Kim is the President and CEO at GMA. Kim has over 15 years of experience in climate change and energy, including serving as the Chief Negotiator for Climate Change at the US Department of State.  

Over nearly a decade at the State Department, Kim managed the 13-government agency team that negotiated the Paris Agreement and its implementing guidance as well as energy and environment agreements at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and International Maritime Organization (IMO). She has a deep background in environmental markets, having previously served as the International Policy Director at the International Emissions Trading Association, as well as in alternative fuels and management consulting, thanks to her time as Senior Director for Net Zero Fuels and Market-Based Solutions at ENGIE Impact, a global energy and climate consulting firm.  Kim spearheaded the launch of the Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance (SABA) in 2021, in partnership with environmental NGOs and nearly 2 dozen major global corporations.  Kim and her team also helped design and run the first pilot procurement for the Zero Emissions Maritime Buyers Alliance in 2023 before moving to launch the Center for Green Market Activation in 2024, with the goal of expanding the buyer’s alliance model to other sectors.     

Kim has taught at Columbia University, sharing her expertise with students in areas related to her field. She is based in Washington D.C. 

Ellen is the Chief Finance & Operations Officer at GMA, where she plays a pivotal role in overseeing finance, operations, and human resources, ensuring the organization’s short and long-term health. She is a seasoned professional with over 15 years of experience in finance and operational leadership, specializing in climate and energy sectors.  

Before her current position, Ellen was the CFO/COO at Fresh Energy, a nonprofit organization dedicated to shaping clean energy policy in Minnesota and producing the national Energy News Network. She also served as the CFO/COO and sustainability director at a climate-positive outdoor apparel company. Ellen specializes in bringing teams and missions to life through sound financial guidance and management, human resource development, and effective systems and processes that support substantial organizational growth.  

She holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies and an MBA and is an accredited executive leadership coach. Ellen also holds certificates in fundraising, project management, and a mini nonprofit MBA from the University of St. Thomas and is the treasurer of the Fresh Energy Board of Directors. She is based in Minneapolis.  

Andre is the Senior Director at GMA, where he leads teams that are developing and implementing market-based programs to drive decarbonization in hard-to-abate sectors, with a special focus on aviation, heavy-duty trucking, and cement and concrete. 

Andre has more than a decade of experience managing complex energy efficiency and renewable energy projects, with a special focus on developing and managing multi-stakeholder initiatives. Previously, at ENGIE Impact, he led the firm’s green fuels work in the United States, and helped private companies, state governments and non-profit organizations evaluate clean hydrogen and other alternative fuels technologies and policies. He also led the first-ever collective procurement for sustainable aviation fuel on behalf of the Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance. Before joining ENGIE, Andre worked on industrial decarbonization at the U.S. Department of Energy, where he launched the Better Plants program, a voluntary energy efficiency partnership consisting of some of the world’s largest manufacturing companies. Prior to DOE, he was a Fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, where he helped advance market-based climate policies and engagement with the Center’s Business Environmental Leadership Council.  

Andre has a BA in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego and an MA in Public Policy from Georgetown University. He is based in Maryland. 

Kari is the Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor at GMA, where she specializes in the end-to-end management of cross-functional operations, strategic partnerships and communications, and special projects in collaboration with the CEO and other senior leadership. 

Kari brings a unique blend of experience in corporate operations and executive communications, coupled with a deep background in the negotiation of U.S. climate policy and management of federally funded climate and energy programs. She most recently served as the deputy lead for the CEO of Apple’s Executive Operations team, where she was responsible for providing comprehensive principal management for the CEO and other executives by driving high-impact communication strategies, leading collaborative project management, and successfully managing executive presence at key global events. Prior to Apple, she spent nearly seven years working in the climate and energy space in government, most notably as climate officer and negotiator at the U.S. State Department where she focused on advancing U.S. climate change adaptation priorities on the global stage.  

Kari is a proud Husker, graduating from the University of Nebraska with a degree in Political Science. She is based in San Francisco.  

Dan serves as Program Director at GMA. He leads GMA’s new chemicals program, GMA’s ocean transport decarbonization work, policy and regulatory issues, and is an advisor for the AIM Platform. In these roles, Dan oversees program strategy and implementation, drives development of new partnerships, and provides expert technical guidance. 

Before joining GMA, Dan led decarbonization programs, developed climate mitigation products, and developed greenhouse gas emission accounting and target setting methods at Smart Freight Centre (SFC), a transportation emission focused non-governmental organization. Before SFC, Dan led the development and adoption of sustainability strategy, greenhouse gas emission data management, and domestic and international environmental policy engagement for one of the largest US marine transportation and logistics companies. Dan has also managed environmental emergency response operations, environmental compliance, and contaminated site remediation, and supported the development of US federal pollution prevention regulations. 

Dan has both a B.S. and an M.S. in environmental science and policy, and carries certifications in corporate citizenship leadership, strategic planning, and project management. He has served on several committees and advisory groups related to decarbonization of hard to abate sectors. He is based in Washington State. 

Jackie acts as the Senior Manager of Aviation at GMA. She focuses on the Sustainable Aviation Buyer’s Alliance (SABA), providing comprehensive project management across all SABA initiatives, and offering specialized content support to the procurement, recruitment, and member education workstreams. 

Before joining GMA, Jackie was a Senior Manager at ENGIE Impact, where she led regional and corporate energy transition strategies. Notable projects include crafting a hydrogen roadmap for Connecticut and advising tech clients on how to achieve their near-term supply chain emission reduction targets. Prior to ENGIE, Jackie was part of McKinsey’s sustainability practice, where she advised industrial clients on navigating the energy transition. Her career began at Shell as a process engineer, focusing on refinery energy efficiency and optimizing jet fuel production. 

Jackie holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Energy Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is based in New York. 

Holly serves as the Standards Director at GMA, where she leads GMA’s GHG accounting and reporting work focusing on the Advanced and Indirect Mitigation (AIM) Platform. Her work draws on her experience developing decarbonization strategies and procuring clean energy at Fortune 100 companies, working in the energy regulation sector, and writing GHG accounting standards. 

From 2009 to 2011, she served on the GHG Protocol Scope 3 Standard secretariat team, where she wrote data quality and assurance guidance and managed the draft standards testing process with over 60 companies worldwide. In energy strategy roles with the Fortune 100 companies Target and Meta, Holly negotiated energy supply and renewable energy power purchase agreements and developed value chain decarbonization strategies.  She has also provided expert witness testimony before Public Utility Commissions and worked with energy market data to enable clean energy, energy storage, and demand response projects.  

Holly has an MS in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota. She is based in Minneapolis.  

Alison operates as the Communications Manager at GMA where she engages across the organization and its programs to craft, refine and amplify communications about GMA’s work and partnerships. She is responsible for the consistency, integrity and growth of the GMA brand in service of its mission and oversees all digital platforms and public-facing collateral. She also serves as a primary point of contact for media and events.  

Previously, Alison was Director of Marketing & Communications for Anew Climate, where she played a key role in the company’s branding and messaging efforts prior to and in conjunction with its formation. She also spent over 6 years in the traditional energy services industry where she helped champion emerging sustainability communications initiatives. Alison has successfully directed internal and external communications, digital content and campaigns, events, and branding campaigns in close collaboration with executive teams.   

Alison holds a BS in Mass Communications from Boston University with minor concentrations in French and Music. She served seven years on the Advisory Board of Houston’s Miller Theatre, during which she headed the committee responsible for Miller Theatre’s 100th anniversary celebration programming.   She is currently based in Roswell, Georgia. 

Clayton serves as a Program Manager at GMA, where he leads sectoral initiatives to design market-based initiatives and systems to drive resources towards decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors. He leverages his sustainability consulting and economic background to bring an analytical, strategic, and environmental perspective to program design. Clayton manages GMA’s program on heavy-duty trucking, GMA Trucking, as well as the cement and concrete program.  

Prior to GMA, Clayton was a consultant at ENGIE Impact helping corporate clients establish, plan for, and operationalize their GHG reduction strategy. He specialized in market-based mechanisms for innovative technologies and transportation fleet decarbonization across industries such as technology, consumer products, and semiconductors. Before that, he was a consultant at Novantas (now Curinos) advising financial institutions on their pricing strategy and network transformation.   

Clayton holds a BA in Economics with a minor in Sustainability and Environmental Management from the University of Pennsylvania. He is based in Oakland. 

Ash is a Program Manager at GMA, where she leads strategic projects for the aviation and chemicals initiatives and develops GMA’s membership program.

Prior to joining GMA, Ash was on the Strategy and B2B Ops team at Impossible Foods, where she led special projects for the C-suite to enable data-driven decision-making and accelerate the company’s progress toward its sustainability mission. She started her career as a management consultant at EY-Parthenon, specializing in commercial due diligence for investment firms.

Ash holds a BA in Chemistry from Williams College. She is newly based in Dallas with her husband and daughter.

Joan serves as Program Manager, Cement & Concrete at GMA, where she is leveraging her experience to manage a multi-stakeholder engagement process to design a credible book-and-claim system and develop a collective procurement process to drive decarbonization in the cement and concrete sector.  

Prior to GMA, Joan was a Sustainability Manager at Lendlease Construction providing expert sustainability support, guidance, and governance to construction project teams across Lendlease’s national portfolio. She specialized in guiding low-carbon procurement for high-impact materials with embodied carbon modeling and led initiatives to reduce jobsite GHG emissions.  Her career began on the operations side of Lendlease Construction, managing trades on several mixed-use residential high-rise development projects in San Francisco.   

Joan holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a LEED AP BD+C accredited professional. She is based in San Francisco.   

Edmond holds the position of Program Associate, Alternative Fuels and GHG Accounting at GMA. He works with fuel producers and maritime and aviation customers to define sustainability requirements and run procurement processes to drive the uptake of high-integrity sustainable aviation and maritime fuels into a quickly evolving market.  

Previously, Edmond worked for the California Air Resources Board, where he led the verification process for fuel pathways certified under California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard. Most recently, Edmond worked at the California Public Utilities Commission as the project manager for the Public Advocate’s Office for multiple transmission infrastructure permitting proceedings.   

Edmond holds a BS in Civil and Environmental Engineering and an MS in Energy, Civil Infrastructure, and Climate from UC Berkeley.  He is based in Oakland.   

Sam has a background in international energy and climate policy with experience supporting strategic partnerships and membership-driven organizations within the voluntary market. In his role at GMA, he manages the Advanced and Indirect Mitigation (AIM) Platform and provides support to decarbonize heavy-duty trucking.

Prior to Neoteric/GMA, Sam worked on the Next Generation Carbon Free Electricity team at the Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA). He supported CEBA’s efforts to develop the next generation of Energy Attribute Certificates (EACs) to enable more impactful voluntary market clean energy procurement. Before that, Sam worked at the Renewable Thermal Collaborative, a group of nonprofits, large energy customers, and energy suppliers striving to solve the market and policy barriers to decarbonizing thermal energy usage.

Sam holds a MA in International Affairs and Energy Policy from Georgetown University, and a BA in History from Tufts University.

Alex has a background in environmental commodities trading with experience across voluntary and compliance markets globally. In her role at GMA, she manages stakeholders for the Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance and coordinates business operations.

Prior to Neoteric/GMA, Alex worked at ACT Commodities where she focused on new product development within the voluntary market, generating new trading strategies for 24/7 renewable energy, sustainable aviation fuel certificates, and scope 3 environmental solutions. She supported carbon accounting for corporate customers, building customized environmental attribute inventories to align with industry standards including GHG Protocol, RE100, and SBTi.

Alex holds a BS in Economics and Environmental Studies from Northeastern University.

Stacey has a background in finance with experience in consulting, data analysis and energy commodities. In her role at GMA, she directly supports the executive leadership team, acts as a liaison with internal and external stakeholders, and conducts analyst research across all of GMA’s sector initiatives.

Before joining GMA, Stacey worked for Global Partners LP, where she analyzed large-scale data on gasoline and ethanol products, synthesizing performance data and providing critical insights into energy markets. Earlier in her career, Stacey served as a consultant at Deloitte, where she conducted audit and assurance work to support financial statements and regulatory reports.

Stacey holds a BS in Finance with a minor in Law from Bentley University and an MS in Environmental Sciences and Policy from Johns Hopkins University.

Mari has a background in audio/visual environmental storytelling with experience filming, editing, and leading documentary production on under-reported global social justice issues. In her role at GMA, she directly supports the Chief Finance & Operations Officer, provides general administrative aid, creates balanced operational processes, and administers staff benefits and employee engagement and wellness programs.

Before joining GMA, Mari worked at Cuyuna Regional Medical Center (CRMC), where she assisted the Human Resources department and was active in both business partner and internal communications. Earlier in her career, Mari served as the Creative Co-Director of Extending the Link, where she supervised a team of students to create documentaries on various social justice topics. This past year, she traveled to the Bahamas to learn about climate-induced migration and interview people living on the frontlines.

Mari holds a BS in Environmental Studies and Peace Studies from the College of Saint Benedict.

Kim is the President and CEO at GMA. Kim has over 15 years of experience in climate change and energy, including serving as the Chief Negotiator for Climate Change at the US Department of State.  

Over nearly a decade at the State Department, Kim managed the 13-government agency team that negotiated the Paris Agreement and its implementing guidance as well as energy and environment agreements at the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and International Maritime Organization (IMO). She has a deep background in environmental markets, having previously served as the International Policy Director at the International Emissions Trading Association, as well as in alternative fuels and management consulting, thanks to her time as Senior Director for Net Zero Fuels and Market-Based Solutions at ENGIE Impact, a global energy and climate consulting firm.  Kim spearheaded the launch of the Sustainable Aviation Buyers Alliance (SABA) in 2021, in partnership with environmental NGOs and nearly 2 dozen major global corporations.  Kim and her team also helped design and run the first pilot procurement for the Zero Emissions Maritime Buyers Alliance in 2023 before moving to launch the Center for Green Market Activation in 2024, with the goal of expanding the buyer’s alliance model to other sectors.     

Kim has taught at Columbia University, sharing her expertise with students in areas related to her field. She is based in Washington D.C. 

Ingrid Irigoyen is the Senior Director, Ocean and Climate, for the Aspen Institute Energy and Environment Program (EEP), where she leads EEP’s work at the ocean-climate nexus and serves as a strategic advisor and facilitator for multi-stakeholder initiatives seeking to address climate, ocean, and coastal challenges. Her responsibilities include serving as the facilitator and project lead for Cargo Owners for Zero Emission Vessels (coZEV), a coalition of major multinational consumer products companies and other freight buyers working to accelerate the pace of decarbonization in maritime shipping. She is also President and CEO of the Zero Emission Maritime Buyers Alliance (ZEMBA), a non-profit organization and first-of-its-kind buyers group within the maritime sector with the mission accelerate commercial deployment of zero-emission shipping, enable economies of scale, and help cargo owners maximize emissions reduction beyond what any one freight buyer could accomplish alone.

Prior to joining Aspen in 2018, she was a Senior Mediator and Program Manager at Meridian Institute, where she devoted 13 years to the design, management, and facilitation of collaborative efforts to solve environmental and sustainability problems, with a special focus on oceans and coasts. Prior to this, among other positions, Ingrid was a John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow with the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She holds a Masters of Environmental Management from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from the University of New Hampshire. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland with her family and speaks Spanish fluently.

Alexia Kelly is Managing Director of the Carbon Policy and Markets Initiative (CPMI) at High Tide Foundation. The CPMI accelerates ambitious climate action and capital mobilization through robust rules and guidance for voluntary corporate action and disclosures, and by building the next generation of high-integrity carbon and environmental services markets.

Alexia has worked for more than 17 years at the intersection of policy and finance to address the climate crisis. Prior to joining High Tide Foundation, she served as Director of Net Zero + Nature at Netflix, where she led the company’s inaugural greenhouse gas inventory, renewable energy strategy, Science Based Target and global carbon credit portfolio. She has held senior roles at the U.S. Department of State, where she served as lead negotiator to the UNFCCC on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. She has also held roles at the World Resources Institute, The David and Lucille Packard Foundation, The Climate Trust, and in private equity. She serves on multiple non-profit boards and holds a BA, a Master of Public Administration (MPA) and a Master in Community and Regional Planning (MCRP) from the University of Oregon.

Angela Churie Kallhauge is the Executive Vice President, Impact at Environmental Defense Fund. Her work is focused on using inclusive processes and economic approaches to achieve ambitious climate solutions that deliver equitable benefits to people around the world. Angela Churie Kallhauge joined EDF from the World Bank where she served as the head of the Secretariat of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) for five years. Before that she was at the Swedish Energy Agency where she worked for 14 years on climate change, energy and development issues. During her time at the Swedish Energy Agency, she worked on carbon market development issues, including portfolio development and capacity building in developing countries. She also served as the EU lead negotiator on adaptation and resilience issues under the UNFCCC for close to a decade and represented Sweden in the Adaptation Fund Board where she led the work on accreditation for direct access.

Angela also draws experience from the International Renewable Energy Agency, where she spent a couple of years leading the work to develop a climate change work program that places renewable energy action as a key part of climate change strategies. Prior to her engagement at the Swedish Agency, Angela spent close to a decade working at the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden and in Zimbabwe and Kenya with civil society organizations on climate, energy and development policy.

Kelley Kizzier is the director of corporate action and markets at the Bezos Earth Fund. In this role, she works to identify strategies and solutions for ambitious corporate action, environmental markets, and hard to abate sectors. She was most recently Vice President for Global Climate at the Environmental Defense Fund, where she promoted ambitious and effective global climate and company action. Her work included multilateral climate agreements and global cooperation through carbon markets.