Dr Nicola Nicholls

A former research chemist and fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Nicola Nicholls spent 14 years in Private Equity with Charterhouse Capital Partners where she was a director and sat as a non-executive director on the boards of a dozen companies. She joined the board of Green-Works in 2002.

Nicola is deputy chairman of The Woodland Trust and a non-executive director of professional training company BPP Holdings plc. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Cambridge Judge Business School and a Director of Cambridge Enterprise. She also advises government departments on the promotion of enterprise and remains a Special Adviser to Charterhouse.