James Perrin

Experience

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  Lion

  Nov 2013 - Dec 2015

  • Assistant Innovation Manager

    Jul 2015 - Dec 2015

  • Brewing Team Leader

    Dec 2014 - Jul 2015

  • Environment Coordinator

    Nov 2013 - Nov 2014
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  Stone & Wood Brewing Company

  Dec 2015 - Dec 2021

  • Sustainability & Impact Leader | Fermentum family of businesses

    Aug 2017 - Dec 2021

  • Packaging & Sustainability Team Leader

    Dec 2015 - Aug 2017
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  James Perrin

  May 2021 - now

  Sustainability & Impact Specialist / B-Consultant

  I work with individuals, businesses, and not-for-profits to deepen their impact. With experience across engineering, governance, and media, I offer wide-ranging and specialist impact support for organisations. This includes operational projects, supply chain improvements, strategic planning, impact reporting, and advocacy and engagement.In recent times this has included:- integrating a regeneratively grown barley supply into a brewery- developing an impact investment strategy for a NFP foundation- creating a holistic sustainability strategy for a property developer, and a catering business- implementing community grants giving programs in multiple geographical regions- guiding a surf apparel business toward through B-Corp certification- crafting a comprehensive impact report for a social enterprise fashion company- drafting sustainability guides for an industry body's members- coordinating a mini-documentary about regenerative farming- MCing a series of live interviews at a major environmental festival- helping dozens of businesses through their BCorp assessment- + much more Show less

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  InGrained Foundation

  Jan 2022 - Nov 2023

  As a Founding Director of a national public foundation focused on supporting grassroots social and environmental groups, I've helped to establish and grow the foundation and its activities across grants, fundraising, governance, and investments, including:- Implementing community grants programs in the Northern Rivers and Brisbane- Developing impact investment strategy for Foundation’s corpus- Administering over $2M of donations to grassroots social and environmental groups- Providing emergency funding to critical organisations during bushfire and flood crises - Building trusting relationships between donor organisations and grant beneficiaries Show less

  • Director

    Dec 2017 - Nov 2023

  • Executive Director

    Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
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  Australian Impact Investments

  Apr 2023 - Mar 2025

  Senior Associate