Speaker Profile
Claudia Marcusson
Managing Director, Zero Emissions Fund
Claudia has over 23 years of financial industry expertise in banking, investment management, insurance and FinTech having worked in the U.S., U.K., Germany, The Netherlands and Singapore. She worked in various leadership roles at Standard Chartered Bank, ING, NN Group, ABN AMRO, and State Street Bank to name a few. She built up in-house innovation labs and led numerous global innovation and client co-creation initiatives with a focus on customer experience and sustainability. Her core strengths are corporate strategy & advisory, helping companies in finding the right product-market fit suiting customer needs, developing go-to-market strategies, scaling for international expansion, venture capital & entrepreneurship.
For more than 20 years she is a mentor to start-ups & scale-ups, SME's and multi-national corporates in different industries and at all maturity levels. She gets energised by working closely with corporates and founders as a Non-Executive Director, board advisor and mentor. She is a Limited Partner as well as an investment advisor to impact Venture Capital funds in Europe and Singapore and a mentor & strategic advisor to selected international Accelerators.
Since 2018, Claudia is an Adjunct with the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore. She lectures on Sustainability & Green Technology, emerging technologies, corporate innovation & entrepreneurship and digital transformation, and conducts Masterclass training and workshops for corporates and C-suite executives.
She is also a guest lecturer at Singapore Management University and the Singapore Academy of Law. She is Managing Partner at Zero Emissions Fund which backs seed-stage entrepreneurs with a focus on scalable decarbonization solutions for the APAC region, currently setup as a family office.
Claudia is a licensed instructor and expert in Human-Centred Design & Design Thinking, Lean Start-up, Agile methods and a certified SCRUM Master. She holds an LL.M. degree in Chinese Business Law as well as a M.Sc. in Economics and Operations Research.
