Lucas Johnston is an entrepreneur and digital strategist. He is Head of Product at the Financial Times for its FT Strategies division, and previously founded Umber, a fintech startup for Gen-Z backed by the same investors behind Monzo and WeWork.
Having joined his first start-up at 14-years-old and leaving home at 16-years-old, Lucas has over a decade of experience launching products and building inventive, unconventional customer experiences for leading brands, government agencies, think tanks, and many of the UK’s unicorn startup success stories. Lucas is longing for a Bernese Mountain Dog, and based in London and New York.
Press
Lucas lends his Gen-Z perspective to leading publications so that others can better understand his peers and the world around them, typically focusing on AI, business, technology, and geopolitics. His expertise covers a variety of topics—from founding startups as a teenager, or getting the inside track on the banking or the media industry, to geopolitical commentary from within the think tanks. If you'd like to chat more, get in touch.
Speaking & Events
Lucas frequently delivers keynotes, judges events, and joins panels at conferences around the world as a public speaker covering startups, fintech, the media industry, careers, marketing, and of course, all things Gen-Z. Recent examples include a keynote at the AE Global Summit on Open Problems for AI in London, speaking on a panel at BBC MediaCity's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conference in Salford, judging Emirates NBD's FutureHack in Dubai, as well as workshops at Eurovision's Newsxchange in Dublin and the Future of Media Technology Conference in London. If you're interested in booking Lucas for an event, let us know.