Independant Non-Executive Director
Appointed: September 2023
Lara is an experienced investor, operator, and former tech executive with a 20+ year track record spanning private equity, growthstage company building, and leadership at global technology and industrial firms. She is currently CEO and co-founder of ETFuels, a venture-backed energy transition startup developing largescale e-fuels projects across Europe and the US. As founding CEO, she has led the company through inception, capital raising, and commercial scale-up.
Prior to ETFuels, Lara served on the UK ExCo at Google, as CFO for Google UK and later as Director of Retail, leading partnerships with the UK’s largest advertisers. She was also Executive Sponsor for Sustainability, shaping Google UK’s decarbonisation and stakeholder strategy. Earlier in her career, Lara was CFO of Rio Tinto’s global Commercial and Marine Group, overseeing finance, strategy, governance, and risk across multi-billion-dollar commodity flows.
She also spent nearly a decade in principal investing roles at Climate Change Capital, Klesch Group and Bridgewater Associates, leading transactions in clean energy, industrial turnarounds, and multi-asset portfolios. She began her career at Goldman Sachs in leveraged finance and equity research and holds two degrees from Harvard.