Simon Hodgson, Senior Partner
Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0171
Mobile: +44 (0)7811 406 120
Email: simon.hodgson@acona.co.uk |
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Simon leads the Acona team and works with client boards. He combines direct experience in management and strategy with specialist expertise in corporate responsibility, allowing him to place his CR advice firmly in the commercial context. He concentrates on a business-led approach, with a strong belief that businesses must act on these issues in their own self-interest as well as for the wider good. He writes for a number of magazines, is regularly featured in the media and is an accomplished speaker and facilitator at conferences.
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Jacqui Boardman, Senior Partner
Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0172
Mobile: +44 (0)7973 157 569
Email: jacqui.boardman@acona.co.uk |
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Jacqui's background is in managing public safety and minimising risks to people and the environment from major hazard installations. This led naturally to work in corporate responsibility and sustainable development. Jacqui has also developed skills in human resources management, diversity and in managing wider cultural and societal issues. As a result, her clients are from a wide range of sectors including betting and gaming, hospitality, media, speciality finance, oil and gas, to transport and publishing. Jacqui also leads the team supporting the Cultural Diversity Network, one of our Industry Clubs.
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Paul Burke, Senior Partner
Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0173
Mobile: +44 (0)7775 821 645
Email: paul.burke@acona.co.uk |
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Paul has been a consultant in-house (at Royal and Sun Alliance and CIS) and externally for over 15 years. He has extensive knowledge of the financial services sector and of how businesses operate and the challenges they face. His CR expertise is complemented by earlier experiences in HR and change management, corporate planning and business strategy. He understands and acts as an advocate for the benefits of implementing a cohesive CR strategy. Paul is a regular conference speaker and facilitator and is on the judging panel for ACCA UK’s Sustainability Reporting Awards.
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Peter De Graaf, Senior Partner
Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0174
Mobile: +44 (0) 7887 851 318
Email: peter.degraaf@acona.co.uk |
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Peter has been involved in corporate responsibility throughout a career that includes public policy, management consultancy and finance. His specific interest is in the relationship between a company's environmental and social behaviour and responsible investment decisions. Previously, Peter was a managing director with FTSE Group and involved with FTSE4Good. He served on the board of an environmental research organisation and continues to advise an investment research firm that provides environmental, social and governance analysis to the finance community.
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Neil Everett, Senior Partner
Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0175
Mobile: +44 (0)7976 461 959
Email: neil.everett@acona.co.uk
Having worked in Asia in the late 90s, Neil witnessed first-hand the rapid growth in globalisation. He brings this international perspective and understanding to his work with clients, helping them to understand their wider impacts, both through their direct operations as well as their extended supply chain. Neil works with a number of Acona clients on a variety of issues from general CR advisor to more specific projects, many of which focus on supply chain issues. He also heads up one of our industry clubs, PREPS.
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Glynn Roberts, Senior Partner
Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0176
Mobile: +44 (0)7973 135 693
Email: glynn.roberts@acona.co.uk |
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To Glynn, Corporate Responsibility (CR) is not about 'doing the right thing', it's about helping clients to identify and manage their risks and opportunities. He comes to the table with no preconceptions or judgements but an open mind and the capabilities to guide and enable clients to develop CR strategies that work for them. His ability to take complex issues and come up with simple solutions means he's equally happy dealing with the Board or getting stuck into the 'nitty gritty'.
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Richard Whitehouse, Senior Partner
Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0177
Mobile: +44 (0)7764 615 616
Email: richard.whitehouse@acona.co.uk |
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Richard has had a widely varied career, including risk management and software development in high hazard industries. He enjoys applying the experience and knowledge he has gained from all this to the CR context, where the risks are different but no less real. Richard is fascinated by the business of communicating difficult concepts to varied groups of people. This often involves IT related matters and Richard's experience helps keep computers in their place.
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Lucy Minshall, Business/Office Manager
Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0178
Mobile: +44 (0)7896 735 635
Email: lucy.minshall@acona.co.uk |
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Lucy joined the Acona team in October 2007 and provides behind-the-scenes financial and management support to the Partnership. With a background in financial accountancy, Lucy was admitted to Graduateship of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in 2007, has wide-ranging experience in commercial and professional environments and has worked with the boards of FTSE100 companies.
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Kené Umeasiegbu, Partner
Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0185
Mobile: +44 (0)7896 736 536
Email: kene.umeasiegbu@acona.co.uk |
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Following a 10-year career in CR and sustainability, Kené
joined Acona from the Carbon Trust in 2011. He is experienced in carbon
management, agricultural supply chains and ethical sourcing. At Carbon
Trust, he developed the process for engaging business units and suppliers to
deliver high-level carbon strategies. Prior to that, he designed and
managed Cadbury's human rights strategy (now a UN Global Compact case study).
Later as a supply chain manager, Kené set up the £45m Cadbury Cocoa Partnership,
leading to Fair Trade certification. Skilled at cross-sector
partnerships, Kené believes that great ideas emerge when ‘unlikely partners’
come together.
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Christian Toennesen, Partner
Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0182
Mobile: +44 (0)7962 426 282
Email: christian.toennesen@acona.co.uk |
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Christian works with a wide set of clients on diverse projects, ranging from strategy setting through to responsible investment. He believes in joined up thinking across social, environmental and financial boundaries to achieve long term business sustainability. Christian is experienced in stakeholder engagement and manages the Media CSR Forum. Prior to joining Acona, Christian completed a PhD in Management and he remains committed to understanding the latest research in the field.
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Julie Pike, Partner
Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0181
Mobile: +44 (0)7896 733 743
Email: julie.pike@acona.co.uk |
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Julie has a background in retail marketing and buying - having spent 13 years with major British high street brands, Tesco and Argos. Consequently, her main CR focus is working with many of Acona's retail clients on a diverse range of topics - from stakeholder communications, through to environmental footprinting. Julie is also responsible for Acona's media and PR communications - please do contact her if you have any queries.
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Francis joined Acona in 2010. After spending three years working in the
financial services industry he decided to pursue his interest in the
myriad challenges - particularly social, political and commercial -
posed by climate change. Having completed an MSc in Environmental
Technology at Imperial College London, focusing on global policy issues,
he is now enjoying understanding and responding to the practical
implications of environmental, social and ethical risk faced by the
private sector.
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Matt Bushnell, Junior Partner
Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0183
Mobile: +44 (0)7773 397 337
Email: matt.bushnell@acona.co.uk
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Matt arrived at Acona in January 2009. His work for Acona
focuses on supply chain and forestry issues, CR Reporting and data management.
He balances his passion for the environment and interest in different cultures
and society with an academic business background. The all encompassing nature
of CR and the ever changing boundaries in which we operate drive his enthusiasm
for the area. Key to his beliefs, are the benefits that can be achieved through
working with businesses to achieve sustainable futures.
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Annabel Buchan, Junior Partner
Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0189
Mobile: +44 (0)7794 557 524
Email: annabel.buchan@acona.co.uk
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Annabel has a keen interest in helping businesses mitigate risk, reach
untapped business opportunities and promote environmental and social
justice through sustainable development. Before joining Acona she spent
nearly two years working for the UK Government, initially on a placement
in the Sustainable Development Unit at the Department for Environment,
Food and Rural Affairs, and then at the Department for Energy and
Climate Change where she answered the Ministers' correspondence on
international climate change policy. Annabel has an MSc in Environmental
Technology from Imperial College London, where she focussed on business
and sustainability.
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Nick Sammons, Junior Partner
Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0184
Mobile: +44 (0)7525 335 905
Email: nick.sammons@acona.co.uk
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Nick joined Acona in November 2007, having previously worked for the National Trust in Cornwall on the Veryan Bay estate, gaining extensive conservation experience and insight into how a large charity works on the ground. Nick has worked in culturally and biologically diverse locations such as the Ecuadorian Amazon, involving work for AmaZOOnico, an electricity- and hot water-deficient 1,500 hectare rainforest designated for animal re-introductions into the wild.
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Lydia Elliott, Junior Partner
Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0186
Mobile: +44 (0)7951 714 415
Email: lydia.elliott@acona.co.uk
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Lydia joined Acona in 2010. Starting as a geologist at Cambridge University, Lydia became increasingly interested in finding solutions to the frightening conclusions of climate science lectures which lead her to complete a Masters at Imperial College London in Environmental Technology, with a specific focus on business and the environment. One of her main interests, and her thesis topic, focused on using design as a solution to complex environmental and social problems faced by businesses today.
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