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
Policy Fellows
Board of Directors and Advisors
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
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
Coaches and Mentors
Ananth Pharshy
Financial Advisor
Principal
Global Project Finance Advisory Council
Avra Durack
Investor in Residence
Senior Advisor
Ad Hoc Group
Cesar Diaz
Entrepreneur in Residence: Policy
Public policy and government affairs specialist
Chris Parish
Sales & Growth Coach
Sales Leader
Autodesk
Dai Lin
Practitioner in Residence: Equity & Access
Director of Product
UtilityAPI
Daniella Henry
Policy Consultant
Co-creative coach and founder of Duende
Jennifer Wagner
Entrepreneur in Residence, Carbon Finance
Fellow
Breakthrough Energy
Melinda Hanson
Entrepreneur in Residence, Policy
Founder and Principal
Brightside Strategies
Natalie Volpe
Financier in Residence
Independent advisor and climate investor
Nina Ali
Market Intelligence & Sales Coach
Principal & Founder
First Matter
Oliver Sabot
People & Operations Coach
Entrepreneur, executive coach and investor
Peter Fiske
Market Intelligence Coach
Water-Energy Resilience Research Institute Director
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Tamsen Webster
Messaging Coach
Founder and Chief Message Strategist
Find The Red Thread
TD Lowe
Investor in Residence
Partner
42Phi Ventures
Elemental Values
We use shared values to not only guide our own interactions and decisions, but also to guide the work our companies do in communities.
Joyful Work
We find joy in our mission and in supporting others.
Growth Mindset
We seek to learn, iterate, and grow personally and professionally.
Kuleana
We embrace the responsibility and privilege of activating ourselves and others for our mission.
Humble Spirit
We approach the problems we are trying to solve with sincere and humble spirits.