SPEAKERS

Marcus Watson, Non-Executive Director – Ground Control

Marcus believes that business is a force for good and that, as business leaders, we have the opportunity and indeed duty to build a vibrant and more sustainable economy that cares for our environment and the communities we live in, allowing us to lead prosperous, fulfilling lives without mortgaging our children’s futures. Marcus is a hands-on CEO, investor, and NED, who thinks with the mindset of a founder. He inspires people to perform at their best and achieve more than was thought possible. Agreeing and setting strategy collaboratively, he leads people as individuals and fosters award-winning innovation and technology. Multi-awardwinning, including two Queen’s Award for Enterprise and one of the “100 Best Companies to Work

For”, Marcus champions outstanding customer service and loyalty, producing market-beating growth and leadership in chosen markets. He has multi-sector expertise across business services, asset & property services, science, aerospace & defence, education. He is bilingual English and French with international experience (Belgium, USA, Saudi Arabia). Marcus champions the voice of business & entrepreneurship and environmental sustainability. He is a Council Member for the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), a member of the CBI’s Decarbonisation Committee, a NED, and past Chair of the Young President’s Organisation (YPO) Mayfair and a Life Fellow of the Institute of Directors. He regularly contributes thought-leadership pieces in various media. With a keen interest in education and life-long learning, Marcus is a post-graduate visiting professor at Warwick University with interests in strategy, entrepreneurship, innovation, leadership, climate change, and sustainability. Marcus lives in Surrey with his wife Jane and his twin daughters Grace and Ella. In his spare time, Marcus cycles a little, fundraising for charity. His latest solo unsupported ride for Alzheimer’s Society took him 1,370 miles to the four cardinal points of mainland Britain.

Steve Sharratt OBE, CEO and founder – IBMS Group

Duncan Oswald, Climate Science Lead – Sage

Duncan started his environmental career around the time of the Earth Summit in Rio, which was supposed to be “a new blueprint for international action on the environment.” Since then, we have managed to emit more greenhouse gases than we did in the whole of human history before then, we have continued to destroy habitats and drive species to extinction at a rate unprecedented in Earth’s history, and we have failed to meet one of our sustainable development goals. During this period, Duncan worked on environmental management systems development for hundreds of businesses, sustainable construction and EcoHomes assessment for housing associations and architects, legal compliance for industry bodies and private companies, research projects, circular economy business plans, energy and resource efficiency programmes, green design, green finance, carbon foot printing, net zero transition plans and reporting for clients ranging from small businesses to national governments. He founded, built up and ran an environmental consultancy business, and picked up a bunch of accreditations including Chartered Environmentalist and Fellow of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment. He is a qualified Environmental Auditor and ESOS Lead Energy Assessor. Realising a couple of years ago that this approach was not working, Duncan left consultancy to join automated carbon accounting startup Spherics, to develop the potential for small businesses to generate carbon footprints automatically. Spherics was recently acquired by Sage, opening the opportunity to apply this automated approach to millions of businesses at once. He remains optimistic that this might work.

This event was hosted by:

Krishnan Doyle Managing Director

COREcruitment

Tel: 07891259850

Email: krishnan@corecruitment.com

BSc, PhD, MBA, FIoD, MRAeS, CEng Non-Executive Director

Ground Control

Tel: 07766 258 451

Email : marcus@ground-control.co.uk

CEnv, FIEMA

Climate Science Lead

Sage

Tel: 07720 295010

Email: duncan.oswald@sage.com

CEO and founder

IBMS Group

Tel: 07768 848244

Email: steve@ibmsgroup.co.uk