Tom Flood

Chief executive, The Conservation Volunteers from 2001

Tom Flood has worked for conservation group BTCV for 25 years and has been its chief executive since 2001. BTCV has won numerous awards under Tom’s leadership, including a 2011 Charity Award. In early 2012, however, he announced he would step down from the post in July of that year.

Prior to joining BTCV as marketing director in 1986, Tom worked in the private sector for A.E. Herbert Ltd (machine tools), WS Atkins and 3M UK.

Throughout his time in the voluntary sector, however, he has sat on a number of government boards including the Home Office Volunteering Group, the New Deal Taskforce, the UK Biodiversity Steering Group, and was a board member of Acevo (Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations).

In 2004 he was appointed CBE Queen's Birthday Honours.

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