Beverley Gower-Jones is Managing Partner at Clean Growth Fund, a venture capital fund that she founded in 2020 to invest in UK-based innovations that significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Beverley is also CEO of Carbon Limiting Technologies, a specialist early stage clean tech incubator that she started in 2006. Beverley is a thought leader in early stage cleantech investments and specialises in accelerating innovation to market and scaling companies. Her ambition is to create a better, more sustainable world and firmly believes this will be achieved with tech innovation playing a transformative role in the global economy. In 2023, Beverley was bestowed an OBE by His Majesty The King (Charles III) for services to Net Zero innovation and that same year was awarded Net Zero Leader of the Year at the Edie Awards. Beverley influences at government level as a founding member of the Cleantech for UK coalition and an independent member of the cross-government Net Zero Innovation Board chaired by Dame Angela McLean. In Beverley’s earlier career, she was a founder and Vice President of Shell Technology Ventures and was instrumental in Shell’s technology venturing strategy. 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.