Ward joined Colesco in 2026 as a Business Development Manager for C4IF. At Colesco, Ward is responsible for transaction origination in the areas of circularity and energy transition for the C4IF fund. He also works on the fund’s positioning and thought leadership initiatives, while helping circular entrepreneurs to scale. Ward leverages ten years of experience at the intersection of (corporate) strategy, entrepreneurship and technology. Before joining Colesco, he worked as a strategy consultant at Monitor Deloitte, co-founded his own business and worked as a start-up and scale-up advisor and operator. Ward holds an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Delft University of Technology and an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Amsterdam.