Carly Wickham

CEO

Carly Wickham is the Chief Executive Officer of EdelGive with SIX, where she leads the organisation’s mission to build a global ecosystem for social innovation.

With many years working across innovation ecosystems, Carly brings deep experience in building partnerships, designing programs at scale, and stewarding transformation. She co-founded The Giving Department, a philanthropy consultancy now in its fifteenth year, and previously served as Head of Innovation Programmes at Capital Enterprise. There, she supported over 2,000 founders to scale their organisations, with particular focus on underrepresented founders. 

Prior to Capital Enterprise, Carly played a pivotal role in Challenge Works, an organisation managing £200m+ in innovative Challenge Prize funds, Carly also serves as a Non-Executive Director for Innovate UK Loans, with oversight of a £250m loan portfolio. Carly believes connected people are the solution to the world’s problems, but only when we create the right conditions for genuine collaboration across difference can we deliver systemic change.