Our beginnings
Switch2Zero is the brainchild of experienced fintech specialists Ian Ormerod and Tom Rochester, who met while working in banking. Over the last twelve months, our rapidly expanding team of dedicated optimists has worked towards a common goal- making it easy and affordable to offset your carbon footprint.
Our Philosophy
The time for change is now, and any action is better than none. We want to help people in every stage of their carbon offset journey- whether taking the first step to reducing their footprint or fully ready to transition to a Net-Zero lifestyle or business model- by offering the resources and opportunities to take control of their climate impact.
Meet the Team
Derek White
Chairman
Chairman
Derek White is an internationally renowned business leader, investor and ecosystem builder, who has been responsible for some of the biggest technological advances in financial services over the past two decades.
Having launched the world's first Internet bank, Derek then led the digital transformation of several of the planet's biggest banks - Barclays, BBVA, US Bank - before moving to Google to lead their Google Cloud Financial Services arm.
With a focus on human-centric design, Derek is passionate about the ability of technology to disrupt industries - to make them better, more inclusive, more accessible and ultimately to deliver more impact for all stakeholders. It's this passion he is bringing to Switch2Zero.
Currently CEO at Galileo Financial Services, Derek and his family live in Utah close to Salt Lake City. Away from work, he can usually be found enjoying the great outdoors - spending free time in the mountains, hills and lakes close to his home. It's this love of the environment - preserving and improving it - which drives his work at S2Z.
Ian Ormerod
Co-founder and CEO
Co-founder and CEO
Ian left a successful career in banking to focus on what he believes is the challenge of our lifetime - climate change. As he puts it "if we don't get this right, and quickly, our grandchildren will be living in a world that's barely habitable". Ian specialised in innovation, digital disruption and investing in new businesses on a global scale. He's taking all he's learned and combining this with a growing expertise in sustainability to build pragmatic solutions to get us to net zero. He's also a dreadful singer so a career pivot to rockstar was out!
Tom Rochester
Co-Founder and CTO
Co-Founder and CTO
Tom is a respected leader and technology expert with a BSc in Computer Science and over 20 years experience in Financial Services. He specialises in disruptive innovation and delivering global, modular, and cloud native digital platforms, and has been responsible for technical delivery and product ownership at Barclays, Citi and Standard Chartered.
Tom is passionate about open source projects and deploying technology for positive change, leading him to co-found Switch2Zero and focus on climate change with Ian.
Leanne Ellard
Head of Consulting
Head of Consulting
Having worked as head brokerage analyst in house at JP Morgan, Leanne went on to set up her own consulting business, specialising in transforming large complex data sets into data analytics and management reports which were then used to advise investment banks how to monitor and reduce their brokerage costs.
Leanne has used this expertise to develop Switch2Zero’s consulting ‘Toolkit’, which guides clients on their net zero journey by helping them understand & calculate their scope 1, 2 & 3 footprint and reduction possibilities.
Leanne has always been passionate about wellbeing and is now focusing her efforts on the well being of the planet.
Want to join us?
We're growing! Which means we're always looking for enthusiastic talent who want to make positive change in the world.