Michael Harte
Founder of Capture Now
Michael Harte
Founder of Capture Now
London Area, United Kingdom
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2024 - Current
• Leader in the evelopment of CCUS and CDR durable removal assets to help businesses in hard to abate industries achieve real net zero goals. we create innovative solutions (Compliant Removal Assets) for managing emissions liabilities. • We Implement asset / liability strategies to add value to businesses to achieve their shareholder investment and environmental objectives. We are funded by Institutional CVC and have R&D Collaborations with Corporate Clients, Industry Partners, Stanford and Cambridge Universities We are hiring on the buy and sell side and look for highly motivated investment managers ready to build solutions / investment plans for removals providers and emitters
Industry Research Fellow
2020
Industry Research Fellow at MIT Centre Information Systems Research (CISR)
2020
Michael is Research Fellow with MIT Centre Information Systems Research (CISR) researching Technology Value and more recently completing analysis on Digital Business modelsand Transformation performance.
Research Partner
2020 - 2024
Chief Operating Officer
2018 - 2020
Operations and Tech lead and SMF24 for regulated ring-fence bank. Created and merged T&O Services Companies for customer and product delivery priorities, New Services design, Digitise, Service Automation, Exit Legacy, Drive customer service focus and eliminating the Group BANs inefficiency and low productivity. Designed a new real-time mortgage architecture - introduced project to product / agile
Group Chief Operations and Technology
2014 - 2018
Michael created and scaled Barclays open innovation platform Rise https://rise.barclays/ He continues as an active mentor for start-ups and scale ups and their founders. As head of Ops and Tech delivered the Barclays Group Service Company and £1.5Bn in operating expense reduction.
Chief Information Officer / Group T&O / Group Executive Enterprise Services
2006 - 2014
Michael and his team developed and delivered CBA’s Core bank AUD1.5bn real time re-platform, created the first Open data analytics platform with Berkeley’s AMP Spark Lab and enabled agile DevOps capabilities