Co-founder bloomUp

Anne-Cécile Turner

With more than twenty years of experience on a global scale in marketing, sponsorship and management, she has
worked with some of the world’s biggest names including NGOs, media outlets, sporting events
and international brands. She created Blueshift an agency specialised in sustainability consultancy
in 2009. In 2011 Anne-Cécile joined the Race for Water Foundation as director. The Foundation’s
core aim was to identify, implement and promote solutions for a new social circular economy
around plastic waste, in doing so preserving water and our oceans.
In 2016, she joined the Volvo Ocean Race as Sustainability Director, in order to assist the event in
its journey to reduce its environmental impact, optimise its sustainability potential and use the
power of the race to create positive change on to our ocean health. Since 2019 she has pursued
the innovative sustainability programme developed on the Volvo Ocean Race, now called The
Ocean Race. She has created a platform for change, engaging world leaders, Academia,
Institutions, private sector, scientists, philanthropists and policy makers to accelerate ocean health
restoration towards a Universal Declaration of Ocean Rights.
Between 2021 and 2023, she was the campaign director of Sails of Change, a foundation
dedicated to the protection and regeneration of biodiversity through sport and art. Its activities
work towards the goal to fully and highly protect 30% of the global ocean and land by 2030.
She is currently Co-Founder of bloomUp (previously The SHIFT) a global sustainability agency
leader in creating positive solutions for businesses, Philanthropy, world events organisers.
bloomUp agency supports organisations in designing and implementing positive transformation for
planet and people.