Saskia Howard joined 500 Global’s senior leadership team in 2022 to drive the firm’s global growth strategy, leveraging her track record of building and scaling global funds, leading strategic initiatives and her extensive global business network. As Global Head of Strategic Relations, Saskia leads relationship management and business development with governments and global asset allocators, exploring new investment opportunities across markets and product solutions with this institutional client base. Saskia was previously Director of External Relations at SoftBank Vision Fund for 4 years, where she was part of the CEO Office and played an instrumental role in the build out of the world’s largest technology asset manager. Prior to that, Saskia was Director of Institutional Client Coverage at UBS, managing relationships with sovereign institutions across EMEA.