Martijn Wilder AM

Martijn is Founder and CEO of Pollination. He is currently Chair of the Australian Government’s National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC), and Chair of the Governing Board of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) based in Vienna. He is also an Adjunct Professor of International Climate Change Law at Australian National University, a Senior Advisor to Serendipity Capital, and a Member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists. Martijn was previously Head of Baker & McKenzie’s global climate law and finance practice for twenty years and played a key role with Australia’s clean energy finance institutions. He was previously President of WWF-Australia, Chair of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), a former Founding Director of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), and he helped to establish and later Chair the Federal Government’s Low Carbon Australia finance body. He was also Chair of the Victorian Government’s independent expert panel on Victoria’s 2035 Climate Change target. Martijn was a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholar and was awarded an Australian Honour (AM) for his contribution to climate change law and the environment.

Tony O’Sullivan

Tony is the Founder and Executive Chair of Pollination, a global asset management and advisory firm focused on climate transition and a nature-positive future.

Tony was appointed Chair of the SMI’s Natural Capital Investment Alliance (NCIA) Task Force in October 2022. The NCIA was formed in recognition of the need to mobilise investment in nature-based investment opportunities. The NCIA has now merged with the Asset Manager and Asset Owner (AMAO) Task Force to collaborate on efforts, inter alia, around establishing Nature as an asset class.

Tony recently co-chaired the Demand Working Group of the International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits (IAPB). This panel, a joint UK/French governmental initiative, was launched in Paris in September 2021 by His Majesty King Charles III and President Macron. The IAPB’s mission is to create a Biodiversity Credit framework enabling the global private sector to contribute meaningfully to financing high-quality ecosystem protection and restoration.

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Anton Jerga

Anton is the Chief Operating Officer and a Partner of Serendipity Capital, which he co-founded in late 2019. Serendipity Capital invests in companies that enhance and secure the critical technologies and infrastructure of tomorrow. It is focused on disruptive thematics and technologies including artificial intelligence and machine learning, climate and sustainability, quantum technologies and security.

Before co-founding Serendipity, Anton spent over 20 years operating and investing in the financial services industry. From 2010 to 2019, he was a General Manager at Commonwealth Bank of Australia where he was responsible for investigating and executing acquisitions, divestments, joint ventures and other inorganic business initiatives in Australia and International markets. Prior to that, Anton was a senior investment banker in Citigroup’s financial institutions investment banking practice in the Asia Pacific region, where he spent over 11 years providing strategic M&A and capital markets advice to senior executives of Australian and international financial institutions. Anton began his career with AMP in Australia.

Anton holds a Bachelor of Commerce with First Class Honours in Finance and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Australian National University

Martijn Wilder AM

Martijn is Founder and CEO of Pollination. He is currently Chair of the Australian Government’s National Reconstruction Fund Corporation (NRFC), and Chair of the Governing Board of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership (REEEP) based in Vienna. He is also an Adjunct Professor of International Climate Change Law at Australian National University, a Senior Advisor to Serendipity Capital, and a Member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists. Martijn was previously Head of Baker & McKenzie’s global climate law and finance practice for twenty years and played a key role with Australia’s clean energy finance institutions. He was previously President of WWF-Australia, Chair of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), a former Founding Director of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), and he helped to establish and later Chair the Federal Government’s Low Carbon Australia finance body. He was also Chair of the Victorian Government’s independent expert panel on Victoria’s 2035 Climate Change target. Martijn was a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust Scholar and was awarded an Australian Honour (AM) for his contribution to climate change law and the environment.

Kalika Jayasekera

Kalika Jayasekera joins Pollination following a 20-year career in global asset management based in London. She most recently played a key role in transforming Softbank’s Vision Fund Investment Management business, where she was a Board Director and Global Chief Compliance Officer. Prior to that, she was responsible for driving and implementing significant operational change at Blackstone in her role as EMEA Head of Regulatory Affairs and Compliance. She has also held positions as General Counsel and Head of Compliance for over 10 years in the European hedge fund industry. Kalika serves as an Emeritus Governor of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and is an external member of the LSE’s Governance Committee

Jon Cook

John has more than twenty-five years’ experience as an Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in public and private markets. He has worked across environmental services, technology, manufacturing and distribution, investment management and professional services sectors in multiple geographies. In his current role as the Group CFO at Pollination, he is responsible for all aspects of finance and is a key partner to the CEO and COO with a mandate to expand the global business in advisory, capital projects and investment management.

Previously, John was Group CFO at Climate Friendly, responsible for supporting the co-CEOs to scale the business and interfacing with the board of directors and shareholders. Prior to this, he held the Group CFO at SenSen Networks Limited (ASX:SNS), and has also worked in senior roles at James Hardie Industries plc, Palisade Investment Partners, Dakota Capital, CSR Limited, Hanson Limited, Menzies Aviation plc and KPMG. He has broad international experience, having worked with KPMG for more than 9 years in Sydney, Paris and California in the Audit, Private Business, Risk Advisory and M&A divisions.

John is a member of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA) and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD).

Megan Flynn

Megan has been at the forefront of corporate sustainability strategy, climate law, carbon markets, and sustainability consumer trends for over 15 years. She formerly led sustainability at the Qantas Group, growing its commercial carbon offset program to be the largest of any airline in the world and negotiating on behalf of the aviation industry under its United Nations governing body. Prior to this she was an Associate in the Global Environmental Markets team at Baker McKenzie. She is a Non-executive Director of Carbon Markets Institute and Melbourne University’s Sustainable Society Institute. She is a Research Partner of Harvard University’s Sustainability Transparency Accountability Research (STAR) Lab and a graduate of the Harvard Social Leadership Program.

Phil Cohn

Phil has 19 years’ experience in carbon markets, renewable energy, electricity markets and innovation. He combines technical knowledge with strong commercial, transactions and strategy skills to deliver complex projects in environmental and energy markets. Phil leads Pollination’s Carbon and Nature project development and investment group, overseeing a global team building a pipeline of large-scale nature based solutions projects. Prior to joining Pollination, Phil was COO at a clean energy start-up where he led corporate development and partnerships with ASX200 clients, energy buyers and retailers. Phil was formerly an Investment Director at the Australian Renewable Energy Agency where he led the Agency’s distributed energy, demand response and grid integration investment priorities. Prior to this Phil founded RAMP Carbon which provided project development, trading and advisory services to blue chip clients in the Australian and European carbon markets.

Rob Grant

For 25 years, Rob has been personally and professionally passionate about advocating for and delivering climate change abatement and clean energy policy, regulation, projects investments, businesses and industries. His professional career includes roles as Director Energy at Fortescue Metals Group responsible for the company’s energy and green hydrogen businesses, Chair of the Clean Energy Investor Group, Senior Vice President Clean Power and Vice President Capital for SNC-Lavalin in Asia Pacific and for 18 years until July 2014 helped position Pacific Hydro as Australia’s most successful and dynamic international clean energy utility. Rob holds a Bachelor of Civil Engineering and has completed an MBA and Master of Applied Finance at Melbourne and Macquarie Universities.

Zoe Whitton

Zoe is an award-winning advisor in sustainable finance and climate risk, with significant experience developing strategy, governance and analytics for institutional investors wishing to manage climate change risk and SDG exposure. ​She previously led the award-winning APAC ESG Research team at Citi, advising institutional investors globally on climate change and sustainable development. Earlier in her career Zoe covered ESG and climate change at Credit Suisse and at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and served as a youth delegate to the UNFCCC.

Zoe is the Chair of the Centre for Policy Development, serves on the board of the Investor Group on Climate Change, and is a member of both the Government’s National Hydrogen Strategy Advisory Council and the Expert Advisory Panel for the Federal Powering the Regions Fund.

She was previously a member of the ASFI TAG and a member of the Expert Working Group for ASFI’s formation. Zoe also sits on the Advisory Council of the Climate Governance Initiative and the Gold Standard Enabling Impact Working Group. Zoe has won numerous awards for her research and work on climate finance and risk, and regularly contributes to the wider conversation on sustainable finance by commentating in the Australian and international press along with various publications.

Melanie Brock AM

Melanie is one of Japan’s most respected APAC specialists having lived and worked in Japan for the last 25 years. She uniquely combines practical commercial business leadership and language skills to consistently deliver on business, regulatory and partnership outcomes for Japanese and foreign corporations both on global and domestic levels. With a depth of experience working with government, Melanie boasts excellent networks in Japan’s corporate, political and government sectors. She has previously led nationwide marketing campaigns, successful bilateral free trade agreement and regional Japan corporate social responsibility activities.

James Cameron

James is a recognised leader of the global climate change movement. He has extensive expertise and connections in mobilising change in civil society, government and business. He was the Co-founder of the Climate Change Capital, the world’s first green investment bank, and Co-founder of the Climate Change Practice at Baker McKenzie. James has worked extensively across a multitude of sectors. He is a Senior Advisor at Systemiq and Tulchan; on the Advisory Board for Neste (Finland), Green Finance Institute, AVAIO; and was a former Chairman of the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). ​He is also an Executive Fellow at Yale and a newly appointed Senior Research Fellow, Grantham Institute.  James is a former member of the UK Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Group; former negotiator, UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol; and former Senior Advisor to the Morocco and Fiji COP Presidencies. ​James was officially appointed as a ‘friend of COP26’ providing strategic advice to the UK Government on the COP ambition, with a particular focus on the nature strategy.

Geoff Summerhayes

Geoff is renowned for his leadership in raising awareness of climate change financial risk in Australia and globally. He was formerly an Executive Board member of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), and one of his most influential roles was a chair of the Council of Financial Regulators Working Group on Climate Change, whose members include APRA, ASIC, RBA and Treasury. Internationally, Geoff was a member of the Executive Committee of the global standard setting body for insurance, the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) and chaired its Audit and Risk Committee. He chaired the UN Environment Program’s Sustainable Insurance Forum (SIF), and represented IAIS and SIF at the Central Banks and Supervisors Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS). Prior to his appointment at APRA, Geoff was CEO of Suncorp Life. He has held a number of senior executive roles at National Australia Bank, was CEO of Retail Investment at MLC and started his career in commercial property development at Lend Lease.

Larry Schwartz

Larry brings over 30 years of experience in founding and leading industrial services businesses and large-scale greenfield infrastructure projects. He currently serves as CEO of Kitfield Group, a developer of clean tech infrastructure projects in APAC and EMEA. Kitfield integrates customer offtakes, public financing and global supply chains to drive new project development.

Previously, Larry served as CEO of Global Marine, Chairman & CEO of Seaborn Networks, and COO of Mangata Networks. He has deep expertise in developer-side infrastructure projects across APAC, LatAm and EMEA. He has also worked on a variety of sovereign-side initiatives to drive national economic development and has served on numerous boards in industrial services, renewable energy and digital infrastructure sectors.

Before taking on C-level positions, Larry began his career at White & Case working on infrastructure projects in EMEA and was an equity partner at Choate Hall & Stewart.

Prof. Lesley Hughes

Lesley Hughes is Professor Emerita in Biology at Macquarie University. Her principal research interests have been the impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems and the implications for conservation. She is a former Lead Author for the IPCC’s 4th and 5th Assessment Report, a former federal Climate Commissioner, a member of the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists, a Councillor with the Biodiversity Council of Australia, a Director of the Environmental Defenders Office, a Councillor and Director of the Climate Council of Australia and a member of the Climate Change Authority.

Joanna Zhou

Joanna has over 12 years of experience acting for clients on a range of matters concerning climate change and energy law and policy. Prior to joining Pollination, Joanna was a trusted legal advisor in the energy and carbon sectors advising developers, offtakers, financiers and corporates on renewable energy and carbon projects. Joanna has also advised on matters concerning international law including the Paris Agreement. In the lead up to COP21, Joanna was an advisor to the Republic of the Marshall Islands. She was also the legal advisor to the We Mean Business Coalition at COP21, working to translate ambitious private sector asks for inclusion into the Paris Agreement. Joanna has a Masters of Law from Columbia University, specialising in climate change and energy law, and has been recognised as a James Kent Scholar. She was also a 2016 finalist for the Thomson Reuters Trustlaw Lawyer of the Year Award in recognition of her work on the Paris Agreement.

Dr Melanie Zeppel

Dr Melanie Zeppel is an award-winning data-scientist and thought leader with more than 20 years’ experience in forest carbon, climate change, and soil carbon modelling. Melanie has led teams in tree physiological experiments and carbon markets and pioneered new tools to improve modelling and integrity in the forest and soil carbon. She has been recognised for her work in AI and machine learning, including being selected as one of Science and Technology Australia’s “Superstars of STEM” (2023-24) and an Emerging Leader in Climate” (2024).

Melanie holds a PhD in tree physiology and a Master’s in Environmental Science and serves on the Research Advisory Committee for Australian Forest and Wood Innovations. She is a recognised authority in the broader discourse on forest carbon, AI, and climate change.

Lin Yuan

Lin has diverse experience advising global clients across industries on developing sustainability strategy, managing climate risks, and deploying innovative capital solutions for a more climate-resilient future. Prior to joining Pollination, Lin was a consultant at EY, where she developed the firm’s sustainable finance and climate risk capabilities and offerings. Before EY, she worked at Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy and geopolitical risk consultancy, and did sustainability fieldwork in Southeast Asia. 

Katrina West

Katrina is an Executive Assistant and Advisory Operations Administrator in the Sydney office. Previously, she was an Executive Assistant at Bain & Company, where she supported Partners across the Financial, Private Equity, and Technology markets. She managed complex international calendars, coordinated client meetings and workshops, and drove operational efficiency, managing CRM systems and ensuring smooth stakeholder engagement. Katrina held leadership roles in internal initiatives and received Bain’s highest professional rating in 2023. She holds a Master of International Studies degree and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Wollongong.

Laura Waterford

Laura’s work focusses on nature-positive corporate strategy and policy, and opportunities in the natural capital and nature-based solutions space. Laura advises clients on nature-related risks and opportunities in line with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures guidance. Laura is a leading expert on voluntary biodiversity credit markets and has deep expertise on carbon markets. Prior to joining Pollination, Laura was a climate and environmental lawyer at leading national and international law firms and she was a finalist in the Lawyers Weekly 30 Under 30 Awards in the Planning & Environment category in 2020-2022.

Laura holds a Bachelor of Science (Geography) and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Newcastle, and a Master of Laws from the University of New South Wales, specialising in environmental law and sustainable development.

Ratri Wakeling

Ratri is a corporate finance and investment professional with experience in the renewable energy, sustainable infrastructure and real estate sectors, having worked in Europe, Australia and Asia. She has worked for Greentech Capital Advisors (now Nomura Greentech), an investment bank solely focused on sustainable infrastructure sectors, providing M&A, capital raising and strategic advisory services. She previously served as a Director in Sahid Group, a publicly-listed Indonesian investment holding firm, responsible for capital structure optimisation and operations of its portfolio of companies across hospitality, education, commercial real estate and healthcare sectors. Ratri started her career as an engineer at Tenix Group (now Downer EDI) working across its aerospace and infrastructure divisions.

Silvia Vargas

Silvia is an Executive Assistant and People Coordinator in the Sydney office. Silvia has a background in ecotourism, hospitality, and sustainability in Costa Rica. Her primary experience is in sustainable luxury boutique hotels and resorts, where she initially worked developing and implementing projects in a variety of areas to improve hotel services and operations, later moving to Human Resources, and Hotel Manager. More recently, she has been working as an Executive Assistant, providing support to senior executives across diverse industries. 

Amélie Uhrig

Amélie has over seven years of experience in climate change and sustainability, specialising in nature-based solutions for climate mitigation and carbon markets. Prior to joining Pollination, she designed and supported the implementation of reforestation projects in the Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Africa under international carbon standards, with a strong focus on stakeholder engagement and benefit sharing. Previously, she worked in climate change advisory, supporting clients in their climate change mitigation efforts, leading validations and verifications for land-based projects under the Australian Carbon Credit Unit Scheme, and conducting the first verifications of environmental accounts under the Accounting for Nature CO2 Australia Native Vegetation Condition Monitoring Method. Amélie holds a MSc in Environmental Science (University of Freiburg) and a BSc in Geography (Heidelberg University).

Hugo Thorneycroft

Hugo is an experienced compliance professional with a background in asset management and regulatory compliance. Prior to joining Pollination, Hugo served as Compliance Officer and MLRO at the BP Pension Fund, supporting the in-house asset manager. He has extensive experience in regulatory compliance, risk management, and financial oversight.

Alex Teicher

Alex has a range of experience working with governments, corporations and social enterprises on both strategy and transformation implementation. Prior to Pollination, he worked at a strategy and technology consultancy, and had the opportunity to implement strategies across a range of areas including government, agriculture and financial services. Prior to this, he worked as a project manager on one of Australia’s largest and most complex shipbuilding projects. Alex is a graduate of the University of Adelaide with First Class Honours in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Alex has also spent time working with social enterprises in Timor-Leste and Fiji on sustainable fuel stoves and renewable energy.

Yu Takaki

Yu has a broad range of experience in arranging international structured finance transactions. Prior to Pollination he worked for Mizuho International to support initiatives to spearhead decarbonisation investment opportunities and innovatively create finance structures for Japanese clients. Yu started his career as an investor of structured finance products, and subsequently working on financial structuring as an investment banker in Mizuho. He holds an MBA from the University of Cambridge.

Aaron Sun

Prior to Pollination, Aaron worked at Sentient Impact Group and Aware Super, focusing on originating, investing, and appraising renewable projects, core infrastructure, and agricultural assets.
Aaron also spent six years with KPMG Deal Advisory, providing strategic and financial advice that can enhance the client’s competitive advantage and shareholder values, in the context of strategic transactions – acquisitions, divestments, IPOs, privatisations, mergers and alliances, debt and equity deals. Before joining KPMG, Aaron worked at ANZ Institutional Banking. As an advisor and arranger of project financing, Aaron was committed to helping project sponsors of infrastructure and utility projects develop creditworthy limited-recourse structures to underpin project success. Aaron holds degrees in Actuarial Studies and Applied Finance. Aaron also holds the CFA and CAIA Charters.

Anitha Subramanian

Anitha has over 20 years of experience in finance roles, most recently leading large finance and regulatory functions in listed organisations, primarily within financial services. She is passionate about transforming finance and operational functions, with expertise in system implementations and integrations, enhancing finance capability through people development and technological investment, and streamlining processes to improve financial reporting for external regulators and Board/ExCo. Anitha is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting & Finance majors) and a Graduate Diploma in Psychology.

Sophie St John

Sophie is a Certified Environmental Practitioner with over 12 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Pollination, Sophie was the Nature Service Leader for the Australasia region at Arup. In this role, she developed and delivered a comprehensive client-facing nature offering for the built environment. This included providing nature-related training, devising strategies, conducting net gain assessments, and designing nature-based solutions. Much of her career has been as a terrestrial ecologist, delivering environmental assessments approvals, and offsets primarily across infrastructure projects within Australia and PNG. After completing her MBA in 2018, Sophie have taken on various operation and business development related leadership roles. Her accolades include the Environment Institute of Australia & New Zealand’s Young Environmental Professional of the Year (2015) and the Inaugural UQ MBA Women’s Leadership Award (2018).

Louis Slade

Louis’ work focuses on developing and implementing organisations’ nature transition roadmaps. Louis has supported clients to identify and set site-level biodiversity targets, understand and improve approaches to biodiversity offsetting, and developed tools to evaluate the risks and opportunities associated with investments in environmental markets. Louis has additionally worked on TNFD-aligned nature risk assessments. Prior to Pollination, Louis was Strategy Advisor at Climate 200 and a Consultant at Social Ventures Australia where he supported government, corporates, and not-for-profits in strategic planning and outcomes measurement. Louis holds an MPhil. in International Development from the University of Oxford, and a B.A. in Politics, Human Rights, and Development from New York University.

Victoria Skinner

Victoria has broad experience across organisational management, including strategic operations and change management. Before joining Pollination, Victoria was the Practice Manager at a specialist commercial and litigation law firm where she managed the operational functions of the firm, including finance, human resources, IT management and strategic projects. 

Ria Sivaraman

Ria is the People & Culture Manager at Pollination Foundation, based in Brisbane.

She brings extensive experience from managerial and HR business partnering roles across the non-profit, international development, and education sectors. Prior to joining Pollination Foundation, Ria developed a deep understanding of organisational strategy and change, and how these intersect with capability and culture in global, diverse contexts.

Mitch Shannon

Mitch has extensive experience providing legal and strategic advice to governments and businesses on energy markets and policy, regulatory compliance, commercial contracts, risk management and the delivery of large-scale infrastructure projects. He was formerly a Senior Adviser at the Australian Energy Market Commission, where he led the development and implementation of complex regulatory reforms to address economic, policy and technical issues arising in Australia’s energy market. Mitch has deep energy sector expertise and a strong understanding of the drivers of investment in renewable energy projects. He is also currently the Co-Chair of the Sydney Young Energy Professionals.

Adriano Scardino

Adriano joins Pollination after several years of experience in the Construction Industry in Australia, during which he has successfully covered a number of roles during the bidding and delivery stages of some of the largest projects in the Public Transport and Energy sectors. He has developed strong and very diverse analytical and modelling skills thanks to his experience as an Engineer, a civil Estimator on the Tender for Snowy Hydro 2.0, and most recently in his Data Science role in the Pre-Contracts and Risk team at CIMIC Group’s CPB Contractors. His capabilities include Civil and Structural Design, Financial Modelling and Data Science algorithms such as Machine Learning models. Adriano holds a Bachelor and a Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Rome’s La Sapienza University and is currently completing his MBA at the University of New South Wales.

Diego de Sartiges

Diego has deep experience in the financial services and management consulting industries, having worked with large corporates, investors and high growth start-ups at the intersection of business strategy, sustainability and technology innovation. Diego joins Pollination from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, where he led the design and implementation of climate-related initiatives in areas such as data & analytics, carbon markets and sustainable investment. Prior to this he was a Partner at Boston Consulting Group in Singapore, where he spent nearly a decade advising financial institutions in South-East Asia on their strategic, operational and M&A issues, as well as building together with his clients several successful Fintech businesses. He holds an MBA from INSEAD in Singapore and a Master degree from ESSEC Business School and Paris Dauphine University in France.

Lucy Sanderson

Lucy is an experienced lawyer who has a particular interest in nature and biodiversity-related risks and opportunities and the way in which such issues intersect with and create synergies with climate. Prior to joining Pollination, Lucy worked in MinterEllison’s Climate and Sustainability Risk Governance team. Lucy has assisted key clients in identifying and managing climate- and sustainability-related commercial and legal risks (and opportunities) across their value chains, including in the built environment, financial services and mining sectors. Lucy is experienced in conducting misleading disclosure reviews and verification of corporate disclosures and publications – assisting clients to navigate the increasing risk posed by corporate ‘greenwashing’. 

Stephanie Russo

Stephanie has spent her career working at the interface of financial markets, public policy and conservation.  She brings deep and broad expertise in natural capital, public policy, and regulatory environmental markets and a focus on developing financially robust policies and strategies that advance solutions for nature and climate. Passionate about leveraging the power of markets to accelerate climate action and to protect and restore nature, Stephanie has played leading roles in the development, design and reform of markets for water, energy, carbon and natural capital in Australia and the Asia-Pacific and advised government, business leaders and investors on the most intractable environmental challenges in Australia. Prior to joining Pollination, Steph was a co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Carbon Growth Partners, a world leading carbon markets investment manager, led government relations for the Nature Conservancy in the Asia-Pacific region, led the National Australia Bank’s natural capital strategy and established the Australian Government’s first dedicated natural capital financing unit.  Steph holds a Bachelor of Environmental Management and Law with first class honours, a Graduate Diploma in Economic Design and is a qualified project manager.

Kyle Rudzinski

For more than 15 years Kyle has accelerated scalable change at the intersection of climate and capitalism – through the financial sector, at the corporate level, and with the U.S. government. Previously, he led strategy and operations at rePlant Capital, a B Corp focused on climate finance transforming supply chains to regenerative agriculture. He was a sustainability leader at Levi Strauss & Co. and has advised companies like Tesla on sustainable manufacturing. At the U.S. Department of Energy, he led investments in a multimillion dollar solar startup portfolio. Kyle has spoken on the circular economy and regeneration at SXSW, Green Biz, and Sustainable Brands along with giving lectures at Stanford, Harvard, and Berkeley. For his work in climate finance, he was named a Fellow with the Just Economy Institute. He earned an MBA from BerkeleyHaas along with an MEd and a BA from the University of Virginia.

Laura Rogers

Laura brings diverse financial experience across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. Her drive to transition into sustainability stems from a year spent in Uganda, where she witnessed the inequitable impacts of climate change and the range of innovative market solutions driving sustainable development. Laura has previously worked at Deloitte and New Zealand Police and holds a Bachelor of Commerce/Law from the University of Otago.

Will Richards

Will is a Director in the Climate & Sustainability Risk Governance team. Will joins Pollination from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission where he was a senior member of the Sustainability Taskforce. Will specialises in ‘greenwashing’ in the context of consumer-facing claims and has a particular interest in claims relating to emissions and offsets. He is also experienced in the intersection between competition law and agreements between businesses to collaborate on sustainability, and in incorporating a competition and consumer lens when designing markets to drive sustainability outcomes. He has spoken on these issues in various international and domestic forums.

Phoebe Roberts

Phoebe Roberts is an Executive Director in the Climate & Sustainability Risk Governance team. Phoebe joins Pollination from APAC’s largest commercial law firm, MinterEllison. She brings over 10 years’ experience as a corporate lawyer to her practice in climate and nature risk governance, strategy and disclosure. Phoebe specialises in embedding net zero commitments and addressing climate change risks (and opportunities) across commercial contracts and transactions. She is the former Director of Implementation and Co-Lead of APAC with The Chancery Lane Project (‘TCLP’) – a first of its kind global initiative of corporate lawyers to re-wire contracts to deliver net zero. In 2022/23, Phoebe lead TCLP’s European Built Environment workstream. In 2023, Phoebe was awarded the Law Council of Australia’s Young Environmental Lawyer of the Year Award (Mahla Pearlman Award) in recognition of her leading expertise in this space.

Hamish Reid

Hamish has 30 years experience in consumer brand building having worked for Fonterra in New Zealand, Danone in Paris and Saatchi & Saatchi in London. In 2005 Hamish’s focus moved to sustainability and climate change, in particular, where he ran consulting projects with the International Olympic Committee, Les Mills and New Zealand Rugby. In 2017 Hamish joined milk nutrition company Synlait’s Executive Leadership Team where over five years he led the company’s repurposing, sustainability strategy and commercialisation. Hamish joins Pollination to support the firm’s advisory clients in the food, fibre, agribusiness and consumer brands sectors. 

Caroline Reed

Caroline is an Executive Assistant in Pollination’s London office. Caroline has worked in executive administration in leading firms for more than two decades. Her experience spans roles in London and Sydney, predominantly in the financial sector. Prior to joining Pollination, Caroline has held roles at firms including O’Sullivan Partners & JPMorgan. She holds a BA (Hons) in Sociology from Southampton University.

Kate Rayson

Kate has applied her deep commercial and marketing expertise to tackle diverse sustainability challenges, in Australia and overseas. At Qantas, she led Qantas Future Planet – the world’s largest airline offset program – developing new carbon neutral products that unlocked new opportunity and revenue. As Engagement Manager at WWF, she led public engagement on the organisation’s largest advocacy campaign – Fight for the Reef – developing strategy that successfully drove policy change at a domestic and international level. She is a graduate of Social Leadership Australia’s Sydney Leadership program; and has been a speaker and programmer at industry events including the Carbon Market Institute Summit.

Felix Qin

Felix is an investment professional with expertise across the energy, climate and nature transition sectors. Felix has strong end-to-end transaction management, commercial due-diligence and financial valuation skills, and has leveraged this in his work across Pollination’s venture capital and project investment strategies.

Before joining Pollination, Felix was at a leading Australian renewable energy investment bank, advising on over 1.5GW of utility-scale solar, wind, hydropower and battery storage. Felix has a Bachelor of Commerce (with Distinction) from the University of New South Wales.

Lara Phillips

Lara has over 15 years of experience in sustainability across the agriculture, FMCG, insurance, and advisory sectors. At Fonterra, she led sustainability solutions for customer and consumer brands across North America, Europe, Asia and Oceania. In this role, Lara led the development of sustainable products, as well as customer emission reduction solutions. She has deep technical knowledge in environmental markets, emissions mitigation and sustainability strategy in agricultural supply chains, alongside broad strategy and governance experience – developing climate strategy at Insurance Australia Group, advising clients on emissions trading and reporting at PwC, and as an external advisor to Bain & Company. At Pollination, Lara has led the development of climate and nature strategies and solutions across a range of sectors including food and fibre, industrial, and aviation. Lara has a Postgraduate Diploma in Environmental Management from the University of Auckland, and an MSc from the University of Canterbury​.

Harrison Pharamond

Harrison has diverse experience across the impact investment and social entrepreneurship space with a focus on emerging markets. Prior to joining Pollination, Harrison spent five years at MCE Social Capital, an impact investment firm where he managed impact measurement and evaluation across a portfolio spanning over thirty-five developing countries and multiple sectors, including sustainable agriculture, clean water, renewable energy, and financial inclusion. Harrison has also consulted for leading impact companies including Sonen Capital, Agora Partnerships, pfc Social Impact Advisors, and Alterna. He has lived and worked in countries across Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, and Europe.

Candice Pasion

Candice joins Pollination with diverse experience in financial reporting, management accounting, taxation and business services. In her previous roles, she has led end-to-end finance operations in Not-for-Profit and multinational tech organisations. Candice is a Chartered Accountant and holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Hannah Ornatowski

Hannah’s experience centers around driving climate change related strategy in the financial sector, including supporting clients on decarbonization opportunities and assessment of key climate and ESG related risks for their businesses. Prior to joining Pollination, Hannah spent seven years at Goldman Sachs, a leading global financial institution, where she engaged with clients, investors, policymakers and NGOs on climate change, led the firm’s net zero financing commitment, and drove partnership on an innovative blended finance facility that aims to catalyze low carbon project development in South and Southeast Asia. She holds a BA in Political Science with minors in Economics and Chinese from Vassar College.

Kimberley Osborn

Kimberley is a driven organisational professional with a focus on building strong relationships and enhancing experiences. She brings a strong knowledge of diverse cultures and organisations gained through extensive international experience, a passion and strong understanding of systems and software engineering. Prior to joining Pollination, Kimberley was a Candidate Experience Coordinator at Atlassian, Project Manager at Bendelta and Executive Assistant at Attestor Limited. Kimberley holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Stellenbosch and a Software Engineering Immersive certification from General Assembly.

Jessica Nutt

Jessica brings diverse experience in supply chain and procurement, project management, process improvement and operating model design and implementation. Prior to joining Pollination, Jessica was a management consultant at EY, where she worked on a variety of strategy and operations projects for federal and state government, and private sector clients. She has a particular interest in the role of global supply chains in addressing sustainability and biodiversity challenges.

Kelly Ng

Kelly joins Pollination with experience in deep-tech venture capital in Singapore. At SEEDS Capital, a Singapore government investor, she led end-to-end deal efforts into startups (including sustainability-focused companies in sectors such as renewable energy and the green built environment). She has a diverse set of skills in early-stage investing, strategy development, and multi-stakeholder engagement with public and private organisations. Kelly holds a bachelor’s degree in arts in Literature with first class honours from Yale-NUS College, a joint institution founded by Yale University and the National University of Singapore.

Georgina Murray

Georgina has diverse experience across ESG issues and how finance can create social and environmental change. Prior to joining Pollination, she was the ESG Portfolio Analyst for almost 3 years at Ethical Partners Funds Management supporting the ESG company analysis and engagements as well as developing a carbon emissions portfolio analysis tool. She also has 7 years of experience in the NGO sector with UNICEF Australia as the Marketing Manager and currently is a Mentor at Altiorem. Georgina holds a Bachelor of International and Global Studies with First Class Honours from the University of Sydney.

Travers Morony

Travers has extensive experience providing legal and strategic advice on the financing aspects of key infrastructure and renewable energy projects. Prior to joining Pollination, Travers gained experience at various law firms including Gilbert + Tobin in Sydney and Baker McKenzie in Singapore where he specialised in advising sponsors, arrangers, lenders and borrowers on a broad range of domestic and cross-border debt financing transactions, including a number of sustainability linked and green loan transactions in the nascent Australian sustainable finance market. Travers holds Bachelor of International Studies from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales.

Chelsea Minage

Chelsea is an experienced Payroll Specialist with over 8 years experience processing payroll for both permanent employees and contractors. Prior to joining Pollination, Chelsea worked at a healthcare recruitment company doing end to end payroll for their contractors and managed to streamline the payroll process. Prior to that she worked at a global IT consulting company processing payroll for their permanent employees. Chelsea has a Bachelor of Commerce (Professional Accounting) and has experience across payroll and finance. Outside work, you will find Chelsea playing soccer and taking each day as it comes.

Michaela McNeil

Michaela is an experienced senior risk and compliance professional with more than 15 years’ experience. Most recently Michaela was the Head of Compliance for AMP Capital where she was responsible for implementing and managing the compliance and regulatory framework. Michaela acted as the primary risk and compliance advisor across key regulatory reform including Product Design and Distribution obligations (DDO), GDPR; implementing associated risk and compliance frameworks and has extensive experience in regulator and government engagement. Prior to AMP Capital, Michaela worked in various risk and compliance roles including at BT Funds Management, AMP Services, and spent a number of years working both in the private and government sector supporting energy market development.

Giverny McMillan

Giverny is an Executive Assistant & Group Office Manager in Pollination’s Sydney office. She was formerly a Legal Secretary at Baker McKenzie and supported various senior lawyers in the Intellectual Property, Technology, Media & Telecommunications Group and The Head of Asia-Pacific Employment Group, before working with Martijn Wilder AM, who was The Global Head of Climate Change Group. She coordinated the operations and logistics of Baker McKenzie’s Asia-Pacific Annual Meetings. Giverny was awarded the Baker McKenzie Professional Development Award in 2018.

Brydy McDonnell

Brydy is the Executive Officer of the Pollination Foundation based in the Melbourne office. Prior to joining Pollination, she acted in a range of advisory roles within the Queensland Department of Environment and Science. Delivering operational management of marine and terrestrial protected areas, she supported strategic programs including the Great Barrier Reef Field Management Program and the Minjerribah Protected Area Expansion Strategy.  Previously, Brydy worked as an Executive Assistant to various senior executives within the Queensland Government developing foundational skills in executive administration, recruitment, and office management.

Andrew McConnell

Andrew is an expert in quantitative and qualitative climate and biodiversity risk modelling, with a strong background in climate finance, sustainable monetary policy, and macroeconomics. Before starting at Pollination he supported the WWF as a lead author in the development of their biodiversity risk methodology report and by making their biodiversity risk tool useable for portfolio risk analysis. Prior to this he consulted in Europe for financial institutions in building transitional and physical climate risk models. His quantitative background was acquired while working as researcher at Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. There he worked doing IAM modelling with the REMIND model team before moving to the research group on climate finance and public economics. While working in this group he made several seminal contributions to the conceptualisation of sustainable monetary and macroprudential policy for central banks and won Oxford’s Sensitive Intervention Point Prize for his development of climate adjusted collateral “haircuts”. The latter of which has become a key component of the ECB and other central bank’s climate strategies.

Luke McClean

Luke is a seasoned public policy advisor with over 13 years experience working across all levels of Government in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. He has a strong track record of successful policy development and advocacy and is committed to deploying those skills in addressing climate change and advancing nature positivity. Prior to his role at Pollination, Luke played a key role in advising the Independent Member for Warringah, Zali Steggall OAM MP, on all policy areas including crafting a Climate Change Bill for the Australian Government. He consulted with a broad range of stakeholders, including corporate, industry and community, garnering over 6,000 supportive submissions and driving greater ambition from the Government. Luke has advised governments and corporations worldwide on large-scale transformation programs and devised strategies to enhance their ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) performance. Earlier in his career, he worked on diverse areas including social services, human rights and defence. He is committed to working with others to create a more sustainable and equitable future.

Kim McCarthy

Kim has extensive experience leading the design, implementation and governance of carbon offset products, in domestic and international markets. Kim was previously a member of the sustainability team at the Qantas Group, providing strategic leadership on carbon-offset project due diligence, compliance reporting and governance. Kim has experience providing services relating to sustainability assurance, sustainability strategy, climate change advisory and environmental market procurement in multidisciplinary businesses and ASX50 contexts. Kim has a Masters of Conservation Biology and Bachelor of Business Administration from Macquarie University.

William Marshall

Will has significant experience advising both the public and private sector on strategy and policy. Prior to joining Pollination, Will developed strategic water policy across NSW that focused on enhancing biodiversity and enabling regenerative agriculture. He also recently developed several strategies that establish a sustainable pathway for the different water resources and their dependent industries across NSW for the next 25 years. Will has expertise in ecological management, soil carbon initiatives and climate modelling, and has a MSc in Environmental Science. As a consultant at Deloitte, Will developed commercial strategy in the telecommunications, infrastructure and banking industries and helped develop the business case for the future Western Sydney Parkland City.

Christina Lincir

Christina joins the Washington DC office as an Executive Assistant. Prior to joining Pollination, Christina has worked as an Executive Assistant to the President & CEO of the Trust for the National Mall, as well as supporting other Executive leaders at the organization for nearly three years. Before commencing her career in an Executive Assistant field, Christina spent five years as an HR Coordinator and Recruiter for several companies in Los Angeles where she gained experience in contract negotiations, client and candidate relations, CRM software for people management, payroll and benefits, and employment laws and policies. While earning her degree in History, with a minor in Art History, from the University of California, Los Angeles, she interned at several museums in Los Angeles including the Getty, and she was selected for an internship at the National Archives in Washington DC.

Alicia Liono

Alicia Liono is a sustainability professional with a MSc in Sustainability Management from Columbia University and a BSc in Biology from Imperial College London. She started her career working in the sustainable finance teams of NGOs before transitioning to sustainability consulting in early 2021. Her work exposure spans multiple geographies, including the UK, Asia, and the US, and she has been in the authoring teams of two publications.

Sophie Leitch

Sophie has strong experience advising companies, governments and industry bodies on sustainability, climate and nature. With a particular focus and expertise in environmental markets, Sophie provides legal, policy and strategy advice regarding the implementation of these markets for high-integrity outcomes and the operationalisation Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. With an interest in nature risk and financing, Sophie has also conducted TNFD-aligned nature risk and opportunity assessments for large corporates and supported the development of a toolkit to support investors to understand nature-related risks and opportunities in their portfolios and investment strategies.Prior to joining Pollination, Sophie was a lawyer at Allens, working in the funds, superannuation and banking sectors, with experience advising on complex regulatory and compliance matters, such as greenwashing reviews, for a range of financial services providers, including banks, superannuation funds, insurers and reinsurers and fund managers.

Nikkita Lee

Nikki is a proud member of the Yawuru and Karrajarri people of the West-Kimberley region in Western Australia. Nikki joins the Perth office as Project Coordinator working with Rob Grant, Managing Director – Head of Projects and Erica Lampropoulos, Director – Projects. Prior to joining Pollination, Nikki worked at Fortescue Future Industries and Fortescue Metals Group for over 9 years including working as the Executive Assistant to the Global CEO and as part of the Decarbonisation team. Nikki has had the opportunity to travel across multiple countries as part of Fortescue’s Green Energy Strategy.

Erica Lampropoulos

Erica has worked in leadership roles across renewable energy and decarbonisation projects and strategy. Erica joins Pollination from Fortescue Future Industries, where she led the development of green hydrogen projects in her role as Regional Manager Hydrogen. Her career also includes roles at Electricity Generation and Retail Corporation trading as Synergy, Herbert Smith Freehills and Knowledge Society. Erica is currently a board member of Palmerston Association and Primary Focus.​

Rebecca Lake

Rebecca has over a decade of experience advising governments and corporate clients on sustainability and communication strategy. Prior to joining Pollination, Rebecca consulted for the United Nations on a portfolio of agriculture, land-use, clean energy and industrial development projects throughout Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Rebecca started her career in Indonesia, where she managed stakeholder engagement for the National Action Plan for Sustainable Palm Oil, the first industry wide commitment of its kind. Inspired by her upbringing in rural Australia, and experience working at the coalface of the global environmental crisis, Rebecca is passionate about enabling an inclusive and just climate transition. She holds a Master of Business Administration, with a specialisation in finance, from UNSW’s Australian Graduate School of Management where she is recognised as a Women in Leadership Scholar. 

Juliette Kennedy

Juliette has largely worked in the not-for-profit law sector, spending the last five years working for the National Justice Project, a firm utilising strategic litigation and public interest lawyering to advance the interests of marginalised communities in Australia, particularly First Nations Australians, asylum seekers and refugees. Her work has included supporting clients through the NSW and WA coronial inquest jurisdictions and advocating for the prevention of deaths in custody. Juliette holds a B.A in International Development from the University of New South Wales and is currently completing a Juris Doctorate at Macquarie University.

Jayden Kennedy

Jayden is a multifaceted professional with expertise in finance, engineering, and corporate strategy. Prior to joining Pollination, Jayden was a product strategy analyst at Ford Motor company, where he developed models that fed the electrification strategy of Ranger and Everest vehicles. Additionally, he has experience in equity research with a global small-mid cap fund manager and in mining equipment maintenance engineering with Rio Tinto. Jayden graduated from the University of Western Australia with a Master of Professional Engineering majoring in mechanical engineering, and a Bachelor of Science majoring in mechanical engineering and French language.

Olivia Kelly

Olivia was a member of the founding team at Pollination. She has deep expertise in decarbonisation strategy, sustainability valuation and solution design for ASX-listed and international clients. Olivia has advised clients across key sectors of the economy on development and implementation of decarbonisation and ESG strategies, with a focus on addressing material risks & opportunities, impact target development, capital allocation, supply chain transformation and carbon markets. ​

Prior to Pollination, Olivia was a lawyer at Herbert Smith Freehills, advising public and private companies on corporate transactions, governance and regulatory compliance. She has also consulted on private sector accountability for environmental and human rights impacts in the Asia-Pacific, and management of supply chain risks.​

Olivia currently sits on the Board of Pocket City Farms, an urban regenerative farm in Sydney. She has degrees in International & Global Studies from the University of Sydney and a Juris Doctor from the Australian National University and was sponsored by Banco Santander to study entrepreneurship at Babson College, Boston.

Beth Keddie

Beth is an experienced strategist and innovation leader having developed and implemented transformational strategies across multiple sectors in response to disruptive change. She formerly led strategy, product and commercial venturing at Jemena and Energy Queensland’s subsidiary Yurika in response to sectoral transformation driven by renewables and digitalisation. This included the creation of new businesses, development of award-winning products and customer engagement initiatives that were progressed from pilot trials to core business. She also has entrepreneurial experience working directly in and with start ups and early-stage ventures and has successfully established partnerships to accelerate corporate innovation and product development.

Ami Kadota

Ami is an Executive Assistant (Foundation) in the Perth office. With several years of experience in customer service and office management, she has honed her skills in providing exceptional support and ensuring client satisfaction. Prior to joining Pollination, Ami served as the Student Services and Experience Manager at Navitas English for both Perth and Sydney campuses. She has experience reviewing systems and procedures to ensure compliance with the National standards for ELICOS providers.

Daniel Ju

Daniel is an infrastructure investment professional with expertise in technical due diligence, investment strategy and supporting project financing for major infrastructure transactions, with a track record across core, energy and digital infrastructure. Prior to joining Pollination he worked in consulting, where he developed scenario-based capex/opex models, risk-mitigation strategies and business cases, translating technical inputs into actionable commercial strategies and ensuring stakeholder alignment throughout the project lifecycle. Daniel holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) from the University of Auckland.

Tatum Joseph

Tatum is an experienced lawyer advising on climate and sustainability related risk using a corporate law lens. Prior to joining Pollination, Tatum worked in MinterEllison’s Climate and Sustainability Risk Governance team. While at MinterEllison, she was seconded to the Business and Human Rights team at the Human Rights Law Centre. Tatum has assisted clients to address critical climate, sustainability and human rights related risks (and opportunities) across their operations and value chains, including in financial services, the retail sector and the mining and energy sectors. Tatum is experienced in conducting misleading disclosure reviews and responding to the associated litigation risks – assisting clients to navigate corporate ‘greenwashing’ and ‘blue-washing’ risk.

Claire Johnston

Claire joins Pollination with a strong background in engineering and sustainability. During her time in Air New Zealand’s engineering graduate program she gained hands-on experience across sustainability, business strategy, and aircraft maintenance, contributing to projects involving financial modelling of climate risks, climate-related disclosures, and circular economy strategies. Prior to Air New Zealand, Claire worked in Beca’s Sustainable Buildings team and its start-up, BTune, uncovering strategies to reduce the climate impact of the building sector. Claire holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering (Hons) from the University of Canterbury.

Dr. Jane (Carter) Ingram

Carter has over 15 years of experience at the forefront of integrating nature into sustainable development across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the United States. Prior to joining Pollination, Carter was a Senior Manager in EY’s Climate Change and Sustainability Services practice where she advised food/agriculture, real estate, infrastructure and tourism businesses in designing and implementing ESG goals and strategies, programs and impact measurement, with a focus on natural capital. Carter’s previous experiences include launching and leading the Ecosystem Services program and the Science for Nature and People Partnership (SNAPP) for the Wildlife Conservation Society, where she worked with governments, multi-lateral institutions, NGOs and businesses to conduct scientific analyses, develop new collaborations and implement initiatives to advance conservation and sustainable development globally. Carter completed a Post-doctoral fellowship at the Earth Institute of Columbia University and has a M.Sc. and D.Phil. from the School of Geography and the Environment of Oxford University. She has co-edited two books and written over 60 articles, reports and publications on biodiversity and ecosystem services, climate change, poverty reduction and economic development. Carter is currently an Adjunct Associated Professor in the School for Foreign Service at Georgetown University and serves on the SNAPP Science Advisory Council, the Technical Advisory Council for the UNDP Equator Initiative, the International Working Group for the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures and has been co-leading a USG working group on Natural Capital Accounting in the United States.

Yuri Imai

With a foundation of experience as both a banker and a consultant, Yuri possesses strong expertise in sustainability-related financial disclosures. Yuri began her career in banking, where she played a key role in launching sustainability-linked loans. Before joining Pollination, Yuri worked at Mizuho Research and Technologies, supporting companies with disclosures and strategy development, including transition planning. Yuri also contributed as a project member to the development of Japan’s first set of sustainability standards through the Sustainability Standards Board of Japan (SSBJ). Her experience bridges practical finance and regulatory standards, enabling her to effectively guide clients in sustainable finance and reporting.

Jane Hutchinson

Jane is a leader in nature conservation with over 20 years experience as an Executive and Non-Executive Director of multiple and varied conservation organisations including Accounting for Nature, The Nature Conservancy Australia Program, Australian Land Conservation Alliance, Midlands Conservation Fund and Tasmanian Land Conservancy. Jane is a fellow of the Barbara Thomas Fellowship, the Harvard Club of Australia and is a former Tasmanian Australian of the Year for her contribution to nature conservation.

Samim Hoshmand

With a background of nature conservation and climate change, Samim has over 12 years of experience in various capacities with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), United Nations Industrial Development Programme (UNIDO), International Federation of Red Cross Society (IFRC) and Heinrich Böll Stiftung (hbs). He was also the National Ozone Officer implementing Montreal Protocol and Vienna Convention for over 5 years. In May 2019 he has appointed a senior role as Director of Climate Change for Afghanistan, supervising over 40 staff and experts. In this role, he helped with securing over $22 million from the Green Climate Fund for Afghanistan. He also instructed climate change and environment laws at Kabul Education University. Samim was the founder and chairman of the Board for Environment Watch Afghanistan Society (EWA). He published several papers on nature conservation and climate change and authored a book in Farsi called “Towards Green Future” which he dedicated to Afghanistan’s natural beauty. Samim represented Afghanistan at various COPs and global meetings and actively negotiated and participated in media advocacy campaigns encouraging green development.

Deia Housen

Deia has deep experience in advising global financial institutions, corporates and governments on natural capital investments, sustainable and blended finance structures, and transition corporate finance solutions. She is currently a member of the Pollination investment team, supporting the scaling of private capital investments into nature. She joined Pollination in February 2022 as a member of the London Advisory team, where she advised corporates and governments on sustainable and blended finance products and funding structures. She supported Tony O’Sullivan, Founder & Chair of Pollination, in his role as Chair of the Natural Capital Investment Alliance (NCIA), part of the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI), bringing together leading asset managers to demonstrate the opportunity for private capital investments into natural capital. Deia was seconded to Climate Asset Management, member of SMI NCIA, to support with the fundraising and marketing of the Natural Capital Strategy. ​Prior to joining Pollination, Deia worked at BlackRock for over two years in the strategy and solutions teams, where she led the strategic engagement with senior executives of the largest wealth and institutional clients in the Netherlands, Nordics and FraBeLux region. She managed the engagement with these clients to co-develop BlackRock’s sustainability offering across different business areas, including Alladin, financial market advisory, and active, passive and real asset funds.  She earned a dual Master of Science degree at Bocconi University (CEMS) in International Management. She speaks Dutch, English, Italian and French. ​Deia leads the volunteering activities with the London office, while undertaking various personal volunteering activities.

Kate Hilder

Kate is skilled in content development, knowledge management and corporate governance.  Her commitment to leveraging knowledge as a strategic asset empowers teams, builds capability and supports business success. With seven years as a Corporate Governance and Knowledge Management Consultant for MinterEllison, together with her previous experience in legal education, legal publishing and product development, Kate brings a wealth of expertise to her role at Pollination.

Matthew Herington

Matt is a technical specialist in carbon and biodiversity markets, energy transitions and international development. His professional career of over 15 years has been shaped by formal training and experience at the nexus of science, policy and practice, enabling a focus on delivering high impact, high integrity climate solutions both in Australia and across emerging economies. Prior to joining Pollination, Matt was Principal Consultant for Ndevr Environmental and the technical lead for its nature-based solutions work stream – delivering corporate advisory solutions including land-based carbon offset project due diligence, origination, audit and assurance. His career also includes advisory roles with Queensland and Western Australian energy policy divisions, science-based roles with UQ’s Centre for Policy Futures and CSIRO, and has completed several international assignments across the Asia-Pacific region, including projects in Papua New Guinea, India and Nepal. Matt is an accredited expert and auditor under the Accounting for Nature Framework.

Dave Haynes

Dave brings over 20 years of helping start-up and growth stage companies achieve their objectives. His extensive skillset lies in executive leadership, vision adaptation and operations in such areas as impact venture capital, climate finance, and the benefit corporation movement. Prior to joining Pollination, Dave established rePlant to create economically enticing models to enact systemic change as well as provide vision, fundraising, investor relations, and thought leadership in the burgeoning field of regenerative agriculture.

Anna Hancock

Anna is an energy system, climate transition and ESG professional with 25 years of power and resources sector experience. As Executive Director at Pollination, Anna works in industrial decarbonisation and power strategy.

Most recently, Anna established and led the Sustainability and Climate Change function at EnergyAustralia, and negotiated the Climate Transition Action Plan. She readily integrates climate drivers into strategy, policy, risk, and capital allocation agendas, having previously headed corporate finance, investor relations, supply, and retail operations. Prior to joining EnergyAustralia, Anna held senior roles in mining, including establishing BHP’s first office in China to source engineering equipment for sites across the globe.

Anna was recently appointed to the Board of the Clean Energy Regulator and Chairs the Board of the Renewable Energy Alliance. She has an MBA from INSEAD, France, (Honours List), and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Melbourne / Universiteit van Amsterdam.

Kiana Haddadi

Kiana is a renewable energy engineer with experience across multiple sectors, particularly mining, where she evaluated decarbonisation opportunities and developed renewable energy scenarios to support sustainability goals. Before joining Pollination, Kiana worked as a Senior Consultant at ENGIE Impact, specialising in energy system optimisation, multi-vector modelling, and techno-economic analysis of decarbonisation technologies. She also collaborated with Startupbootcamp, connecting energy startups with the Australian market and investors. Earlier in her career, Kiana contributed to renewable energy feasibility studies and project delivery at an overseas technical consultancy. She holds a Master of Renewable Energy Engineering from Swinburne University of Technology and a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from Tehran Azad University.

Cindy Grass

With over 25 years in human resources, Cindy has led people and culture functions across diverse industries including media, creative and consulting. She has guided teams through M&A integrations, multi-country workforce planning, and organisation-wide capability development.

Prior to joining Pollination, Cindy played a key part in reducing employee turnover by nearly one-third and designed leadership programmes for over 850 employees. She also led the integration of a post-acquisition workforce of 220 people, significantly boosting engagement scores.

Cindy holds a Master of Human Resource Management, a Graduate Diploma in HR and is also an ACC-qualified coach.

Ariadne Gorring

Ariadne is passionate about Indigenous-led cultural conservation, working with the Kimberley Land Council (KLC) for over 20 years on native title and cultural and natural resource management. Ariadne worked with 14 Native Title groups to register the West Kimberley on the National Heritage List. She led the registration of the North Kimberley Savanna Carbon Projects – the first in Australia to be registered on native title lands. She has engaged with national and international networks to promote best practice models of Indigenous led conservation. She was a Committee Member, World Indigenous Network Conference in Darwin; and Presenter at World Parks Congress, Sydney, and United Nations Climate Change Conference, Paris. She’s an Atlantic Fellow for Social Equity Melbourne University; and recipient of The Nature Conservancy’s Barbara Thomas Fellowship in Conservation Financing.

Tom Godfrey

Tom is a proven communications executive with extensive international experience across public, private and not-for-profit businesses. He has a strong track record acting as company spokesperson as well as managing media, marketing, communications and stakeholder activities. He has extensive experience in carbon markets working closely with origination and corporate solutions teams.

He has built a career developing and delivering strategic marketing and communications strategies. From creating marketing collateral and content to events and sponsorship management, he has a diverse set of skills.

He is also passionate about the environment, volunteering for many years on the Board of Good Environmental Choice Australia and he is currently Chair of the marine protection not-for-profit, the Tangaroa Blue Foundation.

Natalia Gaviria

Natalia is an Assistant Accountant based in the Sydney office. Prior to joining Pollination, Natalia was the Finance Manager of a group of 15 businesses around Sydney across industries including retail, recruitment and farming. Natalia is experienced in accounts management, accounts payable and receivable, budgeting and forecasting as well as payroll and taxation. Earlier in her career, Natalia has also performed roles in marketing, tax accountancy and business consultancy.

Kirsty Galloway-McLean

Kirsty is a leader in global environmental governance and knowledge management, including 15 years with the UN working on sustainable development and information sharing. She is passionate about making policies practical, information accessible, and the power of people-led nature conservation. Kirsty previously led the climate change and communications department of the Traditional Knowledge Initiative at Japan’s United Nations University, and she set up the first globally distributed information exchange system under international law for the Convention on Biological Diversity in Montreal. She ran the cross-disciplinary research Centre for the Mind at the Australian National University, was an advisor on risk assessment and intellectual property for the Australian government, and established BioChimera, a Melbourne-based consulting firm that specialises in assisting international environmental agencies and philanthropic foundations working with Indigenous peoples. Kirsty has authored four books on climate change and Indigenous peoples, edited several scientific and technical journals, and written numerous articles on climate change adaptation, mitigation, REDD+, safeguards, access and benefit-sharing, Indigenous livelihoods, and traditional knowledge.

Isabelle Franklin

Prior to joining Pollination, Isabelle worked as a policy adviser at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet for four years, advising the Prime Minister across a variety of policy areas including climate policy, innovation and science policy and infrastructure policy. Isabelle is the Vice-Chair and Board Director of the Australian Youth Affairs Coalition, the Chair of the Young Women’s Council of Australia, a Global Shaper with the World Economic Forum and on the Institute of Public Administration Australia’s Future Leaders Committee. Isabelle is also a coordinator with Foundations for Tomorrow, and works with CARE Australia to analyse the impacts of climate change on gender and with Jasiri Australia to encourage young women to engage with the policy development process. Isabelle holds a Bachelor of Science (Neuroscience) and a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from the Australian National University and has been admitted to practice as a lawyer to the New South Wales Supreme Court. Isabelle is currently completing a Master of Public Policy, specialising in climate policy, at the Crawford School.

Luke Fletcher

With a background in both the energy industry and climate-change research, Luke has extensive experience advising companies and large institutional investors on ESG integration and climate-related risks and opportunities. Having worked as a senior ESG analyst in the investor research team at CDP, Luke developed methodology frameworks under TCFD and was lead author on a number of CDP’s award winning sector research reports. Prior to this, Luke worked in the oil & gas industry as a Petroleum Engineer at BP across assets in Angola and an offshore rotation in the North Sea. Luke holds an MSci from Cambridge in Natural Sciences, specialising in Materials Science & Metallurgy. He was named among the top 10 SRI analysts in Extel IRRI 2019.

Veda FitzSimons

Veda has strong environmental markets expertise and advises a range of corporates and governments across climate and nature matters.  With a particular focus on nature risk and natural capital, Veda has advised a range of APAC government entities on early policy positioning regarding voluntary biodiversity credit markets. Veda contributed to the development of Pollination’s proprietary nature risk assessment methodology and has conducted pilot TNFD-aligned nature risk assessments for ASX-listed entities and nature strategy work. With strong carbon markets expertise, Veda provides legal and policy advice regarding the operationalisation of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement and has a particular focus on opportunities across blue carbon methodologies and mechanisms to support their economic viability. Prior to joining Pollination Veda was a lawyer at Ashurst, with experience in the Environment & Planning team.

Ella Edwards

Ella’s expertise spans the agriculture and textile industries with experience in environmental policy, land management, conservation and restoration, global supply chains and corporate ESG. Ella has a Master’s of Environmental Science and Law and has worked across research, development and marketing within the agricultural sector in Australia and the global textile supply chain in China, India and Europe. Within the textile industry, Ella has provided policy and compliance advice under the European Green Deal Agenda and Circular Economy Action Plan and designed and implemented company-wide sustainability strategies. Prior to joining Pollination, Ella led the development of the feasibility study for a large soil carbon sequestration project in Zimbabwe.

Lauren Drake

Lauren has global experience in environmental markets and has deep experience in climate law, policy and finance, with a particular focus on carbon markets and nature-based solutions. As an Executive Director at Pollination and previously, a climate change lawyer at Baker McKenzie’s Global Climate Change practice, Lauren provides expert advice to clients in strategy, risk and governance, as well as law and policy, thereby unlocking new value and helping companies and governments to build organisational resilience to the climate change challenge.

Marilia Diaz

Marilia joins the Melbourne office as an Executive Assistant and Office Coordinator. Bilingual in Portuguese and English, she specialises in managing complex administrative functions, streamlining processes, and supporting cross-functional teams to achieve strategic goals. She holds a degree in business with a major in accounting. Marilia has a background in translation, hospitality management, and recruitment.

Sarah Denman

Sarah has extensive experience advising companies and governments on sustainability, climate and nature.

Sarah guides clients on nature-positive corporate strategy, including nature and biodiversity risks and opportunities, nature-positive supply chain engagement, alignment with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures and target-setting. Sarah also works with governments and non-government stakeholders to understand and develop climate change laws and policies, including engagement with voluntary carbon markets.

Prior to joining Pollination, Sarah advised governments and companies on environmental and climate change law and policy at environmental law NGO ClientEarth. She has sat on the Law Society of England and Wales Climate Change Working Group, which advises the legal profession on climate change. She was invited to provide evidence on sustainability to both to the Welsh Climate Change Committee and the EU Commission, and has spoken on the nexus of climate change and gender at COP26. She previously spent several years at Allen & Overy in London as a regulatory lawyer in the international capital markets department (including secondments to Hong Kong and Goldman Sachs).

Sarah holds a Law with French Law LLB from University College London and a Diploma in French law from the Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II).

Tara Davids

Tara brings end-to-end strategy to execution experience, with a focus on scaling food and technology-led ventures. Prior to Pollination, she worked in operations and finance at rePlant Capital, a climate finance B Corp transforming the supply chains of food companies to regenerative agriculture and manager of a climate debt fund investing in projects to improve on-farm soil health, carbon storage, and biodiversity. Tara previously worked at technology platform start-ups in Silicon Valley, bringing together product innovation with operational detail and P&L management. A former strategy consultant with Monitor Deloitte / The Monitor Group, she has advised Fortune 500 companies on corporate strategy, sales and marketing strategy, and M&A. Tara holds a BA from Stanford University and MBA from Dartmouth College.

James Daniel

James is an experienced advisor to private, public and non-profit clients on high-stakes investments, acquisitions and other transactions. He previously worked as a lawyer at Allens with a personal focus on the role of technology in addressing climate change. This included advising early stage climate tech companies on capital raisings, use of data and commercial contracting. During this time James also worked extensively in the health sector including on the negotiation of AstraZeneca’s supply of its COVID-19 vaccine to the Australian and New Zealand Governments. James was the Pro Bono Coordinator for the Allens Sydney office for two years and responsible for building and maintaining strategic partnerships with pro bono clients. James holds degrees in Laws and Arts (majoring in Psychology and Philosophy) from the University of Sydney. 

Max Dalton

Max has 10 years’ professional experience spanning structured finance, project finance, funds management, and transactions, underpinned by a foundation in commercial law. Starting his career at Australian law firm, Holding Redlich, Max transitioned from private practice to hybrid legal and commercial roles, leveraging his expertise to deliver value across diverse industries.​

Before Pollination, Max was Head of Legal and Business Management at an impact investment manager, working closely with CEO Oliver Yates on energy transition and project finance transactions and collaborating with teams across operations and fund development and distribution. Prior to this, he was Commercial & Legal Director at Australia and New Zealand’s leading project financier for screen productions, where he led a team across transactions, business management, policy development, and client and investor relations.​

Max’s commitment to impactful work has seen him engage with various community and civil society organisations, including the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the Australian Law Reform Commission, and the Marrickville Legal Centre.​

He holds an MBA from AGSM UNSW (Excellence) and a combined Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and International Studies (Distinction) from UNSW.

Gemma Cranston

Gemma has deep experience working on nature with business, government, financiers, and researchers. She has a strong track record of leading the development and deployment of company engagements to identify strategic and commercially relevant approaches to protect and restore nature. She is accustomed to working in an international environment and collaborating cross-functionally with key senior stakeholders in a wide-range of business sectors including fashion, food and beverage, retail, and water sectors. Gemma joins Pollination from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) where she was Director, Business and Nature, spearheading their thought-leadership on what business leadership looks like in the face of the nature crisis.

Jordan Cook

Jordan has significant experience in infrastructure and agricultural funds management spanning transactions, capital management, investor relations, and governance. Prior to joining Pollination, Jordan was an analyst in Macquarie Asset Management’s Infrastructure and Real Assets division, working primarily within an agricultural fund that raised and deployed equity at scale on behalf of institutional investors. With a background in natural asset investments, Jordan has a particular interest in the role that nature can play in responding to the climate crisis.

Christie Clarke

For nearly a decade Christie Clarke has advised major global organisations on climate change and sustainability. In her former role at CDP – the global leader in environmental disclosure for investors, companies, cities, states and regions – Christie worked as an ESG analyst in the investor team. In this role she advised large institutional investors including State Street and NBIM on ESG integration, specifically focusing on climate risks and opportunities. She has also worked at Forum for the Future, where she supported leading corporates such as Unilever and 3M in the development of cutting-edge sustainability strategies. Prior, she was a sustainability consultant at KPMG, advising a range of large global companies from Mirvac to Macquarie Bank on sustainability reporting, strategy and leadership.

Marisa Chiarella

Marisa is an experienced business development and marketing professional. Prior to joining Pollination, Marisa spent 16 years managing Baker McKenzie’s global climate law and finance practice. During this time she assisted 60+ lawyers across globe to secure market-leading work across international climate law and carbon markets; manage a diverse group of key clients across multiple industries and jurisdictions; as well as to build and maintain a profile as the world’s leading climate law practice. Marisa’s previous roles include digital marketing for the then Shop Direct Group in the United Kingdom and prior to that in marketing and communications at Deloitte Australia. Marisa has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Technology, Sydney.

Jinxi Chen

Jinxi has diverse experience across environmental sustainability, research techniques, quantitative analysis and financial metrics. Prior to joining Pollination, Jinxi worked at CDP as an investor research analyst, where she conducted in-depth analysis of companies’ climate risks and opportunities and co-authored sector research reports on capital goods, steel, and shipping. Jinxi completed a Master in Environmental Science and Policy at the University of Chicago, where she worked at the Argonne National Laboratory as a part-time research aide in the Energy System Division. She also interned with the Climate Institute in Washington D.C., UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre and Cargill Investments. Jinxi holds a BA in Geography from the University of Cambridge.

Mila Cerecina

Mila brings almost 20 years’ global experience delivering executive strategic advice on climate, human rights and social impact, international development, and impact measurement. She supports financial institutions and corporates to to design and implement climate and nature strategies and position for competitive advantage in the net zero and nature-positive transition. She recently co-authored a practical guidance for corporates on the nature-positive agenda. She is a leader in Pollination’s financial markets focus area and supports Pollination’s key strategic partnerships.

Prior to Pollination, Mila had an impact-driven career in the United States and globally, culminating at the Open Society Foundations, where she served as chief staffer to the global management committee, and co-led the development of the philanthropy’s new climate justice strategy.

Oscar Castellas-Cartwright

Oscar Castellas-Cartwright is an Associate Director in the Washington DC office. Prior to joining Pollination, Oscar was a Senior Analyst in Deloitte Melbourne’s Sustainability and Change advisory practice, supporting their clients with decarbonisation solutions, climate risk advice, and ESG strategic development. He also has experience in carbon market research and analysis through the completion of an internship with the Carbon Market Institute. Oscar holds a Bachelor of Business, specialising in Economics and Finance at Monash University.

Carl Carcione

Carl is an experienced operations and technical Leader with over 20 years across the mining, engineering, manufacturing and green energy industries. Carl has significant experience delivering large scale infrastructure projects in the mining industry, working with Fortescue from the execution phase of its flagship Cloudbreak Mine through to becoming the 4th largest and lowest cost iron ore producer in the world. During this time Carl worked across all phases of project lifecycle from concept to delivery, commissioning and operations. More recently Carl has been working in the renewable energy & climate technology space developing project concepts for renewable energy and renewable fuels, developing industry decarbonisation strategies and identifying, evaluating and developing technologies to enable growth of the green hydrogen and green minerals supply chain. Carl holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from Curtin University of Technology.

Charlotte Bunker

Charlotte is a Chartered Accountant with over 15 years’ experience across financial control, commercial accounting, and external audit. After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in the UK, Charlotte relocated to Sydney where she spent 7 years working for BDO in their Audit & Assurance division. More recently, Charlotte’s work has been focused on the SaaS and fintech scale-up space, leading finance teams through phases of rapid growth, supporting system and process improvements and lifting the quality of financial reporting and controls.

Jock Buchanan

Jock has spent his career leading deals across energy and carbon investment opportunities. He is experienced in leading complex deals and is passionate about investments in nature at scale as a pathway for tackling the challenges of climate change and natural capital. Prior to joining Pollination, Jock led Business Development for Shell Nature Based Solutions in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. In this role he was responsible for the origination, negotiation and execution of carbon investments. He brings to Pollination the strategic, commercial and operational know-how to deliver a broad range of opportunities across the carbon value chain. Jock holds a Bachelor of Engineering (UNSW) and an MBA from London Business School.

Daniel Buchanan

Daniel has supported the governance and growth of leading public, private and government organisations for more than two decades. Daniel’s experience includes senior administration roles including Executive Manager at Covata Limited and Executive Assistant to the CEO and CFO at Hills Limited. He also has extensive experience in HR, board management, shareholder liaison and event management.

Sam Bruce

Sam brings considerable experience in clean energy, working across technology strategy and investment, as well as project finance for utility scale assets.  Prior to joining Pollination, Sam worked at Fortescue Future Industries, focusing on identifying and investing in solutions for a range of renewable energy technologies and their underlying supply chains. Sam also spent 5 years with CSIRO Futures, the strategic advisory arm of Australia’s national science agency, where he led a number of national strategies including Australia’s National Hydrogen Roadmap and Critical Energy Minerals Roadmap.  Before joining CSIRO, Sam worked at Ernst & Young where he provided commercial and financial advice relating to the deployment of large-scale infrastructure assets. ​

Clare Bradshaw

Clare brings over 20 years of experience advising companies and executive teams on a wide range of financial matters. Her career began at Ernst & Young in London, where she worked in Audit. In 2008, she transferred to the EY Sydney office, joining the Corporate Finance division where she worked on various M&A transactions performing buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence.

Continuing her growth within EY, Clare transitioned to the internal finance team, becoming Operations and Finance Director for the Strategy and Transactions division where she was the key financial advisor to the Managing Partner, Executive Team and Consultants. Most recently, she served as COO of Fiftyfive5, a fast-growing consumer insights and market research consultancy, where she oversaw strategy, finance, people, and operations functions.

Clare is passionate about making numbers accessible to everyone and partnering with businesses to make evidence-based, human-centered decisions.

Sarah Barker

Sarah Barker is a Managing Director at Pollination Law and leads the climate and sustainability risk governance team. She was previously a Partner at the Asia-Pacific’s largest commercial law firm, MinterEllison. Sarah has more than twenty-five years’ experience as a corporate lawyer, and is regarded as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change governance, finance and liability risks. Sarah brings the practical perspective as an experienced non-executive director, having recently completed two terms on the board of one of Australia’s largest pension funds.

She is the Co-Chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Climate and Nature Governance, and immediate past Co-Chair of the Forum’s Climate Governance Community of Experts, starting from March 2025. She also teaches the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership’s non-executive directors’ programme and AICD’s Climate Governance programme, and sits on the ASFI Taxonomy Technical Expert Group.

Sarah is ranked in Band 1 by Chambers (Asia Pacific) and is recognised in the Best Lawyers Guide in both the Corporate Law and Climate Change Law areas of practice.

Olivia Back

Olivia has worked with a range of Australian and Global clients, focusing on nature risk and opportunity profiling, and nature strategy development. This entails applying the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures framework to identify their key impacts and dependencies on nature and associated commercial implications for the business, as well as opportunities for risk mitigation and value creation. Olivia has environmental markets expertise, particularly working with clients to understand existing and emerging biodiversity credit schemes and products. In addition, working closely with clients to develop authentic First Nations partnership commitments and roadmaps, as part of their broader sustainability strategies. Olivia is also involved in work on directors’ duties and nature risk and monitors climate and nature litigation developments. Prior to joining Pollination, Olivia was an environment and planning lawyer at a leading national law firm, advising public and private sector clients on environmental and planning litigation, major infrastructure projects, and regulatory compliance and incident management. In 2019, Olivia was the tipstaff to the Honourable Justice Julie Ward, President of the NSW Court of Appeal (and formerly the Chief Judge of the Equity Division of the NSW Supreme Court).

Cassandra Austen

Cassandra Austen specialises in sustainable finance and nature based solutions. Prior to joining Pollination, she held the role of Senior Economist at Vivid Economics in London, managing international projects including net zero strategy for financials, blended finance policy, regenerative agriculture and natural capital investments. She also has experience in carbon markets and climate risk disclosures. Prior to her work in the sustainability sector, Cassandra gained six years of experience in financial markets in London and Sydney. Cassandra holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Sydney.

Tristan Ashford

Tristan has broad energy experience, working across all renewable generation technologies with a particular focus on green hydrogen. Tristan has a deep understanding of renewable supply chains and the manufacturing processes that underpin them.​ Prior to joining Pollination, Tristan worked at Fortescue Future Industries as a Principal Analyst, focusing on identifying and investing in solutions for a range of renewable energy technologies. Tristan also spent 5 years with Santos Ltd., in numerous on-site operational and leadership roles across QLD and SA.​ Tristan holds a Masters of Energy Systems from the University of Melbourne in addition to dual bachelor degrees in Chemical Engineering (Hons) and Economics from the University of Western Australia.

Nuvan Aranwela

For over 20 years, Nuvan’s career has spanned technology-led start-ups and ventures across a variety of industries, including data, loyalty and marketing, sourcing, financial services and insurance, e-commerce and sustainability. Consequently, he has developed ideas, secured investment, built capability and run early stage to mature operations. Having worked across strategy, commercial, marketing, operations and technology, he enjoys bringing together ideas with operational detail in a commercial context. He was co-CEO of fintech Six Park, which aims to build a path to financial well-being for all Australians. He is also Strategy Adviser to Landmarks ID, a start-up in the geolocation data and insights space; and a Board Member of Earthwatch Australia. Prior to that, he was Head of Innovation for Qantas Loyalty, a role he was appointed to following the acquisition by Qantas Group of Wishlist Holdings, a loyalty services business for which he was Chief Strategy and Technology Officer. Nuvan holds a PhD in Plant Biomechanics.

Nick Anstett

Nick has deep experience advising financial institutions, corporates, and non-profits on upstream investment policy, global co-investment partnerships, and downstream de-risking measures to mobilize private climate finance. He has advised on climate finance initiatives across clean energy, distributed renewables, sustainable transportation, water, waste, adaptation, resilience, and nature-based solutions. Prior to Pollination, Nick managed the sustainability practice at Albright Stonebridge Group, a global strategy and geopolitical risk consultancy, where he advised on major sustainability initiatives, critical ESG issues, and catalytic public-private partnerships in emerging and frontier markets.

Suzanne Amundsen

Suzie is the Finance Manager at the Pollination Foundation, based in the Melbourne office. She brings extensive experience in finance, audit and risk management across the superannuation sector, multinational consumer-goods, and dynamic start-ups. Suzie is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Business (Accounting) from Monash University.

Her time at v2food, a plant-based food start-up, sparked a deep passion for sustainable food systems and agriculture. Suzie is committed to supporting initiatives that are financially responsible and strategically resilient, particularly those that align with communities, nature and environmental wellbeing.

She has a genuine love for well-working finance systems, clear reporting and embedding strong governance into day-to-day operations. She thrives in cross-functional environments where collaboration supports enterprise-wide decision making and impact.

Suzie believes strong financial stewardship enables real, lasting change. She is eager to ensure every opportunity for meaningful and positive impact is carefully assessed, pursued and delivered with care.

John Ambler

John brings expertise in carbon markets, nature-based solutions, and net zero transitions. Prior to Pollination he worked for Clean Air Action Corporation, a carbon project developer. In this role he was responsible for the full lifecycle of carbon removal projects from operations and strategy to leading multiple validations and verifications. John started his career working at a community-based nonprofit, managing conservation efforts along the Andros Barrier Reef.​

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Sofia Aguirre

Sofia joins Pollination with a background in sustainability consulting and carbon management. She brings extensive experience helping a wide range of organisations, from not-for-profits to event providers, understand, report, and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. In her previous role, she supported businesses in developing decarbonisation strategies and embedding sustainability into their core operations. She also serves as a non-executive director for a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to protecting Australian biodiversity. Sofia holds a Bachelor of Environmental Biotechnology from the University of Technology Sydney.

Fai Allam

Fai Allam is an experienced HR leader with over 10 years of experience in global retail, beauty, and technology. She has led international HR functions globally, with experience spanning Australia and the United States, driving initiatives in talent management, workforce engagement and organisational development. With a psychology background and a proactive, people-focused approach, Fai specialises in building strong partnerships with senior leaders to deliver business outcomes.

William Acworth

William combines deep technical knowledge of climate economics with strong stakeholder engagement to advance climate solutions across the globe. Prior to joining Pollination, William led adelphi consult’s Carbon Markets and Pricing team where he oversaw projects in climate policy design, implementation and evaluation for clients including the World Bank, European Commission, national governments, development banks and multi-national companies. As Head of the Secretariat of the International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP), William led ICAP’s technical work program, global capacity building efforts and moderated exchange of experience on carbon markets between senior policymakers from across 40 governments.  While with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the German Institute for Economic Research he advised government and industry on market-based instruments for climate mitigation particularly for the power and emission intensive industrial sectors.

Suzanne Blake

Suzanne has over 20 years’ cross sector experience across marketing, communications and business development. At Pollination she leads global engagement at UNGA, Climate Weeks and COPs, where the worlds most influential stakeholders gather and she is responsible for building our influence at these. 

Formerly the CMO at FutureBrand, Suzanne has also led corporate communications, PR and Marketing at Macmillan Publishing Group and Phaidon; and directed marketing and business development at SalterBaxter, a leading US and UK sustainability consultancy. She has a proven track record of building strong brands to drive growth and producing impactful integrated campaigns. She’s a graduate of The University of Edinburgh and holds a MA in History.