Profile
Sophie is an award-winning entrepreneur working at the intersection of the circular economy, technology, open standards and packaging. She is the CEO and Co-Founder of Dsposal, a Founding Director of its sister social enterprise Your Dsposal, a Founding Director of the not-for-profit GING Systems and the Head of Strategic Partnerships for Open 3P.
She joined Resource Futures in January 2025 on a six-month secondment as part of a formal partnership between Dsposal and Resource Futures. Sophie, along with the rest of the Dsposal team, are supporting the innovation and evolution of the data intelligence services delivered by Resource Futures.
Expertise
Sophie has led a number of major projects, often with user research, stakeholder engagement and service design at their heart, including the PPP Phase 2 project on packaging data funded by Innovate UK (leading to the development of the Open 3P data standard for packaging and the GING data sharing platform), a 3-month feasibility study for Defra into digital waste tracking for the UK, a project on household waste recycling centre data funded by the Open Data Institute, and a Women in Innovation Award to develop waste compliance software for the NHS.
She speaks internationally on the circular economy, digitalisation, open data and open standards, is the Group Coordinator of the Waste Compliance Taskforce, was named Innovator of the Year in the 2024 Resource Hot 100, chaired the UK Plastics Pact data working group, and is an alumna of the CSC Leaders Programme (now Global Leaders). Her expertise includes:
- Circular Economy
- Systems thinking
- Human-centred systemic design
- Innovation and data strategy
- Stakeholder engagement
- Workshop design and facilitation
- Strategic partnerships
- Software project design and delivery
- Public speaking
