Our Entrepreneurs in Residence provide expertise and advice based on their own entrepreneurial experiences to our cohort and enrich Carbon13’s founders existing networks with their own.
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Jérome is a serial entrepreneur who founded Cambridge Nanosystems, a leading graphene nanomaterial supplier (sold in 2015) and Nymbly, an IoT company acquired by ARM in 2017 before joining Aster, a VC firm headquartered in Paris and focused on Climate Tech. He is also an active angel investor with about 20+ companies in this portfolio.
Jerome completed his training at the Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) and the University of Cambridge, Judge Business School.
A Business / Project / Engineering Manager / Director with a 30 year record of delivering new product introductions, product enhancement projects, trouble shooting and managing large multi-disciplined teams in industries from scientific instruments through domestic appliances to petrochemicals with worldwide experience as far away as Japan and Mongolia. Currently technical director of 2 innovative SMEs, Solar Polar Limited and Heatlight Limited.
Creative and entrepreneurial financier who pioneered impact investing in Europe with Partner/ investment committee level experience in early-stage VC and experience on numerous start-up boards. Fascinated by science and technological progress, Lennart reads the Economist magazine backwards and gained expertise through his investment career in a wide range of sustainability topics, from carbon trading and energy transition, through to green chemistry and circular economy.
Despite an early brush with entrepreneurship in his family’s start-up, he diverted to an MSc in Finance at Loughborough University, the JP Morgan Finance Programme in New York and an early career on the investment banking “dark side”. Subsequently founded and scaled his own FCA-regulated finance boutique specialised in creating exits for entrepreneurs and asset owners in high technology industries particularly aviation, before becoming focussed on making finance a force for a better planet.
Ben co-founded Memrise, a language learning app that he has grown to more than 65 million users and tens of millions of dollars of revenue. In 2017 Memrise won Google Play’s “Best App” award, becoming the first EdTech and first European app ever to win. As an Angel Ben has invested in more than 30 startups, and as a mentor has advised more than 50 early stage founders, helping companies across all sectors move from idea to rapidly scaling business.
Paul works in ‘Creative Engagement’ as a Theatre Director, Teacher and Storyteller. When not directing plays, Paul’s key areas of interest are in exploring creativity in Start-ups, enterprise thinking, collaborative working, communication impact and transformational leadership; all wrapped up in telling a great story!
Alongside Start-ups Venture Builders and Accelerators (Carbon13!), Paul works on Entrepreneurship with Cambridge University Business School Faculty and consults with a wide variety of World-Class clients using Storytelling to focus on two key areas: “Cultural Transformation” with Liverpool Football Club, NIKE, The NHS and BBC, and on “Communication and Sustainability Impact” with Fairtrade, Wyss Institute, Cambridge University, Astra Zeneca and St Andrew’s University.