Fran Sanderson
CEO, Figurative
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.