Experience

Forever Wild (Group)

• Australia
• Civic and Social Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer / Executive Direc

  • Apr 2018 - Present

  Forever Wild has extraordinary goals, relevant for all humanity. Founded in Australia in 2018, the result of over 10 years of planning, the goal is to simultaneously protect and leverage the vast natural capital of the Earth's last remaining wildernesses. FW combines natural capital with the wellbeing of human and ecological communities, and we are working to achieve this at an immense spatial, temporal and societal scale. We combine philanthropy, innovative business & impact investment, conservation ecology and society to create transformative programs to protect the world's last remaining natural landscapes - and the carbon they store. Our work includes an active economic program working closely with the agricultural & tourism sectors, among others, creating and sustaining jobs and revenues for wilderness communities. Forever Wild is highly adaptive and vertically integrates from local to global. With the right investment we know we can create some of the largest terrestrial natural capital reserves on our planet, ensure they are broadly socially and politically supported and that they are positive contributors to social wellbeing and livelihoods. Our planet still has magnificent, natural landscapes that must - and can - be managed in a way that supports healthy ecosystems and human societies for tens of thousands of years to come. https://Linktr.ee/foreverwildearth Our biennial Progress Reports: https://foreverwild.com.au/our-progress/



The Southern Rangelands Pastoral Alliance (SRPA)

• Board Member

  • Dec 2022 - Present



Global Eye

• Founding Director & CEO

  • Jun 2013 - Jun 2019

  Not-for-profit & commercial. Global Eye is the culmination of sophisticated planning around a complex social, political and conservation framework. It is a non-state actor designed to lead a wide range of activities against wildlife and human trafficking. Within our framework we run transnational programs directly or indirectly targeting trafficking networks, engaging with governments and regulatory bodies when and if we decide it is appropriate. Global Eye is unique in its structure and operations, and is funded to work closely with other non-state actors to share some aspects of our model. The company has a not-for-profit (counter-wildlife & human trafficking) and a commercial arm security / intelligence against organised crime and security operations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. The commercial arm funneled resources to the counter-wildlife trafficking efforts. GE, in association with key funders, is leading a drive for a global team of specialists that can leverage diverse government and inter-governmental mechanisms with much greater efficiency. In 2019 GE sold its commercial entity and the cyber technology & wildlife trafficking expertise was absorbed by 2 similar entities that GE has helped to develop.



SF Group

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Division, Africa & Indian Ocean Islands

  • 2012 - 2013

  Head of Projects, the pan-Africa division providing discrete, professional security services to a wide breadth of clients. The division ran with 6 full time employees and 150 contractors, providing services including personal and asset protection, risk advice and management, intelligence reporting and a range of other bespoke risk mitigation services. The division operated across Africa with a focus on East, Central and West. Head of Projects, the pan-Africa division providing discrete, professional security services to a wide breadth of clients. The division ran with 6 full time employees and 150 contractors, providing services including personal and asset protection, risk advice and management, intelligence reporting and a range of other bespoke risk mitigation services. The division operated across Africa with a focus on East, Central and West.



Conservation, Science & Management (consulting)

• Director

  • Jan 2009 - Jan 2012

  Specializations: Rangeland management for grazing and wildlife - East and Central Africa, consultant to Wildlife Conservation Society in South Sudan, AWF in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. Counter wildlife trafficking - East and Southern Africa, Consultant to African Wildlife Foundation: Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania Conservation & security - Kenya, DRC, Uganda, Ethiopia Projects included a management plan for Masai Mara conservancies; black rhino reintroduction feasibility; protected area planning in South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe; Conservation security in DRC, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Uganda. Consultancies to the Wildlife Conservation Society and African Wildlife Foundation on planning and managing large rangelands for mixed livestock, wildlife and other values.



CSIRO

• Australia
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Conservation Biologist

  • 2004 - 2008

  A member of the Rangelands and Savannas research team, primary research projects were: 1. mixed use of rangelands across Queensland and the NT. Mainly working on large stations, the work focused on science that supported long-term agricultural use, conservation and social aspects of these landscapes. Based in the St. Lucia and Alice Springs labs. This dovetailed with a joint Australian - South African government project in Limpopo, RSA. 2. Invasive vertebrate control modeling examining resource needs of species and behavioral responses o to control methods in order to optimise ecological outcomes from control programs. 3. The long-term ecological sustainability and processes of peri-urbanisation.