Ollie Graham-Yooll is heading to The Utopia Studio after four years as principal venture builder at BP's Omni-Sci Labs incubator.
Former BP venture builder Ollie Graham-Yooll has moved to The Utopia Studio, the venture building arm of Qatar government-backed venture capital firm Utopia Capital Management, as chief product and operations officer.
Graham-Yooll had spent four years as principal venture builder at oil and gas provider BP, as part of its Omni-Sci Labs incubator programme. He had previously spent two years as deeptech venture lead at French consulting group Sia’s growth and innovation practice.
“We grew to 100-plus people, shipped 15-plus ventures a year from Gravity Imaging to Code Reviews, and delivered an exit in Puls8 becoming a transformative safety technology,” Graham-Yooll said, in a LinkedIn post announcing the move.
“We challenged and built in the unknown. It was never boring, and thank you to everyone below and beyond that made this such a special team.”
Graham-Yooll’s move comes a few weeks after the departure of Omni-Sci’s head of engineering, Rick Avendaño, who left to focus on CEO roles at two startups: geospatial intelligence tool developer Asteroid.Dev and AI trust and compliance technology developer Catapult.AI.
