2022

Lucy Shea is our Group CEO. A firm believer in the power of business to create change, she advises Fortune 500 companies on how to unlock the value of sustainability for their business and brand. her particular expertise is where the business of fashion and sustainability intersect. Lucy has long experience in persuading people to take up sustainable lifestyles. She radically reimagined garment recycling with the creation of our Swishing campaign and was a founder member of the UN’s Sustainable Lifestyles Taskforce, when she authored Communicating Sustainability, today one of the UN’s most read reports. In 2014, she joined the Global Organising Committee of Fashion Revolution and is now a Trustee. She serves on the Steering Committee of the UNFCCC’s Fashion Charter.

Hannah is currently Vice President of Club Operations at Liverpool Football Club. A chartered accountant with 15 years’ experience, Hannah joined LFC in 2011 and previously held the role of Head of Financial Planning and Analysis before making the move into Operations. Hannah is responsible for Club wide operations including Capital Projects, Procurement, Sustainable Operations, Facilities Management, Health & Safety and Strategy Management. Hannah also sits on the Finance Committee of Women in Football, a post she has held since August 2020.

Jeremy Casebeer is a professional beach volleyball player working to use his platform in sport to scale social and environmental impact. He is the Project Manager for the AVP Tour and Waste Management (WM) Climate Action Plan, he is an ambassador for Parley for the Oceans and the Forest Stewardship Council, focuses his sponsorships as an athlete on sustainable brands that share his values, and is on the Board of Players for the Planet and AVP First.

Dave Lockwood is BBC Sport’s first Editorial Lead for Sustainability, a role responsible for increasing BBC’s audiences engagement and understanding of Environmental issues through sport. Recent projects include: Publication of Premier League Sustainability Tables in partnership with Sport Positive Summit and “Sport 2050” which looked at possible climate impacts on sport 3 decades from now, as well as efforts going on in the here and now to avert them. Prior to this Dave has 25 years experience in the industry, most recently as a Senior Producer with BBC Sport and before that as a Journalist working for BBC News, ITV News and Freelance.

Susie is one of the world’s leading proponents of sustainability in sport. She started her career in marine and coastal resource management and since 2001, has brought this experience to the sport’s sector. She has been involved in establishing and delivering sustainability programmes across sport namely carrying out the environmental evaluation of the International and Para World Athletics, developing Liverpool Football Club’s sustainability strategy and implementation of throughout their organisation. creating Sail GP’s award winning Impact League (the first league to reward and recognise sporting prizes based on sustainable impact), and contributing to the sustainability of major events including London Olympic Games 2012, Ryder Cup 2014,  and established Land Rover BAR, Sir Ben Ainslie’s America’s Cup team’s award-winning sustainability programme.

Having started life and his early career as a professional footballer, his move off the pitch saw Simon delve into the world of sustainable solutions.

Simon joined Veolia 14 years ago, where he has worked in a variety of commercial roles before beginning his current expanded position as Commercial Business Development Director in April 2023. As well as the commercial sales and account management teams, he also has responsibility for customer experience and innovation, supporting the delivery of sustainable solutions to Veolia’s commercial portfolio. Simon’s teams support Veolia’s 60,000+ UK customer base.

Simon is committed to driving sustainable innovation and partnering with customers to reduce their carbon footprint, alongside developing circular projects and their journey towards ecological transformation. He is a passionate supporter of creating a more sustainable sporting landscape for the future.

As Ambassador and former CEO of Forest Green Rovers Football Club, Helen has played a key role in FGR becoming “the greenest football club in the world” (FIFA), the “world’s first UN certified carbon-neutral football club*”, and first and only vegan football club. She has extensive experience in running environmentally sustainable projects, partnerships, certification programmes (organic), campaigns and events – with a previous career in the food industry.

Her aim of the day is to share some valuable insights into the behavioural change impacts EFL Community Trusts are having (and can have) on their immediate and wider community as they fulfil their new role of championing environmental sustainability.  Helen also runs the charity, Sustainability in Sport, putting Sustainability at the heart of Sport – a friend of the Summit.

*The Club is signed up to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) initiative called “Climate Neutral Now”

Roger McClendon is the Executive Director of the Green Sports Alliance. In his role, he leads the Alliance of international sports and stadium executives, as well as sustainability experts, to use sports as a vehicle to promote healthy, sustainability communities throughout the world

McClendon is a results-driven executive with deep global experience in the development and deployment of engineering innovation and sustainability/supply-chain management strategies for domestic and international operations.

Prior to this role, he was the first-ever Chief Sustainability Officer for Yum! Brands, Inc. Roger created corporate social responsibility strategies, global environmental policies and restaurant sustainability development standards and implemented them company-wide, making the company the second largest developer of green restaurants in the world. He ensured all brand restaurants operated efficiently and minimized environmental impact through innovation, helping the company be named to the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index and among the Top 100 Best Corporate Citizens by Corporate Responsibility Magazine (2017). Earlier at Yum!, Roger was Senior Director YUM Global Engineering and Facilities, Restaurant Excellence for Yum Restaurants Global – A&W, KFC, Long John Silvers, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, responsible for developing the standards, strategies and tactics to ensure global quality standards, engineering standards and operational standards.

Roger has held a number of roles and board positions, including positions with the University of Louisville Speed School of Engineering, Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, Habitat for Humanity, Louisville Sports Commission, Kentucky Minority Business Council, and McClendon Institute for Learning Community Outreach Programs.

Roger’s other passion is basketball. He was a McDonald’s All-American in 1984, one of the top 25 high school basketball players in the nation and went on to be a four-year starter who closed his University of Cincinnati men’s basketball career as the No. 2 scorer, second only to Oscar Robertson at the time. He was inducted into the UC Athletics Hall of Fame in 1998.