E115 Andrew Hicks

Andrew Hicks, CEO of Biodiversity Exchange (bngx) and former NatWest banker, joins Rich Stockdale PhD for a no-nonsense conversation about leadership, ambition, and the real cost of high performance.

Andrew shares his journey from global finance to building a digital marketplace aimed at making biodiversity net gain (BNG) policy work in practice — potentially reversing decades of environmental decline.

This episode cuts through the greenwash to ask: can markets really save nature? And what happens when leadership means standing apart from the herd?