James Vaccaro

CEO - RePattern

James is a sustainability strategist and systems thinker with over twenty-five years’ senior management experience in sustainable finance and business. He has provided leadership for numerous organisations and projects, and served on a wide range of business and charity boards and governing bodies.

James was previously Group Director of Strategy for Triodos Bank – Europe’s leading international sustainable bank and investment manager. In his career at Triodos, he set up and managed the UK investment business comprising corporate finance and crowdfunding services, venture capital fund management and fund distribution.

Through RePattern, James is a strategy advisor to a number of renewable energy and regenerative agriculture-tech companies. He also led the development of the WWF Nature-based Solutions Accelerator.

James is a Fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership, where he works with large global finance organisations, helping develop their future leaders.