Page 44 – Business in the Community

Helen Kaye

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Helen Kaye

Partner,
Deloitte

The Prince’s Responsible Business Ambassador – Yorkshire and Humber
Business in the Community Community Leadership Board

Helen Kaye is a Partner leading the North Global Employer Services (GES) team at Deloitte, based in Leeds.  She is an employment taxes and reward specialist with over 29 years of experience in the field. Helen’s team provide advice to clients on all aspects of employment taxes, reward and benefits (including salary sacrifice, equity incentivisation, flexible benefits and executive compensation), employee global mobility and payroll advisory and delivery services.

Helen’s client base ranges from FTSE 100 companies to clients in the public sector and smaller private companies. Helen works with employers across industries including many in the retail, and consumer business and FS sectors, advising on all aspects of employment taxes and reward.Prior to joining Deloitte in 2000, Helen worked for the Inland Revenue (now HM Revenue and Customs) for 11 years.

As well as heading GES North, Helen is also the lead partner for both Talent and Responsible Business across Y&NE at Deloitte.  

Helen has chosen to join the Yorkshire and Humber Leadership Board because she feels passionate about large businesses playing a role in the communities in which the business operates and taking social responsibility to improving outcome for those living in them. 

Helen’s favourite hobby is snowboarding.

Jill Johnes

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Jill Johnes

Director of External Engagement (Professional Development),
University of Huddersfield

Yorkshire and Humber Leadership Board

Jill has been Professor of Production Economics at the University of Huddersfield since January 2015, and became Dean of Huddersfield Business School in October 2016. Jill’s core research examines organisational productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness, and explores how organisations can improve their performance.

Her expertise and knowledge have led to a prominent national and international reputation, resulting in regular consulting opportunities with various organisations, including UK and European government departments, on policy issues.

Simon Edwards

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Simon Edwards

Commercial Director,
Recycling Lives

Circular Economy Taskforce

Simon Edwards is commercial director of Recycling Lives,  a social business supporting life-changing charity programmes through its successful recycling and waste management operations.

He joined Recycling Lives in late 2016 bringing with him a wealth of experience from years working in the media, advertising and utilities sectors, keen to use his commercial skills to win and deliver contracts that create social impact. He has already overseen Recycling Lives’ commercial team securing a number of significant contracts with blue-chip businesses in the retail, construction and manufacturing sectors. Simon is passionate about showing how an organisation can achieve commercial successand do the right thing by society.

Recycling Lives is a double-Queen’s Award-winning organisation, recognised in 2010 and again in 2014 for its commitment to enterprise and sustainable development. Its charity ventures are highly successful: in particular, significantly reducing reoffending through its rehabilitative work with offenders; and distributing a million meals via its food redistribution centre.

About Business in the Community’s Circular Economy Taskforce

Each area of work Business in the Community (BITC) undertakes is led by a group of senior executives who provide strategic guidance and support us in achieving our objectives.

BITC’s Circular Economy Taskforce brings together a group of senior executives committed to delivering a high impact programme to bring the circular economy to life.

The Taskforce supports BITC’s Environment Leadership Team, who are helping business drive innovation that turns the threats of the climate emergency into opportunity for people and nature.

Find out more about BITC’s work on the environment.

Harvey Bradshaw

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Harvey Bradshaw

Executive Director of Environment and Business,
Environment Agency

Climate Action Leadership Team

Harvey Bradshaw is Executive Director for Environment and Business at the Environment Agency. He is responsible for the Environment Agency’s approach to water quality, water resources, industry regulation, land management, climate change adaptation and sustainable development.

He leads a team of more than 900 people who provide ambitious leadership, enabling local environmental protection and improvement, and shaping and enabling effective government environmental policy. The directorate uses its world-class evidence, authoritative legal and technical expertise, operational experience and work with partners to achieve its aims.

Harvey has a degree in microbiology from the University of Kent and has worked for the Environment Agency and its predecessors since 1985. Harvey took up his current role in September 2015. Before this he was the Director of Regulated Industry. Harvey has significant personal experience in better regulation, waste regulation, waste, water and environmental planning, government relationships, leadership and management.

Harvey’s interests include sports, cooking, gardening and enjoying the outdoors.

About Business in the Community’s Climate Action Leadership Team

Each area of work Business in the Community (BITC) undertakes is led by a group of senior executives who provide strategic guidance and support us in achieving our objectives.

The purpose of BITC’s Climate Action Leadership Team is to help business drive innovation that turns the threats of the climate emergency into opportunity for people and nature.

Find out more about BITC’s work on the environment.

Angela Lockwood

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Angela Lockwood

Group Chief Executive,
North Star Housing Group

North East Leadership Board

Angela Lockwood is Group Chief Executive of North Star Housing Group provides social housing across the North East and North Yorkshire.

Working in the most deprived communities, the association is known for its strong partnership working and ability to find solutions to difficult problems. As a result they have a diverse and innovative range of housing and services; assisting people with support needs to live independently, building high-quality housing for rent, regenerating and investing in communities.

Angela has worked in social housing for nearly 30 years and has been Group Chief Executive of North Star for seven years. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Housing and RSA and holds an MBA. North Star has been working on cultural change for some years, developing and embedding relational leadership across the organisation, which has involved experimenting and prototyping.

North Star hold IiP Gold accreditation and are a 3* Sunday Times Best Company (which describes them as extraordinary). In 2015 they were the 14th best company to work for in the not-for-profit listings. In 2016 they won a national Business in the Community award for wellbeing.

A lifelong Sunderland football supporter means she is used to disappointments. She is married with a son and lives in County Durham.

Debbie Hitchen

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Debbie Hitchen

Director,
Anthesis

Circular Economy Taskforce

Debbie Hitchen is a Director at Anthesis with a strong track record in project management, business development and consultancy. She is recognised for her ability to build and manage multi-stakeholder teams and her capability to deliver complex and politically sensitive projects.

Debbie has an extensive understanding of the drivers and challenges of sustainable waste management having worked for four years in a local authority, four years at a leading producer responsibility compliance organisation and over a decade working with public, private- and third-sector organisations at London Remade and LRS.

Debbie has managed projects in manufacturing, retail, waste management and the public sector, delivering waste prevention activities, increasing reuse, improving waste collections and operations, driving behaviour change and initiating product stewardship programs. She has delivered projects which focus on specific materials, such as textiles, waste electrical and electronic equipment recycling and packaging; as well as projects which have a communications-based or behaviour change methodology.  She is equally comfortable managing research, strategy, operational change management and stakeholder engagement projects.

Debbie is a qualified facilitator and is well known for her stakeholder engagement capabilities and her chairing of meetings.

About Business in the Community’s Circular Economy Taskforce

Each area of work Business in the Community (BITC) undertakes is led by a group of senior executives who provide strategic guidance and support us in achieving our objectives.

BITC’s Circular Economy Taskforce brings together a group of senior executives committed to delivering a high impact programme to bring the circular economy to life.

The Taskforce supports BITC’s Environment Leadership Team, who are helping business drive innovation that turns the threats of the climate emergency into opportunity for people and nature.

Find out more about BITC’s work on the environment.

Marie Fallon

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Marie Fallon

Director of Regulated Industry,
Environment Agency 

Circular Economy Taskforce

Marie qualified in town planning and started her professional working life as an environmental educational officer in Coventry planting trees and working with schools.

Marie joined the Environment Agency five years ago as the area manager for Northumberland, Durham and Tees before taking up her role of Director of Regulated Industry within the Agency.

Prior to joining the agency Marie had a 28-year local government career including: corporate director of environment in Cumbria, interim director of regeneration, enterprise and planning in Northampton; director of regeneration in Newcastle.

She has also run her own consultancy business providing interim management to organisations. Marie is passionate about leadership and leadership development. Five years ago she undertook a coaching course and she now regularly coaches people across the agency as a member of the coaching network.

Outside of work, when she finds the time, Marie is a keen cook and off-road runner.

About Business in the Community’s Circular Economy Taskforce

Each area of work Business in the Community (BITC) undertakes is led by a group of senior executives who provide strategic guidance and support us in achieving our objectives.

BITC’s Circular Economy Taskforce brings together a group of senior executives committed to delivering a high impact programme to bring the circular economy to life.

The Taskforce supports BITC’s Environment Leadership Team, who are helping business drive innovation that turns the threats of the climate emergency into opportunity for people and nature.

Find out more about BITC’s work on the environment.

Andrew Brady

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Andrew Brady

Chief Executive Officer,
EMR

Circular Economy Taskforce

Andrew is the Chief Executive Officer of EMR (European Metal Recycling), one of the world’s leading metal recyclers.

EMR invests heavily to develop new technologies as part of its quest to be the global leader in the provision of sustainable materials. The metal and plastic it recovers every year contributes to the saving of more than ten million tonnes of CO2 compared to using virgin materials.

Andrew has been with EMR for over eight years, during which time he has been responsible for the operations function. He has spearheaded a number of initiatives within the business, which includes the implementation of a UK-wide responsible business programme that supports the communities that are close to its sites.

Prior to joining EMR, Andrew held several professional management posts across six industry sectors, including waste management, manufacturing, construction and property development.

About Business in the Community’s Circular Economy Taskforce

Each area of work Business in the Community (BITC) undertakes is led by a group of senior executives who provide strategic guidance and support us in achieving our objectives.

BITC’s Circular Economy Taskforce brings together a group of senior executives committed to delivering a high impact programme to bring the circular economy to life.

The Taskforce supports BITC’s Environment Leadership Team, who are helping business drive innovation that turns the threats of the climate emergency into opportunity for people and nature.

Find out more about BITC’s work on the environment.

Jon Khoo

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Jon Khoo

Regional Sustainability Manager (UKIME & Nordics),
Interface 

Circular Economy Taskforce

Jon Khoo is the Regional Sustainability Manager (UKIME & Nordics) at Interface with a focus on sustainability, inclusive business and intrapreneurship. Following a former career as a city lawyer, Jon joined Interface in 2012 having chosen to reapply his skills to tackle the global challenges of marine plastics, inequality and climate change. Jon works on Interface and the Zoological Society of London’s Net-WorksTM partnership. He is also part of the team responsible for Interface’s membership of NextWave, a collaborative initiative between corporates, scientists and non-governmental organisations to figure out how to integrate ocean-bound plastics into products in a way that is both scalable and sustainable. In March 2018 he was listed by Onalytica at No. 21 in a list of plastic pollution influencers on social media.

Jon serves on the trustee board of UK environmental charity Surfers Against Sewage. He joined Business in the Community’s (BITC) Circular Economy Taskforce in August 2019.

About BITC’s Circular Economy Taskforce

Each area of work BITC undertakes is led by a group of senior executives who provide strategic guidance and support us in achieving our objectives.

BITC’s Circular Economy Taskforce brings together a group of senior executives committed to delivering a high impact programme to bring the circular economy to life.

The taskforce supports BITC’s Environment Leadership Team, who are helping business drive innovation that turns the threats of the climate emergency into opportunity for people and nature.

Find out more about BITC’s work on the environment.

Mark Fletcher

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Mark Fletcher

Global Water Leader,
Arup

Water Taskforce

Mark leads the Global Water Business in Arup. He is on the Leadership Council of the UK Water Partnership and is a Board Director of the Water Industry Forum. He is an international authority on urban resilience and water. He is sponsor and lecturer for the Arup University – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan Business School course on resilience of urban systems. He is also the global lead for the City Water Resilience Framework developed with Rockefeller Foundation, World Bank and 100 Resilient Cities. Pilot cities include Cape Town, Miami, Mexico, Amman and Hull.

He was made an Arup Fellow in 2017, the first in water.

He is a member of the policy group at the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA). This comprises the United States State Department, Dutch government, World Bank, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and International Water Association (IWA).

He gave the global keynote on Blue and Green Cities at the International Conference in Water Sensitive Urban Design in Perth in February 2018. He is providing strategic advice to the Board of WaterCare, a water company in New Zealand.

About Business in the Community’s Water Taskforce

Each area of work Business in the Community (BITC) undertakes is led by a group of senior executives who provide strategic guidance and support us in achieving our objectives.

BITC’s Water Taskforce is a cross-sectoral group that convenes to collaborate around shared problems on water and the natural environment. They use action research to address challenging environmental issues that impact across sectors and in partnership with government.

The group has identified that cross cutting themes such as innovative financing mechanisms, digital and skills are integral to overcoming environmental challenges that will achieve positive social change.

The taskforce supports BITC’s Environment Leadership Team, who are helping business drive innovation that turns the threats of the climate emergency into opportunity for people and nature.

Find out more about BITC’s work on the environment.