Jonathan Lea has wide experience as CFO of a FTSE 250 multi-national business as well as in private equity backed and not-for-profit businesses.
He is now a non-executive director and has been a trustee of a number of charities. He first became interested in the sustainability of the food production and distribution system when he was CFO of the Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP). He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and chairs the Finance, Audit and Risk Committee at the UK Agri-Tech Centre.
Jonathan Lea also has a strong interest in history and is Treasurer of the Sutton Hoo Ship’s Company, a project to reconstruct the 7th century Anglo-Saxon ship that was used as a burial chamber and unearthed in 1939.