Lau joined the ADE team as Research Manager for ADE: Research in April of 2020 when it was known as ACE Research. After five years managing projects and delivering internal ADE programmes, Lau was promoted to Head of Commercial Strategy, leaving the research team and joining the Business Development department.
As Head of Commercial Strategy, Lau's priority is to manage membership engagement both with our existing members as well as recruitment and onboarding of new recruits.
His day to day revolves around scheduling 1;1 calls with members and interested organisations, organise and attend events representing ADE, design and update the company's commercial strategy for the financial year and ensure members are seeing value for money.
Before joining ADE, Lau spent 3 years in the conservation and capacity building sector working in international development. As previous Head of Operations for Frontier, The Society for Environmental Exploration, Lau spent most of his time managing and supervising the running of research-driven environment programmes in remote locations all over the globe, monitoring some of the world’s most endangered and fragile habitats.
After spending time focusing his efforts supporting less economically developed countries, Lau decided to shift his energy from conservation of natural resources to conservation of energy by joining ADE; advocating for the decarbonisation of industrial processes and increase the uptake of waste heat through heat networks.
Lau has a BSc in Politics, Global Studies and Journalism from The University of Winchester and a MSc in Managing Contemporary Global Issues with Environment & Development, also from the University of Winchester and is a PRINCE2 certified project manager.