Responsible production and consumption: Dr Victoria Hurth and Paul Winterton
Channel: Sustainable Earth Institute
Date: 2016-08-04

Dr Victoria Hurth, Associate Professor in Marketing, Plymouth University

Victoria is an Associate Professor in Marketing in the Faculty of Business and Faculty Lead for Student Satisfaction. Victoria is passionate about how businesses can be catalysts and innovators of solutions to societal issues. She is currently researching the role of 'purpose-driven organisations’ in creating societal change and business success. Victoria is also focused on the role marketing has to play in developing and leading a transition to a more sustainable society – and has published a framework for evolved marketing which she is developing with practitioners. She is a regional board member for the Chartered Management Institute, a Chartered Marketer, a UK Lead Expert on Sustainable Development for ISO (Sustainable Cities and Communities) and a board member of the Fleming Policy Centre.

Paul Winterton, Managing Director, Langage Farm

Paul was born in Liverpool and obviously very passionate about Liverpool FC and was fortunate enough to be selected for the LFC schoolboy side during his teenage years. He married at the tender age of 19 and is still with his childhood sweetheart today having had three beautiful daughters and recently a grandson.

Paul moved to Devon to pursue a career in the dairy industry and became very interested in the science behind dairy products and managed to work his way from the shop floor to the position of MD via various organisations. He sat as a Board Director with Food and Drink Devon, and now sits on a Better Business For All (BBFA) Panel to input business ways of thinking to the regulatory authorities.