About us

As Chief Executive Officer of Environment Bank, Catherine leads the company’s pioneering mission in developing and delivering large-scale Habitat Banks across England. Catherine is responsible for driving the organisation’s commercial growth strategy, ensuring the business meets the rapidly growing demand for high-quality, measurable biodiversity outcomes. She oversees the development of strategic partnerships with landowners, investors, and developers, and has positioned Environment Bank as the market leading BNG operator nationally, while also establishing a strong presence in Emerging Nature Markets.

Catherine is also deeply committed to building a high-performing, values-driven culture. She champions the professional development and wellbeing of her team, fostering an inclusive environment that encourages innovation and collaboration. Under her leadership, Environment Bank is scaling its impact, blending commercial success while contributing to UK and global biodiversity targets. Catherine’s remit extends across all aspects of the business, ensuring Environment Bank delivers lasting value for nature, people, and the economy.

Having chaired eleven private equity investments over a period of fifteen years, Jonathan joined Environment Bank in 2024 and brought a wealth of experience to the leadership team.  
 
Jonathan originally trained as a Chartered Accountant with Price Waterhouse and served as CEO of Forest Group where he led the delivery of a radical business transformation plan which was awarded the RBS Private Business Transformation of the Year Award.

Emma has overseen Environment Bank’s large national team of ecologists since 2021. With a dedication to high-quality nature restoration, she maintains technical excellence across our projects, ensuring that ecological principles underpin all our key business decisions. 
 
Emma has over twenty years of ecological consultancy experience across diverse industries working with a range of stakeholders, including landowners, developers, and planning authorities. 
 
After successfully developing our Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) offering, Emma has been instrumental in establishing our voluntary biodiversity market product, Nature Shares.

Luke has spent his 25-year career growing brands in a range of sectors, including energy, healthcare, financial services, environmental regulation, and fast-moving consumer goods.

With a passion for sustainable business, he previously served as Marketing & External Affairs Director at Good Energy, the UK’s first 100% renewable energy company, and Head of Marketing & Communications at Yeo Valley, the UK’s biggest organic brand. 

Luke is currently a board member of Young Bristol, a leading community-based youth charity. Since joining Environment Bank in 2023, he completed his MBA with Bath Business School where his research focused on the emerging voluntary biodiversity market.

With over a decade of experience driving revenue growth and executing successful business strategies within high-growth start-up environments, Henry excels at building teams, infrastructure, and processes from the ground up.  
 
He has a proven track record for implementing innovative products and customer acquisition strategies that exceed revenue targets. 
 
Prior to joining Environment Bank, Henry was the Vice President of Commercial at Hubble where he oversaw profitability routes and commercial strategy to emphasise sustainable growth.

James ensures that our financial strategy and operations align with our mission. Alongside budgeting, forecasting, and financial reporting, he oversees the creation of robust financial models to drive informed decision-making. 
 
James implements systems that support long-term sustainability, and he optimises commercial outcomes by tailoring our processes to match industry supply and demand. 
 
Before Environment Bank, James spent his career in operational finance and strategic leadership across consumer goods and manufacturing. With almost two decades of expertise, James excels at driving business transformation, building high-performing teams, and delivering growth through sound governance and actionable insights.

Ruth is an Associate Director at Gresham House in the Sustainable Infrastructure division. Ruth has twenty years of infrastructure experience through her first career as a projects lawyer during which she worked on large and small infrastructure projects across a range of sectors.  
 
Prior to joining Gresham House, Ruth spent fifteen years at a top 100 law firm where she was a senior partner who founded and led the projects team, led the energy and waste sector team, and spent three years as a member of the firm’s management board.

Peter is the Managing Director of the Sustainable Infrastructure division at Gresham House, Co-Fund Manager for the British Sustainable Infrastructure Fund (BSIF) strategies, and member of Gresham House’s Asset Management Board and Sustainability Executive Committee.rnrnPeter has over 24 years of public and private equity investment and fund management experience and has invested into and exited over 170 infrastructure and technology companies. Peter has achieved two top decile exits of funds with a combined capital value of over £5bn.

An active investor in early-stage sustainability companies, Peter is also a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL).