Dan Balke is Managing Director and Partner of LFS, with a multifaceted career in Impact and Development Finance. During this career he held senior positions in financial institutions and in large impact finance projects in emerging markets in Eastern Europe, the CIS, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Pacific. For several years he had been shaping the digital and technological agenda of AccessHolding, effectively assuming CIO functions until 2017. Dan was also instrumental in founding and growing the Holding to becoming a network of 10 banks and accompanied key acquisitions. He holds an MBA in Finance from the Alliance Manchester Business School (UK) and a Diploma in Economics from the Free University Berlin (Germany). Dan joined the Supervisory Board of AccessHolding in 2020.