Sophie Ryan
Sophie is CEO of the Global Salmon Initiative (GSI) - a leadership group representing over 40% of the global farmed salmon industry committed to continuous improvements in their sustainability performance. Her work focuses on motivating environmental improvements, developing effective communication strategies to improve industry transparency, and building multi-stakeholder relationships to help achieve the group’s sustainability goals. Having worked with the group since it’s conception in 2013, Sophie has supported the growth of the group to where it is today and helped construct and launch the first industry-wide Sustainability Report in the food sector. Sophie is also a member of the Champions Network to the United Nations Food Systems Summit.
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Steve McLean
Steve became Head of Agriculture & Fisheries at M&S in March ’12, and has overall responsibility for agricultural and fisheries raw material supply chain and supply chain sustainability across the M&S Food business.
Steve initially joined M&S in September 2008 as Agriculture Manager responsible for ruminant livestock production and has worked extensively with the M&S supply base around the world on the industry leading M&S ‘Farming for the Future’ Sustainable Agricultural Programme.
Prior to joining M&S, Steve was Chief Executive of the Texel Sheep Society and Business Director of BASCO Data Limited, a collaboration between the UK’s three largest beef & sheep breed societies that managed performance and breed society data.
Steve’s family background has its roots firmly in the Scottish Fishing Industry, where his brother continues the tradition from the Scottish port of Gairloch on the North West coast.
Steve lives with his wife and 2 children in rural Oxfordshire where his wife is a partner in the family livestock farm.