Founder, operator, and impact investor with nearly two decades of experience leading companies and investment platforms across emerging markets. I’m relentless about mobilizing every asset at my disposal—capital, networks, hard-won lessons, and above-average baking skills—to back bold, visionary founders tackling the world’s toughest challenges in climate adaptation and resilience.

I co-founded Mercy Corps Ventures, a family of funds backing founders building solutions for climate adaptation and financial resilience in emerging markets With a deep focus on Agriculture, ClimateTech and Natural Capital, I’ve helped shape a collective that’s backed breakout innovators like Pula (microinsurance), Meridia (supply chain sustainability), Wasoko (B2B ecommerce/fintech), and Floodbase (parametric flood insurance). To date, I’ve led over 70 transactions globally, catalyzing $500M+ in follow-on capital and impacting tens of millions of people.

I am also an active angel investor with a focus on startups at the intersection of climate, regenerative land use & technology. My investment / advisory portfolio includes Forest Carbon, Generation Forest Invest, Goldfinch, MightyAlly, Renoster.co, Terraspect, Terraton.ai, Savia Ventures and Empowa.io—each pushing boundaries in their respective fields.

Prior to joining Mercy Corps to launch our family of funds, I led startups and emerging markets funds in Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Afghanistan.

When I’m not supporting founders or structuring capital stacks, you’ll find me climbing, mountain biking, or savoring the high Andes air in Quito with my family.

Edward Abbey

“One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this: You will outlive the bastards.”