Experience

Conserve Global

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director

  • Jan 2021 - Present

  Encompass a staggering 1.7 million km², or 66% of sub-Saharan Africa’s entire protected area estate, game reserves and other secondary protected areas are experiencing unprecedented levels of human pressure and other anthropogenic threats. Historically, these lesser known protected areas - designated for sustainable utilization - have been supported predominantly by trophy hunting and/or forestry. In recent years, the steep decline of the hunting industry has left many of these wild areas neglected, unmanaged and economically fallow. Whilst the debate around hunting rages, the accelerating loss of enormous tracts of invaluable African wilderness is largely being overlooked and ignored with dire consequences for ecosystem function, rural livelihoods and biodiversity survival. Conserve identifies, secures and supports healthy, functioning ecosystems as a foundational requirement for the longevity of Africa’s wilderness areas to the benefit of rural communities and wildlife alike.



Grumeti Fund | NPO

• Tanzania
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Executive Director

  • Sep 2015 - Dec 2020

  Grumeti Fund is responsible for safeguarding and sustainably developing the 350,000-acre Singita Grumeti Reserves in the western corridor of the Serengeti. The executive director is tasked with managing a staff of 200 conservation professionals, providing strategic guidance and leadership to Grumeti Fund programs, fundraising, administering a US$ 5 million annual budget, and engaging with key stakeholders - including the Tanzanian government, Wildlife Division, Tanzanian Wildlife Management Authority, district authorities, local communities and aligned conservation organizations - to strengthen productive working relationships, and to communicate and successfully execute the Grumeti conservation agenda.



Javelin Capital LLP

• Investment Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Programme Manager

  • Jan 2012 - Dec 2013

  Recruited to head up the dynamic Sisheke Conservation Project: a long-term public-private partnership to sustainably develop a 1.5 million hectare community conservancy on the Upper Zambezi in southwest Zambia. Working in conjunction with the Peace Parks Foundation and Barotse Royal Establishment, Javelin Capital functions as the asset manager of this large tract of threatened wilderness within the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KAZA TFCA). This pioneering conservation and community development approach strives to unlock the incredible commercial conservation and ecotourism potential of the neglected Sisheke Chiefdom. By cultivating strategic partnerships with Nedbank Capital, the REDD+ carbon credit potential of the region is being investigated as a potential source of long-term revenue for the ongoing rehabilitation and development of this groundbreaking conservation initiative. Upon launch of the special purpose subsidiary Javelin Zambia Ltd, I transitioned into a new role as the CEO of JavZam.



SMC Creative

• Freelance Photojournalist

  • Jun 2008 - Jun 2011

  Operated as an independent journalist and photographer, specialising in the fields of adventure travel, eco-tourism, nature conservation, wildlife and sustainability. It has been a privilege to see my stories and images appear in a diverse portfolio of over 30 prominent magazines and newspapers in England, Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Africa, Sweden and the USA. Operated as an independent journalist and photographer, specialising in the fields of adventure travel, eco-tourism, nature conservation, wildlife and sustainability. It has been a privilege to see my stories and images appear in a diverse portfolio of over 30 prominent magazines and newspapers in England, Hong Kong, India, Japan, South Africa, Sweden and the USA.



Chifungulu Ltd, Zambia

• Operations Manager

  • Jun 2007 - Nov 2008

  In charge of operational planning, supervision of field staff, field guide training and staff mentoring for a Zambia-based safari company. Also functioned as a specialist walking and canoe safari guide at the company's Sausage Tree Camp, Potato Bush Camp and Old Mondoro Bush Camp in Zambia's Lower Zambezi National Park. In charge of operational planning, supervision of field staff, field guide training and staff mentoring for a Zambia-based safari company. Also functioned as a specialist walking and canoe safari guide at the company's Sausage Tree Camp, Potato Bush Camp and Old Mondoro Bush Camp in Zambia's Lower Zambezi National Park.



Wild Places Africa, Clouds Mountain Gorilla Lodge, Uganda

• Hospitality
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operations Manager

  • Jan 2006 - Jun 2007

  Charged with establishing and managing all project operations - including extensive staff recruitment and training - for a new ecotourism and conservation initiative in the wild and remote Kidepo Valley of northern Uganda. Charged with establishing and managing all project operations - including extensive staff recruitment and training - for a new ecotourism and conservation initiative in the wild and remote Kidepo Valley of northern Uganda.