People
Guy Battle - Chairman
Guy is the originator and founder of dcarbon8. Guy has had over 20 years of experience as a consulting engineer in the construction industry starting his career at Ove Arup in London. In 1993 he became a founding partner of the world-renowned firm of consulting engineers Battle McCarthy where he continued to build his reputation as an expert in sustainable practices and design. Since then his practice has been active in the field of carbon management, and in 2001 Guy coordinated the only successful consultant and group bid for the UK Emissions Trading Scheme. This included successful bids for a number of clients including Lend Lease, Land Securities and the University Carbon Club.
Guy has previously been a visiting professor at the Architectural Association, Illinois Institute of Technology and the Bartlett, London. He lectures widely across the world on sustainability and the carbon markets and has recently been a Master speaker at the USGBC, Key Note speaker at Tropical Green and Key and Eco Build UK.
Andrew Marris - C.E.O.
A founding director of dcarbon8, Andrew has a successful academic background in civil engineering with degrees from the University of Bath and Imperial College, London. He has worked in the financial markets in the City of London for 20 years. From building a strong business in retail financial services consulting with Merchant Investors, Providence Capitol and Old Mutual, he worked as a stockbroker with Prudential Bache and subsequently built a successful business at Sunrise Brokers, an inter-dealer derivative trading boutique. He has a successful track record and extensive experience in all aspects of retail and institutional sales and broking with particular experience in the field of equity derivatives and other complex financial instruments.
Due to the advent of the Kyoto Protocol and the emergence of carbon as a tradable commodity, he has been able to combine his strategic business, technical and markets skills with his passion for the environment. He has been particularly responsible in the design and management of the carbon exchange and the award winning dcarbon8 Supply Chain Network.
Steve Malkin - Director
Steve is a specialist in trade and consumer marketing and communications. Having completed a BEng in Civil Engineering, Steve became Press and Marketing Manager at Brands Hatch before setting up his own marketing agency, Image Wizard, which specialises in launching innovative products and businesses. He co-founded another successful specialist communications agency, the Spa PR Company, working within the spa, health and well-being sector.
He also has a successful track record in creating and producing mass-participation events attracting tens of thousands of participants and commercial partnerships and sponsorship. Working with Guinness World Records, Steve has produced and broken a number of world record participation events supporting charities such as the Royal Marsden Cancer Relief Hospital, ChildLine and Save the Children.
Steve brings his unique mix of communication and event production skills to dcarbon8 and Planet Positive to encourage people and businesses around the world to engage in reducing their carbon emissions.
Tony Siantonas - Associate Consultant
Tony graduated with a BSc in Environmental Sciences from the University of East Anglia and an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London. He has worked in Contaminated Land and Sustainability reporting with clients such as the Environment Agency, Biffa and the Church of England. He has also worked as a policy officer at the UK Government Sustainable Development Commission.
At dcarbon8, Tony is a Project Manager of carbon impact assessments for varied international projects, including new commercial buildings, businesses and manufactured products. His work includes modeling and reporting Life Cycle Analyses (according to ISO 14040), measuring and reducing carbon impacts throughout the supply chain, integrating on site data collection tools for construction projects and researching carbon impact databases. He also assists on Sustainability Reporting (particularly KPIs) according to Global Reporting Initiative.
Stuart Wright - Associate
Stuart's last role was as project lead of Northampton Borough Council's Carbon Management Programme. Here he managed the implementation of a Carbon Trust programme of carbon reduction. His work led to the Council adopting a four-year Strategy and Implementation Plan targeting a 35% reduction in emissions, backed by a £250,000 ring fenced, spend-to-save budget.
Stuart has also worked at the Sustainable Development Commission as a policy officer and has a BSC in Environmental Science from the University of Nottingham, where he won the Student Environment Prize for a dissertation on environmental auditing (awarded 1st class).
Steven Moore - Carbon Consultant
Having finished his undergraduate degree at University College London, Steven then worked and studied in Japan for two years. He returned to pursue an MSc in Environmental Technology at Imperial College, specialising in Environmental Economics and Policy. The studies included examining the different ways of accounting for environmental externalities, such a carbon emissions, in markets. For his thesis he travelled to India to examine the sustainability of different modes of transport in Delhi, focusing on environmental, economic and social perspectives. Steven joined dcarbon8 because they bring these three perspectives to businesses, helping them to be successful and sustainable.
Since joining dcarbon8, Steven has improved the accuracy of business carbon footprinting, as well as developing an online carbon calculator, soon to be available on the Planet Positive website. He works with clients to measure and reduce their carbon emissions from business operations, using the Global Reporting Initiative to create Sustainability Reports that show their progress with Key Performance Indicators.
Christina Wood - Consultant/Communications
Christina has completed an MSc in Environmental Policy and Regulation from the London School of Economics. Her studies focused on the theory of regulation, environmental politics, carbon footprinting and sustainability indices, organizational learning theory, corporate greening, and environmental ethics. She had previous experience in researching the Danish wind industry and working with a wind energy start-up.
Christina’s particular interests lie in the UK’s burgeoning carbon and sustainability sector and she is passionate about advising companies on the transition to a low carbon economy.
Matthew Fishwick - Carbon Consultant
After graduating from the University of Plymouth with a first class BSc(Hons) in Environmental Science, Matthew went on to study a Master of Research (MRes) degree in Clean Chemical Technology at the University of York, for which he was awarded a studentship from GlaxoSmithKline and obtained a distinction.
For his thesis, Matthew carried out a Life-Cycle Assessment (LCA) of a major pharmaceutical and used data collected to derive environmental metrics for this product, such as its carbon footprint. Following this LCA, an attempt was made to mitigate the most significant environmental impact through laboratory research into novel carbonaceous adsorbents.
Janet Kidner - Non-Executive Director
Janet was one of the founding originators of dcarbon8 and is responsible for establishing the Planet Positive Protocol, the carbon management standard used to govern the work of the company.
Janet has remained on at dcarbon8 as a non-executive director after leaving in April 2008 to become Head of Sustainability at Lend Lease UK. Janet acts as the chairperson of the Planet Positive Protocol technical committee, helping to ensure it remains at a best practice standard. She also manages the Joint Developer Forum, which convenes major warehouse and distribution centre developers who aim to develop a common methodology for measuring carbon and sustainability in their sector.