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John Bromley

Head of Clean Energy Strategy and Investments

📍 United Kingdom, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Dec 2022
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Board Observer
Dec 2022
CEC is commercialising the first truly scalable process for recycling cement. By co-producing clinker (the precursor to cement) and steel in electric arc furnaces we see the potential for providing cement with a zero carbon footprint.
early stageConstruction
Board Observer
Jan 2018
Award-winning cloud platform, using advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence to manage and monetise very large portfolios of diversified and distributed energy resources, formerly Upside Energy.
Board Observer
Dec 2017
Improve customer satisfaction, increase product innovation, generate new revenue streams, and make significant operational savings. All with the only proven end-to-end, AI-powered operating system for energy utilities. Now expanded to support water, and telco.
Board Observer
Sep 2016
We are developing the technology to deliver clean, secure and affordable fusion energy in the 2030s. Tokamak Energy was founded in 2009 as a spin-off from UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA). Our US subsidiary, Tokamak Energy Inc, was established in 2019. We are the only private fusion company with over a decade’s experience developing the two technologies that offer the most efficient and commercially attractive route to fusion energy; the compact spherical tokamak and high temperature superconducting (HTS) magnets. TE Magnetics, our dedicated HTS magnet business division, is focussed on becoming the leading supplier of HTS technology for fusion and other exciting new applications, including science, renewable energy and propulsion on land, in water air and space.
Experience · 9 entries
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2025
Senior Advisor
Oct 2025
We back extraordinary founders turning scientific research into products addressing the world’s greatest challenges. We partner with transformative companies from Oxford University and other world-leading UK research institutions. We invest in Seed through to Series C funding rounds. We’re long-term investors with a passion for making change.
Non-Executive Director and Investment Committee Member
Oct 2025
Formerly Big Society Capital, we are the UKs leading social impact investor. Our mission is to grow the amount of money invested in tackling social issues and inequalities in the UK. We do this by investing ourselves and enabling others to invest for impact too. Set up in 2012 as Big Society Capital, we have helped the social impact investment market grow tenfold to nearly £8bn. This capital has financed social purpose organisations tackling everything from homelessness to mental heatlh and fuel poverty.
2024
Advisor and Investment Committee Member: UK Universities Ventures LLP
Oct 2024
L&Gs asset management business is a major global investor across public and private markets, with £1.117 trillion in AUM.* Our clients include individual savers, pension scheme members and global institutions. We provide investment solutions from index-tracking and active funds to liquidity and liability-based risk management strategies. Our investment philosophy and processes are focused on creating value over the long term. We believe that incorporating financially material sustainability criteria, when relevant to our clients, can create value and drive positive change. This reflects L&G’s purpose: ‘Investing for the long term. Our futures depend on it.’ *Source: L&G, global AUM as at 30 June 2025. Excludes assets managed by associates (Pemberton, NTR, BTR). The AUM includes the value of securities and derivatives positions and may not total due to rounding. Posts are aimed at professional investors only.
2022
Board Observer
Dec 2022
CEC is commercialising the first truly scalable process for recycling cement. By co-producing clinker (the precursor to cement) and steel in electric arc furnaces we see the potential for providing cement with a zero carbon footprint.
early stageConstruction
2018
Board Observer
Jan 2018
Award-winning cloud platform, using advanced algorithms and artificial intelligence to manage and monetise very large portfolios of diversified and distributed energy resources, formerly Upside Energy.
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