Charlotte Lawrence Managing Director, Direct Equity

Charlotte joined the Bank in February 2026 as Managing Director of Direct Equity. She leads the Bank’s direct and co-investment activity, which provides equity scale up funding to fast growing UK companies.

Charlotte has two decades of experience across corporate finance and growth equity. She joins the British Business Bank following previous roles as a Managing Director investing in European software businesses for PSG Equity, a $28bn AUM growth equity firm, as well as over a decade investing for the European Technology fund at global investment firm The Carlyle Group.  Her early career was spent working at Merrill Lynch in investment banking.

Charlotte also has extensive Board experience, including former positions on the boards of Zenchef, Visualfabriq Revenue Management, Nalanda Global, Mapal OS, Eggplant Software, Itconic, Nature Delivered and The Foundry Visionmongers, as well as currently as an advisory Investment Committee Member at Albion Capital, a £1bn AUM UK venture capital firm.  

Charlotte holds an MPhysPhil in Physics and Philosophy from the University of Oxford.