My background is in finance and sustainability, a decade in asset management, four years in ESG, and a running obsession with the gap between what institutions say and what they do, and underneath all of that is a deeper interest in systems change and supply chain resilience, in how complex chains of accountability either hold up under pressure or quietly fail, and in what it actually takes to build something that doesn't collapse the moment it's tested. I'm drawn to working with organisations that have a genuine mission behind them, companies built around positive impact rather than companies that have impact bolted on afterwards, and that orientation shapes the kind of conversations I want to be part of and the kind of rooms I want to be in.
Co-founder, CFO, and Secretary of an Irish registered charity funding a school meals programme in Uganda. Currently serving several hundred children daily. First corporate partner secured 2026. Governance framework rebuilt 2025-2026.
Responsible sourcing programmes of chocolate companies have failed the stress test
A governance post-mortem on why farmer poverty can't be addressed through corporate commitments or investor dialogue alone, drawing on four years of active ownership work inside the cocoa supply chain and on a 2023 internal report that was written before the crisis and never published. If I'm honest, the cocoa supply chain is the system I'd most want to spend a career fixing properly, given the chance.
Active Ownership in Asset Management
Chapter 6 in a Springer volume on sustainable finance, produced as part of a Women in Sustainable Finance project. Covers the practice, limits, and future of engagement-based stewardship in institutional asset management. Launched at Hiltl Academy, Zürich, May 2026.
When the System Was Tested, It Failed
A five-part governance post-mortem on the cocoa supply chain crisis. Framed as institutional failure analysis, not data update.
Part 1 - The Forecast · Part 2 - The Stress Test · Part 3 - The Post-Mortem · Part 4 - What Good Looks Like · Part 5 - Proof of Concept
Dispatches written on the road during a 30,000km drive through ten African countries. Where I learned to write for a reader rather than for a record.
Subie Goes South
A middle-grade novel narrated by Subie, a Subaru Forester. The true story of a 30,000km drive through ten African countries over 17 months. For ages 12-14. All 21 chapters drafted.
Selected institutional publications from my time at Credit Suisse Asset Management, where I was a contributing author on responsible consumption and production, hazardous chemicals, and active ownership practice.
Author of two sections: pp. 30-35, Climate change and publicly traded real estate companies; pp. 44-55, Social: food loss and waste. Both topics researched, engagement-led, and written independently.
Author of three sections: pp. 37-54, Reducing food loss and waste to tackle food insecurity (including the cocoa supply chain case study); pp. 55-58, The rise of antimicrobial resistance poses a serious threat; pp. 59-62, Hazardous chemicals - here forever. All sections researched independently and based on engagements led directly.
Investors Initiative on Hazardous Chemicals
Author and researcher. Full report on the material risks of hazardous chemical production and use, produced as part of a 47-asset-manager coalition coordinated by Aviva Investors and Storebrand.
Environmental Impact Equity Fund - Impact and Engagement Report
Contributing author to the Environmental Impact Equity Fund impact and engagement report, covering thematic engagement activities across climate, biodiversity, and responsible consumption and production.
I moderate panels the way I think conversations should work, with genuine curiosity, a light hand, and a willingness to go somewhere unexpected if the room is ready for it, and I'm a native English speaker with an Irish accent, which turns out to matter more than I expected, since it creates warmth without effort and makes people comfortable before anything substantive has happened, and I use that. Comedy is part of the toolkit too, since it's one of the best ways I know to put a room at ease and to get at the real paradoxes underneath a serious topic without losing anyone along the way.
I also run a school meals charity in Uganda, which has taught me more about governance, trust, and getting things done with limited resources than any boardroom I've ever sat in.
I'm currently developing my moderation practice, bringing in storytelling as a core part of it, since I think good moderation is partly about tapping into people's inner storyteller and helping them get the real story out rather than the rehearsed version.
If you're organising a panel and want a moderator who will take it seriously, do the preparation, and make your speakers feel both challenged and comfortable, I'd be glad to talk.
Panellist - Sustainable Asset Management and Active Ownership Book Launch
Hiltl Academy, Zürich. Panellist as a contributing author, discussing active ownership practice and the limits of ESG frameworks in institutional asset management.
Workshop Facilitator - Imagining 2038: Jobs the Transition Forgot
Climate Week Zürich, GreenBuzz Community Hub. 12 participants. 90-minute participatory session using The Adjacent framework.