Alex Friend is CEO of GravTech, a Cambridge-backed deep tech startup pioneering drone-deployed Continuous Gravity Gradiometry (CG3) for subsurface surveying and geospatial applications.

Alex is an experienced executive operator with a career spanning principal investment, real assets and venture commercialisation, having worked for Macquarie Group, Canary Wharf Group and Petrofac, including a period based in the Middle East.

He has worked extensively across global energy and infrastructure — oil and gas, construction, and the energy transition — bringing both investor and operator perspectives to ensure value consolidation, protection and creation within complex environments.

Alex is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.