Diana Noble

Diana Noble spent 18 years in private equity and venture capital and has recently joined the Clinton Foundation's HIV/Aids Initiative.

She has a first class Law Degree and joined Schroder Ventures (now Permira) in 1987 soon after its formation. She was a Partner at Schroder Ventures for 12 years, then founding CEO of eVentures, the Internet joint venture between News Corp and Softbank and then founding Managing Director of Reed Elsevier Ventures, the corporate venture fund. Her experience spans management buy-outs, buy-ins, turn-arounds, start-ups and later stage venture capital both in the UK and the US and industry investments range from media, consumer and industrial to software and data/information related. Whilst at Schroder Ventures she also raised Europe's first $1 billion private equity fund.

Diana is now a living example of the Manchester Square Partners ethos of using change to achieve a broader range of personal objectives. After a spell at Oxford doing an MSc, she has joined the Clinton Foundation's HIV/Aids Initiative as Development Director. The Clinton Foundation is turning the tide on the global catastrophe that is HIV/Aids. In only 3 years it has established a proven model for working with resource-poor countries to rapidly scale up comprehensive and high-quality care and treatment in an affordable and sustainable manner.