Sian Sutherland - Follow The Entrepreneur

Igniting social change, creating brands, campaigns and businesses with soul is Sian’s passion. Multi-award winner, including Female Marketer of the Year, CEW Achiever Award, Entrepreneur of the Year, UK Point of Light Award and British Inventor of the Year; Siân is a serial entrepreneur with a varied background in advertising, Michelin Star restaurants, film production and brand creation design agencies.

In 2017, Siân and Frederikke Magnussen founded A Plastic Planet; a global social Impact movement with a single goal – to ignite and inspire the world to turn off the plastic tap. As entrepreneurs, they bring a different fresh pro-business approach to environmental issues. A Plastic Planet are highly vocal in representing the public’s right for plastic-free choice, working collaboratively with industry, retailers, Governments, legislators and the UN. Recognised in The 2019 Fast Company Awards and winners of International Campaign of the Year, A Plastic Planet created the infamous Plastic Free Aisle campaign, opening this catalyst for supermarket change in Amsterdam early 2018.

They also launched the Plastic Free Trust Mark for brands, with over 1000 already certified, and the Industry Commitment Mark ‘Working Towards Plastic Free’. During 2020, they commenced a pivotal project with Skiathos, instigated by the island’s inspirational new mayor. From plastic hackathons for Unilever and WPP to creating new laws banning export of plastic waste, from lobbying for plastic taxes, and the planned launch of the first PlasticFree.com materials library with blockchain partner IBM, A Plastic Planet have created global impact in just 3 years.