Episode 302: Beverley Gower-Jones, OBE FEI of The Clean Growth Fund: Limiting Carbon for Cleaner Growth - The Investment Opportunity

Beverley Gower-Jones, OBE FEI is Managing Partner at The Clean Growth Fund and Chief Executive Officer at Carbon Limiting Technologies. She is an independent member on Governments Net Zero Innovation Board (NZIB). The Board provides strategic oversight of government funding of net zero innovation programs.

Our conversation starts with Beverley’s start studying geology and working in industry in emerging markets, and chart her transition to corporate ventures and then venture capital.  We discuss the prevailing backdrop (culturally) to her moves and how that may or may not have influenced her.

We move then to the consulting work being done by Carbon Limiting Technologies and how this squares with raising and running the Clean Growth Fund. We focus then on that fund’s investment across sectors like power, transport, and agriculture. 

We discuss the importance deep sector expertise, particularly in industrial biotechnology and carbon capture technologies. 

We conclude with discussing the role of governance, the ongoing need for diverse, supportive boards and the significance of perseverance in overcoming challenges.

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