consultancy. 

She spent more than two decades working in the financial services industry as an analyst, equity salesperson and investor, mostly specialising in Japanese equities. 

Since 2011 Helen has worked with social organisations, social investors, and other funders to provide new forms of capital designed to meet the specific needs of businesses that are seeking to grow their social impact. She co-developed and has personally invested in Builder Capital, an innovative model for funding high potential social purpose businesses using patient, socially motivated funds. 

She is co-author of reports and a book on social finance and has undertaken detailed research on the social economy of the Liverpool City Region and North West England. Helen is an experienced presenter on social investment and social enterprise and is a Visiting Fellow of the Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place at the University of Liverpool. 

She is a Trustee of Local Solutions, a charity supporting people experiencing disadvantage, exclusion and vulnerability, an Independent Panel Member of the Liverpool City Region Strategic Investment Fund, and serves on the Investment Committee for Lyva Labs, a provider of innovation investment and support for ideas and technologies being developed in the Liverpool City Region. 

Helen is one of the co-founders and Deputy Chair of Kindred LCR CIC, a locally owned community interest company designed to connect, support and harness local entrepreneurialism for social good.

More information on Helen’s career history to date can be found here: Helen Heap LinkedIn Profile