Alex Friend is CEO of GravTech Solutions Ltd, a deep/geo tech startup developing drone-native Continuous Gravity Gradiometry (CG3) for subsurface surveying. He has a career spanning principal investment, real assets and venture commercialisation, having worked at Macquarie Capital, 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. Alex is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (FRGS) and holds a BSc in Geography with Environmental Hazards from Queen Mary University of London.