Global Cool Foundation

Who We Are

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Executive Team

Chris Deary, Editorial Director
Chris started his career producing contract magazines for a range of high-profile clients in the sports industry, including Chelsea FC, The Football League, Welsh Rugby Union and Wimbledon before moving into digital media at News International where he produced online community and social media projects for The Sun, London Paper and News of the World. Since then he’s worked on a number of women’s lifestyle websites at Hearst Magazines, most notably establishing the social media presence for Cosmopolitan magazine, and helped develop a social networking website for parents owned by Mothercare. He’s also written for The Guardian, Huffington Post and Manchester Evening News. Chris joined Global Cool at the start of 2010 to relaunch the website as a green lifestyle magazine. The site has grown to more than 30,000 unique users a month and Chris is now working with Global Cool Foundation’s partners to help them communicate green living and sustainability using the same techniques.

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Emily Rycroft, Editorial Assistant
Emily studied English Literature and Creative Writing at Brunel University. She started her writing career working for Lady Adventurer – telling tales of her travels and adventures. Inspired by all the travelling stories, she set sail for Bangalore to work at The New Indian Express newspaper as a journalist. After attending the National Climate Change Conference at Bangalore University, Emily decided to come home and join the Global Cool team to help spread the word of sustainable living and green ideas.

We also work with a number  of freelancers from the worlds of commercial marketing, PR, music, entertainment, celebrity engagement, film production, journalism and media.

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Board of Trustees

Tessa Tennant, Chair
Tessa is President of The ICE Organisation, an environmental rewards programme. She co-founded the UK’s first eco-investment fund in 1988 and was chair and co-founder of the UK Social Investment Forum, Carbon Disclosure Project and the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia. In 2003 she received the Sustainability Leadership Award from SAM/SPG, Switzerland. “Unless all of us, in our daily lives, get our act together then we still won’t crack it. I’m inspired by Global Cool’s approach because planet saving has to be the thing which everyone wants to do. It’s fun and rewarding and makes you feel good inside.” She is also a board member of The Calvert World Values Fund in Washington DC and an adviser to the UNEP Finance Initiative. She was named as one of the UK’s top 100 environmentalists in the 2008 Independent on Sunday Green list.

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Richard Lord QC
Richard is a practising barrister and a member of Brick Court Chambers, specialising in commercial litigation. His areas of practice include commercial law, shipping, insurance and reinsurance, professional negligence and mediation. He has had a long-standing interest in the environment, especially at a local level, and has been a trustee of Web of Hope, a charity providing local solutions to sustainability issues, and the Wychwood Network, working on sustainability issues in Oxfordshire.

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Alex MacGillivray
Alex is the head of AccountAbility’s research and development programmes, leading the annual State of Responsible Competitiveness report and the Accountability Rating of global corporations. He is also an associate at the Institute for Social and Ethical Accountability. Previously Alex was deputy director of the New Economics Foundation and has worked for many governments and multinational companies. Alex is the author of A Brief History of Globalization.

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Gareth Hughes
Gareth is a founding partner of Beetle Capital Partners and head of Beetle Capital Advisors. Prior to this Gareth was a co-founder and board member of Climate Change Capital, where he raised more than $1.7bn towards Carbon Funds, Clean Tech Private Equity Fund, Long-Short Environmental Hedge Fund and Climate Focused Real Estate Fund. He is a non-executive director for both The ICE Organisation and Remote Energy Monitoring. Gareth was Managing Director of Marsh & McLennan where he developed Marsh’s European climate change initiatives.

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Melba Foggo
Melba Foggo is a member of the ICAEW Sustainability Committee. Trained as a Chartered Accountant, she is Managing Partner, Sustainability Services and Business Consulting for Logica. As a consultant her role is to educate heads of companies with insight and experience, with an overall aim to help their businesses run more efficiently and sustainably. Having previously been a founder and Global Director of Ernst & Young’s global Climate Change and Sustainability Services practice (est.2008), she has also worked in various other fields for the company including sales and business development.

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Advisory Committee

Our Advisory Committee provides specialised knowledge across many areas of our work. It is dedicated to identifying, validating and promoting best practices for the foundation. It includes climate scientists, branding experts, market researchers, local government expertise, senior music industry executives, strategists, and behaviour change experts.

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Bill Lord
Bill Lord is the founder and Chief Executive of BlinkTV, a leading media and production company specialising in the live music and entertainment industries. The company’s expertise ranges from the supply of advertiser-funded video screens to the creation of bespoke content for the world’s most technically-advanced LED screens and the production of live music TV spectaculars. BlinkTV has worked with a global who’s who of artist and advertiser clients for more than 10 years including Madonna, the X Factor and Lily Allen.

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Mike Mathieson
Mike Mathieson is co-founder and CEO of Cake, a creative communications & brand entertainment company with clients as diverse as Ben & Jerry’s, Motorola, Agent Provocateur, Penguin Books and Unilever. Mike’s passion for environmental issues has led Cake to actively engage in campaigns for environmental organisations including WWF, Greenpeace and The Prince’s Rainforest Project.

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Professor Mark Maslin
Professor Mark Maslin is Head of the Department of Geography, University College London and the Director of the UCL Environment Institute. Mark is a leading climatologist with particular expertise in past global and regional climatic change and has published over 75 papers in journals such as Science, Nature, Geology, GRL, QSR, JHE and Paleoceanography.

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Chris Rose
Chris Rose is a Director of Campaign Strategy Ltd. His clients include the Environment Agency, Natural England, National Trust, Greenpeace International, the Cabinet Office, Unilever, WWF International, UNICEF, Amnesty International, BP, and the BBC, to name but a few. Previously Chris was Deputy Executive and Programme Director of Greenpeace UK and Strategic Adviser to Greenpeace International.

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Pat Dade
Pat Dade is an internationally recognised expert on human motivations and their applications to communications and behaviour change programmes. He is a founding director of Cultural Dynamics Strategy and Marketing, which conducts numerous studies every year into the changing values, beliefs and motivations of national populations. Hundreds of clients have benefited from his programmes, including Unilever, Hewlett Packard, Cisco Systems, Greenpeace, Shell, McKinsey&Co., and Arsenal Football Club.

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Alison Tickell
Alison Tickell set up Julie’s Bicycle in April 2007. Julie’s Bicycle is a coalition of industry, science and energy experts who are working to create a low carbon future for the music and creative industries. Before that she led the music consultation for the National Skills Academy, was the Music Director at Creative and Cultural Skills (which she helped set up) and spent 15 years developing the community music sector at Community Music.

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Steve Machin
Steve Machin is currently CEO of Tixdaq, where he is focusing on building an integrated online service for music, sport and theatre fans. Steve has extensive experience of the live music industry. He was previously Head of Music Services for Ticketmaster Europe and Vice President for International Business Development for Live Nation’s Ultrastar fan-club business.

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Juhi Shareef
Juhi Shareef joined Arup’s Sustainability Consulting team in June 2006. Her primary interest is sustainability in the events and creative/cultural industries, including music, theatre, film and design. As a freelance Project Manager for sustainability/media projects, Juhi’s clients included Channel 4, the Department of Health and the Home Office. She has also produced events on Web 2.0 for not-for-profits and technology companies at the Royal Society of Arts and for the Department for Culture, Media and Sport at the Tate Modern.

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Bryony Boyle
A sustainable development professional with experience working in the private, public and third sector, Bryony Boyle is currently a project manager at the Thames Gateway Institute for Sustainability, an independent charity set up as an international centre of excellence for research, demonstration, and sharing of best practice in delivering sustainability.

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Simon Retallack
Simon Retallack is former head of the Institute for Public Policy Research’s (ippr) Climate Change team, where he oversaw ippr’s Low Carbon Programme. Now working on strategy at the Carbon Trust, he specialises in climate change policy and has written about most of the world’s other major environmental problems. Simon was named one of the New Statesman’s ‘Best of young British’ in 2001 and in 2007 was named one of the UK’s ‘most influential people under 40’ by Harper’s Bazaar magazine.

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Mike Ormond
Mike Ormond has 20 years experience in the IT industry working for companies such as Mars, Mercury Interactive and, most recently, Microsoft. Trained as a developer, he joined Microsoft in 1997 to help manage their UK developer support operations. He now works in the Developer and Platform Group, helping others understand and appreciate the breadth, depth and capabilities of Microsoft’s development tools and platform.

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Paul Dickinson
Paul Dickinson is Executive Chairman of the Carbon Disclosure Project, which he founded in 2000, having previously founded and developed Rufus Leonard Corporate Communications and EyeNetwork, the largest video conference service in Europe. Paul is a member of the Environmental Research Group of the UK Faculty and Institute of Actuaries. He is also the author of various publications including, ‘Beautiful Corporations’.

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Richard Rawlinson
Richard Rawlinson began his professional career as a merchant banker and has worked as an academic on the staff of Harvard Business School as well as for Monitor Company developing its international business. At Booz & Company, where he has been since 2004, Richard has clients in both the commercial and public sector. His favourite projects are those that require figuring out how consumers around the world respond to food, health and wellness concerns, and how clients can adapt their business.

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Amy Sample Ward
Amy Sample Ward is an expert on how non-profit organisations can use social media technologies. She is the Membership Director for NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network, and in 2009 was commissioned by NESTA to co-author ‘Social by Social’, a handbook in using social technologies for social impact.

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Maxine Hamilton Stubber
Maxine Hamilton Stubber is an osteopath with clinics in Chelsea, Harley street, working with the Health and Performance team, and W1, London working with individual health. She is passionate about connecting everyone so we can snowball into action, sustaining and replenishing our planet.

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Michelle Shipworth
Michelle Shipworth is a quantitative social researcher based at the UCL Energy Institute. She studies the human dimension of home energy use: behaviours, social influences and the interaction of these with technologies and buildings. She has taught environmental sociology, research skills and statistics and is a peer reviewer for the Economic and Social Research Council and the journal Building Research & Information.

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Trudee Lunden
Trudee Lunden is a cause and brand oriented singer/songwriter/music producer, freelance writer, green marketing specialist and electric vehicle advocate. She’s handled Events and Sales for Environmental Motors, Business Development for LOHAS-based Clean Agency plus research, communications and social media. You can find her music and green insights blog on tumblr or follow on Twitter @GreenMusicLady.

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Dr. Jack Kreindler
Dr. Jack Kreindler is an expert in medical behaviour change. He founded the Centre for Health and Human Performance, a multi-disciplinary team of specialists working together for the health and well-being of their clients. The centre’s focus is on the individual, taking them on a holistic journey of assessment, diagnosis and treatments.

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Professor Hugh Montgomery
Professor Hugh Montgomery is a remarkable polymath. In addition to being an intensive care consultant at University College Hospital London and a director of the UCL Institute of Human Health and Performance, he is also an award-winning children’s author and is a founding member of the UK Climate and Health Council. His many accomplishments include discovering the first gene for human fitness, being a high-altitude mountaineer, his involvement in raising the Mary Rose and gave the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.

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Work With Us

Together we can make a real difference in preventing climate change. If you’d like to work with us to communicate green lifestyles and sustainability to the mainstream, call +44 (0) 8444 410 003 or drop us an email.

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