Ben Goldsmith
The Pioneer
The frontier and an appetite for the unknown, goes first.
Ben Goldsmith emerges in this interview as a Pioneer whose leadership spans the frontier where environmental conviction meets capital markets innovation. Goldsmith recounts building Web Asset Management as one of London's earliest sustainability-focused investment managers, then structuring Menhaden Capital as a permanent capital vehicle to take genuinely long-term positions in the green industrial revolution. His thinking consistently precedes mainstream adoption, from launching the Environmental Funders Network when only 2% of UK philanthropy addressed nature, to co-founding Natagal to make rewilding an investable asset class. Goldsmith frames natural capital services, nutrient neutrality, flood mitigation, and voluntary carbon not as idealism but as stackable revenue lines that can attract institutional capital at scale. His leadership is animated by a belief that systemic change requires both philanthropic courage and financial architecture, and he pursues both simultaneously.
“If nature is wealth, we're in the poorest 3% of nations on earth.”
“If we can make rewilding of ecosystems an asset class that produces a financial yield, then the scale at which we will be able to restore nature will be dramatically and exponentially increased versus what we can do with philanthropy.”
“The idea that we can restore ecosystems back to a degree of vibrancy that in many cases hasn't been seen for centuries, I think is just so appealing to people.”
Money Maze Podcast: “Rewilding: The Next Big Investment Opportunity? With Ben Goldsmith, CEO and Co-Founder of Menhaden Capital”
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