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Simon Hodgson, Senior Partner Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0171 Mobile: +44 (0)7811 406 120 Email: simon.hodgson@acona.co.uk Simon leads the Acona team and works with client boards. He combines direct experience in management and strategy with specialist expertise in corporate responsibility, allowing him to place his CR advice firmly in the commercial context. He concentrates on a business-led approach, with a strong belief that businesses must act on these issues in their own self-interest as well as for the wider good. He writes for a number of magazines, is regularly featured in the media and is an accomplished speaker and facilitator at conferences. .................................................................. Paul Burke, Senior Partner Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0173 Mobile: +44 (0)7775 821 645 Email: paul.burke@acona.co.uk Paul has been a consultant in-house (at Royal and Sun Alliance and CIS) and externally for over 15 years. He has extensive knowledge of the financial services sector and of how businesses operate and the challenges they face. His CR expertise is complemented by earlier experiences in HR and change management, corporate planning and business strategy. He understands and acts as an advocate for the benefits of implementing a cohesive CR strategy. Paul is a regular conference speaker and facilitator and is on the judging panel for ACCA UKs Sustainability Reporting Awards. .................................................................. Neil Everett, Senior Partner Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0175 Mobile: +44 (0)7976 461 959 Email: neil.everett@acona.co.uk Having worked in Asia in the late 90s, Neil witnessed first-hand the rapid growth in globalisation. He brings this international perspective and understanding to his work with clients, helping them to understand their wider impacts, both through their direct operations as well as their extended supply chain. Neil works with a number of Acona clients on a variety of issues from general CR advisor to more specific projects, many of which focus on supply chain issues. He also heads up one of our industry clubs, PREPS. .................................................................. Richard Whitehouse, Senior Partner Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0177 Mobile: +44 (0)7764 615 616 Email: richard.whitehouse@acona.co.uk

Jacqui Boardman, Senior Partner Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0172 Mobile: +44 (0)7973 157 569 Email: jacqui.boardman@acona.co.uk Jacqui's background is in managing public safety and minimising risks to people and the environment from major hazard installations. This led naturally to work in corporate responsibility and sustainable development. Jacqui has also developed skills in human resources management, diversity and in managing wider cultural and societal issues. As a result, her clients are from a wide range of sectors including betting and gaming, hospitality, media, speciality finance, oil and gas, to transport and publishing. Jacqui also leads the team supporting the Cultural Diversity Network, one of our Industry Clubs. .................................................................. Peter De Graaf, Senior Partner Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0174 Mobile: +44 (0) 7887 851 318 Email: peter.degraaf@acona.co.uk Peter has been involved in corporate responsibility throughout a career that includes public policy, management consultancy and finance. His specific interest is in the relationship between a company's environmental and social behaviour and responsible investment decisions. Previously, Peter was a managing director with FTSE Group and involved with FTSE4Good. He served on the board of an environmental research organisation and continues to advise an investment research firm that provides environmental, social and governance analysis to the finance community. .................................................................. Glynn Roberts, Senior Partner Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0176 Mobile: +44 (0)7973 135 693 Email: glynn.roberts@acona.co.uk

To Glynn, Corporate Responsibility (CR) is not about 'doing the right thing', it's about helping clients to identify and manage their risks and opportunities. He comes to the table with no preconceptions or judgements but an open mind and the capabilities to guide and enable clients to develop CR strategies that work for them. His ability to take complex issues and come up with simple solutions means he's equally happy dealing with the Board or getting stuck into the 'nitty gritty'. .................................................................. Lucy Minshall, Business/Office Manager Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0178 Mobile: +44 (0)7896 735 635 Email: lucy.minshall@acona.co.uk

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Richard has had a widely varied career, including risk management and software development in high hazard industries. He enjoys applying the experience and knowledge he has gained from all this to the CR context, where the risks are different but no less real. Richard is fascinated by the business of communicating difficult concepts to varied groups of people. This often involves IT related matters and Richard's experience helps keep computers in their place. .................................................................. Ken Umeasiegbu, Partner Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0185 Mobile: +44 (0)7896 736 536 Email: kene.umeasiegbu@acona.co.uk Following a 10-year career in CR and sustainability, Ken joined Acona from the Carbon Trust in 2011. He is experienced in carbon management, agricultural supply chains and ethical sourcing. At Carbon Trust, he developed the process for engaging business units and suppliers to deliver high-level carbon strategies. Cadbury's human rights strategy (now a UN Global Compact case study). Later as a supply chain manager, Ken set up the 45m Cadbury Cocoa Partnership, leading to Fair Trade certification. Skilled at cross-sector partnerships, Ken believes that great ideas emerge when unlikely partners come together. .................................................................. Julie Pike, Partner Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0181 Mobile: +44 (0)7896 733 743 Email: julie.pike@acona.co.uk Julie's background in marketing and communication combined with a commitment to environmentalism enables her to understand the pivotal role that consumers will play in the development of ethical markets in the UK. Consumers are motivated to become more ethical because they believe it is the right thing to do and good business sense dictates that we must always 'follow the customer'. Julie's main focus is to encourage businesses in this view, such that they reap the rewards of competitor advantage, sales growth and ultimately business longevity. .................................................................. Holly O'Keeffe, Junior Partner Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0188 Mobile: +44 (0)7969 002 082 Email: holly.okeeffe@acona.co.uk Holly joined the Acona team in January 2011. Having graduated from the University of Leeds in 2009 with a degree in Environmental Sustainability, Holly's journey to Acona involved internships within the CR team at Home Retail Group and other CR consultancies. Holly's role is both unconventional and innovative, sharing her time supporting Acona on various projects, as well as working internally as the CR Executive at Experian Plc. The balance of working both inhouse at Experian and as a junior consultant at Acona is a challenging and enjoyable experience. Through this split role, Holly has a clear understanding of the daily challenges that large businesses face and is helping to deliver a strong corporate responsibility strategy. .................................................................. Matt Bushnell, Junior Partner Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0183 Mobile: +44 (0)7773 397 337 Email: matt.bushnell@acona.co.uk

Lucy joined the Acona team in October 2007 and provides behind-the-scenes financial and management support to the Partnership. With a background in financial accountancy, Lucy was admitted to Graduateship of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in 2007, has wide-ranging experience in commercial and professional environments and has worked with the boards of FTSE100 companies. .................................................................. Ashleena Deike, Partner Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0180 Mobile: +44 (0)7515 585 683 Email: ashleena.deike@acona.co.uk Ashleena's background is in managing relationships between non-profit organisations and companies, initially working for a management consultancy in New York who specialised in bringing business acumen to the voluntary sector and then within the voluntary sector itself in the UK. While at Acona, she has gained experience across the CR spectrum from environmental management to CR reporting and has also put a MA in International Relations to good use working on a number of supply chain projects.

.................................................................. Christian Toennesen, Partner Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0182 Mobile: +44 (0)7962 426 282 Email: christian.toennesen@acona.co.uk Christian's main CR interests revolve around how media organisations can raise the bar for social and environmental performance and how industrial enterprises can successfully align sustainability practice with business strategy. He works with media companies and looks after the Media CSR Forum. Christian also works with some of Acona's largest clients, working through data management issues and helping them to move through strategies. .................................................................. Nick Sammons, Junior Partner Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0184 Mobile: +44 (0)7525 335 905 Email: nick.sammons@acona.co.uk

Nick joined Acona in November 2007, having previously worked for the National Trust in Cornwall on the Veryan Bay estate, gaining extensive conservation experience and insight into how a large charity works on the ground. Nick has worked in culturally and biologically diverse locations such as the Ecuadorian Amazon, involving work for AmaZOOnico, an electricityand hot water-deficient 1,500 hectare rainforest designated for animal re-introductions into the wild.

.................................................................. Lydia Elliott, Junior Partner Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0186 Mobile: +44 (0)7951 714 415 Email: lydia.elliott@acona.co.uk Lydia joined Acona in 2010. Starting as a geologist at Cambridge University, Lydia became increasingly interested in finding solutions to the frightening conclusions of climate science lectures
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Matt arrived at Acona in January 2009. His work for Acona focuses on supply chain and forestry issues, CR Reporting and data management. He balances his passion for the environment and interest in different cultures and society with an

interest in different cultures and society with an academic business background. The all encompassing nature of CR and the ever changing boundaries in which we operate drive his enthusiasm for the area. Key to his beliefs, are the benefits that can be achieved through working with businesses to achieve sustainable futures. .................................................................. Francis Mimmack, Junior Partner Office: +44 (0)20 7839 0187 Mobile: +44 (0)7973 622 037 Email: francis.mimmack@acona.co.uk

which lead her to complete a Masters at Imperial College London in Environmental Technology, with a specific focus on business and the environment. One of her main interests, and her thesis topic, focused on using design as a solution to complex environmental and social problems faced by businesses today. ..................................................................

Francis joined Acona in 2010. After spending three years working in the financial services industry he decided to pursue his interest in the myriad challenges - particularly social, political and commercial - posed by climate change. Having completed an MSc in Environmental Technology at Imperial College London, focusing on global policy issues, he is now enjoying understanding and responding to the practical implications of environmental, social and ethical risk faced by the private sector.

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