I am the Chief Toaster (co-founder and CEO) at Toast Ale, the delicious planet-saving beer brewed using yesterday's bread from bakeries to fight food waste. All profits are poured into environmental charities.

Prior to Toast I led Ashoka (a global support network for social entrepreneurs) in the UK and I founded a number of social mission ventures over the years. This included setting up READ International in 2004 (a Tanzanian student volunteer-led development organisation which has benefited millions of Tanzanian school students) and co-founding Generation Change in 2012, helping 600,000 young people a year in the UK take positive action in their local communities. In 2011, with my wife Nikki, I co-authored On the Up, a book about social entrepreneurs in Africa. This book was the culmination of the joint Fellowship that Nikki and I received.

We live in Kent with our three very cheeky kids Thomas, Matthew and Jessica. In my spare time I coach my son's football team and run to try to burn off the beers. I am a geek for all things social enterprise and never miss Formula One.