Multi award winning MD Tom Parkinson talks about his inspirational journey from consulting and investment banking to the roller-coaster world of managing a rapidly scaling start-up. As Managing Director of SteamaCo, Tom focuses on driving tech innovation to revolutionize the energy industry across sub–Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. In this episode we learn how an experimental culture of consistent trial and error generates success.

In our sixth podcast, Emily Watt talks to Jo-Jo Hubbard, Co-founder & CEO at Electron. With a background in cleantech financing and digital transformation consulting, she is now working to decarbonise and transform the energy sector with an energy-as-a-service platform. But with an initial vision to become a novelist, how did she make the transition to energy herself?

Currently VP of incubation at bp, Justin Lewis is not only an innovator, entrepreneur, and start-up founder; he's also a gamer and an engineer at heart. From founding two software companies as a student to working on secret projects at Tesla and becoming a prolific inventor at Google, Justin has an impressive background in tech. In this episode, Justin talks to Emily Watt about what drives him and how bp's ambition for change attracted him to his current role.