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.
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Zeina Hamarsha
Zeina Hamarsha is a former goalkeeper for Jordan’s Women’s National Football Team. After hanging up her boots, she obtained her bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from The University of Jordan. During her undergrad Zeina worked as a competition officer for the FIFA U17 Women’s World cup Jordan 2016. After graduating, she worked as a civil engineer briefly before returning back to sport but on the managerial side. Zeina recently graduated from the top-ranked CIES/FIFA Master program in International management, law and humanities of sport. During her time at the Master, she and her team participated in the SportPro Media Hackathon, winning third place and the most financially sustainable concept for a project idea that focuses on the idea of future sustainable stadiums. Combining her backgrounds in sports and civil engineering, Zeina is passionate about leveraging technology to make all areas of sport more sustainable.
Arianna Criscione
Arianna Criscione is a former professional football player having finished her career at Paris Saint-Germain where she had a dual role as player and as Women’s Sponsorship Manager for the past 2 seasons at the French club. Previously to joining PSG she played in Italy, France, Sweden, Netherlands and Norway, and earned several caps with the Italian Women’s National Team, as well as appearances in the UEFA Women’s Champions League.
She is now the Director of Women’s Football at N3XT Sports and uses her experience and creativity to help football stakeholders to build sustainable and accelerated blueprints that raise the women’s game.
Charles Dimmler
CHARLES DIMMLER is the co-founder and CEO of Checkerspot. Checkerspot designs performance materials at a molecular level. It does this by optimizing microbes to biomanufacture unique structural oils produced in nature, but not previously accessible at a commercial scale. The company is currently commercializing three materials: a light-weight urethane-based composite (Algal Core) and a cast urethane (Algal Wall), both commercialized initially through the brand WNDR® Alpine, as well as algal oil formulated into MiDori® BioWick and sold in partnership with Beyond Surface Technologies to clothing brands worldwide. Checkerspot empowers product designers and innovators, including Beyond Surface Technologies, Gore, and WNDR® Alpine, with better materials to develop improved consumer and B2B applications for a post-petroleum future.
Charles’s career has focused on building and leading teams at emerging growth companies in the life sciences and biotechnology sectors. He has deep expertise in general management and leading strategic transactions, with over $1 billion of completed transactions ranging from public and private financings to joint ventures, licensing, and M&A. From 2008 to 2016, he served as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Solazyme, Inc. where he led financings and a range of other strategic transactions, including two venture capital rounds, the initial public offering, two public convertible debt issuances, and project financing for the construction of a commercial scale manufacturing facility in Brazil. In addition to his corporate development responsibilities, he served as Acting General Manager of Solazyme’s personal care business in 2009.
Brita Stahl
Brita is a seasoned Sustainability manager, with experience from global brands, and has broad experience with managing risk, responsibility, and climate action in global supply chains as well as internal operations. Brita is specialized in building sustainability- and climate strategies by creating broad ownership and clear objectives, and has done so for private enterprises, government departments and international NGOs. She is now an advisor and head of international relations in SALT.
Brita holds an MSc in Business Administration and Development Management as well as a trained Climate Reality Leader by Al Gore. She is passionate about taking care of our common playgrounds while also seeing to make the shift happen on policy levels. She currently resides in the Lofoten Islands, while holding the active role as President for Protect our Winters Europe
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Jack Groh
Jack Groh is Director of the National Football League Environmental Program and a principal in the consulting firm of US Green Sports. Mr. Groh has been a communications and environmental consultant for more than 27 years and has worked on Super Bowl since 1993. He has been called the “Father of American Sport Sustainability” and, under his leadership, Super Bowl, the NFL annual championship game, has become recognized as the greenest professional sports championship in America.
Mr. Groh also served as Sustainability Consultant for the College Football Playoff National Championship, from its debut in 2015 until 2019.
He has coordinated environmental projects for the US Department of Energy, Argonne National Laboratory, the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, the American Solar Energy Society, the State of Rhode Island, the National Clean Cities Coalition and the United States Consortium for Automotive Research (USCAR) – a joint initiative of GM, Ford and Chrysler.
Kristin Hanczor
Kristin leads partnerships for the Green Sports Alliance, working with companies, teams and leagues to expand their environmental and social impact. She manages GSA’s Corporate Member Network in addition to sponsors and partners for GSA events, including their annual Summit.
She joined GSA from The Climate Group where she led corporate engagement for North America with companies leading on renewable electricity, energy efficiency and electric transportation efforts in addition to managing partnerships for Climate Week NYC. Her previous roles include working at Bowdoin College as the Sustainability Outreach Coordinator and Assistant Women’s Volleyball Coach, where she led campus initiatives on energy, waste and water, and helped lead the volleyball team to the program’s first NCAA Elite Eight appearance. Kristin also has several years of corporate sustainability experience at Edelman and Thornton Tomasetti.
Kristin holds an MBA in Sustainability from Bard College and a BA in Environmental Studies and Government from Bowdoin College. She also completed the Sport Sustainability Leadership graduate certificate from Seattle University.
Dr Susie Tomson
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.
Richard Lindsay
Richard Lindsay is the Business Insights Manager for Birmingham County FA and the Project Lead for the Save Today, Play Tomorrow Programme, the first of its kind sustainability project in the UK looking at how to reduce the impact of grassroots football on the environment & implementing positive achievable solutions for the 1,200 volunteer led clubs that come under their membership.
