Understanding the journey from cleantech innovation to market deployment is essential for institutional investors, their advisers and trustees seeking to align their portfolios with sustainable growth opportunities. This exclusive, in-person roundtable is designed to demystify the cleantech commercialisation process, breaking down the main stages and addressing the unique challenges faced by innovators and investors alike. Participants will gain insight into how risk can be effectively managed throughout the process, enabling informed decision-making and increased confidence in cleantech investment strategies.
Through dynamic discussions, the event will showcase real-world success stories, highlighting lessons learned and best practices that have driven market success. Attendees will also benefit from a collaborative environment, fostering meaningful connections with peers, industry experts and thought leaders. By the end of the session, participants will be equipped with a deeper understanding of cleantech commercialisation and the tools needed to navigate this transformative sector.
We look forward to welcoming you to an engaging masterclass with valuable networking opportunities, followed by a lunch hosted at Pinset Masons, affording the chance to further our conversations.
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Why attend?
By the end of the session, attendees will have a deeper understanding of cleantech commercialisation and actionable strategies for confidently pursuing opportunities in this transformative sector.
We look forward to welcoming you to an engaging session with valuable networking opportunities, followed by a post-networking lunch, hosted at Pinsent Masons’ London offices, to further our conversations.
Date: Tuesday 18 March 2025
Time: 09:30-13:30 GMT (Registration at 09:30 for an 10:00 start)
Location: Pinsent Masons, 30 Crown Place, Earl Street, London, EC2A 4ES
Space is limited – we encourage you to book early to avoid disappointment.
Full agenda & speakers TBC
Who should attend?
This event is open to asset owners such as pension fund trustees and in-house executives, independent investment advisers, professional trustees and consultants.
Clean Growth Fund was set up in 2020 to invest in UK-based innovations that significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions or improve resource efficiency across: power, transport, industry, buildings, waste and water industries.
We look for innovations that will abate significant amounts of CO2-eq per year and will typically make an initial investment between £500k and £3m – predominantly during Seed or Series A stages.
Clean Growth Fund is multiple award winning and led by its Founder and Managing Partner, Beverley Gower-Jones OBE, a recognised thought-leader in early stage cleantech investments and commercialisation. The fund is passionate about creating tomorrow’s climate tech leaders which is spearheaded by our skilled team of investors, engineers and comms experts.Speakers (additional speakers to be announced in due course)
Beverley Gower-Jones, Managing Partner, Clean Growth Fund
Clean Growth Fund is a £101mn venture capital fund which invests in the UK's most promising early stage cleantech companies with the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Beverley is also the CEO of Carbon Limiting Technologies, an incubation consultancy for early stage cleantech small and medium-sized enterprises.
Beverley is a thought leader in early stage cleantech investments and commercialisation, that specialises in accelerating innovation to market and scaling businesses. Her ambition is to create a better, more sustainable world and she firmly believes this will be achieved by innovation playing a transformative role in the global economy.
Beverley is an independent member of the cross-government Net Zero Innovation Board. In her early career, she was a Founder and Vice President of Shell Technology Ventures. With over 30 years’ experience in the international energy sector, Beverley is a Fellow of the Energy Institute. She holds a BSc in Mining Geology from University College Cardiff.
Christopher Tchen, Co-Founder, Carbon Limiting Technologies
Christopher is Chairman of Carbon Limiting Technologies, a cleantech business that focuses on the commercialisation of new sustainable technologies, and he is also a member of the management committee (non-exec) of the Clean Growth Fund.
In the cleantech world, Christopher works in particular on tackling issues that slow or hamper the rapid development and large-scale deployment of low carbon technologies. These can occur at a company, supply chain or industry level. His work includes commercialisation support, especially company strategy, business model development, and also the development of new supply chain/industry wide mechanisms to fund and support commercialisation.
Christopher has been a strategy consultant for 35 years with experience across a wide range of industries on a global basis including: media, telecoms, leisure, financial services, consumer goods and professional services. Christopher started his career at Bain & Company, was a VP at Gemini Consulting and ran the European business of Strategos. He has been an independent consultant for 19 years.
Christopher studied Chemistry at Oxford University and has an MBA from INSEAD.
Host
Laasya Shekaran, Director, Pensions for Purpose
Laasya is responsible for working with our Community, developing content and knowledge, and driving forward collaborative initiatives across the industry.
Laasya is passionate about approaching pensions and investment with a systems lens, and understanding how these sectors interact with the wider social and environmental systems they exist within.
Laasya is a CFA charterholder with experience working with a range of asset owners as an investment adviser, with a focus on corporate defined benefit pensions. Laasya is a regular speaker at industry conferences and events, and is also an experienced podcast host, currently hosting the Pensions for Purpose podcast. Laasya is an advocate for diversity, equity and inclusion and is particularly passionate about anti-racism activism. She has previously won the Women in Pensions and Women in Investment Rising Star awards.
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