Jerry Marston

Jerry came to Australia in 2006 as one of the UK's most respected CSR professionals, with over 18 years' experience working for major companies in senior community affairs/corporate social responsibility roles, and 3 years as a director of one of the UK's leading CSR consulting firms. In the mid 90's he also headed up Comic Relief, the UK's most successful media fundraising charity, for three years - taking their bi-annual corporate and community fundraising total from $40 million to $60 million.

Developing award-winning employee volunteering programmes in the UK and in India for Zurich Financial Services and transforming corporate responsibility programs in line with new business priorities for retailers Littlewoods in the UK, Kingfisher in France and major international hospitality and leisure group, Whitbread. During his three years' directorship with the CSR consultancy Corporate Citizenship in the UK, he was responsible for the oversight and growth of their international community investment portfolio. Clients included Barclays, Britvic, the Co-op Bank, and Diageo.

In 2006, he joined CSR specialists Positive Outcomes in Australia, taking on the management and development of the London Benchmarking Group (LBG), now recognised as the international standard for measuring corporate community involvement, and successfully established and growing rapidly in Australia. Jerry left Haystac Positive Outcomes in 2008 to set up JJ CSR Consulting. His client portfolio in Australia includes Woolworths, ING Direct, Medibank Private, IAG, Fosters, Sensis, Challenger Financial Services, ANZ and Infosys, for whom he has worked on a range of projects including CSR strategy and program reviews, stakeholder consultations, impact measurement and CSR communications.

Jerry has served on the Boards of Business in the Community in the UK and the Boston Center for Corporate Citizenship in the US. He currently chairs the Board of StreetSmart Australia.