Zoe is an experienced entrepreneur and management consultant. Before co-founding New Wave Biotech, she spent 10 years launching new products, services and ventures for Fortune 500 companies and startups across Asia and UK, with a focus on emerging technologies. She's also previously founded Sourcery, an online wholesale marketplace for sustainable consumer products, and CoVis, an app using location and public data to predict individual COVID risk and immunity that won the MIT COVID Challenge.

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Beyond New Wave, Zoe supports social impact and sustainable entrepreneurship by training aspiring entrepreneurs on initiatives such as University of Cambridge's Impulse entrepreneurship programme, City University London, The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network (TERN) and Hatch Enterprise.

Oli is a software engineer with 10 years experience working on projects across the startup world, including as the first tech hire at LabGenius, where they scaled the software team and helped build the foundations of their AI-powered drug discovery platform. They also have extensive experience in managing and growing startup teams, and are deeply passionate about building diverse, inclusive working environments.

 

Oli has a deep passion for all things climate, and prior to New Wave, spent three years working full time on climate-related projects of all flavours, from finance to soil health, carbon accounting to clean aviation, and this led them to Carbon13, where New Wave was born. They continue to be active in climate circles and have run a bi-weekly climate newsletter called Forge the Future for the past 3 years.