Took the company to first revenue within 6 months, launched a Manuka style honey brand and planted a vanilla plantation.

Built the company's first financial model and scale-up plan.

I wanted to understand how a very big and very profitable business with a big climate impact worked. Started as an environmental advisor on an oil terminal and in the Group Head of HSSE’s team, then worked on bp’s global climate strategy in head office, jumped over to a sales role in the carbon trading team and finished in trading strategy. The set of experiences I put together was developed into a formal graduate programme. I left because I wanted to build something. Kept busy with a bunch of ‘extracurricular’ things - like winning a global award in bp for modelling work on produced water discharges, representing the UK at the Y7 Summit in Japan, and co-founding ‘Dumbledore’s army’ to fire up innovators across bp.

Developed policy proposals and negotiated the UK delegation’s position on sustainable development into the final communique, focusing on gender equality in the work place, encouraging social entrepreneurship and tackling inequality of access to education.

Developed and delivered solar deployment scenario updates for key thermal coal regions, contributing to Rio Tinto's power fuel mix modelling of future thermal coal demand.