Meet the team
This is your team of change makers — built by a group of talented professionals from leading investment and technology companies.
Jacqueline is the mother of all ideas and a great storyteller. At Carbon Equity she is responsible for building the team and getting our story out to the public.
Jacqueline van den Ende
High energy, high results. That pretty much sums up our queen of execution. Lara is responsible for all aspects of our Investing strategy, regulatory and operations.
Lara Koole
Liza is our own scientist. She personally safeguards that anything we do helps us meet our mission of moving the needle on climate change.
Liza Rubinstein
Jeff is our very own master of product. He loves to dig deep on what makes our target customers move to be sure we are building products that our customers love.
Jeff Gomez
Our in house legal and risk expert, Sophie skilfully maneuvers through the ins and outs of our regulatory requirements. She puts her heart in her work, which reflects the company’s mission.
Sophie Hiensch
Investor by profession, food technologist by heart. Wiebe is our internal investment lead who gained his experience and skill during 5 years at J.P. Morgan and 10 years as principal at Alpinvest.
Wiebe Visser
Bas survived six years of training at AlpInvest, bringing with him a wealth of experience in fund selection and a strong network. He now takes the wheel on our investing team.
Bas van Beijeren
Carolina is a rockstar analyst. She dives deep into the intersection of climate impact and financial returns to ensure we offer the best climate investment products.
Carolina Echecopar
Michael is our in-house creative. He brings our ideas to life with the intention to inspire actions toward a more sustainable, inclusive and happy society.
Michael Frieseke
Bas (aka Bassie) is our commercial daredevil and chief organizer. He has entrepreneurial blood in his veins, founding the Sustainable Students Consultancy while studying, and applies the same thinking to our little rocketship.
Bas van den Brande
Alex is our compliance hero, helping Lara get every single customer through our process and approved to invest.
Aleksandra Kostova
Our self-proclaimed wildlife ranger after a year in Africa’s National Parks, Tobias joins us after seven years leading of Europe’s top crowdlending platforms focused on emerging markets. At Carbon Equity, he’ll support our investors, build new partnerships and ensure we can all survive in the wild!
Tobias Grinwis
‘Always be testing.’ An internet enthusiast and tester by nature, Stefan ensures our message is heard by the right audience at the right time, continually creating awareness for our products.
Stefan Lazarov
A (rare) sustainable Viking 🇳🇴, Vegard is laser-focused on unlocking the best climate investments, critically analyzing the intersection of climate tech, impact and returns.
Vegard Dahl
After years of helping private equity partners solve complex financial issues at Van Lanschot Kempen, Claudia now uses those skills to help more professionals invest in climate tech — to meet their impact and financial goals.
Claudia Helmer
Why do we get out of bed?
Founder testimonials
“It took me a while to realise that while we can only vote every 4 years, we can use our capital to vote everyday. Still, to make good climate decisions, we need good information. More climate information however doesn’t necessarily equal better decision making. It's my mission to make climate investing transparent and accessible for everybody."
− Jeff Gomez
Chief Product Marketing Officer
“I was 18 years old when I joined the board of our family foundation to preserve the ‘Gunterstein’ estate, which has been in our family for over 300 years. This taught me to think cross-generational, and what it takes to conserve such a heritage towards the future. As a finance advisor, venture investor and economist I know how much can be driven by decisions around capital allocation. That is what I want to utilize to preserve a viable future for the next generations and build a climate-positive and more equal society”
− Lara Koole
Chief Investments & Operations
“My brother summarized it nicely when he said that my mission is to save the planet by leveraging market forces. During my studies I discovered that due to globalization, governments can only do so much to stop global warming. Capital markets can accelerate innovation like no other. I'm driven to empower people to leverage their money, their power, to build a better world. And I find the challenge to capture the complexity of balancing people, planet and profit intellectually fascinating."
− Liza Rubinstein
Founder & Chief Impact
“What I have learned through an extensive career in private equity and venture capital is that money makes the world go round. Money, whether you like it or not, is the lifeblood of our society. Therefore Capital is my weapon of choice to battle climate change. Through capital we can enable all else. So the question that concerns me most is “how can we leverage capital to mitigate climate change in the most effective way?”
− Jacqueline van den Ende
Chief Commercial & Executive Officer
