Our Associates

Chairman Environs Group

John Hubbell

John is focused on establishing growth through investments and supporting family enterprises.

John’s main interest is developing Environs Innovate Limited and Phundex Limited’s (Jersey Channel Islands) international funding network. Environs is an end to end funding platform that is structured specifically to provide regulated funding to organisations that support the development of innovation, Phundex supplies to Environs an exciting new technology platform that coordinates across fund administration, investees, investors, administrators, and managers, providing tracking and reporting across the financial eco-system in both junior and senior capital markets.

Environs’ target market are those organisations that foster innovation, entrepreneurship, through investment hubs in academia, government and industry, investment houses such as venture capital and innovation fund managers, organisations such angel groups, investment clubs, family offices, and high net worth private investors.

Environs have partnered with Phundex to digitalise its complete administrative structure and extend its future commercial offering. In the future, Phundex will build in efficiencies to Environs and future AI introductions that will develop in phases and Environs will become a fund manager supplying a clearinghouse and exchange for innovative investments. All this will be coordinated on the Phundex platform.

John’s area of expertise is funding early-stage businesses based on a 40 year plus career in this area. Today John specializes in health-related business dealing with wellness, sport, fitness and education, more specifically in businesses that can reduce illness and those that can reduce the inefficiencies of health services. He is also interested in businesses that can improve the lives children, special educational needs and advance learning and development programs.

The basis for this direction is his five-year academic study into the economics of biological ageing, and then the understanding of the need for western societies to deal with the staggering costs related to lifestyle-related illness and disease.

John has put together a group of experts and investors as aligned associates who are looking for investments and non-executive directorship roles in companies that are innovative and have an impact and social solution.

Phundex CEO Hubbell Ventures

Heather-Anne Hubbell

Chief Operations Officer

Andrew Brown

Andrew is a Chartered Engineer and Business Executive/Advisor working with SMEs and growing companies as mentor and coach on Board governance, business strategy, business and operational development.

He has worked for international corporations (Alcatel-Lucent, DMR/Amdahl, ECI Telecom and BT) in roles including Regional Director, Senior management, technology advisor, professional services, business development, operations. He has also worked with many SMEs (Board guidance, executive roles, readiness for finance, strategy and business development) in the UK and internationally.

Andrew has worked with companies in many business sectors (B2B and B2C) including Telecomms, IT, Med-Tech, Civil Engineering, product engineering, manufacture, professional and design services.

Chief Financial Officer

Peter Richie

PETER RITCHIE, CPA CA CBV

Peter is the group CFO for Hubbell Ventures and has responsibility for Environs Group and all associated companies.  Peter takes an active role in overseeing the financial potential of investment opportunities for the group, assisting in the execution of strategic growth strategies through financing, consulting and other services. Peter collaborates with the Chief Executive Officers Hubbell Ventures, Phundex and the Environs Group for determining the annual strategic financial planning of the combined businesses and jointly presents these strategic plans to the  various Investor Clients, Board of Directors and Advisors.

Peter is a financial professional with a diverse set of technical competencies and soft skills, combined with a strong focus on identifying and executing strategies that enhance shareholder value. Peter has worked at the board level for the last 20 years and is well position to be the financial director of Hubbell Ventures Limited and its associated companies on their financial performance, regulatory reporting, enterprise risk management, investment strategies and other matters.

Peter is looking forward to supplying the financial oversite to the various companies of the existing Environs Group and being a part of the development of new and innovative opportunities.

CEO HealthEdge Innovations Inc

Richard Foty

Chief Medical Officer

Iseult Roche

Iseult Roche is a UK Medical Doctor and a Fellow of the Royal Society of public health.

Her background in Public health is practical and strategic. She was portfolio holder for Community (Public ) Health and Sport in Local Government, prior to that she was a special advisor.

Through this unique background , she continues as an independent consultant advisor for public health and the implementation of public health policy in local Government, aiming to help reduce the gulf between public health policy and social application and follow-through of public health initiatives.

A keen enthusiast of health technology and its uses for better public health and well-being , Iseult has been a panel member and judge on the Axa health & 2020health digital health awards.

She acts as a facilitator and an intermediary for businesses , advisors and entrepreneurs looking to Improve their knowledge of the health business market and health tech sector and gain access to business funding. Her aim is to work with organisations and individuals to help

promote wider improvements in health.

UK Account For Environs Group

Paul Allsop

Digital Health

Dr. Stan Shepherd

Dr Stan Shepherd MB ChB BSc DRCOG

A visionary leader in healthcare IT, Founder and CEO of Instant Access Medical.

He gained a BSc in Aeronautical Engineering before qualifying in Medicine and entering General Practice.

He was one of the earliest users of computerised GP records before combining his skills in medicine and technology to develop an electronic GP record, still a leading electronic health record system in 3 countries, and used by Special Olympics, for their global health screening programme for people with intellectual disabilities, in every US State and 80 other countries.

As a clinician he understands the business of healthcare intimately, as an engineer and IT specialist he understands systems and using technology to improve healthcare outcomes.  His combination of clinical and technical expertise aligns perfectly with the current need for healthcare to accelerate its adoption of Digital Health.

He leads Instant Access Medical and its comprehensive, life-long mobile personal care record for citizens.

His focus is to enable the most clinically-effective and most cost-effective care, through citizen-held mobile personal care records with embedded personalised evidence-based care pathways, to achieve the best outcomes for patients at the lowest costs for health systems, providers, funders, insurers and employers internationally.

He is a member of the Special Olympics International Medical Advisory Committee, and a Councillor on the Digital Health Council of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Jamie Mintrim

Jamie has been running his own trade firm since 2005. He has experience in managing large projects often hiring trades to undertake the works. Jamie has intimate knowledge of what the trades wants, needs and paint ponts are. He has lived the problems and identified the solutions the industry needs. Having worked alongside homeowners for so long, he also understands their wants extremely well.

Jamie has a huge passion for marketing and sales, particularly strategies that have effective ROI in the construction industry. He has strong business acumen and communication skills. Jamie has built multiple connections in the industry that will help shape and develop CertaBuilds future

Louis Spackman

Louis works in the painting and decorating business and has played an integral part in developing the AppyQuote concept. As a visionary designer, he’s been involved directly and indirectly with various startup businesses over the years. He has an entrepreneurial outlook, loads of ideas, and a wide range of software skills thanks to his background in media and marketing.

Dr Priya Kalia

Dr Priya Kalia is Chief Innovation Officer for the Environs Group. In this role, she leads Innovation for the Wimmer Financial-EnHlth investment portfolio and is helping to scale up the Group’s Innovation Management System.

Following a 15-year career in regenerative medicine research and life sciences communications, Priya founded SciTribe in 2017, a strategic advisory firm focused on strategic awareness-raising campaigns, writing, and research. She has worked with business leaders and organisations across science, the environment, and technology for over a decade, ensuring their exciting, meaningful stories are heard and clearly understood on a global stage, breaking through what can seem like overwhelming noise.

Priya also sits on the Advisory Board of BioPartner UK, the independent, accredited trade organisation that supports UK international trade by promoting and supporting global partnerships across the life sciences and healthcare.

Based in the UK with international experience, including Canada, the US, the Nordics and Southeast Asia, Priya has a BSc from the University of Toronto, Canada and PhD from University College London, United Kingdom.

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David Tweedy

David is an Economics Graduate with an MBA in Accounting in Finance.  David has deep and broad experience in working with commercial banks, investment banks and private equity in mortgage finance and business operations.  Early in his career he was involved in several early-stage start-ups and by the early 2000s was the CEO of a leading UK specialist mortgage lender lending over £4bn pa and generating profits in excess of £50m pa.  Under David’s leadership, It was one of the few that survived the global financial crisis of 2008.

Since 2012 he has worked as a specialist SME to nurture lenders through periods of major transformational change and / or growth. From 2015 to 2020 he was a founder of a start-up backed by a US based Prive Equity fund. David successfully handed over his CEO role to a leadership team to focus on conversion of the wholesale funded lender into a bank.

He is an expert on mortgage finance, business operations and people leadership. He also has many years of experience on a variety of Boards and Board Committees leading and supporting the development of business strategy while overseeing financial, technological and operational activities.

James Willson

Sun-X has been treating windows to combat the effects of the sun since the 1960’s, applying retro-fit coatings to glazing, and then began manufacturing and fitting traditional roller blind systems in the 1980’s, thereby offering a complete solution to sunlight control.

A wide array of window film and blind products not only protect priceless interiors, but render glass shatter-proof, retain winter heat, reduce glare and solar heat gain, provide privacy, and graphic effects.

Sun-X is also able to offer solutions to dramatically reduce energy usage in commercial buildings : Low-E window films can reduce summer heat gain, thereby reducing air-conditioning loads, but also retain heat in winter, saving on heating costs. This year-round capability can show a return on investment in as little as 3 years. Indicative and fully detailed reports can be produced to demonstrate its performance, and show reductions in carbon footprint, helping to meet Minimum Energy Efficiency standards, earn BREEAM credits, reduce Climate Change Levy liabilities, and help meet the new Part ‘O’ overheating Regulations.

Furthermore, we are deploying innovative retro-fit technologies to reduce commercial energy costs, offering up to 20% savings on gas, and 10% on electric, with payback in as little as 1-2 years.

Since 2004, Sun-X is also very proud to bear the Royal Warrant: By Appointment to His Majesty The King, Suppliers and Installers of Traditional Blinds and Ultraviolet Filters.

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Andrew Smith

Andrew has over 28 years’ experience at board level as a Chairman/Chief Executive having run several businesses, many in the asset/wealth management industry and many from start-up.

Andrew was the Founder and CEO of Fraser Smith, one of the UK’s leading and most progressive wealth management firms. He brought in Rupert Hambro as a shareholder and Michael Hepher (previously Group MD of BT) as Chairman of the renamed business HambroFraserSmith. The business was later sold to a listed company.

More recently he was one of the 4 Founders and Chief Operating Officer at Succession Advisory Services, a nationwide IFA consolidator,  which was sold to Aviva for £385 million.
Andrew has raised money to fund business growth/buy-outs some involving very innovative and unique funding structures.

He has worked across a number of industries – from running a joint venture with American Express Global Financial Services to build a UK wide financial planning and investment business; with Goldman Sachs to distribute their institutional fund management services into the IFA and retail space; the Gibraltar Government to build a media and entertainment business; and most recently two disruptive businesses, one looking to revolutionise the way in which people access their housing  wealth (Home Drawdown®) pre and post-retirement, and secondly the means for everyone  to build mental resilience and strength, based on a programme built over 15 years at elite athletic and academic levels (www.mindsavvy.co.uk ).

Jeff Manion

Chartered Safety and Health Practitioner. CMIOSH.
OSHCR ‘Occupational Safety & Health Consultant Register’.
Occupational health and safety.
Workplace – audits – inspections – risk assessments.
Appointed person – lifting Operations.
Temporary Works Co-ordinator.
IOSH – South Downs Branch Construction Section Chair.
Specialties: Construction, Construction Design and Management (CDM), offices, general offices, warehouses.

CEO Certa Service

Rebecca Newenham

After a corporate career in buying for retail giants Superdrug and Sainsburys, Rebecca was looking for a flexible work solution that could fit around her lifestyle and three daughters. Having grown up with a successfully self-employed mother, Rebecca knew it was possible to work as well as be there for school drop off and pick-ups. Her mum was a real inspiration and Rebecca grew up knowing that she wanted one day to run her own business just like her mum did.

Having looked at various business ideas and the way the employment landscape was shaping up in 2010, Rebecca felt a virtual assistance business offered the best solution. She had always loved networking, which is such a big part of her role now. With a second-hand laptop, a book full of contacts and a training course under her belt, she was ready to go and launched Get Ahead.

Rebecca always knew she wanted to offer work to others in a similar situation to herself – particularly other mothers who were hugely experienced but struggling to find flexible work. It’s been a pleasure for Rebecca to watch her team grow to over 50 virtual specialists and win a Flexible Business of the Year award.

In 2017, after many months of planning, Rebecca launched her franchise model to help others realise their dreams of running their own business. Mentoring and supporting her franchisees is so rewarding. She talks about going into business for yourself, but not by yourself. She is there to support franchisees every step of the way.

Mandip Kelsi

Mandip Kalsi is a RIBA and ARB accredited Architect and founder of KLC Architects, known for delivering high-value residential, commercial, hospitality and development projects across London and the UK. He specialises in unlocking development potential—helping clients identify opportunities, secure planning permission, and deliver schemes that maximise return on investment. His work spans private residential projects, investor-led refurbishments, and both large and small-scale developments including interior design architecture. Mandip’s strength lies in combining design, planning strategy, and technical delivery into a single streamlined service. By managing the full process—from feasibility through to construction—he ensures projects are not only approved but built efficiently and profitably

Dave Houghton

Dave Clements

Nick Langley

Mathew Barton

Simon Soar

Ferhat Amin

Lee Garratt

Lee Garratt is a highly experienced Quantity Surveyor and construction professional with over 23 years in the industry, and the driving force behind Garratt Construction Consultants. A member of both RICS and CIOB, Lee has built a reputation for delivering reliable commercial and project management expertise across a wide range of sectors, with particular strength in refurbishment, re-cladding, and complex compliance-driven schemes. His approach combines technical precision with a practical understanding of construction delivery, ensuring projects are both commercially sound and effectively executed.

As a key figure within the Environs Group and co-lead of Certabuild Ltd, Lee is focused on growing a collaborative network of like-minded professionals while delivering high-quality development and consultancy services. His long-term vision is to establish a strong presence while driving sustainable growth and creating investment opportunities through carefully appraised developments. Lee brings leadership, diligence, and a results-driven mindset to every project, helping shape Environs as a trusted and forward-thinking brand in the built environment.