With a background in political science, economics and international law, Fabian seeks the frontiers at the intersection of investability, scale and transformational impact. He brings with him 18 years of green finance experience, mostly in a number of senior management functions at Credit Suisse. Until 2019, he led the Bank’s efforts globally around financial solutions that benefit both the green and blue economies. He was a member of Credit Suisse’s Global Impact Investing Advisory Council and its Green Bond Committee.
Fabian has been a pioneer in finding and structuring investment solutions in nature. He is the first author of two seminal research reports issued in 2014 and 2016, which have defined the market potential of the industry.
Fabian was also instrumental in developing and structuring the Nature Conservation Notes, the first conservation investment product launched by any bank globally – and awarded with the Environmental Finance Forestry Deal of the Year 2015. In 2016, he co-founded the Coalition for Private Investment in Conservation – the globally leading cross-sectoral industry body to advance private investment in nature. He also sits on Convergence’s Funding Committee for the Asia Natural Capital Design Funding Window.
For his contributions to financial markets, Fabian was awarded Champion of Global Impact Banking and globally leading financial expert on SDG 14/15 by Euromoney in Sep. 2018.
With 19 years of environmental finance experience, Matthew concentrates on converging institutional and private financial capital with investments delivering positive climate, nature and biodiversity impact.
Previously at Credit Suisse, he moved to become a Partner at a leading conservation focused asset manager where for six years he advised and structured investments across 27 countries in Africa and Europe. There, he led the first successful intermediary debt issuance from the European Investment Bank’s Natural Capital Finance Facility.
Before joining Posaidon, Matthew was founding Director of Research at Planet Tracker, a prominent global financial think thank where he adivsed international asset managers and owners, credit lenders and corporates on how fixed income, public equities, mutual funds and ETFs are exposed to climate, planetary boundary and nature-related risks. Specializing in soft commodities, agriculture and seafood, he has lead-authored several thought leadership pieces. Matthew won an Environmental Finance ESG Innovation of the Year Award in 2020 for a co-authored paper with the London School of Economics exploring correlations between sovereign macroeconomic stability and resilient natural capital systems.
He currently sits on the Impact Advisory Board of a major Switzerland-headquartered private bank reporting to the CEO as well as other institutional advisory roles.
With 35 years of capital markets experience, primarily in institutional equities sales and emerging markets private equity. Before joining Posaidon, Nick was the founder and CEO of BlackFin Advisors, the corporate advisory firm focused on emerging markets funds and corporates, with a particular focus on Africa and impact finance.
Before that, he was managing director of private markets at 91 Asset Management (previously known as Investec) where he was responsible for capital raising across private markets (i.e. private equity, private credit, infrastructure credit, private real estate) globally. He is known to be one of the most respected and best connected advisors on institutional capital raising in African private markets.
Previously, he had managed the top-ranked equity sales team at Merrill Lynch and been a director of a publicly listed UK hedge fund.
Nick sits on the board of a number of leading African conservation NGOs (e.g. Tusk, Luwire Wildlife Conservancy) and has been involved in African conservation for 20 years. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.
Nick combines a deep knowledge of environmental issues with some three decades of senior financial services experience in public and private markets.
With 15 years of green finance experience as a tropical forest ecologist and impact investing specialist in the fields of natural climate solutions and AFOLU carbon project development, James leads Posaidon’s technical NbS work.
His previous roles include Director of Natural Climate Solutions at World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Technical REDD+ and Forest Carbon Officer at Mirova Natural Capital, Technical Specialist for Forest Carbon at Fauna & Flora International, and Marine Officer at IUCN focusing on blue carbon.
James has in depth-experience with carbon project development to VCS, CAR and Plan Vivo Standards in Latin America, West Africa and Southeast Asia. Previously, he led the multi-stakeholder industry forum at the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance (NCSA) and supports continuous improvement and development of the market as a member of NCS Alliance’s Technical Advisory Group, Verra’s Blue Carbon Expert Working Group and VERRA’s Jurisdictional Nested REDD+ Stakeholder Working Group.
He holds a B.A. in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford, a MRes in Ecology and Environmental Management from the University of York and a PhD in Tropical Forest Ecology from ETH Zurich.
With over 15 years of experience working in the forestry and nature-based solutions sector, acting as a consultant and communicator, Stefanie leads our community engagement and impact monitoring work at Posaidon Climate Venture Partners. She has an in-depth understanding of the people, technical aspects and challenges in the voluntary carbon and biodiversity markets and is driven by a desire to create win-win solutions in impact investing. Deeply committed to promoting fairness and integrity in nature finance, Stefanie reconciles value-driven visionary thinking with down-to-earth pragmatism.
In recent years, Stefanie acted as Head of nature-based solutions and carbon markets and senior environmental markets strategist for biodiversity tech providers Naturemetrics and Okala. Previously, Stefanie held a long-term role in stakeholder engagement and communications for the trade body of the UK’s timber and forestry sector, preceded by a position as an impact and integrity lead for Swiss impact investing start-up Topan AG.
Stefanie is passionate about supporting collaborative efforts to bring consistency and transparency to the nature finance and nature-tech sector. She has worked with forest communities in Malawi, Kalimantan, and Brazil. Stefanie holds a degree in Biology, an MSc in Sustainable and International Development, and an MSc in Tropical Forestry.
With 10 years of experience in forest conservation as an environmental engineer and agroforestry project developer in Africa, Matthew leads the Nature-based Solutions (NbS) project pipeline within Posaidon Climate Venture Partners. His previous roles include Director of Sustainable Development at Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique and lead consultant on numerous NbS projects, including the USAID-SPEED Mozambique REDD+ Policy Gaps Analysis and TNC Angola Community Forest Carbon Project Development.
Matthew understands the NbS project development process from the perspectives of an implementer, policy analyst, and project developer, with a focus on the Sub-Saharan Africa context. He led the design and development of a large-scale jurisdictional REDD+ project in one of the most complex landscapes in Southern Africa, overseeing all aspects of project feasibility, from community engagement and government authorizations to finance negotiations.
Passionate about nature tech solutions, Matthew is involved in two startups: RAMO Technologies, a platform for NbS project origination and data analytics, and Elrepel, a biodiversity monitoring solution aimed at improving human-wildlife coexistence. Matthew holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town, an MSc in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BSc in Civil Engineering and Mathematical Sciences from Portland State University.
With 10 years of experience, Paolo is a Carbon Technical Specialist within Posaidon Climate Venture Partners. Through his technical knowledge in the field of natural resources management and conservation, he leverages his community-led project implementation and development expertise to develop tailor-made and impactful NBS projects for the PCVP’s portfolio.
Paolo has hands-on experience in project implementation and development for conservation and rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Previously, he spent over 3 years engaging and leading pastoral communities in Northern Tanzania to monitor and improve rangelands’ natural resources management by applying remote sensing and spatial analysis techniques. Paolo worked on projects funded by the main international development agencies EU and USAID as well as collaborating with a blend of scientific partners such as The University of York, The Nature Conservancy, WCS and CIRAD. Mindful that humans and nature need impactful and long-lasting tools to thrive again, he then started his journey in the AFOLU carbon market by technically leading and managing NBS carbon project development and feasibility studies for Revegetation and Reforestation, Blue Carbon and REDD+ in East Africa and DRC under VCS and Gold Standard. He deeply believes in carbon credits as powerful tools to improve the communities’ livelihoods through which, let nature be restored and flourish.
Paolo holds a B.Sc. in Environmental Science, an M.Sc. in Environmental Sustainability from the Polytechnic University of the Marche, and a post-graduate specialisation in GIS from the University of Camerino.
