Advisory Board
Carbon13 is proud to be supported by our Advisory Board consisting of experienced founders, mentors, domain experts, and investors, all united by Carbon13’s mission of reducing global GHG emissions by millions of tonnes.
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Carbon13 is proud to be supported by our Advisory Board consisting of experienced founders, mentors, domain experts, and investors, all united by Carbon13’s mission of reducing global GHG emissions by millions of tonnes.
Commercially focused business leader with 20 years main Board experience, as Executive and Non-Executive Director, driving strategic growth and leading high performing teams in the media, professional services and technology sectors. Caroline has delivered business strategy across EMEA, the Americas, former-CIS, India and the Far East in commercial leadership roles for FTSE100 groups, mid-cap companies, and innovative small and medium sized enterprises. Her early career was in corporate finance with Merrill Lynch (New York), UBS and HSBC advising global corporations and governments. Caroline’s current portfolio of interests is supported by a strong interdisciplinary background. She is a Qualified Accountant, Chartered Financial Analyst, Master of Business Administration and Chartered Director.
Lubomila is the Founder & CEO of Plan A, the award-winning and certified end-to-end platform for carbon accounting, carbon reduction and ESG reporting, underpinned by scientific methods and technology. Lubomila is also the Co-founder of the Greentech Alliance, a community of 1000+ Greentech companies which connects its members to top tier VCs, media and experts. Lubomila’s work has seen her awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2020, Top 50 Women in Tech in Germany 2021, and most recently as Sustainability Hero 2021, Generali Group SME EnterPrize Award, 2021.
Adizah is a product-focused technology executive having worked on the rollout of digital products such as websites, billing systems, and payment products. Fast forward to 2020 and she has built a unique lens while working in the technology sector in London. She is the former Director of Marketing EMEA at Token a fintech company from San Francisco and was the first marketing hire in the European market in 2016. In 2013 she was part of the founding team of Level39 a technology accelerator focused on fintech products. She has been in the technology and startup ecosystem since 2009 and understands how to build relationships that add value to all partners. She was part of the 2011 team that grew edtech company Apps for Good – scaling the program from 2 schools to 100 schools. Over the years Adizah picked up a number of awards and was recently named by the FT as one of the top 100 2018 EMpower ethnic minority executives in the UK and North America.
Lisa is currently setting up Btomorrow Ventures the Corporate Venturing arm of BAT in order to accelerate BAT’s digital transformation and Beyond Nicotine Strategy. She was previously a Director at Unilever Ventures leading sustainable investment for 8 years; and founder Entrepreneur in Residence at the Royal College of Art’s Dyson Incubator. Prior to investing Lisa was Chief Engineer building and operating factories for Unilever; she then joined McKinsey, practicing lean operations in NA and EU. Lisa is passionate about people and planet, she built a tech platform to support wellbeing and eliminate social isolation of the elderly as CEO of Kraydel, and designed and launched a Pan-African agricultural green bond to address food security alongside a novel multi-country Agri-MBA. Lisa has won numerous leadership, innovation & IT awards most recently as UK Women in IT Entrepreneur of the year & Mentor of the year. Lisa has an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MSc in Bio-Mechanics and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering.
David is an experienced ‘people, development & change consultant’ and a facilitative learning practitioner. He has a passion for addressing ‘messy’ challenges, at an organisational, team or individual level, and for working in a discreet and people-focused manner. He ran ‘direct experience’ marketing agencies for more than a decade before becoming an independent consultant in 2007. He has additionally been teaching within University of Brighton, Business School between 2013 and 2020, latterly as a Senior Lecturer and as Interim Course Leader for the MBAs. He holds an Executive MBA from London Business School, is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is a Certified Management & Business Educator.
James is a strategist and systems thinker with a background in sustainable finance. He runs the strategy consultancy, RePattern – part of NOW Partners. He is a Special Advisor to Triodos Bank (previously Director of Strategy and MD of the UK Investment Business), and Interim Director for the Climate Safe Lending Network. James has served as a member of several advisory groups on sustainable finance at UK, European and international level including the Global Steering Committee for the UNEP Finance Initiative, where he was one of the founding developers of the UN Principles for Responsible Banking. James is a Senior Associate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainable, Senior Fellow (and previous Chair) of the Finance Innovation Lab, a director of Regen and an advisor for a small number of NGOs in Europe including the Club of Rome.
Rebecca is an organic chemist and spent 20 years at the Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. She did her PhD with Chris Abell FRS then moved the labs of Steven Ley CBE FRS for postdoctoral research. Rebecca was Associate Director for the Cambridge-CRUK PhD Training Programme in Medicinal Chemistry.
Now as Head of Education at the Cambridge Judge Business School Entrepreneurship Centre, Rebecca has designed and established entrepreneurship programmes for the research community at the University of Cambridge and beyond, including two new-to-the-scene educational programmes, EntrepriseTech and EntrepriseTECH STAR, now flourishing between the laboratory and start-up interface.
Rebecca is passionate about cultivating meaningful research impact, creating opportunities for researchers to thrive beyond academia and become founders of next-generation companies that put the earth and human health first.
Philippe Manet has over 35 years experience in banking and financial markets, ranging from debt structuring to asset management. He is now an angel investor but remains on the board of both commercial companies and investment funds. Philippe is a CFA® charterholder.
Chairman of Cambridge Cleantech/Envirotech Ltd, co-founder of the Cambridge Energy Forum and of the Cleantech Special Interest Group at Cambridge Network.
Having qualified as a chartered account with Peat Marwick Mitchell (now KPMG) in 1978, Hugh moved to British Petroleum (BP), where after diverse positions based around strategy, planning, MI and marketing his last role was in charge of strategy implementation and planning for downstream Europe. After BP, Hugh joined Robert Fleming and Co. to develop the oil-sector corporate finance business, followed by a similar role as a Director with Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. In 2000 Hugh joined NW Brown Group to head up corporate finance and later took responsibility for developing a business centred on early stage technology investing including the Great Eastern Investment Forum (GEIF). GEIF provided a platform from which to build a suite of funds totalling 40m.
Alex believes in the power of connecting people to tackle the biggest net-zero challenges. With a career spanning 25+ years of research, business intelligence and building networks, she holds a wealth of experience spanning the commodities and industrial manufacturing sectors.
In 2020, Alex founded Decarb Connect – a platform with a clear mission to accelerate industrial decarbonisation by connecting decision makers to the right collaborators, investors and insights across the hard-to-abate sectors. She is already achieving this via the Decarbonisation Leaders Network membership, a global event series, industry reports and is also the charismatic host of the Decarb Connect podcast.
Alex is a strong advocate for pragmatic, data-driven and sustainable decarbonisation practices in industry. On founding Decarb Connect, she ensured it would be technology-neutral and believes that a wide portfolio of technology and innovative approaches are essential to solving the industrial CO2 challenges.
Alex holds a BA (Hons) in Sociology and Social Policy from Durham University.
