Carbon Advisory Board

Dr. Thomas A. Poynter

Thomas Poynter advises companies on creating and maintaining their competitiveness, and solving strategic and implementation problems along the way.  He, and The Transitions Group, Inc. - the non-traditional consulting company he founded – have been senior advisors to Nokia for over a decade; BP Oil Europe – (complete reformulation and implementation of their downstream strategy and organization); Pininfarina SpA; and the Volkswagen Audi Group.  Other long-term clients were in the electrical utility and convenience store industries.

After several years of building start-ups in the 1970s and a Ph. D. at the London Business School, Thomas taught Business Policy at the University of Western Ontario’s School of Business and then the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School.
Dr. Poynter is highly considered for his skills in helping managers deal with new opportunities, new environments, and new threats – both internal and external.  

Julian Bosdet CIPR

Julian is Chief Executive of Abchurch Communications, one of the UK’s leading financial, investor and corporate communications consultancies, advising more than 70 clients, over 60 of which are Listed on the London Stock Exchange.  Abchurch is recognised as a specialist in IPOs, advising both domestic and overseas companies on successful communications surrounding a UK Listing and the aftermarket. 

A growing proportion of Abchurch’s clients are focused on the environmental economy, including cutting edge clean-tech businesses raising growth capital in the financial markets, carbon offset mechanisms and platforms, and developers of environmentally friendly pesticides and fertilisers. 

Julian is a member of the President’s Panel of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and is also Non-Executive Chairman of Citywebwatch, the leading business news aggregation service.

Mr Mark Oglesby

During the past 20 years, Mark Oglesby has worked as independent marketeer, PR consultant and copywriter, primarily in the business-to-business field. His interests range from environmental sustainability through to the effective management, marketing and promotion of small, medium and large organisations. Although he works primarily with blue chip organisations (clients include Visa, Toyota and Shell) he has also worked extensively with non commercial entities (such as Amnesty International) and lesser known brands. For the past 18 years, Mark has advised and written for the current UK law firm of the year. In all cases, his marketing and writing background ensures that business messages hit home with the greatest possible impact.

Mr Crispin Thomas

Chief executive of TMTI, one of Britain's leading technical support companies. Crispin was runner up in the 2007 Ernst and Young "Entrepreneur Of The Year" awards

TMTI has recently been voted by The Sunday Times and Microsoft as a 'Tech Track 100' fastest growing technology company.