About Elpis Impact
Expertise
Elpis Impact
Elpis means hope — chosen deliberately. Because we believe that how capital is deployed shapes the world we leave behind.
We're a strategic advisory firm for senior leaders in private companies who need ESG guidance that's practical, credible, and built around how they actually make decisions.
Our Edge
Since launching in March 2024, we've built a leading position in responsible defence advisory for private markets. It's a complex field — and the right guidance is hard to find.
We bring together expertise across strategic consultancy, risk, defence, and investment that is rare to find under one roof. We work with clients across the full defence ecosystem — including AI and cyber — to define their risk appetite and build practical frameworks that support confident, defensible investment decisions.
Client recommendation
Simon was a pleasure to work with, he brought a pragmatic, informed and commercial approach to thinking about sustainability related value creation. He rolled his sleeves up and worked as part of the team to deliver practical insights. He used his network to deliver both on the record and off the record insights that were particularly useful. I would highly recommend working with Elpis Impact.
Jen Braswell
Managing Director and Head of Impact, Private Capital
EQT Partners Limited
Achieve Your Business Goals with Elpis Impact
Board defence /sustainability/ climate & ethics insights
Board defence /sustainability/ climate & ethics insights
Board defence /sustainability/ climate & ethics insights
Customised Executive level training/ briefings on Ethics/ sustainability.
Facilitated insight sessions to improve understanding across the defence value chain to leadership teams and investment committees.
Strategy, roadmap and implementation
Board defence /sustainability/ climate & ethics insights
Board defence /sustainability/ climate & ethics insights
Strategy services bring clarity out of ambiguity, enabling senior business leaders to set and communicate tailored, commercially robust ambitions, internally and externally.
Define defence risk appetite/ develop risk framework
Board defence /sustainability/ climate & ethics insights
Define defence risk appetite/ develop risk framework
Supports clients to establish clear red lines and risk appetite definitions tailored specifically to defence investments.
Design and support the implementation of risk frameworks with appropriate controls and processes.
Transaction Reviews
Define defence risk appetite/ develop risk framework
Conduct transaction reviews for supply chain, human rights, and ethical issues in potential investments where standard frameworks don’t work.
External Disclosure
Providing guidance, insight, drafting and review of sustainability disclosures and data to support external disclosures to assurance readiness standard.
Exit readiness
Supporting management teams identify, and deliver value adding ethical compliance and sustainable programmes and disclosures to support investor communication and value creation at exit.
About Us
Our Team
Simon Abrams
Simon Abrams
Our team consists of experienced consultants with diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise. We are passionate about helping businesses succeed and are committed to delivering exceptional service to our clients.
Simon Abrams
Simon Abrams
Simon Abrams
- With 28 years of experience as an executive-level sustainability leader, Simon has operated across manufacturing, asset management, and consultancy — with a career defined by building sustainable business practices that work commercially.
- At EY and Baringa, he established sustainable business practices serving Financial Services and Privat
- With 28 years of experience as an executive-level sustainability leader, Simon has operated across manufacturing, asset management, and consultancy — with a career defined by building sustainable business practices that work commercially.
- At EY and Baringa, he established sustainable business practices serving Financial Services and Private Markets clients. His expertise spans Consumer Goods, Telecommunications, Industrials, Environmental Technology, Real Estate, and Professional Services.
- That breadth of experience is the foundation of Elpis Impact — a firm built around a senior network of commercial professionals, united by a shared commitment to navigating complexity and creating sustainable growth that lasts.
Dominic Hall
Simon Abrams
Dominic Hall
- Formerly Global Head of Ethical Business at BAE Systems, Dominic has a deep understanding of ethics, governance and compliance risk in the Defence sector.
- Dominic also chaired IFBEC (International Forum for Business Ethical Conduct) – the ethics body for the Defence industry.
- He has worked closely with the MoD, NATO and Defence sector p
- Formerly Global Head of Ethical Business at BAE Systems, Dominic has a deep understanding of ethics, governance and compliance risk in the Defence sector.
- Dominic also chaired IFBEC (International Forum for Business Ethical Conduct) – the ethics body for the Defence industry.
- He has worked closely with the MoD, NATO and Defence sector primes on ethics and governance initiatives, including ethical principles for AI, and the NATO Building Integrity program.
- Few people understand ethics, governance, and compliance risk in defence as deeply as Dominic does.
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