MEET OUR 2025 SPEAKING FACULTY
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Sustainability Marketing Manager EuropeAAKLaura Schlebes
Global Sustainability ManagerAAKJonathan Sullivan
Vice President Commercial and SustainabilityAgmatixLuke Quinn
Head of Business SolutionsAgreenaAnnie Leeson
CEO & Co-FounderAgricarbonCarl Atkin-House
Head of Natural Capital StrategyClimate Asset ManagementCarl is a senior member of the investment team at Climate Asset Management, a joint venture between HSBC Asset Management and Pollination with the ambition to create the world’s leading asset management company in natural capital. He is responsible for strategy, pipeline, deal management and transaction execution for the Natural Capital Strategy which invests in a diversified portfolio of regenerative agriculture, sustainable forestry and environmental assets across North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. He is a member of the firm’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) working group and a director of the Strategy’s European local operating companies, farming over 3,000 ha of perennial crops across Spain and Portugal.
Philippe Birker
Co-Founder & COOClimate FarmersJan Per Bethge
Sustainability ManagerDr. OetkerElisa Ilges
Regenerative FarmerEcoMasetMercedes Groba
Head of Regenerative AgricultureEIT FoodMarkus Linder
CEOESF CoalitionSimon Kraemer
Executive Director, Lead Strategy, Policy and Operations StewardEuropean Alliance for Regenerative AgricultureJaap Strengers
Managing PartnerFuture Food FundLesley Mitchell
DirectorGood Food FuturesKatrina Hayter
Global Head of Sustainable Land Use & Supply ChainHSBCVictor Dagnelie
Senior Innovation Manager – Better EnvironmentIDHRoel Messie
Chief Executive OfficerIDH Investment ManagementShauna Sadowski
Sustainability Integration LeadImprovin'Shauna Sadowski is an industry-recognized sustainability leader with more than 20 years dedicated to leading and supporting sustainability initiatives at the intersection of food, farming, and business. She currently leads sustainability for Improvin'. In this role, she supports the development of farm-level product solutions that foster deeper supply chain relationships and drive sustainability actions.
Throughout her career, Shauna has been a leading voice for change in the food industry, having led sustainability for companies and brands, including IKEA, Simple Mills, Annie’s/ General Mills, Fork in the Road Foods, and Clif Bar. Her work has involved raising awareness, building evidence-based programs, and collaborating with stakeholders to drive positive change in food systems.
Siddarth Shrikanth
Investment DirectorJust ClimateAxelle Bodoy
Global Head of Regenerative AgricultureLouis Dreyfus CompanyElena Cortés
VP Sustainability and ProcurementMarsJames Little
Asset Management DirectorNuveen Natural CapitalAlex Godfrey
Investment DirectorOctopus InvestmentsRoel van Poppel
Chief Sustainability OfficerofiSara Golden
Fair Value Chains, Policy AdvisorOxfamRik Posthuma
Investment ManagerPymwymicFranco Costantini
CEOregenagriDavid Bates
ChairmanRegenerate Asset ManagementDr. Vincent Walsh
Founder & Head of InnovationRegenerative Farming Collaborations (RegenFarmCo)Anastasia Volkova
Co-Founder & CEORegrow AgAnastasia Volkova, PhD, is a Ukrainian entrepreneur and engineer committed to developing technology that empowers the agriculture industry to help solve the global climate crisis. She is CEO and Co-Founder of Regrow Ag, an award-winning SaaS provider that enables organizations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across their agricultural supply chains and build climate change resilience by incentivizing the adoption of regenerative farming practices.
Since Regrow’s launch in early 2021, Dr. Volkova and her team have raised $55M in Series A and B funding, and have nurtured Regrow into a global company trusted by some of the world’s leading CPGs, food companies, and ecosystem market developers, including General Mills, Cargill, Kellogg’s, PepsiCo, and South Pole. Regrow delivers environmental data that makes it possible for organizations to analyze scope 3 sourcing regions, report emissions, and plan sustainability investments, and supports the execution of producer incentive programs that reduce on-field emissions. It pioneered the development of digital MRV (Measurement, Reporting, and Verification) software for agriculture, bringing transparency and credibility to agriculture-based carbon reductions and removals. Regrow’s best-in-class MRV was honored as a Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Idea.
A 2022 Bloomberg New Economy Catalyst and Forbes Technology Council member, Dr. Volkova is a respected thought leader and innovator in regenerative agriculture and sustainable food sourcing. She has been recognized as one of The Australian’s Top 100 Innovators, MIT’s “35 Under 35” Innovators (2020), and BBC’s “Top 100 Women” (2020).
Alina Rieforth
Business Development - DownstreamRoot GlobalMark Varney
Head of Fair to NatureRSPBMaarten Van Dam
Founder @ Schevichoven Farm & PartnerPymwymicKim Schoppink
Europe Regional LeadScience Based Targets InitiativeAndrew Voysey
Chief Impact OfficerSoil CapitalNaeem Lakhani
Founder & Managing PartnerThe First ThirtyIgnacio Gavilan
Senior Director – Food Systems and PartnershipsThe Global FoodBanking NetworkMauricio Castro Schmitz
Regenerative Agriculture DirectorThe Nature ConservancyAndy Cato
Farmer & Co-FounderWildfarmedGiovanni Causapruno
Sales DirectorxFarmVirginia Castellucci
Head of SustainabilityxNaturaSimone Mazzola
COOxNaturaElisa Bertesago
Business DeveloperxNaturaStacy Cushenbery
Senior Manager for Global Food SystemsOatly
INTRODUCING OUR 2025 GLOBAL ADVISORY BOARD

Axelle Bodoy

Alex Godfrey

Carl Atkin-House
Carl is a senior member of the investment team at Climate Asset Management, a joint venture between HSBC Asset Management and Pollination with the ambition to create the world’s leading asset management company in natural capital. He is responsible for strategy, pipeline, deal management and transaction execution for the Natural Capital Strategy which invests in a diversified portfolio of regenerative agriculture, sustainable forestry and environmental assets across North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. He is a member of the firm’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) working group and a director of the Strategy’s European local operating companies, farming over 3,000 ha of perennial crops across Spain and Portugal.

Timothée Murillo

Katrina Hayter

Dionys Forster

Pascal Chapot
