I am joining GSK as VP Sustainability for the Consumer Healthcare Division on 4th January 2021.

At Unilever, I was part of the small team who developed and launched the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan in November 2010. I then worked to embed sustainability into the business to unlock growth while reducing environmental impact and increasing positive social impact. Key responsibilities/achievements include:- Leading Sustainability strategy development and implementation for UL's largest Division - Beauty and Personal Care - together with the VP Sustainability for Divisions and the BPC Sustainability team - Brands with Purpose: embedded purpose into how brands are managed at UL and worked hands-on with brand and market teams, creating inspiration sessions and practical tools to step change the number of brands activating purpose at scale- Led the Health & Wellbeing pillar of the USLP, working closely with lead brands such as Lifebuoy, Dove, Domestos, Signal and Vaseline and our strategic Partners to deliver the goal of helping more than a billion people take action to improve their health and wellbeing by 2020.

Worked as part of the Oral Care Global Category Leadership team, leading strategy development.Helped to transform Oral Care from a 'manage for profit' category to strong growthRe-orienting our Portfolio into high growth spaces such as Whitening, Advanced Care, Kids.Part of the small team, together with Global brand VP and CMi Director which defined Signal's brand purpose; and developed the brand's Brush Day & Night brand DO program which has helped improve the oral health of >100mio people and driven strong growth for the brand.

Developed innovation & activity plans for a number of key European markets: France, NL, Spain,Germany.Led the first X-brand global innovation project in the Deodorants Category - developing the upside down roll on (ball at the bottom to help the roll-on glide on easily and give better coverage) which grew our share in roll on's and drove significant margin improvement. It is still on shelf today across UL's deodorants brands: Sure/Rexona; Lynx/Axe, Dove.

Led the development and deployment of brand marketing plans for a number of UK hair brands, culminating in the launch of Dove Hair in the UK which achieved 10% market share in 10 weeks. Best launch in UL award for that year.

Learnt the fundamentals of marketing and brand management through Nestle's Graduate Program, completing the program's Marketing & Finance Certificate programs with distinction.My final role was as Quality Street manager for the Seasonal range business where we successfully defended the brand's share against the launch of Mars Celebrations over the crucial Christmas period (which a/c for 70% of seasonal range turnover).