Second cohort

James is a full stack AWS developer and currently CTO of Scoop. Previously, James was the Co-Founder of food waste startup Greenkode. James enjoys climbing, swimming and boxing.

Maggie comes from a commercialisation and business growth background. She has worked in sales and business development at both early stage startups and Fortune 100 companies. Her passion for technology stems from its ability to solve real world problems in elegant ways. She loves working on “big” problems that have inherent complexity including building accessible solutions to address the climate crisis.

Maya began her career working at an international compliance consultancy, qualifying as an accountant and working her way up. Moving on to a technology consulting business, Maya then worked her way to become the CFO leading all aspects of the firms financial affairs.

Neil brings experience as an investor and equity strategist, both as a portfolio manager and in publishing research for several leading investment banks. His emerging market specialism requires deep understanding of a wide variety of macroeconomic and political environments, and the challenges of low-income demographies.

Rob is a seasoned Product leader who has decided to join the fight to tackle climate change. He spent the first half of his career working for large multinationals in North America, Europe and Russia and the latter half working with startups, including two of his own. His most recent role as VP Product for a FTSE 250 utility provided insight into the decarbonisation of our built environment and the scale of the challenge.

Sam previously worked at Monzo Bank, working from the frontline to managing knowledge management for the Customer Support organisation. This was followed by a stint at payroll tech startup Pento.io as their Enablement Manager, owning knowledge management/internal onboarding/ongoing learning and communications. Sam - "Climate change and the cross-section of 3 things today are my obsession: Startups, Social Impact and Big Hairy Problems".

Veronica is a BIM Engineer at activePLAN and PhD Student researching Retrofit Strategies for Affordable Housing and Sustainable Living in Chile at Sheffield Hallam University.