FoodCycle Trustees

Sam joined the board of Trustees at the end of 2023, following six months as FoodCycle’s Interim Head of Finance and part of the Senior Management Team. This secondment was sponsored by her employer, the John Lewis Partnership, where she has held various roles in the John Lewis and Waitrose finance teams and is currently Commercial Finance Lead. She is a chartered accountant (ACMA CGMA) and holds an MA from the University of Cambridge.

Sam is delighted to continue to be part of FoodCycle. She is passionate about purpose-led organisations and their role in driving sustainability and tackling inequality. She loves food and cooking, and enjoys trying new recipes and finding ways to reduce her food waste and be more plant-based.

Matt is the Chief Marketing Officer at Rightmove, sitting on the exec team of the FTSE 100 business and responsible for the marketing portfolio across trade, customer and corporate.

He has spent his career in leadership roles across several digital businesses. Most recently at Just Eat he ran marketing for UK&I and was part of the leadership team built its position as market leader.

It was at Just Eat where Matt was introduced to FoodCycle where they worked together on different campaigns where Just Eat and its customers helped to support the FoodCycle mission.

Nick is a Local Councillor in Southwark in South London and chair of a community charity called Restorative Justice for All. In his professional life he has run a number of international consulting firms and has been fortunate enough to work in forty different countries. Nick also has his own gin brand – Trinity25 (but that’s another story!).

Throughout his career, Nick has always been drawn to causes that have a real social impact so is very pleased to be joining FoodCycle as a Trustee and helping to combat food waste, food poverty and social isolation.

Frances is a corporate lawyer by background and was formerly a Partner & General Counsel at an international law firm, with a role advising the Chair, Boards, Committees and stakeholders on business-critical matters, risk strategy, corporate structures, governance and liability issues. She is also an experienced non-executive director with over 15 years experience working with non-profits and charities and as a school governor. Frances has a particular interest in corporate governance and business ethics.  Her current focus is on cyber risk and cyber security, and she is very interested in issues relating to food poverty and food security, also acting as a trustee of Hammersmith & Fulham Foodbanks. During the pandemic Frances was a frequent volunteer in the vaccine rollout programme and is keen to highlight and support the key role played by volunteers.