Catherine Wright is a Senior Vice President in the Corporate Finance team at SVB UK where she is involved in the origination & execution of innovative debt funding for both listed and private mid-market transactions in the Technology sector, spanning across multiple sub-sectors including: Enterprise Software, FinTech, Life Sciences, e-Commerce & Digital Media.
Catherine is Co-Chair & Founding Member of the SVB UK Gender Employee Resource Group, also partnering with The Gender Index, engaging and leading over 650 colleagues to drive systematic change towards a gender-balanced, inclusive and equitable workplace.
Prior to joining SVB UK, Catherine was a VP in the TMT Corporate Banking team at Bank of Ireland. She successfully completed several rotations in Consumer Finance, Industrials Finance & TMT Finance. Whilst in this role, she created and led the UK Gender Balance network where she managed & coordinated initiatives across EMEA, working with key stakeholders to champion I&D across the bank.
Catherine has been recognised for three years running in the Top 100 Future Female Leader HERoes List by Yahoo Finance (2022, 2021 & 2020), she was named as a winner in WeAreTheCity’s TechWomen100 in 2022 and was also shortlisted for the Women in Finance Award 2022. In 2020, Catherine founded The Women in Business Society, a global professional community serving over 1000 women, supporting the professional development of members by way of masterclasses, workshops and a quarterly magazine. As a keynote speaker and accredited life and career coach, Catherine individually coaches and mentors highly motivated and ambitious women across the UK and internationally.