About us

With a background in law, consultancy, and business coaching, Catherine has spent her career growing businesses using agile and digital strategies.  
 
Core to Catherine’s success is driving a commercial culture at all levels and focusing on people by placing inclusion and engagement at the heart of what she does. 
 
Catherine led a private equity-backed, rapid scale-up tech business to international growth and, prior to joining Environment Bank, she transformed the traditional professional services firm, Bidwells, into a progressive and sustainable business for the future.

Emma has overseen Environment Bank’s large national team of ecology and land specialists 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.

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.

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.

Jo has a track record for developing business models that deliver long-term value in the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and impact sectors.  
 
Formerly a partner at Accenture, Jo was the global lead for energy management and co-ordinator for the energy transition where he played a key role in driving the growth of energy transition services across the business.  
 
Jo was also the international CEO for a global energy and sustainability consultancy that was later acquired by Accenture and a trustee of the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT).

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.

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.

Founding Environment Bank in 2006, Professor David Hill CBE DL introduced the concept of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) and saw it successfully implemented as policy under the Environment Act 2021.

A passionate conservationist with a doctorate in ecology from the University of Oxford, David was also a founding member of Natural England, a board member of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee, and a member of the Ecosystem Markets Taskforce.

David retired from Environment Bank in 2024 to devote his time to other ventures, but he remains part of our story. He now writes widely on nature policy, interviews influential environmental figures on his podcast, and supports government audits, committees, and policy reviews. 

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.

Peter 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).