Lucy Yu joins Baneco as Advisor

TEAM UPDATE: We're so incredibly excited to announce the appointment of Lucy Yu as Advisor at Baneco!

Lucy Yu is an accomplished senior leader with two decades of experience building and scaling global consumer-facing and deeptech ventures; and developing policy and regulation for governments around the world. She has led operations, commercial, policy, government affairs and research functions for several high-growth, globally-renowned technology start-ups including two unicorns. Her work has focused on sustainability and renewable energy; future mobility, cities and the built environment; and artificial intelligence. Lucy chairs the UK government sponsored AI for Decarbonisation Virtual Centre of Excellence (ADViCE), focused on applications of AI for agriculture, manufacturing, energy and the built environment. She is a non-executive board member at Connected Places Catapult, the UK’s innovation accelerator for cities, transport and place leadership; an Advisory Board Member at 3Ci, the Cities Commission for Climate Change; and a non-executive board member at E3G, a top ten global think tank for environmental influence. She studied computational and physical chemistry at Imperial College, and public leadership at Harvard Kennedy School.

Lucy said, “I’m delighted to support the highly capable, dedicated and entrepreneurial team at Baneco in their mission to build a global sustainable manufacturing leader. Regenerative solutions that respect our planetary boundaries are vital, but the real challenge to unlocking such solutions at scale is to create viable, long-term business models behind them. Baneco’s team brings the deep commercial experience needed to do this, alongside a high tempo approach to delivery. I’m looking forward to applying my experience of working with governments and the public sector and scaling businesses in regulated environments, to help the team build both commercial and public value."

Please join us by welcoming Lucy to the Baneco family!