Alexander Green has joined MOL Plus, the corporate venturing arm of Japanese shipping company Mitsui OSK Lines, as UK-based growth manager in recent weeks.
Green has been with Mitsui OSK since early 2015, starting as global operations manager and then co-manager for green investments in Europe in March this year.
“MOL is on a mission to do better, through good. We are going through a massive change to decarbonise and as well as investing in startups that contribute in the main to society. Investments can be marine-related, in which we can gear by also becoming a customer but also unrelated for a number of other reasons,” Green told Global Corporate Venturing.
“The UK has been chosen to act as VC for UK, Europe and the Americas. The fund is small beans really, but we have access to other lines of investment within the organisation and particularly where there is a divisional interest. Specifically, we are interested in energy security, food, water, space, weather tech and, of course, logistics.”
He previously spent over four years as operations manager at maritime logistics firm d’Amico International Shipping, following an 11-year stint at Glencore UK and five years at another energy group Shell.
Photo of Alexander Green courtesy of LinkedIn.
