Nick Bubb was appointed Chief Executive of Tusk in January 2024. Prior to taking on this role, he was the Business Development Director at Fauna & Flora International (FFI), one of the world’s oldest conservation charities. He was involved with the organisation from 2012 (initially as an ambassador) until the end of 2023 and his role was focussed on developing new partnerships & fundraising globally. Over the course of a decade with FFI, Nick also led donor expeditions across multiple FFI project sites in Africa, South East Asia, Australasia, Central America and Northern Europe., and was a Director of FFI Australia.

During late 2021 and 2022 at the tail end of the Covid pandemic, Nick worked part time for FFI and sailed from the UK to New Zealand with his family. During this incredible family adventure, they visited numerous FFI project sites and spent time with remote island communities. Clear objectives of the voyage for the family, were developing their understanding of how climate change is impacting low lying island nations and deepening their knowledge of marine conservation initiatives.

Prior to working in conservation, Nick graduated with an engineering degree from the University of Exeter in 2001 and is a former British Universities Dinghy Sailing Champion. For the following 10 years he worked as a sailor & engineer with various high performance sailing campaigns. Highlights included the 2008/9 round-the-world Volvo Ocean Race & multiple solo trans-Atlantic yacht races. He was also one of the youngest people ever, to successfully race non-stop around the world, after completing the HSBC Oryx Quest in 2005.

In 2010, after ten years of professional ocean racing, Nick began a career in finance but took a short sabbatical in 2013, to skipper the ‘Shackleton Epic’, which retraced Shackleton’s famous voyage from Antarctica to South Georgia. Shortly after this expedition Nick was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and decided to follow his passion for the natural world and left his career in Investment Management to begin work for FFI.