Friends of
Planet Marketing
With members from a variety of sectors, all of whom bring their long and distinguished career and global networks to our portfolio, we form a fantastic team of sustainability heroes. We are fortunate to have the support, expertise, and strategic thought partnership of our friends. Together we are stronger.
Chris Vallis
Sustainable Built Environment
Chris is a changemaker in the sustainable built environment. His mission is to seek, steer and implement, new, better and unexpected innovations for a clean economy. Faced with a growing, more urbanised population, the world needs to commit to developing a totally sustainable built environment.
Helen Neave
Biodiversity
Helen and her family have always been passionate about nature and the environment, and in 2011 they bought some land and planted 20,000 trees. The explosion in biodiversity triggered by their young woodland inspired Helen and her husband, Christopher, to do it again, on a larger scale, and this time as a business – and ‘Make it Wild’ was born! They now own over 200 acres in North Yorkshire, managed entirely for the benefit of Nature.
Max Smith
Impact Strategy
Max is co-founder of the impact strategy agency Impactful. Max started his career in management consulting. After four years of consulting, Max completed a social innovation postgraduate course at Year Here where he spent six months working in a pupil referral unit in Tower Hamlets. During this time he noted the need for change was larger than himself and identified businesses as having untapped resources that could support their communities in ways that would genuinely move the needle.
Roos Bruggink
Corporate Social Responsibility
Roos is a Global Health and Social Impact Manager at Pfizer. Her goal is to make a positive difference in our world by leading change from within the company. She aims to use her passion for social and environmental sustainability to inspire and empower others.
Adam Smith
Food waste
Adam is founder and co-director of the visionary, multi-award-winning, global initiative: The Real Junk Food Project (TRJFP). Set up in December 2013, to revolutionise the disposal of avoidable food waste into landfill, the pioneering movement’s manifesto is to: feed bellies, not bins.
Kimberley Lasi
Sustainability Consulting
Kimberley is a chartered environmentalist (Cenv, MIEMA) and climate risk specialist with experience across multiple sectors including aerospace, media and entertainment, built environment, food and fashion. She is passionate about combining creativity and practicality to develop and deliver projects and strategies that create environmental and social good and inspire change.
Almira Lardizabal Hussain
Impact Strategy
Almira’s academic background in sociology and law led to her career in the charity sector, as a community organiser within London’s refugee communities. As Co-Founder of Impactful, she brings her passion for social justice and community organisation into the private sector; working with companies to identify innovative ways their skills and assets can solve some of society’s biggest social and environmental issues.
Kathy Loftus
Sustainable Built Environment
Kathy is a cross-sector industry leader in the sustainable built environment. In her decades of experience, she’s helped reach key industry sustainability milestones in her job roles as Vice President of Sustainability at Whole Foods Market and Vice President of Business Development at e2s Building Performance. Kathy is an industry change maker, passionate about all things sustainable. She develops, grows and scales building lifecycle optimisation solutions that help businesses preserve and improve their portfolios.
Angus Cunningham
Urban Greening
Angus is Managing Director and CEO of Scotscape, a group of horticulturalists providing innovative green infrastructure services with living walls, living pillars, landscape construction and maintenance. His vision is to introduce biodiversity and green space to every street, in every city using sustainable planting.