Forest landscape restoration with smallholder farmers in India, Brazil, East Africa.Building private sector partnerships to achieve integrated environmental, social, and economic benefits inline with the UN SDGs.

Grower of microgreen salads for the Brighton gastro market

Strategic Innovation - Channelling organisational creativity to deliver effective, relevant innovations. Evaluation of ideas against mission & objectives, economic viability, organisational impact and capacity to deliver. Recommendations for board approvalHighlights:Sector lead - food beverage and agriculture (FBA) - Development of 3 year sector roadmap. Impact & dependencies of FBA companies on natural capital. Agricultural and marine soft commodities. Private sector consultation & partnerships with NGOs (eg Natural Capital Coalition, WWF, Cambridge Program for Sustainability Leadership)Lead the merger & acquisition of Forest Footprint Disclosure program into CDP to bring agriculture related deforestation within the CDP disclosure process alongside Climate and Water. Impacts of palm, soy, timber and cattle products on forests. Development of CDP ‘sector specific’ strategy for corporate sustainability - Development of sector ‘impacts and dependencies’ on natural capital, key risks and mitigations, with particular focus on the food, bev and agri sector. Stakeholder consultation (NGO, private & public sector, academia). Communication of sector strategy including publication of white papersSenior technical lead for $1.5m grant from Velux Foundation – ‘natural capital corporate disclosure.’ Project inception, proposal writing, budget design, project delivery and reportingPioneered CDP’s work with global stock exchanges and their role in promoting sustainability through listing requirement. Three year Stock Exchange roadmap. Value at risk comparisons. Publication of white papers. Mandatory Reporting workshop for UK companies at London Stock Exchange - created opportunity and delivered end to end: inception, sponsor recruitment, commercials and contracts, content and structure, presentation and facilitation

Nine years consulting to, within, and on behalf of blue chip clients in the professional services, finance and communications sectors on £million projectsBusiness development, bid writing, project scoping, technical architect – London Clearing House, NHS, PwC, StateStreet Bank, Deloitte, Canary Wharf Group, AccentureLead consultant on service consolidation and energy efficiency project with £2m budget T-MobileService design and commercial structure for global technology refresh - Ernst Young and Hilton HotelsManagement of project teams across broad geographies and disciplines - LTSB, Thomas Cook, R&SAConsultancy mentor – improving performance and utilization of junior resources through coaching in consultancy skills - proposal writing, communication, expectation management, business developmentTechnology lead: wireless – building internal capacity and service offering to increase revenues

Managing infrastructure and connectivity in business process outsourcing projects for UK and US blue chip client, offshoring HR, IT, and Finance services to service centres in India.