Meet Our Team
Uniquely suited to bring climate technologies to market. Our founding team has led or built 22 companies in the industrial manufacturing, software, technology, and industrial process automation sectors. Combined we have realized 8 exits valued in the billions.
US Leadership Team
Chetan Chothani
Founder and CEO
Chetan Chothani
Founder and CEO
Chetan is an entrepreneur and executive who has built and exited industrial-manufacturing companies including Adaptive Resources (AR) (Factory Automation) and Breen Energy (Utility Power Industry). He is also a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO).
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Chris Dee
Partner and COO
Chris Dee
Partner and COO
Chris is a seasoned executive and entrepreneur with experience in commercializing technologies and building companies. He was the global VP of sustainability at SAP. He has since built and exited several startups in the software and technology space including his most recent startup Auction Mobility.
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Mark Santo
Founder and General Counsel
Mark Santo
Founder and General Counsel
Mark Santo is a dynamic entrepreneur with successful careers in both international business and law. Mark has led tech companies engaged in photovoltaics, embedded systems and industrial process automation. He has served as general counsel for leading global enterprises.
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Sunil Deoras
Partner and CTO
Sunil Deoras
Partner and CTO
Sunil has an extensive background in chemical engineering including new product development, project management, process engineering, operations, and quality management. He is also a Six Sigma Blackbelt and has held a number of senior technical roles in chemical and polymer companies with responsibilities for multiple sites.
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Lalarukh Faiz
Founder And CSO
Lalarukh Faiz
Founder And CSO
Lala is a former U.S. Foreign Service Officer with a proven track record in providing direct support to entrepreneurs and structuring investment products, vehicles, and credit guarantees to address the sustainable development goals.
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Jamey Noland
Partner and CFO
Jamey Noland
Partner and CFO
Jamey is a finance professional with experience in operations and corporate development. He has worked with institutional investors and Fortune 500 companies down to start-ups focusing on strategic finance, capital placement, and growth initiatives.
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Matt Linaburg
Partner and Advisor
Matt Linaburg
Partner and Advisor
Matt is a scientific and business innovation professional, passionate about commercialization of sustainable technologies. He has driven change and innovation process transformation at university labs, EQT, E&J Gallo, and most recently, PNC Bank. Early in his career, Matt published various articles in the organic chemistry and inorganic material science fields.
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EU Leadership Team
Nassos Felonis
Partner and Business Director
Nassos Felonis
Partner and Business Director
Nassos is an Athens, Greece-based business lawyer, entrepreneur and advisor of
international enterprises in the areas of Natural Resources, Renewable Energy and
Environment, and a legal expert in complex corporate transactions. He is a founder of a
winery in northern Greece, producing award-winning organic wines. His earlier career
spanned academia at NYU Law School, Wall Street, and multilateral development
institutions (IFC, an affiliate of the World Bank in Washington, DC ).
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Anders Flensborg
Founder and CCO
Anders Flensborg
Founder and CCO
Anders Flensborg is an entrepreneur who deploys disruptive technologies and facilitates investments in the maritime and transportation industries. He has developed automotive mega-sites and maritime assets and has had advisory engagements with CSX Transportation, ABB, Siemens, Daimler, General Motors, Port Houston, and CyberLogitec.
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Mare Straetmans
Founder and Advisor
Mare Straetmans
Founder and Advisor
Mare is an entrepreneur in the energy, maritime, and ports sectors. As CEO and MD, he has started and built businesses, run corporate innovation programs, and scouted and coached hundreds of startups. As Founder/MD of PortXL, Mare built the first global maritime startup and investment company with Van Oord, Vopak, Shell, Boskalis and Port of Rotterdam.
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Klaus Pinter
Founder and Advisor
Klaus Pinter
Founder and Advisor
Klaus is an entrepreneurial executive with proven track-record of value creation. Over the last 20+ years he created value in asset management (mutual funds, real asset funds, shipping) and banking (strategy, M&A, risk management). He successfully delivered various capital measures on the spot, e.g. issuance of a convertible bond, public offering with regulatory approved (BaFin) prospectus as well as capital increases to bolster complex acquisition projects.
Most recently, he was a board member and CFO for a stock-listed company in Germany where he previously led the transformation and digitization of the company and closed a large M&A transaction.
He founded and has managed a ship asset management company (HSAM - Hanseatic Ship Asset Management GmbH) for Commerzbank AG and was responsible for various C-Level projects. He has also developed and implemented a 2,000+ sqm office space for a new digital work environment. He has attended Singularity University and is an Abundance Digital member (www.abundance.digital).
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