Annual Meeting 2023 | Triodos Bank

Triodos Bank UK Annual Meeting 2023

Can you envision a world where all people have the tools and resources to live fulfilling lives? A world where the economy operates in harmony with nature and within planetary boundaries?

1pm	Open for registration and networking
2pm	Triodos Bank UK annual update
3pm	Refreshments and networking For those joining online, we’ll be screening a short film during this break.
3.45pm	It’s All About Impact: customer spotlight
4.30pm	Gillian Burke in conversation with Mary Portas
5.30pm	Reception and networking

Hosted by Gillian Burke, biologist and BBC Springwatch presenter, our guests will include impactful organisations working for positive change.

Gillian Burke

Biologist and BBC Springwatch presenter

From maggot farming to television presenting, biologist and BBC Springwatch presenter, Gillian Burke, has followed an unusual career path from humble beginnings in Kenya to joining one of the nation’s best-loved wildlife television shows.

She shares her love of the natural world through film and enjoys the challenge of showcasing the animals most people love to hate. Along with the BBC’s Watches strand, her film credits hint at her reputation for championing the outcasts of the animal kingdom – from Ultimate Guide to Spiders & Ants for Discovery Channel; to King Cobra! & Anaconda! for Animal Planet’s Snakemaster series; to the ground-breaking, and one of the highest grossing IMAX films to date, Bugs! 3D – literally as big as it gets for a film about insects.

Gillian may be passionate about the natural world, but is increasingly curious and drawn to human stories of behaviour change. As a science communicator and environmentalist, reporting on genuine conservation success stories, as evidence that things can change for the better, has become her hallmark and she defiantly remains a conservation optimist (on most days).

Mary Portas

Businesswoman and activist

Businesswoman, broadcaster, author and activist Mary Portas made her name creating change.

Aged 30, she became a board member at Harvey Nichols before founding her creative consultancy Portas. Mary has since worked with some of the biggest names in global retail.

Her BBC series – Mary Queen of Shops – premiered in 2007 and she has presented on television and radio for the BBC and Channel 4 ever since. Mary’s podcast series include Beautiful Misfits and #1 business podcast The Kindness Economy.

In 2009, she partnered with Save The Children to reinvent charity shops. To date, the 26 Mary’s Living & Giving shops nationwide have raised more than £30 million for charity. In 2011, Mary conducted a review of the future for high streets for the British government.

Mary is the author of three books: an autobiography Shop Girl [ 2015] and two non-fiction books - Work Like A Woman: A Manifesto [2018]; and Rebuild: how to thrive in the new Kindness Economy [2021].

As co-chair of the Better Business Act, Mary heads a coalition of businesses calling for a change in the law to ensure UK companies align their interests with those of wider society and the environment.

Jan Stannard

Co-founder, Heal Rewilding

Jan Stannard is a co-founder and Trustee of the national rewilding charity Heal, which launched in March 2020 to raise money to buy land in England for nature recovery, climate change action and wellbeing. She moved into the charity sector after 40 years in business, having served on company boards in the corporate communications and digital marketing sectors.

Jan has degrees in Geography and Psychology, is a qualified executive coach and trained as a resilience specialist. She first became active in campaigning for wildlife in 2015 when she stopped the demolition of buildings home to a large colony of breeding swifts. It led her to set up a local swift group, which has since organised the installation of hundreds of swift boxes. She also oversaw a the largest ever amphibian ladder project in England in 2018, helping stop migrating toads from drowning in road drains.

Jan wants nature in England to be rich once more, from the fluting of nightingales and the splash of water voles to the hum of insects in a summer meadow and will work until the end of her days to make that happen.

Andrea Wayman

Chief Executive Officer, ELITE Supported Employment Agency

Andrea Wayman has worked in the employment field for people with disabilities and disadvantage since 1989. In 1994 she founded ELITE Supported Employment Agency as a registered Charity, to enable the provision of a Supported Employment service in South Wales. Since then, she has extended ELITE’s services across 16 counties in Wales and the organisation has won national and international awards.

In 2015, Andrea established ELITE Paper Solutions in Merthyr Tydfil as the organisation’s first Social Enterprise, delivering document management services for businesses, whilst creating employment, training and volunteering opportunities for people with disabilities and those experiencing disadvantage. Andrea followed this with the creation of ELITE Clothing Solutions in 2019, to address the ‘Better Jobs Closer to Home’ strategy of boosting training and jobs within the clothing manufacturing industry in Wales.

Nancy Medina

Artistic Director and Joint CEO, Bristol Old Vic

Nancy Medina is the recipient of the following awards - 2020/2021 Peter Hall Bursary (National Theatre), 2018 RTST Sir Peter Hall Director Award (Royal & Derngate/English Touring Theatre), 2017 Genesis Future Director Award (Young Vic) and 2014 Emerging Director’s Prize (Tobacco Factory Theatres).

Her credits include Moreno (Theatre503), Trouble in Mind (National Theatre), The Half God Of Rainfall (Fuel / Birmingham Rep / Kiln Theatre) The Laramie Project (Bristol Old Vic Theatre School), Two Trains Running (Royal & Derngate / ETT / RTST), Strange Fruit (Bush Theatre), Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama), When They Go Low (NT Connections / Sherman Theatre), Yellowman (Young Vic), Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It (GB Theatre), Curried Goat And Fish Fingers (Bristol Old Vic), Dogtag(Theatre West), Strawberry & Chocolate, Dutchman (Tobacco Factory Theatres) and Persistence Of Memory (Rondo Theatre).

She is a visiting director at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and was Joint Artistic Director of the Bristol School of Acting until 2022.

Hans Stegeman

Chief Economist, Triodos Bank

Hans is the Chief Economist of Triodos Bank NV. In this role, he is responsible for economic and sustainability research and for Triodos Bank’s impact strategy.

Hans has broad experience in different research fields, including macroeconomics, financial markets, asset allocation, strategy, stress tests, public finance, scenarios, circular economy and sustainability.

He always thinks that short-termism must be counterweighted by a long-term view, that financial arguments must be balanced with social and ecological viewpoints and places importance on searching for practical applications of theoretical views.

Hans writes a weekly column in Dutch newspaper, Het Financieele Dagblad (The Dutch Financial Times).

Bevis Watts

Chief Executive

Bevis Watts became Chief Executive Officer of Triodos Bank UK Ltd, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Triodos Bank N.V., in May 2019. Prior to this he was Managing Director of Triodos Bank UK for three years, having previously been Head of Business Banking at Triodos for almost five years.

During his time as MD, the bank has delivered strong growth, launched a new personal current account and a crowdfunding platform. He has 20 years’ experience in the wider sustainability field across the private, public and voluntary sectors.

Bevis has always worked for values-led organisations, and before Triodos was Chief Executive of Avon Wildlife Trust and Head of Business Support at The Waste and Resource Action Programme (WRAP). He has held numerous Directorships and Trusteeships and was a Board member of Bristol 2015, the delivery company for Bristol European Green Capital 2015, inaugural Chair of the West of England Nature Partnership, and he was elected to represent Local Nature Partnerships at a national level on the ESI Funds National Growth Board (2013-2015).

Judy Rose

Chief Operating Officer

Judy became Chief Operating Officer of Triodos Bank UK Ltd in May 2019, after 9 years as Triodos Bank UK's Head of Operations. She has responsibility for customer operations, large project implementation, facilities management and ICT services.

Judy has more than 20 years' experience as a project manager and developer in the financial sector, including several years with the Woolwich Building Society, and holds an MSc in Information Systems.

Judy first started working for Triodos' forerunner in the UK, Mercury Provident, in 1993, and returned to the bank in 2006.

Zoe Ruthven

Director Marketing & Communications

Zoe joined Triodos Bank UK in July 2016, from Bristol City Council, where she headed up the office of the city’s first directly elected mayor, George Ferguson (2012-2016). This included leading the marketing and communications for Bristol’s year as European Green Capital (2015) with a brief to make sustainability mainstream.

She brings over 20 years’ experience in marketing communications to her role as Director of Marketing & Communications, across a range of sectors including financial services, retail, urban regeneration, tourism, sustainability and local government.

Zoe has previously held marketing roles with Lloyds Banking Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM and HBOS Financial Services. She was a founder director of Bristol-based Brandon Hill Communications, an award-winning, integrated agency acquired by Bray Leino in 2009.

Roger Hattam

Director Retail Banking

Roger Hattam joined Triodos Bank UK as Director of Retail Banking in September 2022. Roger has over 20 years of commercial experience in retail banking and insurance, including as Commercial and Operations Director at Bradford & Bingley PLC. Prior to joining the bank, he was Managing Director of A.J.Gallagher’s financial and employee communications consultancy. He also brings expertise from the energy sector, gained from leading the consumer division at npower and helping to establish new challenger companies in the UK.

Roger is Chair of the Board of Trustees for Christians Against Poverty, a national debt counselling charity. He has also helped to pioneer the development of low cost solar social enterprise in Africa.

Roger holds the Sustainable Finance qualification from the Cambridge Institute of Sustainable Leadership.

Simon Crichton

Deputy Director of Business Banking and Head of Nature, Food and Resource

Simon joined Triodos Bank in 2009, after completing a degree in Agriculture at Harper Adams and working as a farm consultant. He has extensive experience in agricultural banking, and leads the food, farming and trade team at the bank.

The team supports a range of sustainable businesses, and specialise in financing the UK's organic market - from farmers, producers and processors to retailers and restaurants.

Simon is on the Organic Trade Board and is also involved with a number of other organisations supporting a sustainable approach to business.

Amandine Tetot

Head of Energy & Project Finance

I joined Triodos in 2021 and I head the Project Finance team which looks after our debt financing to the renewable energy and sustainable infrastructure sectors. I am based in Triodos Bank’s London office.

Before joining Triodos, I worked at a Multilateral Development Bank where I financed power and energy projects and companies across Southern and Eastern Mediterranean, Eastern Europe and Central Asia over ten years. Prior to that, I worked for two commercial banks focusing on structured and project finance for the energy sector.

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Gillian Burke

Mary Portas

Jan Stannard

Andrea Wayman

Nancy Medina

Hans Stegeman

Bevis Watts

Judy Rose

Zoe Ruthven

Roger Hattam

Simon Crichton

Amandine Tetot

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