Ashwin is responsible for the delivery of Tesco’s Product and Customer strategy across the Group. This involves building the Tesco brand globally to maximise the quality of their overall proposition to customers and for the planning, ranging, sourcing and supply of the products sold across the Group, as well as procurement for the Group.

Ashwin joined Tesco in 2010 from Mars Inc. He has worked across a number of product divisions as Category Director and Commercial Director.

Ashwin joined the Executive Committee in September 2020.

Pierre Paslier is a London-based Innovation Design Engineer who has spent his career exploring the intersection of design and technology. He started his career as a Packaging Engineer for L’Oréal, where he worked during the day and experimented with 3D-printing in his free time. This passion for innovation led him to study design at the Royal College of Art, where he co-designed one of the first consumer delta 3D-printers.

After completing his studies, Pierre co-founded two startups: Gravity Sketch, which creates 3D designs in virtual reality, and Notpla, which focuses on developing sustainable packaging. Currently, Pierre is the Co-CEO of Notpla, where he is dedicated to finding solutions to the global plastic crisis through his work on packaging made from seaweed. Notpla won Prince William’s £1,000,000 Earthshot Prize in 2022.

Pierre has a Masters degree from the RCA’s Innovation Design Engineering program and INSA de Lyon. He has written articles for Wired Magazine and given presentations at TEDx conferences in Athens and Warwick. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Hub and a member of the Industrial Advisory Board of Imperial College London Dyson School of Design Engineering.

Dr David Bryngelsson is a climate-tech entrepreneur, and founder and chief executive officer of CarbonCloud, the food industry’s climate-intelligence platform. Dr Bryngelsson spent eight years immersed in climate-change mitigation as a published researcher and lecturer at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, before mobilising a team of scientists, developers and climate-accountable business developers to build the digital infrastructure for climate transparency throughout the food supply chain. Today he steers CarbonCloud towards empowering the food system to mitigate climate change, and shares insights and solutions in forums around the world.