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I have over a decade of global sustainability experience in business, NGOs, universities, and museums. As the Global Engagement Director at Youth4Nature, I engage with youth globally, coordinating partnerships and international events. In past roles in corporate sustainability, I worked on pioneering benchmarking projects, and produced sustainability reports for companies. Closer to home, I co-founded two local NGOs in Finland, and I am active at Symbiosis Tampere.
I have over a decade of global sustainability experience in business, NGOs, universities, and museums. As the Global Engagement Director at Youth4Nature, I engage with youth globally, coordinating partnerships and international events. In past roles in corporate sustainability, I worked on pioneering benchmarking projects, and produced sustainability reports for companies. Closer to home, I co-founded two local NGOs in Finland, and I am active at Symbiosis Tampere.
I am an experienced Climate Tech Product Leader, Seed-Stage Investor, and Project Developer working in the built environment, solar, and related fields since Cleantech 1.0.
• Finding leadership positions within climate tech companies
• Validating startup or product ideas
• Navigating the climate capital stack
• Reducing friction & costs to climate solutions deployment
• Using AI / analytics / remote sensing in ways people aren’t thinking about
Back in Cleantech 1.0, I cofounded SunPower’s utility-scale project development business unit as that industry was just taking off. We built three of the largest solar installations in the US at the time. I have since led numerous product & development teams, focused on AI, built environment, and geospatial. About two years ago, I also started investing in climate tech seed-stage startups. I’ve been advising pre-seed startups since Cleantech 1.0.
I am a nonprofit fundraising and communications consultant with 15 years of experience working on sustainable development initiatives across the globe. I help climate and international development organizations connect to new donors and funds.
I work with nonprofits of all sizes (international NGOs, think tanks, and community organizations) to help scale their impact and connect to new funding. I have led teams that have raised more than $45 million in combined funding for sustainable development initiatives across the globe. I have worked with organizations like Kiva, MyAgro, EarthGives, the Wilson Center, NYU Center on International Cooperation, the UT Energy Institute, and Parliamentarians for Global Action on topics including environmental and human rights advocacy, climate justice and resiliency, decarbonization, sustainable agriculture, and protection of the oceans. I have a master’s degree in Global Policy focused on Climate and International Development from the LBJ School of Public Policy at the University of Texas, Austin.
I’m Daniel, a first-gen immigrant born in the Colombian Andes, living in the United States. My experience lies in environmental career development, climate tech, program/product management, GIS, and corporate sustainability.
• Corporate Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy
• Program Management via technology
• Data analytics & GIS
• Career Pathing & Development
• Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Investing
I work in the intersection between sustainability, technology, and business, including corporate sustainability and climate tech across the United States, Denmark, and Colombia. I’ve worked for Google (via Magnit), Esri, World Resources Institute, and Yale University, and am currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Environmental Management at Yale University. I’m happy to do resume reviews, mock interviews, and LinkedIn profile reviews.
I’m an executive coach for climate entrepreneurs who want to scale their impact. I love working in the messy middle where leadership, climate, innovation, and personal growth collide.
I’m the founder of Future Led, a leadership development consultancy for climate startups. I’m also a founding member of Climate Change Coaches (the world’s first climate coaching organisation); and a longstanding coach with Climate-KIC (the EU’s main climate innovation body). I co-led the 9-month incubator for early-stage ideas at Scotland’s hub for social innovation.
I am a full-time Strategy Analyst for Kairos Power. I support the activities of nuclear advocacy groups, young professionals in nuclear, and non-profit organizations with a focus on climate change to promote nuclear energy as a way to decarbonize the global economy.
I am a public speaker and expert in nuclear technology and policy, with a particular focus on issues related to fuel management. I earned my doctorate from UC Berkeley. Prior to that, I worked in the Nuclear Energy sector to facilitate collaboration between Spanish, Italian, German, and Russian manufacturers of equipment for nuclear power plants.
I have spent the last decade in startups and sustainability both as a product leader and as a founder. I have experience embedding with stakeholders across the value chain, from smallholder farmers in Colombia to some of Europe’s largest grocery retailers.
My intro to the food system was as a teenager, when I spent a year working on farms across Latin America. As an undergrad, I founded two small companies, and then spent several years at a software startup in San Francisco, before quitting to found and lead product for a regenerative coffee company (killed by Covid). I spent the last several years at Apeel as a senior product manager, building biotech, hardware/AI, and software products to reduce food waste across the value chain.
I am a marketing professional, with specific expertise in content, communications, and public and media relations, with 20 years of experience. I have experience with a variety of clean energy technology and have worked for multiple leading global solar energy companies.
I have marketing experience in solar energy systems, EV charging and powertrains, UPS, VPPs, batteries and other DERs, energy monitoring and PV design software, and energy control hardware. I have built up marketing and communications departments of leading solar energy companies, and grown with them from late-stage start up, through IPOs and multiple acquisitions to become multi-billion dollar companies.
I am a clean transportation expert specializing in creating integrated business and technology solutions across all scales, from multi-national to site level.
I am a Clean Transportation Expert with seven years of experience in Fleet Electrification across rideshare products, fleet operations, and the public sector. Recently I served as a program manager at Lyft leading the Electrification of the rental fleet. Previously, I worked at Arup helping cities, organization, and startups around the world plan for clean transportation transition.
I am the CEO of Frost Methane, a company mitigating methane emissions from the permafrost & coal mining.
I’m currently an advisor to fusion investment fund Strong Atomics in addition to my day job. Previously, I gained extensive experience in electrification and clean tech at Zola Electric, Google Energy, and X, Google’s “moonshot factory.”
I am the Head of AI Engineering at Vector Institute and passionate about the role of digital technologies in accelerating energy transition and energy equity, as well as about building machine learning teams and products for societal good.
* Career pathways
* Grassroots movements in large organizations
* mindfulness and climate change
* Maximizing Personal and professional impact
* AI
I have spent my career at the intersection of AI and climate change. I have a lot of experience building machine learning products for various domains in climate adaptation and energy, including renewable power, EV charging, land-use-land-use, change related carbon emissions and built environment. I have experience applying breakthrough research in AI to address climate challenge, and building end to end capabilities for developing scalable machine learning systems.
I am a systems thinker and network weaver who designs interdisciplinary strategies and programs that address gaps in the climate movement at the intersections of politics, policy, data, science, business, environmental justice, philanthropy, community organizing, and communications.
I have worked for 20 years designing and implementing strategies to reach and engage diverse stakeholders and communities across various verticals in climate and energy – solar, sustainable agriculture, urban planning, environmental justice, public health, public utilities, local campaigns, national philanthropy and more. With a wide breadth of experience across sectors, I’m able to offer meaningful insights and coaching to those transitioning sectors.
I have a Ph.D. in biochemical engineering and currently work in industrial biotech business development.
Prior to this role, I was a fellow at both ARPA-E and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and served in the U.S. Army.
I am an international, retained specialist executive search recruitment consultant and certified professional career transition coach and certified resume writer. I advise and coach job seekers and help build my clients’ organisations with recruitment support and advice across Asia Pacific and internationally.
I am the go-to recruiter for many non-profit climate organisations and am told that I am helping to build the APAC movement through my recruitment. I have a solid track record of sourcing challenging roles for all job functions. I am also a certified career coach and though not a climate expert, I am sought out for my social impact career transition and job search consulting and coaching, including for those targeting climate jobs in the non-profit sector.
I am predominantly a software engineer with experience working in AgTech, Cloud, and Real-time 3D startups. I have spent much of the last 2 years attempting to understand the challenges in transitioning to regenerative agriculture and helping startups in that space
After graduating in physics, I jumped into the local startup scene with a small Private Cloud company then later went on to work in startups in the Game Development industry and now contributes to a regenerative-focused AgTech startup.
While researching the barriers and supporting ecosystem of regenerative agriculture over the last couple of years I have had the opportunity to connect and learn from many farmers, startups, non-profits, and investors in the space.
Sanjoy is the Founder of Regain Paradise and consultant to think tanks (WRI, Santa Clara University), consultancies (adelphi, Tetratech), international financial institutions (KfW), donors (GIZ, USAID) and impact investors.
Sanjoy has been consulting in the climate finance field for thirteen years. His clients include both public (international development financial institutions and donors) and private (impact) investors. He worked in climate finance projects in ten countries covering South Asia, Southeast Asia, East and West Africa. He also hosts a podcast on climate innovation.
I am a sustainable shopping expert, aerospace engineer, policy analyst, and behavioral scientist. I’m passionate about helping people make more sustainable choices.
My experience has varied widely over the years. I’ve worked in sustainable shopping at Amazon (where I helped launch The Climate Pledge), behavioral science at NREL, policy analysis at RAND Corporation, and wind tunnel management at the University of Washington Aeronautical Laboratory.
I’m an energy and climate “people” researcher, and connect the dots between people, data and decision-makers to ensure our climate investments benefit priority populations.
Thirteen years of energy program evaluation for utilities (including low-income, small business and community programs) + EJ and disadvantaged communities maps, criteria, and equity metrics – to ensure our climate $ reach the right people. I’ve managed large research projects for utilities and state agencies, and state stakeholder processes around energy and climate justice. I was the Technical Consultant for New York’s draft definition of disadvantaged communities, am involved in climate and energy equity in Maine, and Justice40 implementation research nationwide.
I’m a marketing leader in climate tech that’s growing companies focused on decarbonization and resiliency. From students to professionals, I’m available to help marketers invest their talents into scaling climate solutions.
I’m working to accelerate decarbonization by investing my career in climate tech and empowering others to do the same. I’ve had the privilege to help dozens of mission-driven founders successfully launch and grow climate tech startups, including leading marketing for teams that raised over $17.6 million in combined funding. I’ve also helped hundreds of people start careers in sustainability with digital content.
I am a mentor and advisor to carbon removal (CDR) companies and an active investor in early-stage climate tech. Currently, I am a Director at CUR8 and Venture Partner at Satgana.
I co-founded the Carbon Removal Center, a UK-based nonprofit organisation that advances sustainable carbon removal and have advised and worked with early-stage CDR startups (e.g. 44.01). I have a BSc and MSc in Engineering and an MBA from Berkeley Haas in Energy & Cleantech.
I am a law and policy expert in energy and clean technologies with a focus on emerging markets and energy transitions. I have contributed to California’s ground-breaking efforts to become carbon neutral, working with innovative incentives for the adoption of new clean technologies and the integration of climate equity considerations.
I’m a product manager building software products to help speed the transition away from carbon-emitting energy sources and towards a more equitable, green economy.
I also have experience in political tech and formerly worked in campaigns and on Capitol Hill. I was an early employee at Arcadia, based in DC.
Ben Swainbank is the president and founder of Oceanid MRV. They work with companies that use the vast ocean resources to remove CO2 from the air, and offer mCDR companies measurement and verification (MRV) services.
* Recent climate company founder
* Expert on marine CDR pathways
* Works at the intersection of commercial CDR, marine science, and carbon markets
* WoC channel coordinator for #learn-ocean
I help designers become climate designers. From college students to professionals, I share approaches designers can implement in taking climate action in the work they do no matter what creative industry they’re in.
Since 2016, I’ve become knowledgeable of the science, language, solutions, and approaches needed to address our climate emergency. As a climate designer, brand strategist, and educator, I’m able to take what I’ve learned and apply it to design. Over the past six years running The Determined and Climate Designers, I’ve led teams on a variety of projects amplifying the work of climate-focused initiatives.
I am a data scientist at grid analytics company Kevala with extensive clean energy experience.
I have extensive clean energy experience in both the private and public sectors, including time at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the Clean Energy Leadership Institute.
I manage large agricultural grants programs and have a background in education, workforce development, strategy, and AI/analytics.
I am a program manager for research, education and extension Climate-smart Agriculture, Justice40, Nutrition Security and Equity US goals, with a special focus on cross-government coordination and AI for Climate-Smart Ag and Forestry. I previously served as National Science Foundation Program Officer for multiple science areas and workforce development, with a focus on under-served states.
I am an experienced engineer & entrepreneur with experience building complex hardware, software, and services in energy & clean tech.
I have experience in climate & energy with the U.S. DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and The Alliance for Climate Protection.
I am a renewable energy technologist at Google and serve as President of Silicon Valley Bicycle Exchange, a bicycle repair and exchange nonprofit I founded nearly 30 years ago.
I am passionate about helping people take climate action in their personal lives, an avid biker, and a sustainable home renovation aficionado.