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Toby Eccles

Development director

Toby Eccles is development director at Social Finance Ltd and has been working on developing ideas for the Social Investment Wholesale Bank since joining the Commission on Unclaimed Assets in October 2005. Previously, he was director of research at children’s charity ARK (Absolute Return for Kids) and also worked in corporate finance at UBS Warburg.

He has taken non-executive and investor roles in two technology-related start-ups, and is a non-executive director of Antidote, a charity developing emotional intelligence in schools, and a regional board member of the Guinness Trust, a housing association.