Joel Blake OBE
Joel Blake OBE is an award-winning business leader, board director, and global speaker with over 20 years of executive experience spanning institutional finance, private capital, and inclusive technologies.
Described as an ‘outsider on the inside,’ Joel has spent 20+ years advising FTSE 100-250 boards, policymakers, and global organisations on inclusive innovation. Separately, his specialized work in designing growth finance frameworks has supported the deployment of over £500 million across 700+ diverse businesses.
As the Founder and CEO of GFA Exchange, Joel leads the AI-driven market-benchmarking infrastructure that enables lower-middle-market private credit funds to assess their borrowers' financial health against comparable businesses across the wider market, to identify hidden portfolio risk earlier, and price risk more accurately.
A trusted voice on financial innovation, disruptive leadership, and the inclusive future of capital, Joel regularly speaks at and moderates global finance summits and chairs invite-only executive roundtables to help financial leaders navigate changing markets with greater confidence.
Joel is also a Board Advisor to Taranis Capital, a Middle Eastern multi-sector investment fund, Chair of leading social mobility charity EmployabilityUK, and was awarded an OBE in 2016 for Services to Business Support and Enterprise.
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