EA Business Summit Speakers
Trevor M Hoyle, CEO - Europe, RPS Group
Trevor is CEO – Europe at RPS Group Plc. This entails the strategic development of multi-disciplinary services businesses across Europe; Africa and the Middle East, comprising approximately 3,500 staff. Diverse activities include multi-disciplinary consultancy; field services and laboratories in Environment; Water; Energy/Oil & Gas; Transportation; Developments; Buildings; Defence and Pharmaceutical sectors.
Trevor has been at RPS since 2004. He is a Chartered Civil Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors.
Peter Skinner, CEO, Environment & Ground Engineering, EMIA, AECOM
Peter is the CEO for AECOM’s Environment and Ground Engineering business in EMIA. The AECOM Environment business is the largest environmental consultancy in Europe and has an exceptional track record in delivering permits and approvals for nationally strategic projects in a wide range of market sectors, such as road, rail, power, ports and airports. In addition it has a strong reputation for investigating, assessing and remediating large and complex contaminated land sites across the region. Peter has an oil and gas background having led consultancy projects across a spectrum of specialisms in the oil and gas arena. These projects include:
- Downstream: -BP’scontaminated land portfolio for Europe.
- Midstream: - Environmental and social impact assessment for a 250km long pipeline in Georgia and Azerbaijan.
- Upstream: -Geotechnical assessment and design for the LNG Terminal on Sakhalin Island, Russia.
Dr Hisham Mahmoud, Global President & CEO, Golder Associates
Dr. Mahmoud is the global President & CEO of Golder Associates, a leading global engineering and consulting firm operating across the Mining, Oil & Gas, Infrastructure, Manufacturing, and Power sectors, with $1 billion in annual revenues. He joined Golder in 2015 as their first externally appointed CEO in the company’s nearly 60 year history.Dr. Mahmoud has had a successful career leading engineering, consulting and construction businesses of regional and global scale. Throughout his career, he developed particular skill and a strong reputation in the industry for building and turning around businesses.
Prior to joining Golder, Dr. Mahmoud led SNC-Lavalin's global Infrastructure business. He joined SNC-Lavalin to turn around its largest division with over $4 billion in annual revenues, at a time when the company was dealing with significant legal challenges. Under his leadership, the business was successfully restructured, pursuing and capturing some of Canada’s largest infrastructure projects.
His other positions included serving as President of AMEC’s global Environment & Infrastructureand Emerging Markets (Growth Regions) businesses and holding leadership positions in URS Corporation and its legacy companies, Dames & Mooreand Woodward Clyde.
Dr. Mahmoud earned a Ph.D and MSE in Civil Engineering from Arizona State University, and a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Qatar. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Arizona.
Martin Baxter, Chief Policy Advisor, IEMA
Martin leads IEMA's policy and external engagement activity, working in the UK and internationally to support the transition to a low carbon, resource efficient and sustainable economy.
Martin has national and international experience in developing and negotiating global and European standards, and developing capacity for effective and widespread implementation. Experience of networking and communicating at all levels – including with senior parliamentarians, Government officials, business leaders and academia.
Martin is a board member of IEMA and a Council member of Society for the Enviromment.
Jessica Campbell, Consents Manager, The Crown Estate
Jessica Campbell is a Consents Manager at The Crown Estate, an independent commercial business established by an Act of Parliament and entrusted with investing in and sustainably managing Crown assets on behalf of the UK. Jessica sits within the Energy, Minerals and Infrastructure portfolio, providing consenting support and adviceat a project and strategic level across keymarine business sectors including offshore renewable energy, cables and pipelines, marine aggregates and infrastructure. Jessica works with developers, Government and statutory bodies and other stakeholders to identity and address consenting issues for these activities, including representation on a number of external groups and fora.
Jessica joined The Crown Estate in 2013 as a Consents Advisor focusing on offshore wind. Her previous roles include an offshore wind developer at RES Offshore, and at the Countryside Council for Wales, the statutory nature conservation body in Wales, coordinating advice on the environmental impacts on offshore wind, oil and gas, and the ports and shipping sectors.
Jessica has a background in marine ecology, with a BSc in Marine Biology from Newcastle University and an MSc in Marine Environmental Protection from Bangor University.
Catherine Anderson, EIA Associate Director, AECOM
Catherine is an Associate EIA Director with over 14 years experience in consulting and regulatory positions, and also in EIA and construction environmental management fields. Catherine has managed numerous EIAs for a wide range of energy and infrastructure developments across the UK, including the EIAs for two successful DCOs in Wales, including Glyn Rhonwy, and is currently the lead EIA manager on the Moorside DCO, which will be the largest DCO project in the UK once submitted. Her knowledge also extends to marine licencing, environmental permits and other enabling construction consents.
Marie Cloherty Senior Consultant, Acre
Marie’s team specialises in placing mid & senior-level contract and permanent professionals into key, global sustainability and CR roles across corporate, social enterprise and service-side environments. From on the ground within responsible supply chain programmes, to sharing these stories through innovative reporting and stakeholder engagement, the areas of expertise span sustainable supply chain, circular economy, diversity & inclusion, modern slavery and environmental management.
With over 10 years commercial experience in mentoring, business development and account management, she changed paths to concentrate on Corporate Responsibility with Acre. Her long-term commercial experience has not only effected successful growth within our clients businesses, it has ensured continued growth of Acre’s business.
Jon Cooke, Managing Director, ESI Consulting
Jon has been involved in the management of geo-technical and geo-environmental investigations for over 18 years and has worked extensively with property developers and government to deliver successful development projects on marginal land on quarries, landfill, mining and brownfield restoration.
An Engineering Geologist and expert in geo-environmental risk management, Jon has a background working for major international multidisciplinary consultancies and a wealth of experience in leading and managing multidisciplinary teams.
Jon has a passion for communicating complex ground related issues to key stakeholders and has taken part in numerous public and planning consultation processes in support of development objectives. He was one of the first UK practitioners to be registered as a Qualified Person under the CL:AIRE Definition of Waste: Development Industry Code of Practice and has completed various declarations under that scheme and advised widely on its application to development.
George Davies, Head of Expansion Sustainability & Environment, Heathrow Airport
George has been with Heathrow since January 2010 in senior environmental management and airport development roles. He started his career with the Environment Agency as a warranted Officer. Prior to Heathrow he worked as a HSE consultant to the aviation sector advising airport operations internationally. Now leading the sustainability and environment strategy for the airport’s expansion programme, he is taking forward the environmental impact assessment and developing mitigation plans in readiness for development consent.
Matthew Farrow, Executive Director, Environmental Industries Commission (EIC)
Matthew’s background combines an in-depth understating of environmental policy with long experience of representing business interests to policy makers at devolved, UK and EU levels. Before joining EIC, Matthew spent three years as Director of Policy at the Environmental Services Association, the trade association representing the UK’s waste and resource management industry.
Before that he had a number of policy roles at the CBI, including stints as Head of Environment and Climate Change Policy and Head of Infrastructure Policy. He also spent five years as Head of Policy for CBI Scotland, where he was responsible for all the CBI’s policy and lobbying interaction with the Scottish Government.
Nick Giesler, Head of Environment, Crossrail 2, Transport for London
Nick is acting Head of Environment and Consents on Crossrail 2. As well as overseeing the EIA strategy, Nick is managing the environmental design team (responsible for on-going design support and integration of mitigation) and driving sustainable design during the early stages of the project.
Crossrail 2 is seeking to champion proportionate EIA and Nick has established the strategy that is being implemented by the EIA consultants and by the supporting transport and economic work streams. Nick has worked on HS2 since its inception and has been integral to the appraisal of sustainability for each phase, leading in environmental appraisal of options and in the reporting phase.
Over 25 years, Nick has led or been closely involved with EIAs for many of the major rail schemes in the UK including HS1, Thameslink programme, Crossrail and Airtrack.
Torsten Glaeser, Team Lead EPSCM Supplier Management & Business Integration, BP
Torsten joined BP in 2001 as Materials Manager. He then held a number of international procurement management and category lead roles in Retail Asset, Refining, Seismic and Environmental Services.
Since 2015 he is the Supply Chain Strategy Lead for Environmental Procurement and Supply Chain Management (EPSCM) responsible for Business Integration & Supplier Management and since 2017 also for Waste Management & Onshore Decommissioning.
In this role Torsten manages the sourcing, selection and management of strategic 3rd party environmental suppliers in support of BP Businesses and Functions globally. He is responsible for setting global market sector and category strategies, participates in cross-segment steering committees, and engages with Businesses and Functions to address environmental supply chain needs and opportunities .
Rufus Howard, Director - Sustainable Development, Royal HaskoningDHV
Director of Royal HaskoningDHV’s Energy and Infrastructure Consenting Group, Rufus is directly responsible for leading 50 expert consultants who specialise in the renewable energy, nuclear, coastal and maritime sectors. Professionally, Rufus is a leading expert in site selection, assessment of alternatives, EIA and planning for nationally significant energy and infrastructure projects. Rufus’s EIA experience includes onshore and offshore wind, flood defence, overhead lines, buried transmission cables, oil and gas pipelines, refineries, substations and converter stations.
A registered Principal EIA Practitioner (IEMA) Rufus is an active participant in driving forward industry best practice in environmental management and assessment. In addition to his role as Director at Royal HaskoningDHV Rufus sits on the Strategic Advisory Council for the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA), the UK Impact Assessment Steering Group (IEMA EIA Quality Mark) on the Strategic Advisory Board of the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) and is a Member of the Institute of Directors (IoD).
Based in Royal HaskoningDHV's Westminster Offices, Rufus has completed projects in the UK, France, Germany, Libya and Kazakhstan and is an experienced negotiator with legal, financial, government and non-governmental organisations.
Steve Kaye, Head of Innovation, Anglian Water Services
Steve is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and has worked in the water industry for around twenty seven years. Steve has an MBA from City University in London and is also a Visiting Professor at Imperial College and Brunel University.
Steve’s career in the water started in the manufacturing industry where he was involved in the R&D and design.
At Anglian Water Steve has held key roles in Capital Delivery and Operations and more recently as Head of Innovation. He has developed and led the company’s Open Innovation Strategy.
Steve is a creative individual who is passionate about making a better world through innovation; he is actively involved in fostering collaborations with other companies, including other industrial sectors. He also chairs the Industrial Advisory Panel for the STREAM programme, a university collaboration funded by EPSRC.
Stuart McLachlan, Chief Executive, Anthesis Consulting Group
Proven business leader having spent 20 years developing environmental, sustainability and energy consulting firms with experience of serving as a Director on a FTSE 250 Company. He has acquired and built Companies across 15 countries and in addition to his focus on entrepreneurial and commercial leadership, he has passion for sustainable development and the relationship between sustainable futures and business success. Stuart is CEO and one of the founders of Anthesis Group. Within 2 years of trading Anthesis has become a leading global sustainability firm operating in Europe, US, Middle East and Asia. They have grown both organically and through the acquisition of 7 boutique firms, and have assembled deep subject matter experts and technology specialists across the sustainability value chain. Their main focus is on the implementation of sustainability for major corporations, their customers and their supply chains.
Stephanie McGibbon, Associate Director, Arup
Stephanie is an Associate Director and leader of Arup’s Environmental Impact Assessment team in London. She provides expert advice on projects within the UK and overseas and manages all aspects of large, complex environmental assessments from pre-assessment optioneering through to post-submission advice and delivery. Over a 20 year career Stephanie’s projects have included Stansted Airport, Thames Tideway Tunnel and Stratford City. Stephanie is currently providing environment advice to clients including Heathrow Airport, the Greater London Authority and the London Legacy Development Corporation. Stephanie also volunteers with the Environmental Law Foundation.
Joanne Murphy, National Technical Adviser, National Environmental Assessment Service, Environment Agency
Jo is the national technical lead for impact assessment at the Environment Agency, with a focus on environment and sustainability standards and capabilities through the asset management cycle. Jo led the EA to become the first developer to register on IEMA’s EIA Quality Mark, established the framework for the technical development of its IA staff and represents the EA on the UK EIA Directive transposition panel. Jo provides sustainability leadership by ensuring colleagues have the skills, tools and knowledge to effectively manage legislative, regulatory and governance requirements for the flood risk capital works programme.
Jo has been a member of IEMA’s Professional Standards Committee since 2013, served two terms on its strategic Council and sits on the UK Impact Assessment Steering Group. She is Managing Director of a training and consultancy company, currently working with global organisations on their standards and capacity building programmes. She is also an Associate Academic, leading Masters students through their online learning and research journeys.
Vicky Pope, Head of Science and Technology Futures at the Met Office
Vicky is Head of Science and Technology Futures. She is responsible for developing opportunities to exploit Met Office science and technology capabilities, often in partnership, to improve services to government. She also has a role in identifying future needs and scoping viable options to develop new capability. In particular she is responsible for developing the Met Office’s data policy, to meet government objectives, and maximise the exploitation of Met Office capability and services through the data it produces.
She is also exploring the opportunities for developing an environment platform where data, models, information and knowledge can be shared and manipulated. This builds on a significant programme of transformation and efficiency within the organisation. She is also identifying opportunities for innovation to test out new ways of working and priorities for data provision. She is also developing partnerships to integrate cutting edge environmental science developed by the Met Office and our partners, with the latest technology to provide new and improved services. Current interests include environmental and financial risk, space, hydrology, transport and digital economy sectors to develop new services, developing partnerships in Scotland, Wales and the US as well as advisory roles on environmental change.
Vicky joined the Met Office in the 1980s and later obtained her PhD in Meteorology from the University of Reading. In the 1990s she led teams in stratospheric research and climate model development. In particular she led the development of Met Office Hadley Centre models used in IPCC 3rd and 4th Assessment Reports and for the UK Climate Projections released in 2009 (UKCP09).
In 2002 she became a senior manager of the climate research programme for various government departments - MoD, Defra and DECC, ensuring that the Met Office provided climate change science to underpin policy development. For example she led the Met Office contribution of science to the Stern Review on the economics of climate change, and worked on improving communication of climate change science.
Dan Matthews Director, CGL
Dan is a Director at CGL,a specialist geoenvironmental/geotechnicalconsultancy that was awarded the Ground Engineering Consulting Firm of the Year last year. Dan is based at the Godalming office, managing a team of 25 engineers who provide a wide range of geoenvironmental and geotechnical services to the residential, commercial, energy and infrastructure sectors. This work includes support for the Barking Riverside development, which is currently one of the most ambitious and important brownfield developments in the UK.
Dan’s background is within the assessment and remediation of contaminated land for both public and private sector clients. Dan specialises in remediation options appraisal, strategy development and design, balancing clients’ requirements with sustainability and site constraints to develop pragmatic and cost effective remediation and regeneration solutions. Dan is a member of the M3 Enterprise Advisor Network, which provides links between businesses and schools with theaim to inspire young people about their future options in the world of work.
Lara Potter, Business Director, Strategic Environmental Consultancy, Arcadis
Lara Potter currently leads the 70 strong Strategic Environmental Consultancy team in Arcadis UK. The multidisciplinary team develop and deliver a wide range of environment, health, safety and sustainability solutions to Clients across the infrastructure, industry and construction sectors. Prior to her current role, she was Client Development Director for the Environment and Industry business at Arcadis.
Lara started her career in engineering design for buildings and infrastructure before moving into the environmental consultancy sector. Her early experience in EC focussed on design and contract management of complex multidisciplinary remediation and restoration schemes and global environmental programmes for oil and gas and industrial Clients such as Total, BP, General Electric and Sanofi.
More recently, her focus has been on building and growing a multidisciplinary HSSE advisory team with strong quantitative and analytical skills, breadth of technical knowledge combined with commercial focus.She has bought together capability and developed thinking to apply this integrated approach into corporate retail, biotech, industrial and development sectors.
Lara is based in Cambridge UK. She holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Manchester and a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
Andrew Rickard, Industrial, Environmental & Sustainability Lead, Digital Transformation, IBM UK Ltd
Andrew is the Lead of Environment and Sustainability in IBM Global Business Services. He has been in consulting for 34 years (IBM and legacy companies for 24 years) and specialises in Chemicals and Petroleum solution development. Andrew is experienced in managing large scale SAP transformation delivery and complex programmes . He has led the global deployment of SAP Environmental Compliance solution for an oil and gas major, which covered 65 countries and included operations in Exploration, Production, Transportation and Refining. He is leading the development of a PAYG cloud-based environmental / GHG Software as a Service solution, which is now deployed with various customers worldwide. Andrew specialises in business case construction, links to shareholder value and benefits tracking around environment and sustainability solutions. He is married with one child and lives in Cheshire, UK.
Philip Stewart, Senior Partner, ERM
Philip is a Senior Partner at ERM, based in the London office. Philip is a member of the ERM UK&I management team and is responsible for a number of key client relationships. Philip's experience covers a wide range of complex environmental and social issues within large corporations.
Prior to his current role, Philip was a Board Director at WSP Environmental. For the last twenty years Philip has worked as a consultant to a wide variety of clients in the private and public sector on risk management; corporate environmental health and safety strategy, management and compliance; environmental due diligence; and product stewardship.
Philip has worked across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, China, Australia and South Africa and was instrumental in establishing the WSP Environment & Energy businesses in North America, Asia and across Europe. Philip has a degree in Chemistry from the University of Nottingham and an MSc in Pollution and Environmental Control from the University of Manchester.
Craig Simmons, Chief Technical Advisor, Anthesis Group
Craig has more than 35 years of experience working in environmental management with a strong focus on natural resource accounting (energy, materials, biodiversity, food and greenhouse gases). After working for technology giants such as IBM and Xerox, Craig co-founded the Queen's Award-winning sustainability consultancy Best Foot Forward in 1997, the first consultancy in Europe to focus on ecological footprinting and other natural capital accounting methods. He also co-founded the GHG accounting software company Footprinter Inc in 2011 and was a founding member of the Anthesis Group (which acquired Best Food Forward) in 2013.
Craig is an internationally recognised expert in the field of environmental accounting with a strong focus on life cycle analysis, greenhouse gas (GHG) and ecological footprinting. He has advised on the development of many standards and guidelines including the international GHG Protocol (and co-authored the recent Product Protocol). He is author of numerous technical and popular articles on sustainability.
As Chief Technical Advisor at Anthesis, Craig is responsible for all technical analysis work, information technology and software development as well as leading a multidisciplinary team of sustainability experts.
Lisa Willetts, Head of Procurement, Hinkley C Marine Project, Costain
Lisa Willetts is the Head of Procurement for Costain’ “New Nuclear” Project, Hinkley Point C. Since joining Costain in June 2016 Lisa has introduced a new Procurement team to manage the 80+ work packages, whilst satisfying the Costain Procurement processes and also any additional requirements from our customers. The Costain Procurement process promotes a competitive environment, fair evaluation of the supplier chain and working with suppliers to form collaborative, good working relations, which Lisa has performed globally throughout her career.
During Lisa’s 15 year career in Procurement she has successfully delivered Procurement on major projects such as; Cross Rail platform screen doors, 7 ships to the Australian Navy and 64 Apache Helicopters for the British Army. In addition to her procurement background Lisa has experience as a Commercial Manager which means Lisa can bring to Costain a vast knowledge of contracting for public sector, private sector and experience of promoting procurement as a strategic function within any organisation.
Alex White, Managing Director, Head of M&A and Strategic Advisory, Europe, Equiteq
Alex heads European M&A and Strategic Advisory for Equiteq and works with owners, boards, MBO teams and institutional investors on all aspects of M&A, growth, financing and strategic options for consulting businesses.
Prior to joining Equiteq, Alex co-founded a global private equity investment provider and was a founding member and latterly a senior partner in the UK M&A business of an international firm of accountants.
Julian Rose, Managing Director, Environment Analyst
Julian Rose co-founded Environment Analyst in 2008, and he has led the development of the business which now includes the Environment Onsite family of news services and Brownfield Briefing. Before Environment Analyst, Julian was Editor of The ENDS Report, the environmental business journal, for 10 years. He is also co-founder of Chemical Watch, our sister company.
Anya Hembrough, Senior Analyst, Environment Analyst
Anya Hembrough has helped research and produce Environment Analyst's Global Market Intelligence Service and environmental consulting news flow for over five years. Prior to that, she spent over a decade researching global markets for food, beverage and environmental consultancy, Zenith International