OUR TEAM

Dr. Cara Tobin, PEng - Founder and CEO
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Dr. Cara Tobin is an environmental engineer, with a specialization in hydrology and hydropower. She has developed and secured over USD 330 million of public financing for projects and the application of clean energy technologies in Africa, Central Asia and the Caribbean. She has worked for the GCF, UNDP, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, the European Investment Bank, the Caribbean Development Bank and UNEP. She is currently a Clean Energy Venture Partner. Previously, Cara worked with civil and environmental engineering firms in the USA, New Zealand and Australia.

William Greene - Financial Advisor
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William is a sustainable finance expert who manages sustainable infrastrastructure and cleantech funds for Stafford Capital. Prior to Stafford, William was responsible for sustainable finance investments at Macquarie Bank and for solar power project investments with Etrion (a listed power IPP). William was responsible for the infrastructure component of Swiss Re’s USD 1 billon sustainability and infrastructure investment portfolio. He also worked for the Asian Development Bank in Manila where he sourced private investments in infrastructure and within the renewables space throughout South Asia. William began his career as a civil engineer working in both New Zealand and the US for leading consulting firms.
William has a Master’s in Business Administration from the Wharton School, a Master’s of Science in environmental engineering from Stanford University and a Master’s and Bachelor’s of Science in Civil Engineering from The National Superior School of Hydraulics of Grenoble, France.

Angelo Prete - Investor and Technical Advisor
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The geographic focus of Angelo’s activities has been EMEA, with also extensive partnership with Chinese players and project assessments in Canada, South America and South East Asia.
The projects developed and/or built under Angelo’s responsibility exceed 650MW.
Angelo worked as a manager in several multinational companies in Europe, with strong connections to Chinese players, and has been involved in several investments in the energy sector.
Angelo is a civil engineer with a MBA, Bocconi, Milan, Italy.
Since 2015 ClimatePlace’s services have highlighted pre-due-diligenced, bankable climate-related projects and technologies in order to raise a blended capital required to make such green development ideas a reality. External, private investment at the international level for climate-related projects is projected to increase at approximately 20% in the coming decade (Climate Policy Initiative, Global Landscape of Climate Finance, 2015). ClimatePlace is therefore the critical link to guide and direct the growing amounts of private financing to ensure that climate change adaptation and mitigation activities can receive critical support.
The ClimatePlace team has multi-faceted experience in supporting the public and private sector in developing and financing climate change-related projects and technologies . Now, with a proprietary database of top investors in the space of sustainable finance and a climate finance matching algorithm developed in 2018 (financed by InnoSwiss), the ClimatePlace team will match pre-vetted opportunities with the most relevant investers, enabling a greater impact on-the-ground towards a low-carbon and climate resilient future.