Founders For Good

Katy Cottam, is the Founder of Luna Daily. At 19 years old, Katy was given antibiotics that changed her gut and skin microbiome which meant she could no longer use traditional body care products. She was forced to use “feminine hygiene” products that left her feeling ashamed and embarrassed.  After that experience she created Luna Daily to fight the stigma attached to intimate skincare. A big part...

Daniel George is the Founder and CEO of StepEx. StepEx enable the less wealthy majority to access the best qualifications in exchange for an affordable share of their future earnings. In this episode we cover: The current routes to financing further education and associated issues The need for a fairer system so everyone can realise their potential  StepEx’s revolutionary way of financing educatio...

Tom McGillycuddy is the Co-Founder and CEO of CIRCA5000.  After starting his career in finance Tom quickly realised there was more to life than just making money, but he also saw the potential for using investments to build a better world for everyone. So Tom left job security to found CIRCA5000, a company solely focused on impact investing. This form of investing is where on top of risk and retur...

Khyati Sundaram is the CEO of Applied . Applied is a tech platform that enables employers to build bespoke debiased hiring processes , so companies get access to a larger and more diverse pool of talent. In this episode we cover: What is bias? Where does it come from? Where is bias most likely in hiring processes  The benefits of de-biasing your recruitment  Can humans train bias out of their thin...

Dr Anas Nader is the Co-Founder and CEO of Patchwork Health. From working in the NHS, Anas witnessed first-hand the challenges with over-reliance on temporary agency staff costing the NHS millions of pounds each year. As well as the lack of flexible working, with NHS workers having very little say in their shift patterns and huge barriers existing to people working across multiple NHS sites.  Seei...

Alex Price is the former CTO and Co-Founder of Ecologi . Ecologi makes positive climate action, simple and affordable for individuals and businesses all over the world. In this episode we cover: The current state of climate change  Who can make the biggest difference? People, governments, or businesses? Ecologi’s focus on reforestation and carbon reduction projects   Want to listen to the full int...

Molly Johnson-Jones is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flexa. Flexa certifies and scores companies based on how flexible they are, then showcases to talent all over the world why these companies are great to work for.  In this episode we cover: Molly’s definition of flexible working  The confusion around terms like remote, hybrid and flexible working  The biggest blockers to offering flexible working  H...

Tessa Clarke is the Co-Founder of OLIO . OLIO is an app that connects neighbours with each other and with local businesses, so surplus food and household items can be shared, not thrown away. In this episode we cover: The scale of food waste globally  Where food waste occurs most People’s ignorance in how food waste contributes to climate change  How OLIO is solving the problem  Want to listen to...

A brief message to say thanks for listening and your ongoing support - it's hugely appreciated! If you're newer to the podcast, please go back and check out some of the earlier episodes. We've had a range of inspiring guests making the world a better place in many different ways.  We are working hard on getting a top line-up of guests for Season 3. In the meantime we'd love your help with a few th...

Michael Millership is a Co-Founder and Trustee of The Felix Project.  The Felix Project was set up by parents Jane and Justin Byam Shaw in honour of their son Felix, who died of Meningitis in 2014. Justin discovered a charity in Oxford that was taking surplus food and redistributing it to local charities. He saw the opportunity to apply this model in London and enlisted the help of his good friend...

Brett Wigdortz is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tiney, previously Founder of Teach First.  Brett spent 15 years building Teach First. A non-profit that combats inequality in our education system by giving disadvantaged children the education they deserve. Teach First attract, train and recruit great teachers and headteachers into primary and secondary schools in low-income areas. His current venture T...

Emilie Vanpoperinghe is the Co-Founder and CEO of Oddbox. Oddbox are tackling the global crisis of food waste , one of the main contributors to climate change.  Did you know 40% of all food produced globally goes to waste? The majority of this waste happens in two areas, before produce reaches the retailers and supermarkets, and in our own homes.  Oddbox have built a network of 60 different grower...

Keiran Whitaker is the Founder and CEO of Entocycle. Did you know in the UK and EU, we are 95% dependent on protein imports? And the majority of this protein isn’t what we eat, it’s what we use to feed the animals that we eat! The way we currently source and consume protein is taking a huge toll on our planet and is not sustainable. Keiran created Entocycle to accelerate a global shift to sustaina...

Matthew Owen is the Founder of Cool Earth. Cool Earth is a charity that believes the most effective way to fight climate change is to protect the best carbon-storing technology that already exists: the rainforest. And the best way to protect the rainforest? It’s not carbon credits or tree planting apps, it’s supporting the indigenous people who have been guardians of the rainforest for thousands o...

Dr Owain Rhys Hughes is the Founder and CEO of Cinapsis. After years of working in the NHS, Owain saw an acute problem with how the system worked. There was a large disconnect between primary care and specialist care. This led to many patients being referred when it wasn’t needed, adding to the NHS workload and taking weeks for patients to be seen.  So Owain left the NHS to build Cinapsis. Their t...

Daniel Jeczmien is the Co-Founder and CEO of ESGgen. ESG is an increasingly hot topic, with investors, banks and governments putting more focus on non-financial performance within businesses. It’s no longer just about businesses making money, it’s how they make that money. How do they treat their employees? What does their supply chain look like? What are their CO2 emissions?  ESG is a framework t...

Jason Ash is the Co-Founder and CEO of YoungPlanet. After spending most of his career getting people to consume more food and drinks products, Jason decided to use his skills to do good in the world. As a parent of three, he became very aware of the amount of waste associated with kids clothes and toys, and how many perfectly good kids’ items end up in landfill.  So Jason set up YoungPlanet, a mar...

Tim Wood is the Co-Founder of Achelous Energy.  After a successful career in marine engineering, Tim and his co-founder were inspired to design a better system for creating renewable energy. They set out to harness hydrokinetic energy, i.e. the free-flowing water in rivers. Because rivers are constantly flowing it’s a very efficient way to produce energy and cost effective compared to current meth...

Jenny Saft is the Co-Founder and CEO of Apryl. From her own experience with egg freezing, Jenny realised how poorly serviced people were with their fertility and family forming needs. With a society that’s increasingly starting families at older ages, these services are crucial to people. Across Europe, public health services are limited and vary from country to country with discrimination against...

Gabby Jahanshahi-Edlin is the Founder and former-CEO of Bloody Good Period. Gabby is well-known for founding Bloody Good Period, a charity that has created a movement for menstrual equity, inspiring the nation to think differently about periods. After volunteering in a refuge, Gabby noticed that period products were not one of the items being provided to refugees. She posted on Facebook for help a...

Martin Holden-White is the Founder and CEO of Grubby. As it’s the start of 2023 and the beginning of Veganuary I couldn’t think of a better guest to kick off the year. Martin founded Grubby with the mission to make plant-based cooking more convenient and accessible without costing the earth. Having a love for food and cooking from an early age, Martin was obsessed with the idea of creating healthy...

Namrata Sandhu is the CEO and Co-Founder of Vaayu.  Nam grew up in Bombay, India and saw first hand the impact of waste and climate change, which inspired her to pursue a career in sustainability. After working for management consultancies and heading up sustainability for Zalando and Arcadia, two things became very clear: 1.      There was a huge opportunity in the retail sector to make a dent in...

Vese Aghoghovbia is the Founder of Philly & Friends. When Vese had her daughter in 2017, she quickly realised that there was a lack of diversity in children’s books with less than 1% featuring a black or minority ethnic main character. This inspired her to self-publish her own book entitled “Who Do I See in the Mirror?” which features her daughter as the main character and has a clear message...

Bex Hay is the CTO and Co-Founder of Organise.  At the age of six, Bex was a self-proclaimed troublemaker, successfully campaigning at school to be allowed to play football with the boys. This highlighted the importance of being heard, taking action and influencing positive social change.  After working in the campaigning space, Bex noticed that the major barriers for people improving their workin...

Morgan Fitzsimons is the Co-Founder and CXO of Perci Health.  One in two of us will be diagnosed with cancer, that’s a scary thought. The good news is that with advances in diagnosis and treatment, more people are surviving from, and living longer with cancer.  But this puts a different strain on the healthcare system where the NHS and charitable sector are not equipped to deal with the growing nu...