Combining the passion of a social mission with business-like savvy, discipline, innovation, and determination, Lord Neil has pioneered several initiatives through an entrepreneurial approach. Many governmental and philanthropic efforts have fallen far short of our expectations. Major social sector institutions are often viewed as inefficient, ineffective, and unresponsive. Social entrepreneurs are needed to develop new models for a new century.
With a diverse set of accomplishments, Lord Neil Benjamin Gibson is the acting Chairman of a group of companies consisting of a diverse conglomerate that includes domestic and international businesses. Previously he was a Diplomat in the late 1990's and worked with financial institutions around the world, enabling him to open relationships on a global level.
During his pursuit of creating sustainable models for social change, he quickly discovered many facets of the banking and the financial industry that possess the elements needed to offer financial solutions to underdeveloped communities across the world. Neil further learned that sadly many of these people are often overlooked by the majority of the financial giants.
One of Lord Neil’s ventures for social change includes SFBBL International Finance SA, Geneva (SFBBL), a SRO-affiliated asset management company with portfolio companies in Singapore, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and Asia, is able to provide clientele with solutions to their everyday business challenges on a global scale. We focus on the areas of real estate acquisition and development, asset and risk Management, with our primary emphasis in providing liquidity solutions, which include, but are not limited to, Risk Management, Credit Card Processing Services, Currency Services, Project Management and Banking/SWIFT Solutions. We also provide solutions to challenges related to buying, selling and holding commodities specializing in precious metals such as gold, copper, silver and platinum.
SFBBL provides creative, working solutions to qualified governments, projects, companies and individuals through comprehensive leveraging of usable assets, the acquisition of adjustable collateral, strategic reduction of debt through hedging, and the analysis of volatile market conditions.
In addition, SFBBL provides direct and secondary lending services through numerous international banking relationships, of whom are top credited institutions with assets and cash in excess of hundreds of billions. All lending products and services are a minimum 12-month term which include a debt reduction hedge, and require collateral. SFBBL also offers adjustable, goal specific asset and wealth management. Programs range from general capital growth for long term gains and retirement, to project funding and diminishing debt. All management programs consist of significant risk reduction, strong historical earnings and decades of consistent performance experience. Creating value through recognition of business opportunities, SFBBL looks to fulfil a multitude of social needs and delivery improved life quality to affected societies.
The economist most closely associated with the term Social Entrepreneurship was Joseph Schumpeter who believed that the function of entrepreneurs was to reform or revolutionize the pattern of production by exploiting an invention, through an untried technological possibility for producing a new commodity or producing an old one in a new way, by opening up a new source of supply of
materials or a new outlet for products, etc. By serving new markets and creating new ways of doing things, Lord Neil’s efforts are helping to move many world economies forward.