Alex has 23 years of experience in environmental commodities, carbon markets, and climate finance and is primarily responsible for investments at ECP. Alex previously founded Climate Wedge LLC, an independent carbon trading and climate finance investment firm in 2005, where he advised and managed direct investments in carbon and related environmental commodity markets for numerous institutional funds. He also cofounded U.S. carbon credit developer EOS Climate, as well as Ugandan cookstoves carbon distributor, Up Energy, and wrote the original version of the Voluntary Carbon Standard (now Verra), the most widely adopted trading standard for voluntary carbon assets.
Alex previously started the Climate Change Services team in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Energy Corporate Finance practice in London (2001-2004) and has advised clients ranging from BP and Rio Tinto to McKinsey and CalPERS on corporate carbon management strategies and carbon market investments. Alex has a PhD in Physics from Oxford University, a B.A. from Cornell University, and is a CFA Charterholder. He lives in San Francisco, California, and enjoys blue water sailing, cycling, and keeping pace with science and technology R&D. Alex is also an advisor to the California State Treasurer and Climate Bonds Initiative on green bond markets.