Senior sustainability and climate leader focused on driving the development and delivery of corporate strategies to build sustainable businesses for the future. Highly skilled at stakeholder engagement, presentation and demonstration of the sustainability related opportunities and risks. Recognised as a sustainability expert with understanding across a wide range of sectors and their value chains. Long experience in sustainability related corporate target setting, dressing emerging regulations, and developing public climate disclosures. Experience working with boards and senior management of global businesses both as an external climate advisor and as an in-house corporate sustainability lead. SummaryMyles, as Head of Sustainability at Close Brothers, drives the development of the sustainability agenda within the bank, integrating sustainability into the corporate culture, and embedding the consideration of sustainability in strategic, business and operational decision making.Prior to this role, Myles joined the Carbon Trust at its inception, spending 20 years developing its programmes across sustainability, carbon management and emerging low carbon technology investments. During this period, the organisation established itself as an independent, expert partner of leading organisations around the world, helping them contribute to and benefit from a more sustainable future through carbon reduction, resource efficiency strategies and commercialising low carbon technologies. Myles has a deep understanding across the full range of both supply-side and demand-side technologies in the low carbon sector having established and delivered the Trust’s investment programmes. These programmes provide both venture capital and grant funding to emerging low carbon technology companies.Myles developed the mechanisms the Carbon Trust uses to assess the future carbon saving impact of its activities. These carbon measurement procedures and data have subsequently been audited and are used by both the Carbon Trust and its funders to measure the impact of its many strands of activity. Most of his earlier career was spent at KPMG. Following his ACA qualification in 1997, he gained experience in both financial consultancy and transaction services, specialising in the support of early stage technology businesses through their initial funding.