Decarbonizing the Future, Supporting companies in their quest for net zero.

Kevin Pinnell

CEO

Kevin is an environmentally-focused entrepreneur with extensive experience in investment banking, venture capital and building startups in multiple domains, including AI energy tech, fintech & trading technologies. A graduate of Duke University, he began his career as an energy investment banker and venture capitalist at Salomon Brothers and Bank of America, providing structured financing for electricity infrastructure of merchant power grids in Europe & Latin America, which inspired his interest in the sustainability sector. While at Bank of America, in addition to guiding the launch of several successful electronic exchanges, he conceptualized and founded an innovative AI energy-tech power management company, sparking his interest in the startup arena. He has a proven track record in founding and leading new companies in diverse industry sectors and has managed a portfolio of startups, creating successful exits and delivering a 3x plus return to investors. Kevin is a visionary leader and a skilled team builder whose strategic planning, tenacity and collaborative communication style cultivate the prosperity of any company he launches.

Edwin Carlson

COO

Edwin is an operations and technology executive with more than 30 years of experience in the fintech arena. He has a solid strategy & operations background honed at Accenture and has executive experience with traditional banking companies that include JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, Royal & Sun Alliance and HSBC. He has also successfully built fintech startups, including an offshore bank that combined TradeFi with DeFi, where he delivered a world-class Know Your Business (KYB) system supporting both digital assets and traditional banking operations. Edwin remains up-to-date in the industry through continuing education at leading universities in the digital asset and blockchain space and he has taught the application of blockchain technology to banking executives and others in the financial services industry globally.

Clint Redman

Global Sales

Clint's background in the investment banking industry spans more than 35 years, covering global markets for renowned institutions including Goldman Sachs and Oppenheimer. He has extensive corporate finance experience, having worked for oil exploration & production companies, along with their service providers and insurers, including BP, Schlumberger, and Gallaghers. In the sustainability sector, Clint sold nature-based carbon credits in the Brazilian Amazon, using the profits to protect tribal lands and support indigenous populations by building solar-powered Wi-Fi for local schools.

Aldyen Donnelly

Chief Carbon Officer

Aldyen is a Climate Change Pioneer with over 30 years of experience in the field, having pursued her work on market-driven strategies to reduce atmospheric heat-trapping gases since the early 1990s. She is a co-founder of Nori LLC, a blockchain-based carbon removal marketplace, where she developed protocols for carbon removal certificates. She has also been instrumental in the design of early greenhouse gas (GHG) regulation and renewable energy policy and co-authored the Nova Scotia Province GHG Emissions Regulations (enacted in 2009) that constituted the world’s first GHG regulation to impose an absolute, declining cap on electricity sector GHGs, resulting in a 33% province-wide reduction of GHGs by 2020. She has extensive experience assisting corporations with climate change & GHG-related risk assessment and mitigation strategies. Through her founding and leadership of the Greenhouse Emissions Management Consortium (GEMCo), she mobilized substantial private capital to finance environmental protection innovations using disruptive technologies. Her achievements include carbon-capture and storage projects, a stationary fuel-cell application and the use of emission-reduction credits to finance carbon sequestration in agricultural soils. Throughout her career, Aldyen has held prominent leadership positions both publicly and with private firms and served as a Public Governor of the Vancouver Stock Exchange.

Raymond Pipe

Chief Risk Officer

Ray is an innovative product-oriented risk executive having gained extensive experience ensuring robust Risk, Compliance, Financial Crime, Market and Operational Risk frameworks across Investment Banking, Capital Markets, Exchange/Venues, and Digital Assets embedding effective risk-aware cultures encompassing ESG principles whilst utilising technological risk solutions. His strength is partnering with business stakeholders to establish solid relationships and create risk platforms that allow business development. With more than 35 years spanning the financial markets Ray began his career on the trading floor as a Debt Capital Markets originator before progression to Head of EMEA Capital Markets Advisory Compliance for Bank of America. At Société Générale Ray established a regional programme for structured derivatives, FI, FX and commodities before being headhunted to lead the build-out of the EMEA risk programme for Wells Fargo as regional head across all products. In the digital space, Ray designed a strategic plan for a US firm to become regulated in Ireland and a project to spearhead the rollout of a new regulatory solution for a Bitcoin cryptocurrency start-up. Ray's experience includes risk management for a leading pan-European exchange, where he advised on risk capabilities and addressed regulatory exposure for the venue specialising in Government bonds and Derivatives.

Don Piper

Chief Oceanic Officer

Don is an applied research specialist with expertise in the fields of aquaculture, marine permaculture and ecosystem design & development. He is a principal of Ocean Foresters, an international engineering and scientific consulting firm dedicated to supporting local coastal communities in the design, build, and operation of permanent Aquatic Foods Ecosystems. He has taught Entrepreneurship at the University of Arizona, Bainbridge Graduate Institute, and Chaminade University, among others, and has mentored more than 500 entrepreneurs in the launching of sustainable businesses. Don was Chairman of the Board of NTouchResearch Corporation and The Phoenix, a research management company, and was a founding member of two angel capital funds. He also sits on the Advisory Board of Blue Carbon Working Group.

Mike Taratuta

Technical Solutions Architect

Mike Taratuta brings a wealth of expertise and experience as the Technical Solutions Architect at . With a career spanning nearly three decades, Mike is a seasoned technologist and entrepreneur, known for his innovative approaches to developing scalable solutions across various industries, including fintech, insurance, transportation, energy, marketing, grievance management. Mike has held senior software architect roles in companies around Central Pennsylvania and the greater US including, Highmark Direct, Penske Corporation, Gladfelters Insurance Group, Shipley Energy, and Wabash National. Mike's commitment to excellence and his broad range of technical abilities make him a vital asset to the team, as they work towards creating impactful environmental solutions.

A World-Class Team !

Combining high-level domain expertise with seasoned ﬁnancial services expertise to create innovative solutions for the environmental Credits market