Heather is an experienced business entrepreneur, start-up founder and former Director of Operations at a start-up accelerator in Oxford. In her current role as Business Engagement Manager at the Satellite Applications Catapult, she works with organisations across the Space sector, supporting their use of Satellite technology as a means to accelerate their business growth. A former international education teacher, consultant and environmental education programme director with a background in Geography, resource management and sustainable design, Heather also focuses on the sustainable development market at the Satellite Applications Catapult and in particular their Illegal Wildlife Trade initiatives and the Wildlabs Tech Hub. Through these programmes, she looks to bridge the gap between conservation challenges and technological innovation to help end wildlife crime and hopes to apply this model to other areas of conservation and sustainable development in the future.