ENVIRONMENT BANK - Key Persons


Abi Matthews

Job Titles:
  • Management Accountant

Adila Butt

Job Titles:
  • Head of People

Alex Powell

Job Titles:
  • Ecologist ( South West )

Alexa Culver - Chief Legal Officer

Job Titles:
  • General Counsel
  • Member of the College of Experts
Alexa is a Member of the College of Experts for the Office of Environmental Protection and recognised as one of the most impactful environmental lawyers in 2023 in the ENDS Report Power List. As a lawyer with over 12 years' experience working on land, planning and environmental projects, Alexa ensures that all legal aspects of our Habitat Bank model are robust, and legal transactions progress smoothly as we bring forward our national network of Habitat Banks.

Alice Rose

Job Titles:
  • Marketing Executive

Anne Gray

Job Titles:
  • Land Manager ( North )

Annie Green

Job Titles:
  • Ecologist ( South West )

Belinda Wheeler

Job Titles:
  • Associate Ecologist

Beth Baskerville

Job Titles:
  • Office Administrator

Cameron Chester

Job Titles:
  • Senior Ecologist ( North )

Catherine Ashdown

Job Titles:
  • Ecologist ( North )

Dana Foster

Job Titles:
  • Head of Business Services

Elizabeth Dalby

Job Titles:
  • Land Manager ( North )

Ellen Fake

Job Titles:
  • Senior Land Manager ( South )

Ellen McDouall

Job Titles:
  • Senior Ecologist ( South West )

Ellery Powell

Job Titles:
  • Content Strategist

Emma Toovey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Chief Ecology Officer
As a trained ecologist, Emma has over 18 years of ecological consultancy experience across diverse industries, specifically the development sector, working with landowners, developers, planning authorities and a range of stakeholders in the development consenting process. Emma ensures that sound ecological principles and technical integrity underpin every decision we make as a business.

Fleur Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Principal Ecologist ( North )

Fraser Rutherford - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Head of Marketing

George Offer

Job Titles:
  • Principal Geospatial Analyst

Hannah Gow

Job Titles:
  • Geospatial Data Analyst

Hannah Tracey

Job Titles:
  • Principal Ecologist ( South West )

Kate Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Senior Ecologist ( South East )

Lausanne Jenkins

Job Titles:
  • Senior Ecologist ( North )

Louise Martland

Job Titles:
  • Associate Ecologist

Luke Bigwood - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Marketing Officer

Lynsey Crellin

Job Titles:
  • Principal Ecologist ( North )

Melissa Lubbock

Job Titles:
  • Land Manager ( East Anglia )

Mike Waller

Job Titles:
  • Senior Ecologist ( South West )

Nicola Easdale

Job Titles:
  • Head of Capital Works

Peter Bachmann

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director of the Sustainable Infrastructure Division at Gresham House
Peter is the Managing Director of the Sustainable Infrastructure division at Gresham House, Co-Fund Manager for BSIF and member of the board of Gresham House Asset Management and the Sustainability Executive Committee. Peter has over 22 years of public and private equity investment and fund management experience and has invested into and exited over 170 infrastructure and technology companies. Peter is also a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership (CISL) Accelerator. Peter is an active investor in early-stage sustainability companies.

Poppy Mullard

Job Titles:
  • Land Co - Ordinator ( South West )

Prof. David Hill - Chairman, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Founder
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Professor
With a doctorate in ecology from the Department of Zoology at Oxford, David brings an abundance of ecological expertise to the table. A passionate conservationist, he was a founding member of Natural England, a member of the Government's Ecosystem Markets Taskforce, and a Commissioner with the independent Food Farming and Countryside Commission. When it comes to implementing BNG, there's nobody better. In fact, he introduced the concept to the UK in 2006 and his unparalleled work has now been embedded into the Environment Act.

Rachel Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Graphic Designer

Rachel Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Senior Ecologist ( South East )

Rob Wreglesworth

Job Titles:
  • Associate Ecologist ( Innovation )

Ruth Murray

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director at Gresham House
Ruth is an Associate Director at Gresham House in the Sustainable Infrastructure division. Ruth has 20 years' of infrastructure experience through her first career as a Projects lawyer during which she worked on infrastructure projects both large and small across a range of sectors. Prior to joining Gresham House, Ruth spent 15 years at a top 100 law firm where she was a senior partner who founded and was the head of the Projects Team, head of the Energy and Waste Sector Team, and she spent 3 years as a member of the firm's management board.

Sam Knowles

Job Titles:
  • Ecologist ( South East )

Sophie Moy

Job Titles:
  • Associate Ecologist

Sophie Watts

Job Titles:
  • Senior Data Analyst

Sue Charlton

Job Titles:
  • Associate Ecologist

Tanya Casey

Job Titles:
  • Finance Controller

Tara Sexton

Job Titles:
  • Geospatial Data Analyst

Thomas Dodds

Job Titles:
  • Ecologist ( North )

Tom Brown

Job Titles:
  • Head of Land ( North )

Tom Mason

Job Titles:
  • Head of Land ( South )

Tom Rothero

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director ( Ecology )