We are delighted that the following advisory committee has provided strategic input to the event and entry process.
Bio

Jim Totty
Managing Partner, Earth Capital

Beverley Gower-Jones
Beverley Gower-Jones is an innovation professional with a proven track record in pre-revenue cleantech investments and commercialisation. She founded CLT in 2006 and has supported low carbon ventures in a wide range of sectors including power, buildings, transport, waste and energy intensive industry. She specialises in accelerating innovation to market and scaling companies by providing strategic insights, providing access to funding and industry partnerships and identifying novel ways to overcome barriers to entry. Beverley is a thought leader in the commercialisation of sustainable technologies.
During her tenure at Shell she gained wide international business exposure and delivered the £500 million subsurface technology transfer programme to Shell’s operations globally. Beverley was founder and Vice President at Shell Technology Ventures. In this role she was instrumental in defining Shell’s technology venturing strategic approach. She has 30 years’ industry experience in corporate venture management including at QinetiQ, where she managed a portfolio of 8 ventures with a total value of £60 million that went on to deliver an IRR of 18%.
She chaired the DECC Energy Entrepreneurs Fund VC panel regarding grant investment decisions and served as Chair of a flywheel energy storage venture during which time she set the strategy for the company, moved the technology from early research to commercial readiness, secured the management team, raised £4.8 million in investment funding and led the company to its first sales in its launch market.

Andrew Wordsworth
Managing Partner, Sustainable Ventures
Andrew Wordsworth is a Founder and Managing Director of Sustainable Ventures which works with investors, entrepreneurial managers and corporate partners to originate, build and grow businesses in the low carbon and sustainability sectors. The company also established Sustainable Workspaces, the UK’s largest cluster of start-up companies in the sector with over 20 ventures based in two locations near London Bridge.
Sustainable Ventures portfolio includes E-Car Club which created the UK’s first crowdfunding exit in 2015 when Europcar acquired a majority stake; and Powervault which is seeking to disrupt the domestic electricity storage industry. In 2017, the Company launched a new Sustainable Accelerator programme which has invested a total of £800k into 7 start-ups.
Prior to establishing Sustainable Ventures, Andrew had over 15 years’ experience in the energy and climate change sector – including roles within Esso, Bain & Co, Arthur D Little and Managing Director of Carbon Trust Enterprises. Andrew holds an M.Eng from the University of Cambridge.

Richard Barker
Adviser and Investment Committee Member, Iona Capital

Michael Ruggier

Prof. Richard Templer

Karen Lawrence
Director, KML Intermin Ltd.

Natalie Fredericks
Natalie’s experience covers small business start-up and growth, strategic consulting and coordination of CleanTech incubation programmes. She is currently managing the commercialisation support provided to SMEs in BEIS’s Energy Entrepreneurs Fund. Natalie has provided support for a wide variety of low carbon innovators, helping them reach commercialisation milestones.
Prior to joining CLT, Natalie spent 10 years as part of a management team building a start-up telecoms business through rapid growth to profitability and sale. Natalie holds a degree and MA in Aeronautical Engineering from Cambridge and an MBA from INSEAD.
Nusrat Yousuf
Sustainability Senior Programme Manager, Greater London Authority.
Heather Hodgins
Project Manager, Greater London Authority
Christian Inglis
Director of Infrastructure Systems, Innovate UK