Co-Founder and Managing Director, Chief of Staff

• Nov 2022 - Present

We have put plants, people, the planet, and prosperity at the core of everything we do. Our diverse team of thinkers and doers has created a unique hub that offers the togetherness of a networked community, entrepreneurship support, exceptional experiences, and research and development – all around houseplants. We aim to be the centraliser of all things houseplants, with a clear focus on helping plant businesses, plantfluencers, plantrepreneurs, and plant hobbyists achieve their fullest potential, maximise value, and fun, and gain peace of mind. As a Co-Founder and member of the management team at Aplanty Impact, as well as Chief of Staff at Aplanty House Ltd., I am committed to realising our social venture's vision of plants helping people and the planet.

European Managing Director

• Nov 2018 - Present

Group Operations Director

• Jun 2017 - Present

Chief Technical Officer

• Dec 2010 - Mar 2017

Responsible for managing the Global IT Technical Services Team comprising of Global Service Desk Engineers, Field Engineers, Consulting Engineers & Solution Architects. • Led a strategic planning process, identifying and prioritizing development initiatives setting timetables for evaluation, development, and deployment of services, which achieved $4,900,000 cost savings • Created a new approval and processing procedure for all Sales Orders resulting in a 5% correction in billing and Stock Level adjustments and reducing invoicing from 60days to 30days • Reversed poor delivery performance by developing the Global Technical Support Model comprising of the Global Service Desk Engineers, Field Engineers, Consulting Engineers & Solution Architects, streamlining processes to meet Platinum SLA’s in line with the global Service Levels • Developed the culture of the Centralised Global Support Desk, based in Asia focusing on the areas of communication, culture, responsiveness, transparency and general heightened customer service, all oriented to best in class delivery • Built, developed and managed a top-flight technology team deployed globally for rapid response to clients’ needs • Established technical standards and ensured strict adherence to them for all products • Identified opportunities and risks for delivering the company’s services, including identifying competitive services, opportunities for innovation, assessment of marketplace obstacles and technical hurdles to business success • As member of the executive management team, participated in establishing governance processes of direction and control, ensuring objectives were achieved, risks managed appropriately and the organization’s resources used responsibly, specifically in the areas of hardware maintenance to meet the company’s strategic road map • Assures program quality and organizational stability through development and implementation of standards and controls, systems and procedures, regular evaluation

Delivery Partner Manager

• Oct 2008 - Dec 2010

A global delivery partnership between AT&T, T-Systems and EDS established to deliver IT infrastructure support to Shell. Managed the contract delivery for T-Systems and AT&T ensuring that savings and environment changes proposed to Shell were achieved. AT&T agreed to move Shell telecommunications environment to MPLS, EDS had agreed to move Shell over to a new platform and T-Systems agreed to consolidate the Server environment and to ensure ALL Shell Data Centres were above Sea Level. Successfully led a team in the consolidation of Hardware Maintenance contracts and Services for T-Systems consisting of approximately 50 contracts covering Services in more than 165 countries and more than 100,000 servers. The contracts were valued at approx $100m per year and at final execution the project was reduced to a single supplier with a total 5 year fixed cost of $100m. • Liaised with Key Stakeholders including Heads of Procurement, Legal and Finance to compile contracts and ensure that Global Standard terms and conditions were adhered to. • Ensured that negotiated contracts were flexible enough to allow cost effective changes to platforms, licensing models, infrastructure and environment. • Managed and developed the relationship between 3rd parties and the globally acting operations units of The Global Delivery Management (GDM). • Acted as Strategic Service Requestor and Business Development Partner for T-Systems Strategic Sourcing and Operational Procurement departments. • Involved in negotiations with suppliers for the provision of a single source hardware solution with an annual contract value of £100m. Wrote the strategy paper for the tender process, prepared RFP and shortlisted suppliers. • Successfully led the transition of hardware maintenance, data centre and asset management services to a Single supplier. • Managed approximately 165 Shell Data Centres with a budget of approximately $500M per year and Shell contract labour at an additional $150M per year.

Commercial Contract Head / Transition Manager

• Apr 2007 - Oct 2008

• As a key member of the Shell ISP Project Team developed the Request for Proposal (RFP), Defined the Scope of the outsourcing, Evaluated the Supplier responses and Engaged in the Commercial Negotiations.• Shortlisted and awarded contracts to suppliers for End User Computing (EUC), Managed Network Services (MNS) and Hostage & Storage (H&S).• Responsible for the management of Shell’s entire IT services outsourced to 3rd party suppliers. • Led the transition of the contracts to the 3 successful suppliers within a fixed Led the transition of the contracts to the 3 successful suppliers within a fixed period

Global Category Manager

• Jan 2006 - Mar 2007

• Managed Satellite, LAN and Conferencing divisions and an annual budget of approximately $175m.• Provided significant support to the procurement process and devised global procurement strategy to leverage competitive advantage.• Improved Shell’s competitive advantage in the area of Telecommunications by maximising commercial procurement opportunities, minimising commercial risks and increasing cost savings.• Improved procurement strategies and supplier management on a global basis across all major business entities, including all 3rd party expenditure with external Satellite, LAN, and Conferencing providers.• Ensured fit for purpose global commercial strategies were established to fully leverage the Shell Group’s Telecommunication requirements.• Worked with senior stakeholders within the Shell Business Units; Exploration & Production (EP or Upstream), Downstream, Gas & Power and Pipelines, to ensure global ‘Buy-in’ and collaboration of the Technical and Commercial strategies and decisions. • Championed the need for stronger governance regarding suppliers and ensured that managers understood the supplier market base.• Established commercially favourable Global Agreements and negotiated contracts.• Improved compliance to establish supplier contracts and manage natural tendencies for businesses to negotiate and source suppliers without Procurement involvement.

Global Procurement Manager

• Apr 2002 - Apr 2006

My initial role was to set up a Global Procurement framework, managed by the Corporation for the total LeasePlan Group (27 countries). I was responsible for all IT procurement both software and hardware (as well as Consultant Contract for the ICT Department, and many other things) for the total group, putting in place Global, European and Local Contracts. I work closely with the Business Development department on new initiatives to optimize the infrastructure and development of new applications (web sphere, Notes etc…) to allow LeasePlan to run there day to day business of Car Leasing. During my time at LeasePlan Corporation I worked on several Major Projects heading up the commercial team. One project was setting up a European Data Centre in Dublin for the ICT infrastructure for the Total LeasePlan Group (27 countries). This Data Centre is now running successfully.

Operations / Logistics Manager

• Jul 2000 - Apr 2002

·Responsible for the operational management of logistics and customer service. ·Development of management strategy and management analysis. ·Logistical strategy and total management responsibilities for all supply chain and logistic processes. ·Management, coaching and motivation of the logistics department. ·Responsible for inventory levels in Europe. ·Responsible for cost effective and efficient logistics plans and strategy. ·Responsible for budget and cost efficiency, providing detailed monthly reports. ·Driving force behind continuous improvement, performance measurement and implementation of new systems. ·Prepare and negotiate contracts and agreements. ·Control supply sources, analyze usage, make sure suppliers are sufficient for production, improve lead-times. ·Responsible for the NPI (New Product Development) release. ·Responsible for the quarterly targets for EMEA. ·Responsible for the POR (plan of Record) for EMEA.

Procurement Consultant

• Jul 1999 - Jun 2000

In my role at Philips I was employed by the corporate organization where I would be used by different business units to advise and help implement changes to the current supply chain to streamline and optimize the operation in an ever changing and complex environment. Additional activities: ·Active member of the Management Teams within the business unit I worked with. ·Responsible for proposing and implementing the supply chain management strategy including the article group strategies in line with the business unit needs. ·Definition and implementation of supply chain management processes. ·Representing supply chain management towards IPO’s.