Who we are

We are a team of dedicated experts in carbon reporting and reduction. We deliver our expertise through our online platform, training, consultancy and guided programmes for groups of organisations or supply chains. Our approach is to empower business to take real action to reduce their carbon emissions and progress their Net Zero journey

Meet the team

Anna-Lisa Mills

Executive Director – Carbon Expertise

FISEP, CEnv, MSc, BSc (Hons), PGCE

Anna-Lisa is a highly committed, experienced, knowledgeable, and passionate professional with over 30 years experience in Sustainability and Carbon Reporting. Anna-Lisa has a proven track record in developing, implementing, and leading sustainability and carbon strategies for a wide range of organisations.

With a specialism in Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Carbon Footprinting, Anna-Lisa was previously employed as the Group Sustainability Manager for a large multi-national organisation, where she developed and implemented the Sustainability Strategy, leading a global team to achieve an absolute reduction in carbon emissions and exceeding the published reduction target 5 years ahead of schedule.

Anna-Lisa is a Chartered Environmentalist and a fellow Member of ISEP. She has completed Al Gore’s training programme to become a Climate Reality Leader and is an active member of ISEP’s Climate Change and Energy Steering Group as well as ISEP’s North East Regional Steering Group. Anna-Lisa is an Associate Lecturer at Northumbria University, teaching on the environmental management degree and masters course. Anna-Lisa is the author and lead tutor for a range of ISEP-approved Climate Emergency, Carbon Accounting and Net Zero courses through Northumbria University.

Lee Jackson

Managing Director

Lee leads SmartCarbon Ltd as well as engaging directly with clients to provide strategic support and deliver bespoke presentations, consultancy and training packages, including delivery of the ISEP accredited GHG accounting training through Northumbria University.

Lee’s background is in senior business development positions in the travel and payments sectors.  He is an associate member of ISEP and has invested in understanding the areas of carbon management and environmental management.

He is passionate and pragmatic in working with both businesses and community groups to create a meaningful impact in response to the climate emergency and the subsequent decarbonisation challenge.

Graeme Mills

Operations Director

Graeme is the Operations Director for SmartCarbon Ltd. He is also the Managing Director of his own communications, marketing and organisational development business.  Graeme holds Board advisory roles and Non-Executive Directorships with several enterprises.

Graeme’s expertise is in carbon, training, and people strategies. Graeme leads on the development of elearning courses and support clients with marketing and enabling organisations to deliver authentic environmental communication campaigns to internal or external audiences.

He has held a senior marketing role with one of the UK’s largest environmental consultancies. As well as strategy development, Graeme can implement multi-media communications campaigns that engage audiences, enhance branding and increase sales potential.

Anindya Chatterjee

Lead Consultant

PISEP, REnvP, CMIOSH, GIFireE, MSc, IDipNEBOSH 

Anindya works with clients to guide reporting in line with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, and to develop processes and procedures to aid on going measurement and reduction towards a set Net Zero target. Anindya has multi-sector experience in leading decarbonisation initiatives, helping clients to develop their internal capabilities to measure, report and reduce all areas of direct and indirect emissions. He is fully conversant in the full range of Greenhouse Gas Protocol Reporting Standards as well as standards for Net Zero, carbon neutrality, as well as Life Cycle product emissions and embodied carbon.

Based on the experience of implementing management systems for two decades in various industries, Anindya has the ability to offer pragmatic solutions on establishing processes, change management and behavioural changes. 

Example work includes leading on a consultancy project to recalculate the 2019 carbon footprint base year for Newcastle Hospitals, which lead to a 43% uplift in total emissions (for the same reporting period) due to improved methodology and increased accuracy and completeness of the data. Leading on LCA project for Globus, a PPE supplier to NHS, Leading on Durham Cathedral Carbon Baseline and Net Zero Strategy as well as a host of other clients across a wide range of sizes and sectors.

Anindya is an MSc graduate from Northumbria University with distinction and winner of the Net Zero Innovation Challenge at the Newcastle Student Climate Change Summit. He is also an practitioner member of ISEP, Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner, Lead Verifier for ISO 14064, Lead Auditor for ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018, and implementer for ISO 50001:2018.

Molly Woods

Programme Manager

PISEP, BArch

Molly is a sustainability professional and Practitioner member of ISEP, with over 20 years’ of experience. She is driven by a passion to tackle the climate emergency, and takes a people-centered approach.
As Programme Manager at SmartCarbon, she focuses on supporting clients in measuring emissions across their value chain and subsequent carbon reduction planning.
Molly transitioned from architecture, through technical advice and project management in the construction industry, to cross-sector decarbonisation focused activity. She has experience in the private, public and third sectors in design and construction, housing, health and education. Prior to joining SmartCarbon, Molly was Programme Manager for the Home Energy and Communities Team at Cumbria’s climate change charity Futureproof Cumbria (formerly CAfS). She also worked for nearly a decade as Strategic Consultancy Technical Advisor for the global consultancy Mott MacDonald.
Her technical expertise is wide-ranging, and includes climate change, carbon auditing and reduction, building energy, renewables and the circular economy.
With strong project management, communication and interpersonal skills, Molly excels at managing large teams, working collaboratively with multiple partners and engaging stakeholders.

Marietta Hahn

Senior Consultant

MSc, BSc (Hons)

Marietta brings over three years of consultancy experience to SmartCarbon, where she supports organisations in understanding and managing their carbon impact. Her work includes supporting the delivery of tailored workshops, carbon accounting, and emissions reporting in line with industry-leading frameworks such as the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and PPN 06/21. She collaborates closely with clients to improve data quality, identify emissions reduction opportunities, and align with both regulatory and voluntary climate disclosure requirements. Marietta combines technical expertise with practical insight to support clients on their path to net zero.

Prior to joining SmartCarbon, Marietta worked as a multidisciplinary consultant at Lucion, where she delivered a range of sustainability services including corporate and product carbon footprint assessments, net zero target setting, and carbon reduction planning. She was also the Lead Consultant responsible for the delivery of ESG Benchmark Compliance Assessments in support of transactional, multi-asset UK real estate portfolios.

Marietta is fully committed to tackling climate change through data-driven action, strategic collaboration, and the promotion of sustainable practices across organisations of all sizes.

She holds a BSc (Hons) in Animal Biology from Nottingham Trent University and an MSc in Environmental Monitoring, Modelling and Reconstruction from Northumbria University. Marietta also completed an ISEP-accredited Carbon Footprinting (GHG Accounting) course through Northumbria University and is working towards becoming a Practitioner member of ISEP.

Dale Clark

Carbon Consultant

BSc (Hons)

Dale has over 3 years of experience in organisational carbon footprint reporting in accordance with the  Greenhouse Gas Protocol. He has strong experience in helping organisations meet SECR requirements and in guiding measurement in support of SBTi validation. 

 

As part of his SmartCarbon role Dale has particular focus upon value-chain engagement, working with clients to improve Scope 3 reporting accuracy through supplier provided data.

Dale brings a variety of experience to his role, from electrical engineering to freight forwarding, energy management, and geotechnical engineering. Dale’s last role as an environmental officer for a large housing association in the North East of England, saw him undertake extensive carbon accounting and carbon reduction planning utilising a variety of tools including the SmartCarbon Calculator, providing Dale with significant experience of the SmartCarbon Platform from the client’s perspective.

 

Dale holds a first-class honours degree in Environmental Science from Teesside University. He is currently focused on doing the right thing for the planet and people, so that when his future children ask, “What did you do during the climate crisis?” he can honestly say “everything I could”.

Team of Associates

We also have a small team of trusted and well qualified associates that can be drawn upon for specific projects. Every assignment is delivered or overseen by management at SmartCarbon to ensure the work is completed to the highest standard.  The SmartCarbon team have significant working history with all the associates and will ensure that the right people are chosen for each contract in discussion with the client.

Dr Mary Argyraki

Associate LCA Consultant & Trainer

BSc, MSc, PhD, Cert. Ed. (HE) and ISEP Registered Auditor and Assessor

Mary is a freelance senior consultant, registered with ISEP as Environmental Auditor, PISEP Assessor and member of North East and recently London regional steering groups.

She was a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Management at the University of Sunderland for 26 years and has 33 years experience in environmental management as applied to organisations of all sizes and sectors. Her expertise is in the application of environmental management tools and standards such as Auditing, Life Cycle assessments, Risk and Impact assessments, development and implementation of systems to standards such as ISO14001 and EMAS and environmental reporting. She has developed and delivered ISEP, IOSH and NEBOSH approved courses both in UK and abroad.

Her interests are in the application of life-cycle assessments and environmental issues of products/services. Selected experience in LCA includes carbon footprint studies for commercial clients, including training in LCA and in organisational and product carbon footprints. As an academic Mary developed and lead an MSc in EHS since 1997 on campus and since 2007 online. Her LCA modules have been part of this MSc and led to commercial projects at work placements. She has been an examiner for a number of MSc and PhD theses related to life cycle assessments, including being a peer reviewer for carbon footprint studies of cities.

Mike Deary

Associate Consultant and Award Verifier
BSc, MSc, PhD, FRSC

Mike is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Northumbria University. His research specialisms are in air quality, carbon sequestration in aquatic environments (saltmarshes and ponds), land contamination and environmental chemistry.

Mike teaches on the BSc Environmental Science and BSc Geography degrees at Northumbria University and is Programme Leader for the BSc Environmental Science Degree (Hong Kong). He is also Head of NEBOSH programmes at Northumbria, and coordinates the running of the ISEP Foundation Certificate in Environmental Management and the ISEP Approved Carbon Footprinting courses.

Mike is an Assessment Panel member on the SmartCarbon 5-step programme.

Carmel Campbell

Associate Consultant & Trainer
BEng MSc PISEP

With 25 years’ experience in ESG and sustainability, in both in-house and client facing roles, Carmel has experience across many sectors including; construction, hospitality, housing (private and social), finance, manufacturing, fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), pharmaceutical, local authority, NHS and not-for-profit.  Her work has extended to multi-site, national, and international clients.

Carmel’s areas of expertise include: ESG / Sustainability strategy, reporting, materiality assessments, disclosures to FTSE4Good, NextGeneration and CDP indices, sustainability KPI design and development, responsible supply chain management (RSCM), carbon & GHG reporting and verification, IS014001 EMS design, development and auditing and integrated environment and quality management systems, as well as circular economy.

Carmel is a third-party verifier for ESG reporting and PAS 2060, a certification auditor for ISO14001, ISO9001 and Integrated Management Systems (IMS). As well as designing and delivering tailored in-house training for clients she is also an active tutor of the ISEP Foundation (5 day), ISEP CEM (15 day), and CQI/IRCA ISO9001 and ISO14001 Auditor Courses. She is an active member of the ISEP North West Committee.