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Katya Zotova

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Advisor - Energy / Energy Transition, Industrials and Infrastructure at Antler · Member of the Advisory Board at Verb Ventures

United Kingdom

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About

Corporate finance and strategy leader with nearly three decades of experience across investment banking, private equity, and consulting, including roles at Shell, Citigroup, McKinsey, and Mizuho International. She serves as a board director for a lithium mining business and advises Antler on energy and industrial investments.

Experience

  1. Verb VenturesAdvisory Board Membercurrent2025 — present
  2. LithiumBankInvestor and Board Director - Strategy, M&A and Performancecurrent2023 — presentLondon, UK and Calgary, Canada
  3. AntlerAdvisor - Energy / Energy Transition, Industrials and Infrastructurecurrent2022 — presentLondon, Copenhagen and Abu Dhabi/Dubai
  4. Harland & WolffNon Executive Board Director and Chair of the Audit Committee2022 — 2024Greater London, England, United Kingdom
  5. World Energy Capital AssemblyAdvisory Board Member2021 — 2024
  6. MizuhoManaging Director, Head of EMEA Investment Banking Coverage2020 — 2022Greater London, England, United Kingdom
  7. McKinsey & CompanySenior External Adviser - M&A and Private Equity2017 — 2020London, UK and Abu Dhabi, UAE
  8. Vedanta Resources PlcIndependent Board Director and Chair of Sustainability Committee2014 — 2020London Area, United Kingdom
  9. Pamplona Capital Management / L1 EnergyPrincipal, Private Equity - M&A and Corprorate Development2014 — 2016London Area, United Kingdom
  10. CitiHead of International Acquisitions and Divestments, Oil & Gas Investment Banking2012 — 2014London Area, United Kingdom
  11. Royal Dutch Shell plcHead of Portfolio Management2010 — 2012the Hague, Netherlands
  12. Royal Dutch Shell plcSenior M&A Lead / Relationship Lead for Private equity - Americas, EMEA and Australasia2005 — 2010Houston, Texas Area and the Hague, the Netherlands
  13. Lehman BrothersM&A Associate2004
  14. ShellHead of Finance / CFO1997 — 2003Moscow, Russia and Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Skills & more

Large Language Models (LLM)Neural Language ModelsDigital StrategyArtificial Intelligence (AI)Artificial Neural NetworksMachine LearningInnovation ManagementVenture Capital2Financial StructuringFinancial AnalysisInfrastructureFinance3
+12 moreProject ManagementSustainabilityExecutive ManagementLeadership DevelopmentInvestmentsIntegrationLobbyingEnergy SecurityLeadershipStrategic PlanningNegotiationPublic Speaking

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Colleagues at Antler

Aaron Harris
Investor at Antler
Aaron Sotunde-Adesina
Associate at Antler
Adam French
Partner at Antler
Adam Jaffer
Advisor at Antler
Adrian Dalton
Head of Compliance at Antler
Afroz Dairkee
Director at Antler
Agung Bezharie Hadinegoro
Partner at Antler
Alan Poensgen
Partner at Antler

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Who is Katya Zotova?
Corporate finance and strategy leader with nearly three decades of experience across investment banking, private equity, and consulting, including roles at Shell, Citigroup, McKinsey, and Mizuho International. She serves as a board director for a lithium mining business and advises Antler on energy and industrial investments.
Where does Katya Zotova work?
Katya Zotova is Advisor - Energy / Energy Transition, Industrials and Infrastructure at Antler.
Where did Katya Zotova go to school?
Katya Zotova studied at Harvard Business School (Executive Development Program, Disruptive Innovation: CEO bootcamp on innovation strategy and leadership through disruptive change); University of Oxford (Artificial Intelligence Programme - Executive Education, Artificial Intelligence Programme); Rotterdam School Of Management / Columbia Business School (MBA, Focus: Corporate Finance).

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