Julian Knight, chairman and CEO of London-based Global Cool, a charitable foundation that spans environmental consulting, multimedia planning and live-events management, is raising a new, open-ended fund with the aim of mounting major televised concerts that would be made carbon-neutral through the purchase of carbon credits. For a minimum investment of $100,000, investors in Global Cool Events — which hopes to raise at least $100 million — will receive the first 8 percent of all profits, half of the pro½ts between 8 and 20 percent, and 20 percent of all pro½ts thereafter.
Knight, 36, who previously worked at Rothschild, Société Générale and Man Group, joined Global Cool last November, inspired by a visit to Brazil’s biggest landfill, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. “That gave me the environment and charity bug,” he says.
