Cheryl was one of the founders of CfR and was instrumental in setting up Regen, where she worked for 14 years. She is a specialist in spatial planning, distributed energy and stakeholder engagement. In June 2017, Cheryl joined Pell Frischmann and assumed responsibility for the company’s energy and environment sector strategy. She is now Director of Energy Capital at West Midlands Combined Authority driving forward the delivery of the Regional Energy Strategy and energy devolution ask, to ensure the West Midlands meets its clean growth, climate change and local industrial strategy goals.

Cheryl is an economist and geographer by background and is motivated by bringing these two elements together to support the development of low-carbon, climate-resilient economies. She holds an MSc in Sustainable Environmental Management where she completed a thesis on the insurance industry’s response to climate change. Cheryl chairs the Entrepreneurial Women in Renewable Energy network, established by Regen to support the renewable energy sector to harness talent from across the sector.