Fran started her career in fund management at JPMorgan following an MA in Philosophy and Maths and periodic work in charity administration and fundraising. After this, she took a career break in which she travelled around Europe and settled for a year living off-grid in Portugal with her young family. On her return, she joined Big Society Capital (now Better Society Capital) as an investment director, where she worked on a wide variety of impact investment deals.

Fran joins Figurative from Nesta, where she was Director of the Arts & Culture Investments and Programmes team. The team worked on various projects with the aim of understanding and articulating the full breadth of impact of arts, culture and the creative economy; promoting innovative funding models and partnerships such as impact investing, blended finance, and crowdfunding; and helping arts and cultural organisations experiment with, benefit from and boost their impact via new technologies.