2023

Toby joined Mintel as a financial services analyst, but now oversees Mintel’s portfolio of UK and Irish reports, which cover almost every area of consumer spending. He also leads Mintel’s European research into consumer confidence and how shoppers’ behaviour is being shaped by the cost of living crisis.

Marika McCauley Sine is the Chief Sustainability Officer of Mars Petcare – a segment of Mars, Incorporated; a family-owned business that for more than a century has made products and delivered services for people and the pets they love. Mars Petcare is a leader in pet health and nutrition and a major veterinary health care provider, with a global network of over 2,000 pet hospitals.

Marika leads Petcare’s sustainability strategies and programs worldwide, bringing together teams to progress Mars’ Sustainable in a Generation Plan. This work focuses on climate action, circular packaging, sustainable sourcing, and reaching pets in need around the world. Previously, Marika served as global head of social and economic sustainability for Mars, Incorporated, based at the company’s headquarters in Washington, DC. Marika joined Mars in 2015 after a decade at The Coca-Cola Company, where she drove a range of sustainability strategies and programs including 5by20, a global initiative to unlock economic opportunities for women entrepreneurs in emerging markets that has reached 6 million women to date. She began her career with Oxfam America addressing poverty in rural communities in Southeast Asia. Marika holds a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She is a First Mover Fellow of The Aspen Institute in recognition of her track record as a ‘social-intrapreneur’, has served as Co-Chair of the Consumer Goods Forum Social Sustainability Committee, and is a member of the Board of Directors of The Royal Canin Foundation.

Reniera leads the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Food Initiative. Working with industry to demonstrate how, by redesigning the way we produce our food, we can regenerate nature, restore soil health and help biodiversity thrive. Before joining the Foundation, Reniera spent 18 years in local government, focusing on housing and regeneration.

Hannah is Head of Sustainability and Social Impact for Danone UK & Ireland where she is responsible for embedding the company’s Impact Journey strategy and managing the delivery of Danone’s environmental sustainability and community impact programmes.  She is passionate about supporting business growth with purpose and engaging consumers on sustainability.  Prior to joining Danone, Hannah lead CSR and sustainability strategies for BT/EE and Tesco.

Matthew Price is the General Manager of Uber Eats in the UK, Ireland & Northern Europe, responsible for leading Uber’s delivery business in over 330 markets. He is focussed on being a true partner to more than 61,000 restaurants & merchants who are active on the platform and is deeply passionate about building businesses that are a force for good. He recently joined the UK Government’s Food and Drink Sector Council and is a Fellow at the Forward Institute.Prior to his current role Matthew spent nearly seven years helping to scale Uber’s Rides business globally as General Manager of Uber Canada and Head of Strategy & Planning for the UK, Northern & Eastern Europe.  Before Uber, Matthew was a strategy consultant at Monitor Group and Monitor Deloitte in North America, focused on engagements aimed at unlocking and accelerating growth.  He holds an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD Business School (France & Singapore) and received a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University (Canada).

Wayne is the Chief Executive Officer of ReLondon (formerly the London Waste and Recycling Board), where he is responsible for helping London’s boroughs to reduce waste and increase recycling rates and accelerating the development of a low carbon circular economy. He has been working for LWARB since 2008. Prior to this he was the Head of Waste Policy at the Greater London Authority. Wayne is a trustee on the board of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management. He has 25 years’ experience in the waste and resource management industry. 

Rebecca joined the FSA in April 2019 as Director of Policy.

Rebecca has extensive experience as a Senior Civil Servant in the Treasury and in the Department for Work and Pensions. Her previous civil service roles have focused on social policy – particularly benefits design and reform, labour market policy and programmes to support the most disadvantaged into work.

More recently, Rebecca has held Director of Strategy roles at Peabody, one of the UK’s largest housing associations, and at City, University of London. She has also been a Trustee of Shaw Trust  (a national charity helping people gain an education, enter work, develop their career, improve their wellbeing or rebuild their lives) and Chair of Ixion Holdings, a subsidiary of Shaw Trust delivering education and learning nationwide.

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.

Sophie is an Investor at JamJar Investments, the innocent drinks founders’ venture capital fund. JamJar is a £100m seed VC investing in exceptional founding teams to help them create, nurture and scale challenger consumer brands in the UK. Investments include Deliveroo, Tails.com, Toney’s Chocolonely, Babylon Health, Skin+Me and Wild Cosmetics. 

Prior to JamJar, Sophie was an Investor at Felix Capital and Burda Principal Investments (two of Europe’s leading consumer-focused VCs), where she looked after investments across a variety of sectors including food & beverage, health and e-commerce enablement. Sophie started her career as an Investment Banker at Centerview Partners, working on mergers and acquisitions and long-term strategic advisory projects for large public companies, with a specific focus on the Consumer/Retail and Healthcare industries (clients included Reckitt Benckiser, Diageo, PepsiCo and AstraZeneca).

Sophie holds a BA in Economics from Durham University and was previously part of the Deloitte Scholars Scheme in London.