Dr Caroline Hargrove CBE FREng

Chief Technical Officer at Ceres

Dr Caroline Hargrove CBE FREng

LONDON

Caroline is Chief Technology Officer at Ceres, a world leading developer of low cost, next generation fuel cell and green hydrogen technology, and a Non-Exec Director at Zedsen, a med tech start-up. She was previously CTO of Babylon Health, an AI health tech unicorn.  She started her career as a lecturer at Cambridge and then moved to McLaren Racing (Formula One), where she spent 10 years developing simulations and the first F1 simulator.  She was then a founding member of McLaren Applied Technologies, a company set up to exploit McLaren technology and expertise to new markets and eventually became its CTO. 

Caroline is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, was Visiting Professor at Oxford from 2015-2018 and holds a PhD in Applied Mechanics from the University of Cambridge. She received a CBE for services to Engineering in 2020.

She is also a member of the Science and Technology Advisory Board at NPL, and a Trustee of the National Saturday Club, a charity that encourages teenagers from underprivileged backgrounds to consider careers in the creative industries.