How do we bridge the funding gap for nature restoration?

Nandini Wilcke is an entrepreneur, senior transactional advisor, general counsel and C-Level executive with over 20 years of international experience driving mergers and acquisitions, organizational restructuring, and integration efforts within emerging and established markets (East/West Africa, Europe, US). An experienced legal expert, board member, and trusted strategic advisor to corporate leadership on buying, selling, and integration of portfolio companies, joint venture partnerships, change management, diverse legal issues and regulatory matters.

Harry Grocott is the CEO and co-founder of Treeconomy, a London-based start-up focused on the restoration and regeneration of natural ecosystems through the use of technology to more accurately value natural assets. The company aims to drive finance into these projects, focusing particularly on the voluntary carbon market with activities including woodland creation, rewilding, and peatland restoration. Treeconomy utilizes a combination of high-resolution satellite and drone technology, along with AI, to calculate the carbon content of forests, supporting investors and carbon buyers with precise data to make informed decisions.

Frederick Leuschner is a strategic leader of international technology, software,climate fintech and media organizations with a proven ability to start businessesfrom scratch, build multinational organisations in growth industries and create highperforming teams that deliver results. Previously, Frederick held Leadership positionsat Naspers, Google, PubMatic and Microsoft. In 2022, Frederick founded the climatetech start up GreenTrade.tech, a platform building the infrastructure for forwardfinancing of nature-based carbon credits, and leads the company as their CEO.

Sergei Nozdrenkov is a former engineer at Google X, where he worked for over five years. Recently, he has been focusing on building a biodiversity AI startup aimed at helping bees and other insects through his work at wildflow.ai. This initiative lies within the broader realm of climate technology, specifically focusing on ocean and biodiversity conservation using AI, data, and tech. After leaving Google X, Sergei ventured into creating his own startup, Wildflow, which explores various opportunities in the "ocean + biodiversity + AI/data/tech" space.

Johannes Pulsfort is a co-founder of KUMO, a company that focuses on leveraging blockchain technology and tokenization to enable sustainable supply chains. His background is diverse and includes holding a Doctoral Degree in the topic of "Blockchain technology / DLT (distributed ledger technology) and tokenization as enablers of sustainable supply chains." Pulsfort has contributed to various projects and papers with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on blockchain and sustainable agri-food supply chains.

Kasper Kupperman is a co-founder of The Green Branch, a company dedicated to developing impactful nature-based projects in Brazil. These projects aim at revitalizing land and communities, creating self-sufficient, resilient ecosystems. The Green Branch collaborates with local communities, applying a holistic approach to restore entire ecosystems, supported through the Voluntary Carbon Market to finance their initiatives.

Christian Lutz is the COO and a founder of Tree.ly, a company that works on unlocking the carbon sequestration potential of Europe's forests through a managed data platform​. Before his involvement with Tree.ly, Christian Lutz was the Director of the Board and Founder/CEO of Crate.io, a leading open-source database company, from 2013 to 2022​.

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