Paul is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Remora. In 2021, he was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Before Remora, his work in politics was funded by prominent leaders in the tech industry. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Statistics and Data Science from Yale University, where his research received the Porter Prize, the highest class-wide thesis prize.

Darius is the Vice President of People at Remora. Before Remora he worked for Meta on their People Strategy team where he primarily focused on M&A transactions where he led the integration of several acquired companies into Meta. The rest of his career has been spent in a variety of consulting, client facing HR, and non-client facing HR roles at PwC, Tesla, and GE. He earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology from Western Michigan University and has a Master of Human Resources and Labor Relations from Michigan State University.

Phil is the Vice President of Research and Engineering at Remora. Phil has 25 years of R&D and product development experience leading engineering teams taking complex hardware products from idea to production and more than 10 years of gas separation experience in biopharma, aerospace & defense, and commercial industries. He developed a new class of piezo-electric, drop-on-demand print engines developed for the USPS that are currently used to mark every letter processed by the US postal processing centers. In another role, he developed (in just 18 months) an oxygen recovery system that could be dropped out of a plane, pull oxygen out of ambient air, then purify and liquify it to 99.9% to treat wounded soldiers. Prior to Phil’s role at Remora, he worked at Progressive Recovery Incorporated, Alberta Adsorbents. Inc, Essex Industries, and Videojet Technologies. He is a graduate from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Studies.

Susan is the Vice President of Finance at Remora. Susan has several years in the startup space working at Bloomscape and Shinola where she primarily focused on building out the finance infrastructure and fundraising activities. Prior to the start up space, Susan has experience in large manufacturing entities (private and public entity), with roles focusing on Big 4 accounting, FP&A and investor relations. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from Michigan State University and has a Master in Latin American Studies (focus on international business and economics) and M.B.A from University of New Mexico.

Clay is a founding partner at Lowercarbon Capital and, as the team’s most active investor, he identifies and supports the preposterously ambitious companies working to undo global warming. He also advises climate nonprofits who are working to avert dangerous climate tipping points. Clay previously spent a decade working in the federal government and presidential campaigns. He was the Chief of Staff for the White House Office of Digital Strategy, a team tasked by President Obama with connecting people with purpose. At the start of President Obama’s second term, he served as an aide in the Chief of Staff’s office. Before joining the White House, Clay worked on President Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns. He graduated from Harvard in 2011.

Jon is a Partner and Co-President of Valor and the Fund Manager for Valor Siren Ventures (VSV). He serves as a member of all Valor Investment Committees. Jon has over 20 years of experience in private equity investing. Jon’s responsibilities include fund management for VSV I and II, as well as investment prospect generation, due diligence of potential investments, investment structuring and execution, and capital raising for Valor’s growth funds and VSV. Jon oversees Valor’s Operations, Finance, and People Teams.

Over the years, Jon has focused on investment opportunities in the food and retail technology sectors. Jon began this focus with Valor’s 2006 acquisition of Sizzling Platter. Currently, Jon is a Director of several Valor growth fund and VSV portfolio companies, including Gopuff, Misfits Market, Fooda, Wow Bao, and Atmosphere.

Prior to Valor, Jon was part of MG Capital’s Investment and Portfolio Team. During his tenure at MG Capital, Jon worked on acquisition teams focused on executing transactions in the electronic connector industry. Jon served in operational roles at MG Capital’s portfolio companies, including Chief Operating Officer of Connector Service Corporation’s Plating Division, where he managed the business through 100% growth over a 12-month period. Jon also served as President of Electronic Plating Service and Chief Operating Officer for Amax Plating, Electronic Plating Service, and Associated Plating Company. Prior to joining MG Capital, Jon worked with Bain & Company as an Associate Consultant. At Bain, he worked on assignments for various Fortune 500 clients in Texas and Australia.

Jon has served on the Boards of Directors of several charitable organizations, including the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, the Chicago Children’s Museum, and he most recently co-founded Prosper Chicago. He is the former Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Lycée Français de Chicago.

Jon holds a B.B.A. in Accounting (with honors) from the University of Texas at Austin.

Steve is former Vice President of Special Projects at Apple where he led an effort to explore a new product space for the company. Before that, he spent over 15 years defining and leading engineering efforts for the iPhone, iPod and hundreds of other Apple products. While at Apple Steve was responsible for wide range of large engineering organizations including Product Design, Material Science, EE, Project Management, Acoustics, Firmware, etc. Prior to joining Apple, he worked at Ford Motor Company in their Executive Training Program where he worked in a number of areas inside the company ranging from Product Marketing to Vehicle Dynamics. Steve received his Masters in Engineering from Stanford University and his undergraduate degree in Engineering from University of California Berkeley. Steve holds over 150 patents and is on the Advisory Board of the Mechanical Engineering Department of UC Berkeley.

Albert Wenger is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). He previously founded or co-founded several companies, including a management consulting firm and an early hosted data analytics company. Albert graduated from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT. Photo Credit: Sebastian Weinmann

Ali Partovi heads Neo, a diverse mentorship community and VC fund that identifies America’s most promising CS students and helps them become tomorrow’s tech leaders. Ali invests in people smarter than himself and has backed Airbnb, Dropbox, Facebook, & Uber. He grew up in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war, attended Harvard, and sold his first startup, LinkExchange, in 1998. He co-founded Code.org (Hour of Code) to bring Computer Science to classrooms. He’s passionate about education, diversity in tech, and sustainable food; and loves climbing, guitar, puzzles, and family.

Bill Trenchard is a partner at First Round Capital, a leading early-stage venture capital firm that has invested in startups like Uber, Square, Notion and Roblox. He’s passionate about working with founders who take unconventional approaches to solving the world’s most important problems. This mindset has cultivated an interest in the climate tech space, where Bill has made investments in startups like Flexport, Last Energy and Remora. Before joining First Round, Bill was an angel investor, operator, advisor and founder.

Clea is a Partner and the Head of Science at Lowercarbon Capital, where, in addition to investing in and working with unreasonably ambitious founders that are providing critical solutions to the climate crisis, she leads the firm’s technical research, diligence, and scientific strategy efforts. Clea has focused her career on solving the climate emergency through innovation in technology, business models, and policy. Prior to joining Lowercarbon, Clea worked in energy consulting at E3, designing decarbonization plans for state agencies and energy companies across North America. Clea also founded a company working on financing and distribution solutions for clean cooking fuel access in West Africa. Clea holds an MEng and PhD in chemical engineering and environmental policy from Imperial College London where she focused her thesis on the techno economics and process optimization of carbon capture and storage systems.

Gustaf Alstromer is a Group Partner at Y Combinator which he joined in 2017. Y Combinator is a startup program in Mountain View, California. Every year they fund and work closely with several hundred new startups. In the past, Y Combinator funded Airbnb, Doordash, Stripe, Cruise and many others. Prior to joining Y Combinator, Gustaf was a Product Lead at Airbnb from 2012 to 2017. As one of its first product managers, he was a founding member of Airbnb’s growth team. Gustaf lives in San Francisco and is an active angel investor with Decarbonization and ClimateTech as his primary focus.

Sarah Sclarsic is an investor and former founder and executive with high-growth technology companies. She is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Voyager, a venture firm investing in early stage companies focused on decarbonization. Ms. Sclarsic serves on the Board of Directors of XL Fleet (NYSE:XL), North America’s leading provider of fleet electrification solutions. Previously, she co-founded Getaround, a pioneering peer-to-peer carsharing marketplace, and was an early employee at Modern Meadow, the world’s first company making biofabricated leather. She holds a B.A. from Harvard and a M.S. from MIT, where she researched atmospheric carbon removal. Ms. Sclarsic lives in New York City.

Sierra Peterson is an investor and former policymaker and climate technology company executive. She is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Voyager, a venture firm investing in early-stage companies focused on decarbonization. Prior to venture investing, Sierra created and led corporate development teams for financial technology companies responsible for more than $3 billion in sustainability investment. Sierra has worked in market-driven climate protection since 2005, serving with the International Energy and the Obama White House Office of Energy and Climate Change. She is a graduate of Stanford and Harvard.