Akira Kirton

About

Akira Kirton is Ventures Principal for Europe, Middle East and India at BP Ventures. BP Ventures makes strategic investments in companies with distinctive technology that aligns with BP core businesses. Prior to this, Akira was seconded to the UK Energy Technologies Institute, a $bn public private partnership focussed on accelerating technologies to enable the UK to meet its 2020 and 2050 energy and climate change targets. Akira sits on the board on a number of companies in the BP Ventures Portfolio, with a particular focus on the carbon utilisation arena and aligned to BP’s gas value chain development. Akira holds a Masters in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College London and a B.Sc. in Law with Management from the University of London International Programme.

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London, UK