Kim Brearley

Kim Brearley leads capital formation and investor relations at Ground Up Investing, bringing two decades of experience in impact investing and development finance. Most recently, she was Managing Director of CARE Impact Partners, CARE’s corporate advisory practice. There she partnered with Hershey, Cargill, Target and Lululemon on supply chain sustainability and living income strategies in West African cocoa and agrifood value chains, and designed blended finance structures for smallholder programming in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana.

Before CARE, Kim was CFO of THINKMD, a digital health company, where she raised more than $7.6 million from impact investors and foundations including the Gates Foundation. She began her investing career at African Development Corporation, helping build a private equity portfolio across eight African countries and structuring investments that contributed to an exit of more than $100 million. Earlier, she launched Tanzania’s first national Business Plan Competition with TechnoServe.

Kim holds a Master’s in Development Economics from the London School of Economics and a BA (Honours) in International Relations from the University of British Columbia, and is part of the Oxford Impact Investing Programme at Saïd Business School.