Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Experienced leader passionate about employing the right mix of entrepreneurial innovation, finance, policy, and multi-stakeholder collaboration to scale up action to meet our climate & sustainable development goals. - ~20 years of experience working on climate change and wider sustainability from various perspectives - Strong experience in building and consulting start-ups, SMEs, large corporates, research groups, and international organisations such as the UN - Large international network of business leaders, start-up entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and policy-makers - Excellent overview of climate/sustainable finance and carbon markets, incl. key actors, initiatives and innovations - Strong experience in start-up ecosystem through building the Climate-KIC accelerator (supported more than 100 companies which raised >1 B€ in follow-on investment) - Hands-on start-up building expertise through VC backed climate (prop)tech start-up pursuing an ambitious hardware/software approach to kickstarting a new industry on industrial deep retrofit - Varied cross-cultural/functional leadership experience; line management of up to 25 people; budget responsibility for up to ~20M€/y; change management, incl. through crises - Multi-Stakeholder engagement and design/management of large programs and portfolios
Restoring peatlands by unlocking their value - for landowners, corporations, investors and the planet. www.aeco.earth
Supporting organizations with ambitious impact objectives on strategy, fundraising, organisational development, product development and program design. Mainly in venture building/fundraising and climate/sustainable finance. Clients include(d) among others: Leading provider of digital twins for cities’ climate and sustainability; leading digital impact verifier; venture at the interface between investing in nature based solutions and web3/blockchain, Qontigo (Deutsche Börse company on sustainable finance), equota (scaling a start-up for trading GHG quota for e-mobility), Beyond Ratings (exit to London Stock exchange), Acclimatise (exit to Willis Tower Watson), Southpole, ImpactHub, ETH Zurich, etc.
Data-driven start-up to enable the holistic, green transformation of the real estate sector. Pulled the plug for a number of reasons.
ecoworks is the pioneer and leader in serial retrofit to decarbonize the existing, multi-family building stock at scale through digitalized planning, prefabrication of facades and integrated energy management.
Collaboration on a number of mandates in the area of climate finance (e.g. screning opportunities to build a private sector climate adaptation fund), with a focus on phyiscal risk assessment and building resilience.