Meet Our Team

Michael Berends

CEO & Co-founder

Chief Executive Officer Michael Berends is a highly respected leader in the global carbon markets. With a decades-long career spanning North…

Nico Girod

CTO & Co-founder

Nicolas Girod brings over two decades of expertise in energy and carbon markets, specializing in risk management, trading, and market analys…

Michiel ten Hoopen

Chief Carbon Investment Officer & Co-founder

Chief Carbon Trading Officer Michiel ten Hoopen brings over 20 years of extensive policy and practical trading experience to provide clients…

Jennifer McIsaac

Chief Market Intelligence Officer

Jennifer has two decades of experience guiding clients through the complex environmental markets landscape, emphasizing policy analysis and …

Richard Myerscough

President & Chief Operating Officer

Richard Myerscough is a seasoned executive with 20 years of experience in carbon markets, energy, and commodities. He has held senior leader…

Jenny Yang

VP Finance

Jenny has over a decade of experience as a financial leader in the technology, retail, and infrastructure sectors. With a focus on strategic…

Dave Janisse

VP Advisory and Market Access

Dave is an expert in transaction governance, strategy, and risk management, with over a decade of experience managing a multi-billion-dollar…

Adi Dunkelman

Director, Policy and Strategy

Adi is the Director, Policy and Strategy at ClearBlue Markets and focuses on monitoring the ongoing regulatory developments of different car…

Ivan Cosentino

Director Offset Projects

Ivan brings a decade of experience in the energy industry to ClearBlue, particularly in the oil & gas sector. Through his technical expe…

Derek Mathewson

Senior Director, Position Optimization

Derek Mathewson is Senior Director, Position Optimization at ClearBlue Markets, where he focuses on aligning the firm’s market intelligence …

Greata Li

Senior Director, Market Intelligence

Greata Li is Senior Director, Market Intelligence at ClearBlue Markets. She brings an unusual combination of product leadership, data depth,…

Yan Qin

Principal Analyst

Yan Qin is a carbon market expert with more than fifteen years of extensive experience in the field. She specializes in quantitative modelin…

Anop Pandey

Senior Manager, Market Analysis

Anop is the lead market analyst for the North American Cap-and-Trade markets.His financial background helps produce in-depth research report…

Laurie Smith

Marketing Lead

Laurie brings extensive experience in communications, marketing and revenue operations to this role at ClearBlue. Her career has spanned all…

Harun Hirani

Senior Manager of Business Operations

Harun Hirani is the Senior Manager of Business Operations at ClearBlue Markets, specializing in scaling teams, streamlining operations, and …

Egis Breshani

Senior Manager, Advisory

Egis Breshani manages the European Analysis team responsible for modeling and market analysis of carbon compliance programs (EU ETS, EU ETS …

Victoria Jenkins

Manager, Client Engagement & Delivery

Victoria is a Manager of Client Engagement & Delivery within ClearBlue’s advisory practice, focused on delivering high-quality end-to-en…

Natalie Giglio

Business Development Lead, North America

Natalie Giglio is the Business Development Lead for North America at ClearBlue Markets, specializing in market expansion, strategic sales ex…

Denitza González Quiñonez

Business Development Manager

Is an expert in carbon pricing policy design and climate strategy, with a strong emphasis on strategic decarbonization and ESG advisory. She…

Haris Shah

Business Development Associate

Haris Shah is a Business Development Associate at ClearBlue Markets, where he supports client acquisition across North America, working with…

Mandy Dekker

Business Development Lead, Europe

Mandy Dekker is Business Development Lead, Europe at ClearBlue Markets, where she focuses on expanding ClearBlue’s presence across the Europ…

Maik Miltenburg

Project Manager

Maik is a Project Manager at ClearBlue Markets, working on developing carbon and other environmental projects. This means guiding developers…

Marcela Vera

Manager Carbon Project Development

Marcela joined ClearBlue Markets as Manager Carbon Project Development to identify offset potential in emission removal, avoidance, and redu…

Hana Mohammadi

Project Manager, Clean Fuel Energy & Project Development

Hana Mohammadi is a Project Manager, Clean Fuel Energy & Project Development at ClearBlue Markets, where she helps navigate clean fuel r…

Nico Curtis

Manager Market Analysis

Nicholas is a Manager at ClearBlue, where he leads the Market Intelligence service for the Canadian and Voluntary Carbon Markets. He conduct…

Mehr Imran

Senior Market Analyst

Mehr is a University of Toronto engineering graduate, working as a Fuel Standards Analyst at ClearBlue Markets, focusing on the low-carbon f…

Hasan Zaidi

Senior Accounting Manager

Hasan Zaidi is a seasoned finance professional with over 13 years of experience in corporate accounting, financial reporting, and operationa…

Apeksha Taneja

Analyst, Client Engagement and Delivery

Apeksha is an Analyst, Client Engagement and Delivery working on compliance reporting calculations and GHG emissions quantification, support…

Omamoke Kagho

Senior Analyst

Omamoke is a Senior Analyst at ClearBlue Markets, specializing in the analysis of North America’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) compliance…

Yehor Melakh

Senior Analyst

Yehor is a Senior Analyst specializing in the European compliance market (ETS & ETS 2) and power markets. With expertise in data analysi…

Bingbin Li

Carbon Market Modelling Analyst

Bingbin provides insights on carbon pricing, focusing on market trends and regulatory developments. With her background in financial economi…

Samantha Thyret

Market Intelligence Analyst

Samantha is a Market Intelligence Analyst specializing in the Voluntary Carbon Market. She supports market intelligence and research by anal…

Diana Zaraza

Project Analyst

Diana is a Project Analyst on the Project Development team, focused on Canada's Clean Fuel Regulation (CFR) and low carbon fuel programs. Sh…

Wilson Cabanzo

Nature-Based Solutions Offset Project Analyst

Wilson is a forestry engineer with over a decade of experience in GIS analysis and modeling of deforestation, forest management, land aptitu…

Elahe Bigdeli

Offset Project Analyst

Elahe is an Offset Analyst in ClearBlue Markets focusing on offset project development in the Voluntary Carbon Market. She has gained hands-…

Peter Tamraz

Full Stack Developer, Special Projects

Sina Sharafzadeh

Software Engineer

Sina Sharafzadeh is a senior software engineer based in Amsterdam with a strong background in building scalable systems, leading cross-funct…

Andrej Zivkovic

Software Engineer

Andrej is a Software Engineer with a strong foundation in backend development and system reliability. As a recent Computer Engineering gradu…

Arshya Soleimani

Software Engineer

Arshya is a software engineer with a background in full-stack development and data infrastructure across the energy and fintech industries. …