Marcus Bell

Marcus is a Chartered Management Accountant with over 30 years of experience in a variety of industries including pharmaceuticals, engineering, and landscape.  For most of his career, he worked at Sanofi (pharmaceuticals), where he experienced the company change through mergers and acquisitions from Rhone-Poulenc, to Aventis, to Sanofi-Aventis, and finally Sanofi. Whilst working at the then global headquarters in Frankfurt, he was responsible for consolidating the results of 80+ legal entities across the world, and preparing board reports. At Sanofi, Marcus progressed to Finance Director for one of the company’s strategic sites, looking after an annual turnover in excess of £1.3bn, and being the ‘go to person’ for group accounting policy changes. 

During his tenure at Sanofi, he implemented three major SAP rollouts, and later progressed to a European Finance Director role, where he was responsible for the controllership of 6 sites across Europe. Marcus joined Ground Control at the end of 2018, and has supported the business through rapid change, and growth – including the launch of the Evergreen Fund.  Marcus is excited to be joining this highly experience team of business entrepreneurs who share a common passion for the fight against climate change, and using business and finance, as a force for good.