Speakers 2025

With over 15 years at Decathlon, Chris has held leadership roles across retail management, category management, and sustainability. For the past three years, he has led Decathlon UK’s sustainability ambitions, spearheading innovative circular economy models to bring more sustainable solutions to consumers. Previously, as Head of the Outdoor sector, Chris combined strategic leadership with a passion for the outdoors, shaping product offerings and customer experiences. With a degree in Sport Engineering, he is deeply committed to creating sustainable and accessible sports solutions. An advocate for outdoor adventure and responsible business, Chris is dedicated to embedding circularity into every aspect of retail.

Zoe is currently ESG Manager at Holland & Barrett, where she supports the omnichannel retailer in effectively managing ESG risks and leveraging opportunities to drive the company purpose of making health and wellness a way of life for everyone. Zoe has worked in four different countries in her career, helping corporate and public sector entities make strategic decisions to generate sustainable value.

David is an experienced sustainability professional with well over a decade of experience delivering progress on sustainability. David is Carbon & Environment Manager at Currys plc, and works across our circularity and carbon activities as a group. 

David has formerly worked for companies including Whitbread, Thomas Cook and Radley Yeldar, leading the strategic approach to ESG, governance and reporting.

Natalie is a leader in corporate affairs, purpose, social impact and sustainability, with many years’ experience in delivering programmes, embedding change and championing positive impact.  Her experience includes climate, circularity, human rights, philanthropy, ESG reporting and B Corp, and she has been deeply involved in tackling gender inequality for many years.   In her current role, Natalie is responsible for overseeing delivery of Avon’s ambitious sustainability goals and for igniting Avon’s purpose throughout and beyond the organisation.

Steve Lister, a pioneering sustainability consultant & advocate for the retail marketing sector for over 20 years, has successfully delivered truly transformative projects for global brands and retailers. His sustainable expertise in the retail store fixture design, marketing, point of sale, and packaging sectors gives him a truly unique perspective. By bridging sustainability and physical retail, he guides global brands & retailers on their sustainability journeys to adopt more sustainable practices, focusing on the key impact areas in design & sustainable materials and embracing end of life recycling and a more circular approach to print. His influence extends beyond consultancy, marking him as a catalyst for change and has just been recognised by being named as one of RETHINK Retail’s Top Retail Experts in 2025. He has a knack for making sustainability simple to understand with a focus on sustainability & profitability cements his legacy as a hugely passionate advocate for a sustainable future in all areas of retail & marketing activations for global brands, retailers and supply chain partners.

Alexis Cepeda Maule advises the CEO of Christy’s, the 174-year-old British homeware brand and is Interim CEO Advisor at The Board. Formerly Managing Director for Sustainable Women’s Brand Reformation in the UK and Europe, she led operations, international expansion, and established their UK office. Alexis serves on the Advisory Board of ReboundWear and The Nold and is an Ambassador for Retail Week’s Future Leaders program. Recognized as “Most Sustainable Women’s Clothing & Accessories Managing Director (London)” in 2022 and 2023, she was also a Black British Business Awards finalist and a speaker for Vogue Business on sustainability.

Previously, Alexis was Ad Interim Luxury Division Lead at NET-A-PORTER and MR PORTER in New York, managing €500m in global sales. At YOOX NET-A-PORTER (YNAP) GROUP, she oversaw strategy, marketing, and executive committee operations. Selected for the Financial Times 125 Senior Executive Forum, she joined YNAP after earning her MBA from Stanford, where she interned at Amazon and worked at an e-commerce startup in Shanghai.

Her earlier roles include Assistant Vice President at Credit Suisse, a White House Social Secretary intern, and analyst roles at Morgan Stanley. Alexis holds a BA from Harvard and was published in Drapers, Porter Magazine, and Oxford University Press, among others.

Award-winning C-Suite Executive with 25+ years’ experience in digital transformation, marketing, strategy and technology in the retail, travel and digital health sectors.

Currently a non-Executive Director at Europ Assistance, Saffron Building Society, Asthma + Lung UK and the German School Association.

Founder of C-Squared Consulting, advising private equity owners and top management of leading hospitality and retail businesses on digital transformation. Clients to date include Terra Firma Capital Partners, Sun Capital Partners, Edyn Group Ltd, GLH Hotels Ltd, Dixons Carphone plc, Skype, 3i Group plc, and Notonthehighstreet Ltd.

Deep understanding of customer-first digital transformation, and how to link it to commercial objectives to create stakeholder value and drive meaningful transformation.

A frequent speaker at board level events on topics such as leveraging AI, board governance and women on boards.

A passionate advocate for sustainability with a keen interest in the environment, particularly clean air.

Keen mentor of start-ups in consumer/retail/property/health tech.

Robin Osterley is Chief Executive of the Charity Retail Association, the UK’s only trade organisation representing the interests of charity shops and their parent charities. He has extensive experience in membership associations, having previously spent 16 years as Chief Executive of Making Music, the UK’s leading association for amateur musical organisations, as well as a short time as Chief Executive of sports umbrella Supporters Direct. Alongside this management experience Robin has a longstanding background in lobbying and advocacy work, and he has been a representative on numerous Government and industry forums including the Music Business Forum and the board of ACEVO. He was also, with others, responsible for setting up the sector skills council for the creative and cultural industries, CCSkills.  

Robin’s 20 years in the third sector were preceded by a number of years in senior marketing positions in the computer industry, from which he escaped in 1993 to move into the arts. He also maintains a healthy extra-curricular interest in music, and thus has a slightly unusual combination of third sector management experience, commercial marketing acumen, and the ability to conduct a choir! He is married with two sons and two grown-up daughters, and lives in a cute village just outside Ware in Hertfordshire.

Dina is an experienced academic in the areas of luxury branding and sustainable marketing with more than 14 years of teaching and research experience in both the UK and Egypt.  Dina is currently a Senior lecturer in Luxury Brand Management at Regent`s University London and supervisor for Master of Studies in Sustainability leadership at University of Cambridge institute for sustainability leadership (CISL). Dina has been awarded the Prestigious Prince of Wales Global sustainability fellowship at University of Cambridge institute for sustainability leadership where she looked into the role of the luxury sector in fostering social inclusion.