Aldric specializes in executive business management with emphasis on technical and energy solutions for government agencies and mission-critical organizations. Experience: Chairman, Safer World Group, a portfolio of firms in North America and Europe. Co-founded an Fesco Energy, Exceptional sales channel to Federal and utility markets.

To date, Alexandra has sourced over a billion dollars a year of renewable energy investment opportunities.

Amar is part of the founding team of Mobility Impact Partners (MIP): a collaborative strategic venture capital firm focused on investing in high-growth companies transforming the ecosystem of ground transportation; modeled after Energy Impact Partners (EIP)

Tristan has 12 years of experience in innovation and early-stage entrepreneurship, as the director of hardware tech incubator NYDesigns on the ecosystem side, and as the cofounder of Topager (urban farming) and Sitrep (urbanism studio) on the founder side. Tristan holds a Master’s in Industrial Engineering from the Ecole Centrale de Marseille and a Masters in Competitive Intelligence and Innovation from Aix-Marseille University.

A Ph.D. engineer working in the nuclear industry, Nate brings his analytical mindset to sustainability and food systems through Sweet Farm, located in upstate NY. Through animal rescue, regenerative agriculture, and technology initiatives, the Sweet Farm team scales change globally. Nate and his wife Anna Sweet are active advisors and investors in the alternative protein, agriculture technology, and sustainability sectors. Nate is a general partner at SNØCAP, an emerging climate innovation fund that aims to enable sector shifts and unlock the potential for previously unimaginable companies to exist.

Justine is an early stage tech company operator, investor and advisor. As a partner at 25madison, Justine helped launch 25madison’s first venture capital fund, and served as Chief Operating Officer of the company’s venture studio, which builds and invests in early stage companies. Prior to 25madison, Justine held leadership positions at Lyft (micromobility) and was on the founding team of Motivate, where she helped scale Citibike, the country’s largest bikeshare operator. She serves on the board of directors of AquaPao, an early stage water purification company, and Friends of Governors Island.

My mission is to scour the globe for technologies that can transform the Lufthansa Group airlines towards a more sustainable future operation, and then implement them into our organization. The CleanTech Hub focuses on scaling and commercializing homegrown tech from within the group companies and establishing partnerships with startups and corporates in the areas of aircraft retrofits, SAF and alternative fuels, digital solutions, waste and circular economy, and everything between and beyond, comprising new powertrains, hydrogen, electric, hybrid, etc. I have a background in logistics, aviation, IT, and have lived and worked in 6 countries.

With product and engineering expertise from Audi and BMW, Johan Schwind has worked closely with dozens of early-stage tech startups on their journey to product-market-fit. He is currently the acting Managing Director at URBAN-X

Michael Lythcott is the Co-Founder and Partner at Obsidian Investment Partners in New York City. Mr. Lythcott currently manages or co-manages commitments of over $500 million and has completed transactions worth more than $1 billion. After graduating from both the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia School of Business, Mr. Lythcott joined Lehman Brothers as a Senior Vice President, following investment banking and asset management positions at JP Morgan (JPM) and Bear Stearns.

Mr. Lythcott is the Chairman of the Board of the National Black Theatre, the Vice Chairman of Uptown Grand Central and a Mayoral appointee of the African Burial Grounds. He lives with his wife and two children in Brooklyn, New York.

Stefan is focused on delivering positive impact at scale through technology from building next-generation jet engines to finding climate positive breakthroughs. Prior to joining BEV, Stefan was at Rolls-Royce where he worked in engineering, operations, and finance roles. At Rolls-Royce, Stefan delivered operational improvements across the company’s global supply chain and led engineering product teams across the aerospace sector in Europe and Asia. Stefan also held positions at Baker Engineering and Risk Consultants and was on the investment team at Volvo Cars Tech Fund.

Alex is a partner and investor in early-stage startups looking to improve individual health through the creation of a healthier environment. Alex leads FORM’s US operations out of their Boston office. Prior to FORM, he spent over 10 years as an entrepreneur and start-up builder.

John Dauer is a co-founder and partner at Helium-3 Ventures. After successful careers as an actor and performer/writer in the television and music industries, respectively, John built and led multiple startups in the consumer and media space, always with an acute concentration on quality of management. Since launching Helium-3 Ventures in 2021, John and his partners have looked at thousands of deals and invested in more than 30 companies and counting.

I am passionate about technology, entrepreneurship, sustainability and city improvement. Working at the Business Strategy team at MINI and as Director Europe at URBAN-X (www.urban-x.com), a startup platform built by MINI, dedicated to entrepreneurs reimagining city life. Over the last years URBAN-X has invested in over 70 startups. I am expanding the reach of URBAN-X throughout Europe. Working at BMW headquarters in Munich, Germany, Sarah facilitates the relationship between URBAN-X, MINI and the BMW Group. Previously, I worked at a startup Opentabs and co-founded an online magazine Das Münchner Kindl, exploring the city life in Munich. Based on my diverse experience, computer science and art history education, I have a passion for connecting left brain and right brain topics by finding the common ground.

Co-founder and General Partner at Equal Ventures, an early-stage VC firm with $250m AUM focused on bridging the digital divide. Currently on the boards of climatetech innovators David Energy, Odyssey Energy Solutions and Ghost. 15+ years in the energy space across the Department of Energy, private equity, utilities, corporate sustainability and international development.

I’m an engineer (B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from MIT ’01 – ’05). After MIT, I moved to New York where I worked for a Private Equity fund (Ripplewood, $10B in AuM), investing into companies in the industrial, technology, and aerospace-tech space. In 2009 I started my own company, FundingGates, in the Fintech/SaaS space which was ultimately acquired in 2021 by a global online banking platform called Viably.

Serial entrepreneurs with a successful exited company, I founded the SCOBY collective to push impact solutions and enable entrepreneurs to achieve their purpose.

Sita Chantramonklasri is the founder and general partner of Siam Capital, an investment firm focused on the intersection of sustainability and consumer technology. In search of transformative technology that betters people and planet, the firm invests across early stage and early growth opportunities in food technology, agricultural technology, climate software, synthetic biology, among other areas.

Ian’s background is at the intersection of investing, innovation, and impact. Previously, Ian was a partner at Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners – an infrastructure holding company focused on mobility, sustainable energy, digital infrastructure, the circular economy, and carbon infrastructure launched out of Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet’s smart city initiative. Ian led work including the incubation and launch of Cavnue, which is building the future of roads and the infrastructure required to accelerate and enhance automated driving. Earlier in his career, he was a Principal at Centerbridge Partners, a founding member of Nyca Partners, a senior policy advisor at the U.S. Treasury Department focused on financial crisis response and economic recovery efforts where he had a front-row seat to the recovery from the global financial crisis and the boom/bust of cleantech 1.0, and an analyst at The Blackstone Group.

Coppelia is a Partner at Solvay Ventures, the venture capital fund of Solvay. She invests in start-ups in the advanced materials space, with a strong sustainability component: energy transition, sustainable resources, health & wellbeing and industry 4.0. Her prior experience in VC was at Sofinnova Partners, where she specialized in cleantech and industrial biology. Before joining Solvay Ventures, Coppelia was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company and worked for start-ups in biotech and sustainability. Coppelia holds an MBA from INSEAD, MSc. in Environmental Sciences from Harvard University and MSc. in Chemistry from Chimie ParisTech.

Jon Schulhof, Robert Downey Jr., and Steve Levin formed FootPrint Coalition with a belief that storytelling will inspire public interest and capital to reinvent industries with sustainable solutions to environmental challenges, and will also serve as a strong basis for originating unique access to quality investments in high growth companies. You can learn more about us here: lp.footprintcoalition.com/fund-deck.

Andreína is an investor at Systemiq Capital. Systemiq Capital backs climate tech entrepreneurs raising their late seed to Series A/B rounds. Portfolio companies benefit from access to our unparalleled climate knowledge and networks.