Yen Mei Lim

Mei is a chartered accountant and qualified lawyer. With 25 years’ experience in the financial services industry, Mei brings deep understanding of corporate finance, M&A, strategy, transformational change and business development to Board deliberations. Mei has an ESG-focused approach, particularly around diversity and inclusion.

Mei is the Managing Partner at Anthemis, a venture capital investor with an embedded finance, AI and impact investment focus and a Board Director of CommonAI Holdings.

Prior to joining Anthemis, Mei was a managing director at Barclays, working there for over a decade in a variety of different areas, notably corporate development, strategy, principal investments and finance. Mei’s earlier career spans investment banking at Macquarie Bank in M&A for financial institutions, Ernst & Young LLP (EY) in transaction advisory support and Goldman Sachs as an associate, having qualified as a chartered accountant with EY in 2004.