ZEUS Consulting · Senior Expert
Senior Expert – Investment, Sustainable Industrial Transformation & Global Strategy
Professional profile
Thomas Wu is an international senior executive and strategic advisor with more than three decades of experience in investment banking, corporate strategy, cross-border M&A, sustainable industrial transformation and international investment.
Throughout his career, he has advised multinational corporations, governments and institutional stakeholders on complex transformation, investment and market-entry strategies. His expertise combines financial structuring, industrial policy and technology-driven transformation, enabling him to bridge capital, industry and innovation.
His professional network and advisory experience spans international financial institutions and investment organisations including World Bank IFC, Afreximbank, African Development Bank, EBRD and China Investment Corporation.
Thomas is also active in sustainable industrialisation, green hydrogen, industrial energy systems, decarbonisation technologies, AI-enabled manufacturing, digital sovereignty and trusted AI governance.
Within ZEUS Consulting, he contributes senior strategic expertise to European and international projects involving industrial transformation, investment, green transition, internationalisation, innovation financing and strategic technology deployment.
Areas of expertise
European research & innovation
Thomas contributes strategic, financial and industrial expertise to Horizon Europe, Digital Europe and other European innovation programmes.
His experience is particularly relevant to projects involving industrial decarbonisation, green manufacturing, hydrogen, clean technologies, advanced manufacturing, AI-enabled industry, digital sovereignty, sustainable supply chains and investment mobilisation.
He can support consortium strategy, exploitation, business modelling, investment readiness, industrial stakeholder engagement, internationalisation, market uptake and commercialisation.
Selected experience
Co-Founder & Executive Board Member
Chairman & CEO
Executive Board Member
Co-Founding Partner
Senior Advisor & Partner
Founder & Managing Director
Thomas brings extensive experience connecting innovation with investment. His background in investment banking, private equity, infrastructure financing and international M&A enables him to support innovative projects beyond technology development and toward commercialisation, investment readiness and international scale-up.
Green hydrogen, industrial energy efficiency, green steel, industrial decarbonisation, circular economy, sustainable production, carbon reduction, supply-chain transformation and ESG-linked industrial transformation.
Thomas has developed strategic work around trusted AI infrastructures, sovereign digital control architectures and the interaction between industrial competitiveness, AI adoption and technological sovereignty.
ZEUS Consulting · Strategic advisory
ZEUS Consulting · Connected expertise
These connections reflect the documented subject-matter expertise relevant to ZEUS Consulting’s services, European programmes and project needs.
EU grant writing
Industrial, investment and exploitation expertise for innovation proposals and market uptake.
EU grant writingEU partnerships
Internationalisation and industrial-stakeholder perspective for cross-border consortia.
EU partnershipsEU funding strategy
Investment, green-industry and commercialisation strategy for innovation-led organisations.
EU funding strategyResponsible AI advisory
Trusted AI governance and digital-sovereignty perspective for industrial transformation.
Responsible AI advisory