After graduating from Loughborough University with a Manufacturing Engineering degree and an Environmental Studies Masters degree, she worked in consultancy for ten years, supporting businesses with environmental management, compliance, and eco-design projects.

Her long-standing food service client, Compass Group, then invited her in-house to manage sustainability across the UK and Ireland, where she led their strategy for eight years.

It was here that she developed several award-winning tools to inspire action and was recognized with a Special Achievement Award at the Footprint Awards 2019 for outstanding contribution to sustainability.

Most recently, she served as Head of Sustainability for KFC UK & Ireland for two and a half years. As well as leading the sustainability agenda, she began their net zero journey, defined their waste strategy, and managed ESG compliance.

She is a regular panel judge for the Footprint Awards and a member of the S30 NextGen Forum, a consortium of global sustainability leaders.

Celena resides in South London, UK, with her fiancé and Japanese Shiba Inu. In her spare time, she enjoys keeping fit, cooking, gardening, and socializing. Celena is passionate about nature and wildlife and likes to spend her holidays travelling off the beaten track or supporting conservation projects.