Experience

Climate Group

• United Kingdom
• Environmental Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Chief Executive

  • Mar 2017 - Present

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Mar 2017 - Mar 2017



Forum for the Future

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

• Interim Chief Operating Officer

  • Oct 2016 - Feb 2017

  Senior operating officer for Forum for the Future, with oversight for Forum's financial, legal, IT and administrative services for offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Mumbai. Senior operating officer for Forum for the Future, with oversight for Forum's financial, legal, IT and administrative services for offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Mumbai.

• Director of Forum for the Future, US

  • Oct 2010 - May 2016

  Senior leader at Forum for the Future, established Forum's first office outside the UK in New York, and built from the ground up to an annual income of $1m, working with over 50 US corporations and a staff of 10 with status as a 501(c)(3). Specifically responsible for: ● Strategy development and project delivery across a range of organisations and stakeholder groups: for individual organisations such as major US corporations (including Nike, Target, Levi Strauss & Co) and non-profits (The Rainforest Alliance, Forest Stewardship Council); cross-sectoral groups (the US beauty and personal care industry); and multi-stakeholder groups on behalf of The Rockefeller Foundation. ● Strategy & growth of US office: developed and evolved US strategy in line with global mission; recruited and managed staff, grew to team of ten; member of the global Senior Management Team collaborating to set strategy and oversight across the whole organisation; managed annual US budget and forecasting. ● Business development: lead business development in US, winning sustainability strategy work with range of projects from $5,000 up to $1m. ● Sustainability advice and project delivery: project director for complex multi-stakeholder projects and strategy work for key US partners including Target, Walmart, Nike, Gap Inc, PepsiCo, Levi Strauss & Co., and INGOs such as The Forest Stewardship Council, The Rainforest Alliance, and The Rockefeller Foundation. ● Thought leadership: speaking at conferences and writing on a range of sustainability topics, in particular future social, environmental and economic trends. ● Legal oversight: led complex internal project to change our legal status in 2015/16, forming an independent 501(c)(3), in the process working with external partners such as lawyers, external HR specialists, insurance companies, and others to ensure smooth transition. ● Work with board: appointed and worked closely with an external advisory board of experts.

• Deputy Director

  • Jul 2007 - Oct 2010

  Co-leader of one of Forum's two delivery programmes managing the team and offering strategic sustainability advice to a range of partners. I led all Forum’s public sector work, including projects for the National Health Service, the Department for International Development and Birmingham City Council. Co-leader of one of Forum's two delivery programmes managing the team and offering strategic sustainability advice to a range of partners. I led all Forum’s public sector work, including projects for the National Health Service, the Department for International Development and Birmingham City Council.



Medecins Sans Frontieres

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

• Head of Finance

  • Oct 2004 - May 2007

  Financial oversight for the UK section of a major international humanitarian aid agency, annual budget c.£14m and its subsidiary company. ● Annual budget & reporting: produced statutory accounts, annual report, annual budget, management accounts and returns to the Inland Revenue & Charity Commission. ● Working with rest of MSF-movement: worked with other finance directors on international issues, for example with the excess of earmarked funds for the 2004 Asian Tsunami. ● Field secondments: seconded to field twice (Nigeria 2005 and Burundi 2006) to cover for absences and to conduct exploratory missions.

• Project manager and financial controller

  • Dec 2000 - Jul 2004

  Three years of working in the field for the international humanitarian aid agency Médecins Sans Frontières, in increasingly senior roles and complex contexts. Project Co-ordinator, Democratic Republic of Congo (2003-2004) Project Co-ordinator, Sudan (2002-2003) Project Co-ordinator, Pakistan (2002) Financial Controller, Nigeria (2000-2001) Highlights included: - establishing a clinic for victims of sexual violence in DRC - regularising and expanding healthcare services for an area of southern Sudan which was enjoying a ceasefire, including setting up a TB clinic - dealing with complex and tense HR negotiations in Pakistan, post 9/11.



Deloitte & Touche

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Trainee and then Chartered Accountant - Management Solutions

  • Sep 1996 - Mar 2000

  Trained as a chartered accountant with Deloitte & Touche. I was based in the 'Management Solutions' practice, which offered consulting advice - my particular focus was on budgeting, discounted cash flow analysis and other business model work, particularly for public sector clients. Qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1999, with first time passes in all exams. Trained as a chartered accountant with Deloitte & Touche. I was based in the 'Management Solutions' practice, which offered consulting advice - my particular focus was on budgeting, discounted cash flow analysis and other business model work, particularly for public sector clients. Qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1999, with first time passes in all exams.