TEAM
The BeyondNetZero team brings together leaders from across financial, industrial and climate sectors and networks, who collectively bring decades of expertise in supporting companies’ growth, solving climate-focused problems and accessing opportunities.

Lord John Browne

Lance Uggla

Eli Aheto

Michael Bevan

Rhea Hamilton

Wilson Bowen

Natasha Fowlie

Fraser Johnston-Donne

Nicolas Hubert

Betty L. Chen

Jay Mondkar

Alice Song

Dhairya Kapadia

Kofi Ofori-Darko

Ade Okuwoga

Acacia Overstreet

Evan Simons

Lord John Browne
Chairman

Lance Uggla
Chief Executive Officer

Eli Aheto
Managing Director

Michael Bevan
Managing Director

Rhea Hamilton
Managing Director

Wilson Bowen
Principal

Natasha Fowlie
Principal

Fraser Johnston-Donne
Vice President

Nicolas Hubert
Senior Associate

Betty L. Chen
Senior Associate

Jay Mondkar
Senior Associate

Alice Song
Senior Associate

Dhairya Kapadia
Associate

Kofi Ofori-Darko
Associate

Ade Okuwoga
Associate

Acacia Overstreet
Associate

Evan Simons
Analyst
ADVISORY BOARD
Enass Abo-Hamed
Enass Abo-Hamed serves as an Advisor to the BeyondNetZero team. She is the Co-Founder and CEO of H2GO Power Ltd., an award-winning spin-out company from the University of Cambridge that develops energy storage technologies. Currently, she is also a Royal Academy of Engineering Enterprise Fellow and a technology expert consultant to European Commission (REA). With more than a decade of research and business experience in hydrogen production & storage, catalysis, renewable energy and energy storage, Abo-Hamed is passionate about climate entrepreneurship, multidisciplinary engineering and clean energy technology policy.
Diana Fox Carney
Diana Carney serves as an Advisor to the BeyondNetZero team. She is a Senior Advisor at Eurasia Group, where she advises clients on environmental issues and climate transition. Previously, she worked at think tanks in Canada and the UK and was executive director at Pi Capital. Diana also sits on the boards of the Shell Foundation and ClientEarth USA.
Suma Chakrabarti
Suma Chakrabarti serves as an Advisor to the BeyondNetZero team. He is the Former President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) where he led the institution’s advocacy for market-friendly policy reform, better governance and improved investment climates – engaging personally with both political leaders and the CEOs of private sector clients. Prior to that, Suma served as Permanent Secretary to the UK Ministry of Justice and Department for International Development. Sir Suma has extensive experience in international development economics and policy-making, as well as in designing and implementing wider public service reform.
Steven Denning
Steven A. Denning serves as an Advisor to the BeyondNetZero team and is also Chairman Emeritus of General Atlantic. Denning helped build General Atlantic with a vision of supporting entrepreneurs as they work to grow their businesses. For over four decades, Denning has helped General Atlantic become a leading global growth investment firm, today with 14 offices around the world. Denning also served on the Board of Trustees of Stanford University from 2004 to 2017, including as its Chairman from 2012 to 2017, and was a member of The Nature Conservancy Board of Directors from 2007 to 2016, including as Co-chair from 2013 to 2016. Before joining General Atlantic, Denning worked at McKinsey & Company and served for six years in the U.S. Navy.
Erik Fyrwald
J. Erik Fyrwald serves as an Advisor to the BeyondNetZero team. Fyrwald is currently CEO of Syngenta. He previously served as CEO of Univar from 2012 to 2016. Previously, following a 27-year career at DuPont, he joined Nalco Company, serving as Chairman and CEO until 2011, when Nalco merged with Ecolab Inc. Following the merger, he served as president of Ecolab. Fyrwald currently serves on the boards of directors of Syngenta, Bunge Limited, CropLife International, Eli Lilly and Company, the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce and the UN World Food Program Farm to Market Initiative.
Mark Gainsborough
Mark Gainsborough serves as an Advisor to the BeyondNetZero team. Gainsborough is the former head of Shell New Energies, with a strong track record of investments in renewables, energy storage, hydrogen, biofuels and nature-based solutions. He currently serves on the boards of companies developing low carbon technologies and is the co-founder of Low Carbon Advisors, helping CEOs and boards to navigate the path to Net Zero carbon emissions.
Lynn F. Gladden
Lynn Gladden serves as an Advisor to the BeyondNetZero team. She is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge. Gladden is a Fellow of the Royal Society and Royal Academy of Engineering, and a foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering. She is also the Chair of the Judging Panel of the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
Rachel Kyte
Rachel Kyte, CMG, serves as an Advisor to the BeyondNetZero team. She is the fourteenth Dean of The Fletcher School at Tufts University. Previously, she served as Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, CEO of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and a World Bank Group Vice President and special envoy for Sustainable Development and Climate Change. She currently advises international organizations, firms and governments on transitions and climate action.
Elizabeth Littlefield
Elizabeth Littlefield serves as an Advisor to the BeyondNetZero team. Littlefield previously served as President and CEO of OPIC, now known as the U.S. International Development Corporation (DFC), during the Obama Administration. Prior to this role, she was the CEO of CGAP, the microfinance policy center housed at the World Bank, and was the Managing Director of JPMorgan’s emerging markets capital markets business. She currently chairs the board of M-KOPA, the leading pay-as-you go solar company in Africa. Littlefield is also a senior adviser at Albright Stonebridge Group and serves on the boards of several of environmental and mission-driven organizations operating in developing countries.
John Thornton
John Thornton serves as an Advisor to the BeyondNetZero team. He is Executive Chairman of Barrick Gold Corporation, Non-Executive Chairman of PineBridge Investments, and a director of Ford Motor Company and SparkCognition, a leader in industrial artificial intelligence. Thornton was formerly President of Goldman Sachs and Chairman of the Brookings Institution. He is currently Co-Chairman of Asia Society, Vice Chairman of Morehouse College and is an International Advisory Board member of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management and School of Public Policy and Management.