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Adriana Lobo
Adriana Lobo, Director of EMBARQ CTS Mexico, an NGO whose mission is to catalyze sustainable mobility solutions in Mexican cities. She graduated as a Civil Engineer from the Polytechnic School of the University of Sao Paulo and completed academic credits to obtain his Masters in Business Administration at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico. She has worked in prestigious consulting transport in Brazil and Mexico; has over 10 years experience in project management planning of urban and regional transport.
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Alan Chang
Mr. Alan Chang, CFA serves as Managing Director of Asia & Emerging Markets of Capricorn Investment Group LLC. Mr. Chang joined Capricorn Investment Group in 2003 and oversees Capricorn's multi-asset class portfolio of investments in Asia and the emerging markets as well as Capricorn's global venture portfolio. Prior to Capricorn, Mr. Chang served as an Associate at DFJ New England. Previous to that, he served as an Analyst at Montgomery Securities. He serves on the Boards of Sunpreme Inc., Suminter India Organics, Agrica and ReProduct, and is a Board Observer at Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. He also serves on the investment advisory committees of a number of investment funds. He is a C.F.A. charter holder and is fluent in Chinese. Mr. Chang has an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 2002 and a BSE from Duke University in 1997, graduating cum laude with a triple major in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Art History.
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Allison Barlow
Program Director, Democracy and Media at Wallace Global Fund.
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Amrita Vijay Kumar
Amrita joined Ecotrust Forest Management to lead EFM’s fund development, advisory and capital raising efforts. She possesses a unique mix of private sector experience in banking, impact investing and consulting, having worked for Piper Jaffray’s clean-tech banking group and PricewaterhouseCoopers Singapore for 5 years. She has also worked with entrepreneurs in West Africa and forest carbon developers in Indonesia to access international carbon finance markets. Amrita is a Fellow of the Erb Institute and graduated from the University of Michigan with an MBA and an MS in Natural Resources. She was named the Journal of Environmental Investing’s Graduate Scholar in 2011 and recently co-authored the book Evolutions in Sustainable Investing Strategies.
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Ana Lilia Prado
Ana Lilia Prado has Bilingual Secretarial studies and the search for constant improvement, has expanded his knowledge of English at Whittier High School in Los Angeles, CA, as well as in the Mexican Institute of Cultural Relations. She has over 20 years experience in various private companies as Secretary, Assistant at Directorate level and Presidency. At the same time, he has served as a Spanish translator - English and vice versa. Ana Lilia serves as the mainstay of the Executive Board, serving as Assistant to the same.
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Andrés Barría
Has 15 years of work experience in purchasing, supervising logistics and operational support. Before he was the Administrative Manager for Panamanian Instalaciones R/B.
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Andreas Eke
An entrepreneur with over 24 years management experience in Latin America, he founded his first company in Nicaragua in 1988. In 1994 he started Futuro Forestal in Panama with the idea to implement an investment model based on sustainable and science-driven tropical reforestation. Andreas is an expert in structuring tropical reforestation projects with an emphasis on certified mixed species plantations. He takes an active role in the International Forestry Industry and is frequently asked to speak on forest investment topics. Andreas has studied Geography and Latin American Studies at the University of Hamburg and World Forestry Economics in Reinbek at the German National Wood Institute.
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Andrew Sharpless
Andrew Sharpless has led Oceana since 2003 as its Chief Executive Officer. Oceana, founded in late 2001, has grown in that time to be the largest international conservation organization fully dedicated to protecting the oceans.
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Annabelle Bexiga
Annabelle Bexiga is Executive Vice President & Chief Information Officer at TIAA-CREF, providing vision and innovation leadership for its technology strategy, architecture, initiatives and solutions.
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Antonio Costa
MBA from IBMEC with specialization in International Banking from the University of Minnesota (USA) and BA in Economics from PUC (SP). Founding partner at Vortex Partners and current member of the Board of Comfrio Soluções Logísticas S/A. He served as Director at Opportunity Asset Management, Executive VP and Partner of Banco Inter American Express (previous SRL Bank S/A), Chief Financial Officer and founding Partner of Banco BBA, currently Banco Itaú BBA. He was Financial Director of Norchem Investment Banking associated with the Chemical Bank – USA, today JP Morgan. Former Director of the National Association of Investment Banks, ANBID and the National Federation of Banks, FEBRABAN. He worked as independent adviser of Comcitrus S/A in Bebedouro and Companhia Thermas do Rio Quente in Goiás. He participated as principal in the recovery of Vila Romana Group, in Brazil, the business and functional reorganization of Comfrio Soluções Logísticas S/A and a Currency and Securities Brokerage Firm, by mandate of its former controller. Today is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Master Minds Capital.
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Barry Uphoff
Barry Uphoff is a Partner with Capricorn Investment Group. At Capricorn, Barry leads the investment team with a particular focus on healthcare and wellness investing. Prior to joining Capricorn, Barry was a senior investment professional at Silver Point Capital, a Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund with approximately $7 billion in total assets under management. Barry earned his BA from the Johns Hopkins University with highest honors and Phi Beta Kappa distinction and read for a Diploma in Law and an MSc in Medicine at Oxford University under the auspices of a Rhodes Scholarship. He received an MBA from the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business with highest honors.
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Brandon Becker
Brandon Becker is Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at TIAA-CREF. Mr. Becker leads the company's legal and compliance, government relations and internal audit functions.
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Brian Bohaty
Brian Bohaty is Executive Vice President of Operations for Retirement and Individual Financial Services. In this role, Mr. Bohaty is responsible for developing and delivering the end-to-end service experience for individual and institutional clients. Mr. Bohaty has direct oversight and accountability for the firm’s “service delivery hub,” comprised of customer contact centers, middle office support functions and back-office operations for the company’s pension, IRA, brokerage and mutual fund businesses.
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Brian McPeek
As Chief Conservation Officer, Brian McPeek works closely with The Nature Conservancy’s president and CEO to lead and manage all major organizational initiatives. He oversees the Conservancy’s Conservation, External Affairs and Philanthropy divisions, and works to develop and implement new ways to collaborate across teams and borders. In his previous role as the Conservancy’s regional managing director for North America, McPeek led a team responsible for planning and developing the organization’s long-term priorities and strengthening its conservation work among strategy teams and the field. He also worked closely with an integrated leadership team to advance a national conservation agenda.
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Brian Monaghan
Mr. Monaghan's duties include mitigation credit sales, new market analysis and project development. Mr. Monaghan joined the Wildlands team in 2006, bringing over 12 years of experience working for other mitigation banking firms as well as investment groups focused on environmentally sensitive properties. He is a licensed California Real Estate Broker.
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Brian Shillinglaw
Brian Shillinglaw manages Forest Carbon Partners’ investment activities, including forest carbon project origination, offset project development, and investor relations. He also oversees New Forests’ U.S. carbon policy activities, with an emphasis on advocacy and analysis of forest carbon protocols and climate legislation in the United States. Brian holds an A.B. in Social Studies from Harvard University, a J.D. from Stanford Law School and a M.S. from the Interdisciplinary Program on Environment and Resources at Stanford University. He has also undertaken doctoral studies in historical ecology at Yale University. Brian is based in San Francisco, and he is a member of the State Bar of California.
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Brindusa Fidanza
Brindusa Fidanza is the Founder and CEO of The Ground Up Project, an online data aggregator for small-scale environmental projects. Brindusa was the Associate Director, Deputy Head of Climate Change Initiatives and Global Leadership Fellow at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. She was a facilitator of the Task Force on Low-Carbon Prosperity that reported to the UK G20 presidency in 2009.
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Camillo Sicherle
lawyer graduated from Largo São Francisco Faculty of Law (USP) and Economics from PUC/SP, He has a Master's Degree in law from Cornell University Law School (USA). Founding partner of Sicherle Lawyers and S&A Consultoria Econômica Ltda. He has twenty-five years of experience in banking, trade finance, asset management and private equity, mergers, acquisitions and restructurings, locally and internationally. Recent experiences include the management buy-out of a heavy equipment distributor with annual revenues exceeding R$500 million, structuring and raising capital via private placement of extraction and processing of ore valued at USD350 million, the structuring of several private equity funds and receivables securitization (FIPs, FIDC and offshore) and trade finance operations and debt restructuring in the agribusiness sector, representing financial institutions and foreign private creditors in transactions whose aggregate value exceeded U$1 billion in the last 24 months.
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Carla Hudson
Carla worked as an office manager at a planning and landscape architecture firm. Carla earned her B.A. from the University of Washington and is a LEED Accredited Professional.
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Carol Deckbar
Carol Deckbar is Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA-CREF Asset Management, a division of the company's Asset Management organization. She is responsible for the strategy, planning, operations, business development and product management of public and private securities, real estate, alternatives and mutual fund products and services. Ms. Deckbar is a member of the Asset Management leadership team led by Robert Leary.
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Carter Roberts
Carter Roberts is the President and CEO of World Wildlife Fund in the United States. WWF, the world’s largest network of international conservation organizations, works across 100 countries and enjoys the support of 5 million members worldwide, 1.1 million of which are in the U.S. Roberts received his MBA from Harvard Business School following a BA from Princeton University, and subsequently held marketing management positions for Procter and Gamble and Gillette. He went on to lead international conservation and science programs for fifteen years at The Nature Conservancy before coming to WWF in 2004.
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Charles Bedford
Charles Bedford was appointed to lead the Conservancy's Asia Pacific Region (including Asia, the Pacific Islands, Indonesia and Australia) in January 2012. Most recently, Charles held key leadership roles where he was instrumental in the creation of the Mongolia program, strategy development for conservation programs in China and Mongolia, and in developing a China Program Board of Directors comprised of influential, high-level Chinese entrepreneurs. Previously, he led the Conservancy’s Colorado Program, where he assisted with the creation of America’s 58th national park, Great Sand Dunes National Park.
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Chris Stacey
Chris Stacey, Founder of Rock The Ocean is a passionate ocean man who also happens to have almost 20 years experience in the Music Industry. The combination of his love for the sea and his experience in music led him to create Rock the Ocean.
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Cindy Tambini
Ms. Tambini oversees the Wildlands planning team in guiding mitigation projects through the required entitlement and permitting processes, with an emphasis on ensuring high-quality ecological mitigation and regulatory compliance. Ms. Tambini has 18 years of experience in ecological permitting and compliance.
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Clément Chenost
Clément has in-depth experience in forestry, agroforestry, project management & finance. He started his career in 2006 at the French Forestry Commission (Office National des Forêts) before joining the sustainable development team of Ernst & Young. At Ernst & Young, he audited environmental & social data and consulted on environmental project investments. He also initiated and successfully implemented the firm’s forest certification activity. Before joining the team, Clément was Head of Business Development at ONF International where he led the ONFI’s work on the development of the Moringa Fund.
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Connie Weaver
Ms. Weaver joined TIAA-CREF in 2010 to redirect the company’s focus on its customers and establish how to best meet the evolving needs of the millions of participants the company serves. Under her leadership, numerous strategic initiatives were launched to build the brand, forge stronger ties with customers and create a unique, end-to-end client experience. These initiatives include developing a brand positioning platform, creating a new segmentation framework and rolling out a multi-channel Communications, Education and Advice program.
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Dan Kominek
Mr. Kominek oversees habitat stewardship, agricultural production and tenant relations for over 25,000 acres of protected open space. Mr. Kominek came to Wildlands in 2004 from his position as Animal Resource Manager for the University of California at Davis.
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Danilo Cedeno
Danilo is a seasoned international manager with over 30 years experience working in California, New York, Nicaragua and travelling frequently to Europe. Since 2006 he has been the Executive Director of the Community & Forestry Foundation and since June 2011 is the CEO of Futuro Forestal Nicaragua. Danilo has previously worked in the non-profit sector with rural communities, housing programs, medical health initiatives and school contstruction. He worked as a Foreign Relationship Officer for 7 years, overseeing relationships with Europe and North America. He was a country director of the New York based NGO ‘Bridges to Community’ for 13 years.
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David Banks
David Banks leads The Nature Conservancy’s efforts to protect wildlife and wild places in Africa, the cradle of humanity. David traces his career path from Texas, where he grew up exploring his grandfather’s ranch by foot and on horseback. His roots in nature inspired him to serve others and do his part to leave the world a better place. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana, David worked with communities to help restore forests in the West African Sahel. He joined the Conservancy in 1994 as an intern in Indiana, where he was finishing his Master’s Degree in Public Administration and Natural Resource Management at the Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA). He went on to lead the organization’s work in Alaska, spending time “in the bush” with wolves and grizzlies and cementing his love of untamed nature. He was named Africa director in 2007. For David, Africa represents Earth’s last best chance to protect vast landscapes that still function much as they have for millions of years. Twenty years after first discovering the wonders of Africa’s landscape and people, David returned to the continent where he feels most at home. He lives with his wife and two sons in Arusha, Tanzania.
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David Brentlinger
David Brentlinger directs New Forests' US investment business. He is responsible for overseeing and developing fund and investment products focused on environmental markets, such as carbon credits and mitigation banking, including project sourcing, financial structuring and asset management. David is also engaged in investor relations and works with New Forests' senior management team on company investment strategies and policies. David has over twenty years of experience in real estate investing, development, asset management and planning. Prior to joining New Forests, he served as Senior Vice President of Weyerhaeuser Realty Investors, a fund manager and provider of real estate project debt and equity across the US.
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David Chen
Dave Chen’s commitment to sustainability is a result of his work in venture capital, regional economic development and climate change policy. Throughout his career, Dave has seen the greatest impact – in his work, in investments in public services – when his heart, mind and hands were deep in the task. In founding Equilibrium Capital Group, Dave repeats this pattern.
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Dipender Saluja
Mr. Dipender Saluja serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Automatiks, Inc. Mr. Saluja serves as the Managing Director of Capricorn Investment Group LLC. Before Capricorn & Automatiks, he served as the Chief of Staff at Cadence. Prior roles at Cadence included Corporate Vice President of Technical Field Operations and General Manager of Worldwide Services, in which he led a 1200 person global organization. Mr. Saluja was also General Manager of Asia Pacific field operations, and Vice President of Applications Engineering, and set up and managed organizations in various regions around the world including North America, Europe, Japan, Asia Pacific, India and China. Prior to Cadence, he served at Data General (now EMC), Honeywell, and ROLM (now IBM). He serves as the Chairman of the Board at Automatiks Inc. He serves as a Director of Sunpreme Inc., Embrace Innovations (Education Frontiers) and Liquidity Nanotech Corporation. Mr. Saluja serves on the boards of Automatiks Inc. He is an Electrical & Computer Engineer by training, and attended UND, the University of Minnesota, and Stanford.
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Doug Chittenden
Doug Chittenden is Executive Vice President of TIAA-CREF's Individual Business. In his role as Executive Vice President, Mr. Chittenden oversees the company’s consumer product management and development functions as well as distribution to individual clients of TIAA Direct, 529 College Savings Plans, the Trust Company, Brokerage Services, IRA and Advisory Solutions, TC Life and Investment Products.
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Doug Teskey
After getting his marketing degree, 7 years as a professional hockey player, and 4 years in the energy industry in Scotland, Doug Teskey knew that the future was deregulation. So when he returned to the United States he started looking for the perfect business model to take advantage of the changes in energy sales. Through his research, he looked at a variety of marketing companies, programs and compensation plans. He analyzed the good and the bad - extracted the key elements and developed the company around products and services everyone uses.
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Dr. David Brand
Dr. David Brand, Managing Director, has over 30 years of experience in forest management, investment management, science, public policy, public administration and international affairs. He is the founder of New Forests Pty Limited and oversees the company's strategic direction and investment policies, as well as chairing the investment committee. Previously, David was director of the New Forests Program with Hancock Natural Resource Group (HNRG) and was responsible for the design and oversight of investment programs that integrated timber management with emerging environmental market opportunities.
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Dr. Gregory Stone
Dr. Greg Stone, Executive Vice President of Conservation International, is one of the world's leading authorities on marine conservation policy and ocean health issues.
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Dr. M. Sanjayan
Dr. M. Sanjayan, Executive Vice President and senior scientist at Conservation International, is a leading global conservation scientist, writer and an Emmy-nominated news contributor focused on the role of conservation in improving human well-being, wildlife and the environment. He serves on CI’s senior leadership team, overseeing the organization’s Development, News and Publicity and Marketing and Branding strategies.
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Dr. Russell Mittermeier
The man once described as the Indiana Jones of conservation is the only working field biologist who is also president of a major international environmental organization, and he brings the daring and ingenuity that have served him so well in the field to his role at the helm of CI. Addressing a scientific convention, the board of a global conglomerate, or the crowds gathered for the opening of the Expedition Everest ride at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Russ is nothing short of a force of nature when it comes to inspiring crowds with his wild experiences and bold vision.
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Ed Van Dolsen
Edward Van Dolsen is President of Retirement and Individual Financial Services in the Office of the CEO at TIAA-CREF. Mr. Van Dolsen has more than 30 years of experience in the financial services industry. In his current role, he provides operational leadership and guidance to TIAA-CREF’s institutional and individual businesses, individual advisory services, education savings, banking and client services.
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Edward Dugger III
Founding Partner and Chief Financial Officer. Ed, who serves on the Board of Managers and will oversee the financial affairs of the firm, is a pioneering impact investment leader. He has managed venture capital funds for over 23 years on behalf of institutional investors committed to profitable, yet socially responsible investments. To be specific, he managed The UNC Venture Funds as President of UNC Partners, Inc. These funds focused on emerging and acquired companies operating in growth-oriented industries. This experience provided Ed with extensive investment experience in such areas as computer and digital technology; commercial air transportation; consumer products; broadcast media, commercial and residential real estate development; and environmental services. The capital of the Funds was invested to consciously expand business opportunities for entrepreneurs of color and attracted over $1 billion of co-investments and financing for the growth and development of portfolio companies.
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Ellen Dorsey
Ellen Dorsey is the Executive Director of Wallace Global Fund.
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Emilie Cortes
Emilie Cortes is the Treasurer of Compton Foundation.
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Emily Warms
Ms. Warms supports New Forests’ carbon and forestry investments in the US. She was previously the Forest Program Manager at the Climate Action Reserve, where she served as the technical and programmatic lead for forest carbon projects under California’s compliance program. She has worked for The Nature Conservancy and Pacific Forest Trust on carbon accounting and forest policy. Emily holds an AB from Williams College and an MS in Forestry from the University of Vermont.
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Erika Morgan
Erika Morgan, Business Development Manager, leads CollectiveSun's new customer outreach efforts, furthering her particular enthusiasm for meeting new non-profits, opening new territories and helping more communities “go solar”. An experienced manager, speaker and clean energy educator, Erika's experience stretches across many sides of the burgeoning solar energy industry – deputy commissioner, policymaker and regulator in two states; trainer, presenter, communications manager; process facilitator and expert in start-ups; and global clean energy consultant. She has founded, staffed and/or served on the Boards of numerous non-profits, including Maine Interfaith Power and Light, the Mainewatch Institute and the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association. She brings to her work with CollectiveSun a deep understanding of the solar industry, based in a decade of consulting to multiple residential solar and other clean energy companies as they respond to challenges of growth and change.
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Eugenia Villalobos Baldioceda
Eugenia Villalobos Baldioceda joined EcoEnterprises Fund at the launch of Fondo EcoEmpresas, S.A., the first fund under management. For fifteen years, she has been part of the investment team and presently serves as Vice President for Investment. Prior to EcoEnterprises Fund, Villalobos worked as Risk Officer at Citibank and as a Corporate Finance Project Analyst at Grupo Bursatil Aldesa, a brokerage firm in Costa Rica. She holds an MS in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. She has passed the first level of the CFA certification program.
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Fabian Huwyler
Seasoned and innovative professional in the field of sustainability, philanthropy and sustainable investing with strong analytical, communication and business development skills. 7+ years of experience and a broad network in sustainable markets. Currently focusing on thought leadership and the development of innovative financial products in the area of conservation finance.
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Galina Fedorova
Galina Fedorova is a Co-Founder and COO at GOODdler.
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George McPherson
George McPherson joined GEF in 2004 and has primary responsibility for GEF’s business development and fund formation activities. Prior to joining GEF, Mr. McPherson worked with a number of private equity firms advising them on fund formation and raising capital. From 1988 through 2000, he held a variety of engineering, business development, and management positions with the Hewlett-Packard Company. Mr. McPherson has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and an MBA in Finance from George Washington University.
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Gerardo Antonio
Gerardo Antonio is a professional forest manager with almost 20 years of experience. He has managed successful native species and teak forest projects throughout the region. He has experience with sawmill management, FSC certification, financial consulting, establishment, maintenance and harvesting. Gerardo Antonio holds a Masters in Forest Science from the university of La Paz, Panama and a Masters in business administration from the Universidad Panamericana in Panama.
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Gina Wilson
Gina Wilson is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at TIAA-CREF. Ms. Wilson oversees financial management and planning, actuarial, tax, accounting, and financial reporting for the organization.
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Giulio Boccaletti
Giulio Boccaletti, Ph.D., is the Global Managing Director, Water. Giulio and his team are working to identify, test and deploy innovative, large-scale strategies that demonstrate how investments in nature will enable us to secure the water we need to prosper. He has deep expertise on the intersection of natural resources, public policy and business conduct.
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Glenn Prickett
Glenn Prickett oversees international and U.S. government relations, corporate practices and sustainability efforts, and relationships with leading international institutions and non-governmental organizations for the Conservancy. He joined the Conservancy in January 2010 after two decades working on international environment and development policy.
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Gray Peckham
Gray Peckham is the Director of Investments at Sustainable America, and has more than 12 years of experience analyzing the energy sector from a variety of viewpoints, ranging from strategic to financial. Gray’s professional experience has taken him from analyzing the effects of geopolitical risk on oil markets and oil companies at independent research firm John S. Herold, to a six year run on Wall Street as both an associate and as a publishing equity and credit analyst covering the oil sector. Along the way, Gray earned several SEC/FINRA professional designations (Series 7, 63, 86, 87), started his own consultancy, and became an advisory board member of the Water Innovations Alliance. Gray earned a BA from Boston College, an MA in history from Yale University (focused on U.S. foreign relations), and served as an Officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve.
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Guillaume Maillard
Guillaume has 10 years’ experience in finance (structuring private equity funds, deal origination, mergers and acquisition with Lazard and Natixis (2002-2003 and 2007-2008) and auditing with Ernst & Young (2003-2005)). Guillaume spent five years with La Compagnie Benjamin de Rothschild (CBR) before transitioning to Moringa in 2013. With CBR, he executed several fund raisings for European cleantech companies, before participating in the structuring of several private equity funds with strong environmental and social focuses. In particular, he participated in founding and creating BeCapital, a € 148 million European cleantech fund co-developed with Cobepa (Belgium), and structuring Moringa for CBR. He worked on defining strategies, recruiting investment teams, legal and tax structuring, and organising and structuring deals.
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Héla Cheikhrouhou
With close to 20 years of experience in project and development finance, Cheikhrouhou has extensive knowledge of international investment flows. She is widely recognized as a visionary leader on global climate finance. Educated in Tunisia and Canada, she started her career in the financial services industry as an investment banker with Citibank for seven years, lastly responsible for market risk management in North Africa. She has spent ten years working in multilateral development banks, first in the Latin America and Caribbean region of the World Bank, and then for the African Development Bank, initially with the responsibility for growing the Bank’s infrastructure project finance activities across Africa.
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Heide Hart
Heide brings more than 20 years of experience to Sustainable America in marketing, program management and event planning in the for-profit and non-profit sectors. As director of marketing at Franklin Learning Systems, Heide spent eight years coordinating skills-training programs and the implementation of curricula for various groups including school districts, foundations, and correctional institutions. While president of the Norfield Children’s Center in Weston, Conn., Heide expanded after-school programming and restructured and expanded the nursery school programs. Heide coordinated fundraisers and events at Norfield, as well as at her most recent position at Dispute Settlement Center, a Connecticut non-profit focused on alternative dispute resolution and mediation. Heide was a National Merit Scholarship finalist and attended the University of California at Berkeley. She is a member of the Mystic River Mudhead Sailing Association, where she volunteers at events to support Hospice of Southeastern Connecticut.
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Henrique Ikuta
Graduated in Accounting at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and Certificate in Business Management, with finance emphasis at University of California San Diego. Past background in auditing, corporate finance consulting and financial analyst at a private equity fund. At Axial is responsible for the valuation of new investments opportunities, support management and monitoring of portfolio companies of Axial Par, as well.
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Hervé Bourguignon
Hervé has extensive experience in business and project development in developing countries, particularly in Latin America and Africa. He was CEO of Elf Lubricants in Mexico, 1990 - 1997 and CEO of Elf Lubricant‘s international division, 1998 - 2002. In this role, he managed 13 subsidiaries in Latin America, Asia and Africa. He was President of IFIA (Interafrican Forest Industries Association) from 2005 - 2011. He played a key role in obtaining FSC certification of 5.3 million forest hectares. In addition, he was also instrumental in promoting tropical woods in international markets and championing high value processing of forest products in Africa. He has also served as a lecturer at HEC Paris on company management in emerging countries.
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Ian Campbell
Ian Campbell, Director of Marketing, brings almost 15 years of experience in strategic marketing and campaign development and execution. He specializes in leading early stage start-up companies into new markets, launching new products and services and realizing early revenue goals.
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Ian Narev
Ian joined the Group in May 2007. From then until January 2009, he was Group Head of Strategy, with responsibility for corporate strategy development, mergers and acquisitions and major cross-business strategic initiatives. He led the Group’s $2.1 billion acquisition of Bankwest in 2008, as well as the Group’s investment in Aussie Home Loans.
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Iliana Armién
A passionate forester with over 25 years of experience, she has proven her unique skills at designing innovative tropical forest plantations and adaptively implementing those designs on the ground. Iliana is specialized in mixed species management of tropical native hardwood. She is the co founder and owner of Futuro Forestal and has extensive field experience. She has overseen impressive growth results in the hardwood plantations she has managed. Previously she worked as a researcher and consultant to the Smithsonian Tropical Institute, Organization of American States, Provincial Governments in Argentina and Parque de la Amistad (Panama/Costa Rica). Iliana has a B.S. in Forest Engineering from Escuela Superior de Bosques de la Universidad de la Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Ion Yadigaroglu
Dr. Ion Yadigaroglu, PhD is a Co-Founder and serves as the Managing Principal of Direct Investments at Capricorn Investment Group LLC. Dr. Yadigaroglu joined Capricorn Investment Group in 2004. Dr. Yadigaroglu served at Koch Industries, Inc., as Director of Business Development, where he executed a range of acquisitions and investments. Prior to Koch, he was a founder and Chief Executive Officer at Bivio, a software business in Colorado, and an Analyst for Olsen & Associates, a foreign exchange trading house.
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James Davies
James Davies, Head of Funds Management, has over 20 years of investment management experience across debt, equity, hybrid and derivative instruments in private equity, debt capital, bank, over-the-counter and listed equity markets. He is responsible for overseeing product development, marketing and management of New Forests' funds and investment products globally. Prior to joining New Forests, James was the Fund Manager of Westpac Bank's public-private partnership wholesale infrastructure fund. He also worked for Royal Bank of Scotland in London as a Director in principal investment and restructuring & turnaround management roles. James has an MBA from London Business School and a Bachelor of Computing Science from the University of New England in Australia. He is based in Sydney.
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Janine Wilkin
Janine Wilkin is currently the Chief of Staff for The Nature Conservancy. Prior to taking on this role in January of 2009, she served in leadership roles in marketing and philanthropy including deputy director of philanthropy where she oversaw fundraising in major markets and as director of field resources where she oversaw field marketing as well as several philanthropy support services for the organization. She also serves on an advisory board for Conservation Leadership through Learning, an innovative Master’s level program in development at Colorado State University.
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Jason Scott
Jason Scott is a co-founder and Managing Partner of EKO Asset Management Partners. Jason has more than a decade of experience developing and managing firms seeking to sustainably manage and invest capital. He was most recently a founding Director and investment analyst at Generation Investment Management, co-founded by David Blood and former Vice President Al Gore, Jr.
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Jeffrey S. Skoll
Mr. Jeffrey S. Skoll, Jeff, is the Founder at Capricorn Investment Group LLC. Mr. Skoll served as the President at eBay Inc. from August 1996 to February 1998 and as its Vice President of Strategic Planning and Analysis since February 1998. As eBay's founding President, he developed eBay's first business plan, generating entrepreneurial opportunities for millions of individuals around the world. He also pioneered creation of the eBay Foundation through the allocation of pre-IPO shares. Mr. Skoll served as Channel Marketing Manager for Knight-Ridder Information Inc. from July 1995 to July 1996. He served as the President of Skoll Engineering, a firm that he founded, from September 1987 to August 1993. Mr. Skoll co-founded Micros on the Move Ltd. as an adjunct to Skoll Engineering in 1990. In 2004, he founded Participant Productions (now Participant Media) and serves as Chairman. Mr. Skoll serves as the Chairman of Participant Media, LLC. He served as a Director of Ingenio Inc. He served as a Director of eBay from December 1996 to March 1998. In 1999, he launched the Skoll Foundation, for which he serves as Founder and Chairman. He serves as a Director at Silicon Valley Community Foundation. Mr. Skoll serves on the board of the National Center for Arts and Technology and on the advisory board for The Elders. Mr. Skoll envisioned Participant as an independent global media company focused on creating entertainment content that would have a long-term benefit to society.
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Jennifer Morris
Jennifer Morris leads the Ecosystem Finance Division in investing in strategic projects which support CI’s mission of sustainable development. There are five diverse funds in this Division under her management, totaling US$ 330 million in total capital. The newest fund in the group is CI’s Carbon Fund which provides funding to monetize carbon for the benefit of local communities in CI priority areas.
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Jeremy Kranowitz
Jeremy Kranowitz is Executive Director of Sustainable America, implementing its strategic plan to raise consumer awareness around sustainable food and fuel issues, and to support entrepreneurs working on these issues to make our nation more efficient, resilient and sustainable. Prior to Sustainable America, Jeremy worked for a decade at The Keystone Center on the nation’s toughest energy and environmental issues as a mediator, facilitator, and educator. Jeremy worked for the Izaak Walton League on a clean air campaign on behalf of hunters and fishers, and helped launch Forest Trends, an international sustainable forestry non-profit. He also worked for five years at McKinsey & Co in its environment practice, working with Fortune 500 companies. He has an MS in Environmental Science and BA in Social Sciences from Johns Hopkins University, and an MPA in Environmental Policy from New York University.
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Jim Lyons
Jim is a visionary leader and investor in the clean energy industry, currently serving as chief technologist at both the Capricorn Investment Group and at Novus Energy Partners. He was previously a Chief Engineer at GE's Corporate R&D Center and technology leader for a global R&D team in Germany, US, India, & China. Jim championed renewable energy within GE and co-led GE's entry into wind power, serving as chief technologist of the new business. Jim has served on the boards of Powerex, Electric Drive Trade Association, US Offshore Wind Collaborative, Encell Technologies, and fortu GMBH.
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Joe Keenan
Joe Keenan is Executive Vice President of The Nature Conservancy's Latin America Region where he leads a staff of more than 320 people based in sixteen countries. Under Keenan’s direction, the Conservancy engages in high-leverage conservation efforts, including designing innovative strategies for water security, sustainable food security, and smart infrastructure, collaborating with indigenous communities, strengthening protected areas, and establishing creative partnerships with the private sector. He is the Conservancy’s lead staff person for the Latin America Conservation Council, which was formed in 2011. Prior to tackling his current role in 2009, Keenan has held several other key positions within the Conservancy, including Managing Director of the South America Conservation Region, Director of the Eastern South America Division, Southern Mexico Director, Director of Conservation Strategy for the Brazil Division, and Manager of the Atlantic Forest Conservation Program.
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John McKenna
John McKenna brings over fifteen years executive investment experience, the majority focused on the emerging markets in Latin America and Asia. McKenna joined EcoEnterprises Fund from Emergente Capital, an investment advisory firm specializing in strategic consulting, corporate restructuring and mergers and acquisitions in the Andean region of South America. Prior to Emergente Capital, McKenna worked in the Private Equity group of Fidelity Investments, where he served as an advisor to the owners of Fidelity, Board of Directors and senior management of each portfolio company. He has an MBA from the University of South Carolina.
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John Tobin
Sustainability professional with extensive experience in the management of environmental, social, and associated reputational risks, stakeholder engagement and communications, and the development and articulation of strategy on corporate responsibility. An environmental scientist and attorney by training, has extensive experience in international law and finance from over a decade of corporate practice. Also, has substantial leadership experience in not-for-profit entities at the board level, particularly in the areas of environment, science, and education.
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John Winthrop Jr.
John Winthrop Jr. is the Vice Chairman of The Conservation Fund and Principal at Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC.
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Jose Saavedra
Jose Saavedra has worked with Futuro Forestal for over 4 years, most recently establishing a 1000-hectare native species reforestation project for a US institutional investor
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Juan Bronson
Has over 10 years of experience as a manager and project coordinator. Before joining Futuro Forestal he worked as a producer in the film industry, managing projects for companies such as I.L.M. and Disney. A fourth generation farmer and avid conservationist, in 2010 he decided to pursue his roots and work in sustainable reforestation. His family has owned a native species agro-forestry operation in Guatemala since the eighties. Juan has a degree in Cinema and and a degree in Philosophy from SFSU in California.
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Juan Gonzalez
Has worked as a forester since 2000. Starting as a fieldworker but demonstrating exceptional ability Juan ascended to the role of operational manager. His previous work experience includes Teca International and a local timber company. Juan is responsible for quality control of all Panama plantations. He has a University degree from Chiriquí in natural resource Management and worked as a research assistant to Professor Novoa, a respected Panamanian academic forestry expert.
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Julie Mentzer
In her seven years with Wildlands, Ms. Mentzer has managed numerous large-scale restoration projects in California, Washington and Oregon including Blue Heron Slough Conservation Bank, the first conservation bank in Washington, and Hylebos Creek Estuarine Restoration Project, the first private-public project developed to offset Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) settlements. During her three years managing Wildlands' Portland office, Ms. Mentzer's duties include obtaining the necessary federal, state, and local permits for projects in the Pacific Northwest and working cooperatively with the Portland Harbor Trustee Council on restoration projects to offset Natural Resource Damages within the Portland Harbor Superfund Site.
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Justin Adams
Justin Adams is the Global Managing Director, Lands, at The Nature Conservancy, where he leads a broad team of Conservancy staff operating at the intersection of global development and environmental challenges, including sustainable agriculture, forests and climate change, smart infrastructure, and indigenous and communal conservation.
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Kathie Andrade
Kathie Andrade is Executive Vice President of Individual Advisory Services. Ms. Andrade is responsible for continuing to grow the company’s relationships with individual clients whose needs require customized, advice-driven solutions delivered by teams of financial planning experts.
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Kathy Daniel
With 24 years of experience in the legal industry, Ms. Daniel has spent the last nine years in the legal department at Wildlands working side by side with the chief executive managers. As Executive Vice President, Kathy continues to oversee all corporate matters as well as working with the management team to facilitate the focus of the executives, ensuring the talented team of employees receive support and direction to successfully achieve company goals. Prior to joining Wildlands in 2004, Kathy expanded her experience to include managing the operations department of one of the fastest growing, top rated publishing companies on the West Coast.
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Katrina Kazda
Katrina Kazda is Director of Programs at Sustainable America, working to expand the organization’s food and fuel programming regionally and nationally. Prior to joining Sustainable America, Katrina served as Managing Director at the Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts, a Boston based non-profit with the mission to build economies that are local, green and fair. Earlier, she worked on a variety of international development initiatives including the development of the Asian University for Women, a new regional university for women based in Chittagong, Bangladesh—planned as a model of sustainable development in the region—and more recently, the Lighting a Billion Lives campaign- a rural solar lighting program led by The Energy and Resources Institute based in New Delhi, India. Katrina received her B.A. in Visual Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and her M.A. in Sustainable International Development from Brandeis University.
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Kevin Doyle Jones
Representing Founding Partner, Good Capital, LP. Kevin serves on the Board of Managers and will assist with investor relations, strategic guidance, and engagement with portfolio companies. He has extensive private investment experience as a limited and general partner, and as an angel investor. His investment experience spans a range of growth enterprises that were market leaders and market makers, including consumer products, finance, tourism and digital media.
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Larry Band
Larry Band works as a consultant to non-profit organizations on finance and market-related issues in environmental policy. Previously, Larry worked for 20 years at Lehman Brothers. He spent seventeen years as an investment banker advising corporations on a wide variety of strategic and financing transactions working primarily with companies in the telecommunications, technology and industrial sectors. Larry became a senior member of Lehman's human capital management team in 2005 where he was the global head of recruiting and responsible for talent management for junior professionals across the firm. Prior to Lehman Brothers, Larry worked as a management consultant for Bain & Co. and as a policy analyst at the American Enterprise Institute. He holds a BS in Biology and a BA in Political Science from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Graduate School of Business.
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Larry Pieper
Mr. Pieper has over 30 years of senior management experience overseeing company sales and operations. Larry has been directing west coast operations at Wildlands for the past seven years. As Vice President of Operations, Larry is responsible for coordinating all aspects of west coast projects, including: land acquisition, sales, planning, design build, biology and finance. Prior to joining the Wildlands team in 2004, Mr. Pieper spent over 20 years in the electronic manufacturing industry where he co-founded several companies; the largest growing from one facility with 30 employees, to over 4,500 employees in multiple manufacturing facilities located in five countries worldwide.
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Lee Barken
Lee Barken, CPA, LEED-AP is the Chief Community Officer at CollectiveSun®, LLC. He has broad industry experience in renewable energy project finance, environmental commodities consulting and public policy analysis. He is dedicated to helping nonprofit's develop economically viable energy projects. Lee writes and speaks on the topics of renewable energy project finance, green building and community financing.
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Lois Quam
Lois Quam is Chief Operating Officer at The Nature Conservancy, where she oversees Finance and Operations, Legal and Marketing Divisions. Lois brings to the Conservancy a wealth of executive experience in both the public and private health sectors, and at the intersection of health and sustainable energy technology. She believes that the Conservancy has a central role to play in global development, describing the organization’s work as urgent and vital to a sustainable future.
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Lynne Zeitlin Hale
Lynne Zeitlin Hale currently serves as the Global Managing Director for Oceans. Over the last decade, she has led the development of TNC’s marine programs which integrates science and policy work with “in-the-water” conservation and restoration in the United States and more than 30 countries in Asia, Oceana, the Caribbean, South America, and Africa. Areas of focus for the Conservancy's marine programs include Sustainable Fisheries, Integrated Ocean Management, and Climate Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction.
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Mark Burget
Mark Burget serves The Nature Conservancy as Executive Vice President and North America Managing Director. He recently returned to the Conservancy after serving as President and Chief Operating Officer of the ClimateWorks Foundation, a global philanthropic network focused on energy and land use policy. Mr. Burget previously served as The Nature Conservancy's Chief Conservation Programs Officer, overseeing country programs in North America, Latin America, Africa, Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region. Over the past twenty years, Mr. Burget also has served the Conservancy as Director of Global Priorities, Director of the California Program and Director of the Colorado Program. He earned both his J.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Virginia and his BA in Government from Dartmouth College.
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Mark Heintz
Mr. Heintz is the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel for Wildlands and is responsible for the company's operations and legal matters. He admitted to practice law in California and is experienced in environmental and land use issues and in particular as it relates to ESA, CWA, CEQA, NEPA, and CERCLA. Mr. Heintz holds law degrees and diplomas from the Inns of Court School of Law, the City University London, and the University of Liverpool. He is a Barrister-at-Law and a member of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn in London, England. Mr. Heintz's undergraduate studies were focused on Zoology and the Biological Sciences at the University of Calgary.
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Mark Tercek
Mark Tercek is president and CEO of The Nature Conservancy, the global conservation organization known for its intense focus on collaboration and getting things done for the benefit of people and nature. He is the author of the Washington Post and Publisher’s Weekly bestselling book Nature’s Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature.
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Martin Poulsen
From 2009-2011 Martin served as Chief Private Equity Officer at the African Development Bank. Previously, between 2003 and 2009, he led the European Investment Bank (EIB) private equity investment activities in sub-Saharan Africa and in the European renewable energy field.
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Matthew Brennan
Matthew Brennan is the operations manager at CollectiveSun®, LLC. He is a solar installation expert with experience in both residential and commercial projects. In addition to being a talented entrepreneur, Matt's has a strong engineering and technical background. His experience includes founding SanDiegoSolarPower.com, a solar sales and procurement company with extensive market reach. Prior to SanDiegoSolarPower.com, he worked as an industrial engineer for a network equipment manufacturer, a sales engineer for electronic equipment manufacturers and an operations manager for an industry-leading mechanical engineering magazine. He brings his passion for solar power to CollectiveSun®, where Matt manages all aspects of installer relationships and project development.
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Michele Pena
Michele Pena has been part of the EcoEnterprises Fund’s senior team since 2001, managing all operational, business development and monitoring and evaluation functions. She now serves as Chief Operating Officer. Pena launched EcoEnterprises Partners II, LP in 2012 under EcoEnterprises Capital Management, LLC in which she is a partner. Pena brought organizational and marketing expertise to EcoEnterprises Fund from her position as Program Director at the Climate Institute, a nonprofit organization focused on global climate change issues. Pena is co-author of Portfolio for the Planet: Lessons from 10 years of impact investing (Earthscan/Routledge Press, 2011). She has an MA from American University in Washington, D.C.
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Murali Kanakasabai
Murali Kanakasabai is Managing Director with Environmental Financial Products (EFP), LLC. Prior to joining EFP, Dr. Kanakasabai served as Senior Vice President with the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) and its affiliates where focuses on research and education in greenhouse gas emissions markets, new product innovation, management of emission offsets and International business development.
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Nathalie Prado
Nathalie Prado serves as an Investment Officer at EcoEnterprises Fund. She worked as a monitoring officer for Fondo EcoEmpresas, S.A. EcoEnterprises Fund’s first fund under management carrying out post-investment field visits, gathering portfolio impact metrics and managing several deal workouts and exits. She rejoined the team for EcoEnterprises Partners II, LP after several years at Root Capital where she was a loan officer for Central America, leading investment activities in Nicaragua, Dominican Republic and Haiti. She holds a BA in Business Administration from Universidad Internacional de las Américas and an MBA in Sustainable Business from Universidad para la Cooperacion Internacional.
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Nicolas Landolt
Has a degree in Business Administration from European Business School - London (England), with specialization in marketing from UB (University of Barcelona). Jury member of the New Ventures program of the Center for Sustainability Studies (GVces) FGV/EAESP. Responsible for managing and monitoring of AxialPar portfolio companies, origination and investment in new businesses. He previously served on the WB Consulting in Shenzhen (China) with relocation of executives and consultants to Swiss companies that was starting activities in China. He also worked in the new technologies department at Interoute in London.
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Niels Crone
As a member of CI’s Chairman’s Office, Niels ensures effective management, integration, and collaboration across the organization and works with division heads to successfully implement CI’s strategy and vision. He also serves as the liaison to the Board’s Audit Committee and participates in the Executive Sessions of the Board.
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Oksana Aguilar
With over fifteen years’ experience, Oksana Aguilar has served in various financial management functions. For five years, she served as Investment Monitoring Officer for Fondo EcoEmprseas, S.A. EcoEnterprises Fund’s first fund under management and rejoined the team in 2012 to serve as Financial Controller for EcoEnterprises Partners II, LP. Prior to this present position, she was Finance and Administration Director for World Wildlife Fund’s Central America Program Office in Costa Rica. She also held the position of Finance Specialist at The Nature Conservancy and worked in the comptroller’s office in IUCN’s Mesoamerican Office. Aguilar holds an MBA with emphasis in banking and finance from the University of Costa Rica.
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Olga Zamudio
She studied the degree of Ing. Biochemistry at UAM Iztapalapa Industrial also has a Masters degree in Systems Management Productivity and Quality by the Simon Bolivar University. Emphasizes his career 8 years in the private sector or in the areas of Manufacturing, Quality Assurance and Continuous Improvement in companies like Abbott and Eli Lilly.
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Paul Sherman
Mr. Sherman joined Wildlands in 2007, and oversees Wildlands' land acquisition and project development within California, Oregon and Washington. He ensures biologically sustainable restoration and conservation projects are able to navigate legal, accounting, land use, and environmental law. Mr. Sherman has over 15 years in land use entitlement, facility development and acquisition experience.
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Paulo Nico
Graduated in Law from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and Certificate in Economics from University of London with specialization in Finance from Insper (formerly Ibmec-SP). Worked as a lawyer at Brazilian Stock Exchange and as a financier in M&A boutique and large Consulting Firms. He is currently responsible for managing and monitoring AxialPar portfolio companies as well as origination and evaluation of new investments opportunities through Axial Gestão.
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Peter Kareiva
As The Nature Conservancy’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Peter Kareiva is responsible for: reporting to the board of directors on the state of science in the Conservancy; mentoring its scientists; identifying opportunities and shortcomings that warrant science attention if the Conservancy is to fulfill its mission; advising leadership on emerging conservation challenges; and serving as one of several external spokespeople for science at the Conservancy. Kareiva's scientific research at the Conservancy focuses on two areas: first, projects aimed at asking whether conservation strategies are indeed delivering what they promise to deliver ("measures of success"); and second, developing credible tools that allow routine consideration of nature's assets (or ecosystem services, such as clean water and flood control) in a way that informs the Conservancy's business choices and how people around the world choose to live everyday.
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Peter Seligmann
Peter Seligmann has a vision and a mission. The vision is an environmentally healthy world that will provide economic opportunities and security for all people. The mission is to bring together industry, government, religious leaders, professors, scientists, local and indigenous people to make that vision a reality.
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Peter Stein
Peter was Senior Vice President of the Trust for Public Land (TPL) where he directed TPL's conservation real estate acquisitions in the Northeast and Midwest. Peter lectures extensively at graduate schools and professional conferences on conservation investment schemes and strategies. He is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Appalachian Mountain Club and serves on the Boards of Island Press and the Hubbard Brook Research Foundation. In addition, he is a former Board Chair of the Land Trust Alliance, served as a founding Commissioner of the newly created Land Trust Accreditation Commission, and serves as a member of the Advisory Board of Rose Smart Growth Real Estate Fund No. 1. Peter earned a B.A. with Highest Honors from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1975 and was a Loeb Fellow and received a Certificate in Advanced Environmental Studies from Harvard University in 1981.
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Peter Wheeler
Peter Wheeler joined The Nature Conservancy as an Executive Vice President in September 2013. He has a long and distinguished career as an investment banker. Until Dec 2010, he was Head of Wholesale Banking, EMEA and Americas for Standard Chartered. Previously, Peter spent fifteen years with Goldman Sachs, initially in New York, then, from 1991, based in Hong Kong, where he established the firm's Investment Banking business for Asia outside of Japan, spending considerable time in India, the People’s Republic of China, South Korea, Indonesia and Singapore. He was the firm’s first Chief Representative in Beijing. He became a partner of the firm in 1994, and returned to the United Kingdom at the end of 1998.
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Phoebe Higgins
Phoebe Higgins joined the California Fisheries Fund in 2008. She manages the Fund's portfolio and assists borrowers throughout the lending process. Prior to working at CFF, Phoebe served as the Sustainable Programs Director at Community Bank of the Bay in Oakland, California, where she was responsible for making loans to green businesses and environmental nonprofit organizations. Phoebe also has several years' experience as a community organizer focusing on social justice issues such as affordable housing, equity in education and voter participation. Phoebe holds a BA in Russian Studies from Carleton College and an MBA in Sustainable Enterprise from the Green MBA program at Dominican University of California.
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R. Michael Leonard
R. Michael Leonard is the Chairman of The Conservation Fund and Attorney at Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC.
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Rafael L. Marques
Rafael Marques is Managing Director of Environmental Financial Products. Prior to this position Marques served as Senior Vice President of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) where he was actively involved in all phases of the feasibility and design phases of the Chicago Climate Exchange and worked on the program’s membership outreach and expansion into Latin America . He also worked in research relating to business opportunities in carbon sequestration and sustainable forestry management.
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Ricaute Carrera
Ricaute Carrera has been with the company since the beginning. He has worked with the company since 1995 and serves as our principal foreman, responsible for planting preparation activities and silvicultural work. He started at Futuro Forestal as a field worker and was gradually promoted as he developed his managerial and technical knowledge. He has no university degree, but his unique appreciation for nature, local forestry knowledge and acquired academic knowledge make him an infinite source of information. Prior to Futuro Forestal he worked in construction and agriculture.
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Richard L. Sandor
Richard L. Sandor is chairman and chief executive officer of Environmental Financial Products LLC, which specializes in inventing, designing, and developing new financial markets with a special emphasis on investment advisory services. EFP was established in 1998 and was the predecessor company and incubator to the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), the European Climate Exchange (ECX) and the Chicago Climate Futures Exchange (CCFE). He is also the author of Good Derivatives: A Story of Financial and Environmental Innovation, published in 2012.
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Richard Mott
Program Director, Environment at Wallace Global Fund.
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Rinaldo Pereira
Has an Economics degree from Mackenzie University, Master in Regional Development from Uni-FACEF - Franca-SP, MBA in Accounting and Finance from FGV-COC - Ribeirão Preto-SP, Post graduate in Financial Accounting Administration from FAAP - Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado. He has about 20 years-experience in Financial Management, participating in the organizational restructuring of JFCitrus Agropecuária, Bebedouro – SP e succession planning, accounting, tax and financial and start-up of Companhia Mineira de Açúcar e Álcool, Uberaba-MG. In the past, he worked in logistics and agriculture companies.
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Rob Leary
Robert Leary is Executive Vice President of TIAA-CREF and President of Asset Management, the organization that oversees TIAA-CREF's global, multi-boutique investment management business and its affiliated asset management companies. Leary, who joined TIAA in 2013, has responsibility for the company's investment strategy, distribution and operations as well as the standalone businesses that comprise TIAA-CREF's multi-boutique structure which include, among others, TIAA-CREF Asset Management and Nuveen Investments (when that recent acquisition closes -expected by the end of 2014). He leads a highly experienced management team focused on strong investment performance, a history of innovation and client focus across all distribution channels
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Roger Ferguson
Roger Ferguson is President and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA-CREF. Mr. Ferguson is the former Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. He represented the Federal Reserve on several international policy groups and served on key Federal Reserve System committees, including Payment System Oversight, Reserve Bank Operations, and Supervision and Regulation. As the only Governor in Washington, D.C. on 9/11, he led the Fed’s initial response to the terrorist attacks, taking actions that kept the U.S. financial system functioning while reassuring the global financial community that the U.S. economy would not be paralyzed.
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Ron Pressman
Ron Pressman is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at TIAA-CREF. In his role as Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Pressman is responsible for driving the company’s strategic vision and operational excellence in order to enhance growth, execute business plans and deliver high-quality products and services to clients. In this capacity, Mr. Pressman’s efforts will focus on further improving company performance, strengthening integration across the organization, helping maintain financial stability and leading new business initiatives.
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Rosemary Mann
A frequent consultant to non-profit, marine and business organizations, Rosemary Mann has extensive senior management experience in sales, fundraising, government relations, marketing and special events management, with specialization in not-for-profit educational and environmental organizations.
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Rudy Murgo
Rudy joined Ecotrust Forest Management to lead the execution of all financial planning and investment analysis functions. He has a decade of finance experience, ranging from investment analysis to investor reporting to risk management, with the majority of that time spent supporting renewable energy projects. Prior to joining EFM, Rudy worked for Fisher Investments as a Senior Analyst, Threshold Power as a Director of Investment Analysis, Acciona Energy North America as a Finance Manager and Iberdrola Renewables as a senior analyst. He has an MBA from the University of Portland and a BA in Biology from Carroll College. Rudy is also a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Society of Portland.
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Shaun Paul
Founding Partner and President. Shaun, who chairs the Board of Managers, has extensive business development experience in the areas of agriculture, consumer products, environmental services and aquaculture. He is a founder of Root Capital, a pioneering loan fund financing enterprises in Latin America and Africa. His investment experience has been focused on agriculture, forestry, light manufacturing and education. As you might expect, he is fluent in Spanish.
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Sherrie R. Aland
Sherrie brings to Wildlands more than 20 years of experience in real estate, land use and natural resource law. Ms. Aland manages the Company's day-to-day transactional and operational legal matters. Prior to joining Wildlands, Ms. Aland acted as outside counsel for the Company advising it on complex land use and real estate transactions. She also represented multiple national private and publicly-traded home building and real estate companies and was lead counsel in one of the largest real estate transactions in Sacramento history. Ms. Aland is a member of the Environmental and Real Estate Sections of the Sacramento County Bar Association and the Real Property Section of the State Bar of California. She is also a member of the Building Industry Association of Superior California, the Urban Land Institute and the American Planning Association. Ms. Aland is a graduate of McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific and received a B.A. in Government from California State University Sacramento.
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Skip Spriggs
Skip Spriggs is a seasoned HR executive who has served in senior business roles at several Fortune 500 companies across diverse industries over the last 25 years.
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Steve Gruppo
Steve Gruppo is Executive Vice President and Head of Risk Management for TIAA-CREF. As Head of Risk Management, he oversees all risk related functions, including market risk, credit risk, quantitative analytics, operational risk, strategic risk and investment valuations. He and his team are responsible for the proper identification, measurement, and management of risk exposures across the enterprise to ensure that the organization's risk profile is understood and effectively managed.
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Steve Howell
In May of 1995, Steve Howell joined The Nature Conservancy as controller. He was appointed Director of Finance and Accounting in 1996, Vice President of Finance in 1998, Chief Operations Officer in 1999, Chief Financial Officer in 2002, and currently holds the title of Chief Financial and Administrative Officer.
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Steve Morgan
Founder and chairman of Wildlands, Mr. Morgan is responsible for executive oversight of all corporate activities. His prior business experience includes emphasis on real estate acquisition and finance.
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Susan Gibbs
Susan is working as a Advisor, Women’s Empowerment and Rights at Wallace Global Fund.
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Suzanne Kim
Suzanne Kim manages analysis of New Forests' project and fund level investments in the United States. She is involved with managing the current US investment portfolio and underwriting potential investments. Suzanne is responsible for constructing and maintaining models used to value existing as well as potential investments. Suzanne has 15+ years of experience in investment analysis, architecture, urban planning, public policy, real estate, and renewable energy.
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Tatiana Fedorova
Tatiana Fedorova is a Co-Founder and CEO of GOODdler.
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Teresa Hassara
Teresa Hassara leads the company’s Institutional Business, which serves more than 15,000 retirement plan sponsors in the academic, research, medical and cultural fields.
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Tim Herms
Tim oversees accounting and human resources for EFM. He has over fifteen years of experience managing the finance and accounting functions for businesses and non-profit organizations, including eight years as the Controller for the Oregon Symphony Association and Foundation. Tim received a BA from the University of Louisville where he studied Accounting and Finance.
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Tim Robards
Tim Robards manages forestry and carbon analytics for New Forests’ carbon and timberland investments in the United States. Tim provides quantitative oversight of forest carbon projects in the assessment, project development and operational phases and will manage forestry operations on New Forests’ U.S. timberland assets. Tim has over 25 years of experience as a forester and forest biometrician. Tim was Principal at Spatial Informatics Group, LLC where he led the Forest and Carbon Program working on research and consulting projects. Previously, he held positions in the Fire and Resource Assessment Program, Demonstration State Forests, and Forest Practices during a 20-year career with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE).
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Tina Kroll-Guerch
Administrative Director of Wallace Global Fund.
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Vanessa Compton
Vanessa Compton is a Vice President of Compton Foundation.
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Viverka Mina
Viverka Mina has nearly 20 years’ experience in administration working for several important Latin American companies. She has a broad understanding of forest accounting and is a respected mentor to our junior accountants. She is a Certified Public Accountant and has an MBA in finance from the Universidad del Istmo.
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W. Danforth Compton
W. Danforth Compton is the Secretary of Compton Foundation.
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Will Hart
Will provides oversight, management and planning capacity for all forest lands currently managed by EFM. His extensive practical experience inspires his commitment to maximizing the economic, ecological and social returns from effective forest management. Will has five years of on-the-ground operating experience with Washington State’s Department for Natural Resources, where he was responsible for designing timber harvests and managing timber sales, while coordinating forest operations and restoration activities. He has a M.S. in Forestry from Michigan Technological University and a B.S. from the University of Puget Sound, and is a member of the Society of American Foresters.
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William Ginn
As Executive Vice President for the Global Conservation Initiatives Team, Bill Ginn is leading The Nature Conservancy’s work in impact investing, developing markets for natural capital and managing special conservation initiatives. TNC’s NatureVest impact investment collaboration with JP Morgan& Chase reports to him.
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Wisla Heneghan
Wisla Heneghan is the Chief Legal Officer for The Nature Conservancy, overseeing the work of the Conservancy’s Legal Department, which provides a full range of legal services in support of the Conservancy’s conservation mission.
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