Gavin Sheppard

CEO

Gavin Sheppard is a climate entrepreneur and business leader with two decades of experience building organisations at the intersection of commercial ambition and social purpose. Gavin also serves as Chair of Ashden, the leading charity supporting climate innovation and action throughout the UK and the Global South. Before founding Pinwheel, he served as chief marketing officer of Smart Energy GB where he led one of the country's most far-reaching public engagement programmes, changing behaviours in tens of millions of households. The work won numerous marketing and advertising awards. An alumnus of London Business School, he was named by Marketing Week as one of 100 “brightest and best executives” and has written on marketing and sustainability for national newspapers and publications. He writes and speaks on the business case for climate action – and on how purpose and profit, properly aligned, can reinforce each other.