Meet the team
Future Food Movement is powered by a team with deep expertise across strategy, sustainability, communications and food system transformation. We combine the heritage of Veris Strategies with the energy of a movement - giving clients both trusted advisory support and access to the system connections that unlock real change.
Kate Cawley
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Kate Cawley is the founder of Veris Strategies, an award-winning sustainability consultancy, and Future Food Movement. Partnering with leaders across the food industry - from retailers, foodservice, brands and manufacturers - Kate drives insight-led action on climate, health, and sustainability, aiming to make food a force for positive change. Kate’s focus is on challenging leadership mindsets and believes leaders need to think and act quite differently if we are to achieve an industry wide transformation. Kate founded Future Food Movement to boost business competency and confidence to act, bridging the gap from Boardroom to shop floor with a team of experts in climate, nutrition, public health, regenerative systems, behaviour change and governance, empowering the industry to drive meaningful action.
Helen Ireland
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With a career spanning some of the UK’s best-known food and drink brands, Helen brings deep expertise in embedding sustainability into commercial strategy. She supports businesses at every stage of their journey - building cross-functional capability, unlocking organisational momentum and designing climate-positive roadmaps that stick. Before joining Future Food Movement, Helen led transformational sustainability work at Sainsbury’s, Costa Coffee and Cafédirect, integrating ESG into finance, strategy, product, brand and supply chains. She’s passionate about collaborative learning, systems thinking and empowering teams to move from intent to action - ensuring sustainability becomes everyone’s business, not just a function.
Emma Victor-Smith
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With over 20 years in the food industry having previously worked with ABP Food Group, Pilgrims UK, Dalehead Foods, Cranswick and Lidl, Emma is driven by a deep understanding of the scientific realities and challenges facing current and future generations. She combines her expertise in communications, events, marketing, and creative strategy to amplify opportunities within the industry. Passionate about collaboration, she supports changemakers and emerging leaders to help bolster industry resilience as it undergoes significant transformation.
Phil Eisenhart
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Philip has worked the in the business of politics and political media for 25 years. He co-designed and launched the New Statesman's Policy Supplement in 1998, established to inform and drive the new Labour agenda. In 2001, he co-founded Holyrood Communications to support the buildup of Scotland's body politic post devolution and co-created politicshome, the UK's oldest online political news service, while heading Dods from 2009-2013.
Philip has championed a number of causes throughout his career from fighting gun and knife crime in North West London to Europe's first smoking ban in Scotland. Food, and its potential to thrill as well as kill, has been a particular area of interest since working with Diabetes Scotland in the 2000's.
Grant O’Sullivan
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With 20 years of experience designing impactful content for the food industry, Grant is a creative force dedicated to driving meaningful change. He manages all aspects of creative output for clients, from strategic branding to internal communications campaigns, bringing ideas to life with precision and passion. Known for his inquiring and creative approach, Grant thrives on seeing concepts take shape and make a lasting impact.
Laura McNaughton
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With extensive experience as a Finance Director across a wide range of sectors including manufacturing, retail, consultancy, and home improvements, Laura brings not just numbers expertise, but a business-minded, down-to-earth approach that supports the sustainable path forward for Future Food Movement.
Siân Wynn-Jones
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Bringing experience from 11 years in-house at BT followed by eight years consulting in Asia and UK, Siân supports clients to navigate complex sustainability challenges, identify gaps and align ambition with purpose and delivery. She helps organisations shape ESG strategy, surface actionable insight and communicate with clarity and impact.
Whether advising global corporates or mission-led teams, Siân brings a blend of strategic rigour and creative thinking to accelerate progress and turn sustainability goals into meaningful, measurable action.
Carly Davies
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With over a decade of experience in social and environmental impact, Carly is a connector who believes in the power of collaboration to drive lasting change in the food system. Her background includes working with Wagamama, part of The Restaurant Group, and consulting with the NHS national sustainability team. Carly now manages upskilling and training programmes for businesses and is dedicated to building a supportive network where companies can contribute to meaningful change, supported by a community of peers on the shared journey toward a better food system.
Amy Parrott
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A communications and engagement specialist with over six years of experience across the not-for-profit (including Macmillan Cancer Support) and food sectors, Amy brings a deep understanding of how to translate complex information into clear, compelling content that resonates. She’s passionate about making messages that drive engagement and deliver on strategic goals, whether through internal campaigns or external storytelling.
Georgie Aylwin
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Georgie steers the delivery of high-impact sustainability projects, driving progress on emissions inventories, insight reports, strategic communications, stakeholder engagement and net zero planning. With a background in operational leadership and an MSc in Climate Change and Development, she brings analytical depth and delivery rigour to her work. Georgie's role is in connecting key stakeholders, managing competing priorities, and keeping momentum throughout complex projects. She cares about communicating the process and outcomes behind sustainability work in ways that support clarity, collaboration and informed decision-making.
Omari Palmer
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Omari brings a strong background in food systems, sustainability communications and project management to the team. As an experienced and enthusiastic communication and project management specialist, with extensive experience leading and coordinating projects and communications activities for organisations and consultancies across the development and humanitarian, research, sustainability and food systems space. Omari is driven by impact led work and will ensure the strengthening of content, communications and growth activity of the organisation.
Hattie Yousefian
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Hattie brings a unique blend of creative leadership, operational rigour and people centered thinking to Future Food Movement. She has spent over a decade working in film and television production, delivering complex projects for global brands and leading diverse teams in fast paced, high pressure environments where collaboration, clarity and storytelling were key.
More recently, Hattie was one half of a food start up team, working hands-on across operations, brand and partnerships. This experience gave her first hand insight into the realities of building a food business, from product and supply chain challenges through to engaging consumers and industry stakeholders.
A natural connector and self confessed people person, Hattie thrives on bringing the right voices together and creating space for meaningful collaboration. She has a strong belief in food as medicine, and in the role that data, transparency and trust must play in shaping a healthier, more sustainable food system. At Future Food Movement, she is passionate about supporting industry to turn insight into action and drive positive, systems level change.
Kirsty Hoskins
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Kirsty brings not just numbers expertise, but an operational approach that supports the sustainable path forward for Future Food Movement.
Jess Channings
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Navigates and translates the complex regulation and disclosures to ensure companies stay one step ahead.
Will Clare
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Will Clare advises on the net zero transition for the food industry, ranging from product impact assessments, to setting SBTs, producing training content for a better understanding of climate change to guidance for site teams on how to deliver reductions in energy use and the development of net zero pathways. He runs workshops and lectures for a variety of different industries and organisations on climate change.