Yes, you can do good while making money, says fund manager

Faye Walsh Drouillard, of WakeUp Capital, says investors are interested in profits and our planet. She talks to Colm Greaves

Faye Walsh Drouillard is co-founder of WakeUp Capital, a €50m early-stage impact investment fund to support emerging companies who share their vision for impacting systemic change that will benefit people, the planet and the balance sheets of their owners and investors.

The first clue to Faye Walsh Drouillard can be found in her name. Admittedly, ‘Faye’ is not purely American in origin it is no stranger at places like baseball parks and high-school prom dances.

Unsurprisingly, ‘Walsh’ is Irish, cascading down four generations from a great-grandfather who took the now topically famous Biden pilgrimage from Mayo to Connecticut in the early part of the last century. The ‘Drouillard’ part is more recent, coming from marriage to her French husband, Vincent, who she met while working in Paris.