Team + Board
Meet The
Elemental Team
Our mission to rapidly redesign the systems at the root of climate change, break down barriers to innovation, and lift up people around the world requires a team as invested in each other as they are in the environment. While we’re all cross-functional, we tend to specialize in these roles:
- Strategy & Partnerships
- Portfolio
- Equity & Access
- Policy
- Operations & Finance
- Communications & Creative
- All
Board of Directors
Laurene Powell Jobs
Board Chair
President
Emerson Collective
Dawn Lippert
Board Member
CEO
Elemental Excelerator
Kelvin Taketa
Board Member
Past President/CEO
Hawaii Community Foundation
Cheryl Martin
Board Member
Founder
Harwich Partners
Naveen Sikka
Board Member
CEO
TerViva
Vivian Yasunaga
Board Member
Director
Kamehameha Schools
Maurice Kaya
Director Emeritus
Elemental Excelerator
Advisors
Ernest Moniz
Board Advisor
CEO and Co-chair
Nuclear Threat Initiative
Energy Futures Initiative
Peter Seligmann
Board Advisor
CEO and Co-founder
Nia Tero
Brad Powell
Board Advisor
Managing Director, Investments
Emerson Collective
Aimee Barnes
Policy Advisor
Founder, Hua Nani Partners and Senior Advisor, California-China Climate Institute
