Viswanatha Allugunti

Viswanatha Allugunti

Cerys Jenkins-Lowe

Cerys graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2014 with a BSC Hons in Agriculture, specialising in livestock production and farm business management. She holds a PGDip in Agri-food, also from University of Nottingham, and has undertaken studies into Sustainable Food Security at Wageningen University.

Cerys has spent the last 9 years working in a variety of agriculture and sustainability roles across hospitality, retail and consulting. She spent several years within the Agriculture team at Sainsbury's, particularly focusing on pork and egg supply chains as Agriculture Manager. Following a consulting role in the Agricultural Value Chains team at South Pole, Cerys joined Heart with Smart in August 2022, where she leads on the development and delivery of their sustainability strategy and decarbonisation journey for the Pizza Hut and Itsu brands.

Usama Asif

Usama has 15 years of deep procurement experience across wide variety of multi-billion-euro portfolios including agricultural commodities, chemicals, packaging as well as services and capital expenditure. He believes procurement has the opportunity to lead in the design of any company's future economic model and not only how that contributes internally to top and bottom line but also how it incentivizes and drives value externally. He has deep expertise in partnership ecosystems development and value chain transformations.

As Procurement Head for Nutrition Business Group, he has responsibility for procurement strategy development and implementation including competitive buying, sustainability, value chain interventions, partnerships, resilience, and digital transformation agenda. This encompasses working with over 3000 supply partners across the globe to help land our Force for Good Foods strategy. In this capacity, his team leads implementation of Unilever’s Regenerative Agriculture program working closely with our key suppliers.

Eric Soubeiran

Eric started his career in strategy consulting and merger and acquisitions and held several general management positions, including at Danone where he lastly oversaw the sustainability strategy of the company. Eric joined Unilever in 2021 and is now Managing Director Unilever Climate & Nature Fund & Vice President Business Operations Sustainability.

In this capacity, he leads the delivery of several of the major Sustainability goals and transformations for Unilever’s value chain, as well as Unilever's Climate & Nature Fund, an impact-led investment platform to accelerate solutions for protecting the health of our planet. The Fund, which was announced in 2020 has a mandate to spend EUR 1 billion, using the power of Unilever’s brands over this decade to make meaningful progress.

Eric also serves as non-executive director of The Carbon Trust and The Gold Standard Foundation.