Susan Robertson is the Chief Operating Officer for the Faraday Institution, the UK’s flagship institute for electrochemical energy storage research, skills development, market analysis and early-stage commercialisation. She has 30+ years experience in industry in across finance, business and commercial roles. This includes being CFO of Velocys, the AIM-listed renewable fuels company, a position she held for 10 years through the company’s transformational years from early stage start-up. Prior to that, she was at the BOC Group (now Linde Group) where she held various senior-level financial management and business
development positions in the UK and in Japan. Susan helped to set up and served as Vice President and CFO of Japan Air Gases (JAG), a joint venture between The BOC Group and Air Liquide.

Susan has an honours degree in economics from the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (FCA) having originally trained with Arthur Andersen in London.