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CREO Team
Our team collaborates across continents to advance high impact sustainability solutions.
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Meet the team
President and CEO
New York, NY
Régine Clément has led CREO as its inaugural CEO since 2016, driving the organization’s mission to catalyze capital into Clean, Renewable, and Environmental Opportunities. Under her leadership, CREO has transformed the sustainability investment landscape, collaborating with over 200 families and select pension funds across 30+ countries to deploy billions annually into sustainability solutions across asset classes.
Before joining CREO, Régine served as Trade Commissioner and Head of Energy and Environment at the Canadian Consulate General in New York, where she advanced Canadian commercial interests in cleantech, energy, and infrastructure. She also co-founded and co-managed the Canadian Technology Accelerator for Cleantech, supporting early-stage companies in securing capital and strategic partnerships.
Earlier in her career, Régine held diverse roles, including Executive Director of SENS Production in NYC, Trade Policy Analyst for Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs, and Analyst with Fundación Futuro Latino Americano in Ecuador. She currently serves on the Board of Directors at Power Sustainable Capital.
Régine holds an MSc in International Political Economy from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Ottawa. She is based in New York.
Régine Clément joined CREO in 2016 as its inaugural CEO to catalyze capital into Clean, Renewable and Environmental Opportunities.
Through her leadership, CREO is helping build the sustainability investment marketplace by partnering with family offices, family foundations and other asset owners to deploy capital into solutions that advance positive outcomes across all asset classes.
Prior to joining CREO, Régine was Trade Commissioner and Head of Energy & Environment at the Canadian Consulate General in NYC; Co-Founder of the Canadian Technology Accelerator for Cleantech; Executive Director of SENS Production, a NYC-based site-specific dance company; Trade Policy Analyst with the Global Affairs Canada, and a trade & environmental policy analyst with Fundación Futuro Latino Americano in Ecuador. Régine obtained her MSc in International Political Economy at the London School of Economics and her Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Ottawa.
Delphine worked for over 12 years with the French Mulliez family, founders of large retail businesses across the world with over $100b in revenues.
She was first Head of M&A within their family office in France, then Founder and Managing Director of the New York office of Creadev (the Mulliez family’s $2bn evergreen investment firm). She structured long-term venture investments around food & agtech, with missions focused on producing sustainably and giving access to healthy food.
She has held multiple board seats in US food & agtech companies and funds. Prior to that, Delphine was an M&A / PE attorney in international law firms, both in the US and France. She graduated from the Sorbonne in Paris and Columbia Law School.
Building on over two decades as an investor and entrepreneur in clean technology, Nicholas Eisenberger is focused on scaling the circular carbon economy. Nicholas is Managing Partner of Pure Energy Partners, a venture catalyst firm that invests in high-potential clean economy companies and partners with innovators to drive profit and impact.
In the carbontech sector, Nicholas is a long-time Senior Advisor to Global Thermostat, a leading Direct Air Capture company. Nicholas led the effort to raise ~$100MM from a consortium of global energy companies and governments to launch the Carbon XPRIZE and founded the Circular Carbon Network with the XPRIZE Foundation to accelerate flow of capital and commercial activity in the sector.
He co-founded and serves as a director of the CREO Syndicate, a network of family office investors with nearly a trillion dollars of accumulated wealth focused on opportunities in the clean economy, and chairs CREO’s Carbon Removal Committee. Nicholas also serves on the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Direct Air Capture Advisory Council and the Carbon-to-Value Initiative’s Carbontech Leadership Council.
Most recently, Nicholas launched a new initiative in collaboration with leading Direct Air Capture providers and stakeholders called the Direct Air Capture Coalition, focused on mobilizing society to accelerate the deployment of DAC solutions globally.
Nicholas holds honors degrees from Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
Gabriel Kra co-founded Prelude Ventures in 2013, after almost 25 years as an investor, entrepreneur, scientist, and activist.
He is responsible for overseeing the firm’s investments in advanced energy, food and agriculture, transportation and logistics, advanced materials and manufacturing, and advanced computing. Gabriel serves on the Board of Directors for Ebb Carbon, Electric Hydrogen, Form Energy, Lightship, Meridian Clean Energy, PostScript Media, Renew Financial, Ripple Foods, Sense, and Trove, and he has oversight for Prelude’s investments in Catalog NDA, Koloma, Metalenz, Mill Industries, Natron Energy, Nyriad, Scoop, Spark Thermionics, and Thrilling.
Gabriel also serves on the Board of Directors of Activate and CREO, and on advisory boards for Prime Coalition, and Carbon180.
Veery Maxwell is a partner at Galvanize Climate Solutions, a mission-driven investment platform that will provide the capital, expertise, and partnerships necessary to scale vital climate technology solutions.
Previously, Veery was a founding partner at Ajax Investment Strategies, where she invested in technology companies. She currently sits on the boards of Descartes Labs, Streetlight Data, Sunfolding, Trace Genomics, and Voltus.
Prior to co-founding Ajax, Veery was a director at Energy Innovation managing a large climate philanthropy portfolio focused on supporting regulatory interventions to drive emissions out of the power, transport, and industrial sectors. Veery earned a J.D. degree with honors from UC Hastings School of the Law, and a B.A. degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University with a double major in finance and international business. Additionally, she serves on the nonprofit boards of Clean Energy for America and CREO Syndicate.
Bruce McNamer is the president of Builders Initiative, the philanthropic team at Builders Vision, an impact platform dedicated to supporting people and organizations that are building a more humane and healthy planet through philanthropy, investment, and advocacy. The organization aims to shift markets and minds for good by utilizing a range of tools to seed and scale solutions that tackle some of the most challenging environmental and sustainability issues across three interconnected sectors: oceans, food & agriculture, and energy. Builders Initiative supports these efforts by providing both grants and mission-driven investments. In his role as president, Bruce oversees a passionate team of program officers who deploy grants across the organization’s three focus areas.
Prior to joining Builders Initiative, Bruce was President and CEO of Greater Washington Community Foundation (GWCF) in Washington, D.C., where he worked alongside local organizations to help build thriving communities. Prior to GWCF, Bruce was Head of Global Philanthropy for the JPMorgan Chase Foundation. This role came after serving for many years as the President and CEO of TechnoServe, a nonprofit organization that works with people in developing countries building competitive farms, businesses, and industries.
Earlier in his career, Bruce was a senior executive and founder of several technology startups, an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, and a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Bruce was also a White House Fellow at the National Economic Council and a Peace Corps Volunteer in Paraguay.
He serves on several boards, including PATH and NatureVest, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has a bachelor’s degree from Harvard and a joint law degree and master’s degree in business administration from Stanford. While Bruce has traveled extensively, these days he is delighted to be living in Chicago with his wife Marz and son Henry
Jennifer Morris, CEO of The Nature Conservancy, leads a team of nearly 6,000 staff in over 80 countries addressing sustainability and biodiversity challenges.
With 25+ years in conservation, her leadership emphasizes proven management, innovative finance solutions, and science-based approaches centered on communities. Prior to joining TNC, she held key roles at Conservational International, including COO and President during a period of rapid growth. Jennifer has been named to TIME’s inaugural Climate 100 list of leaders, Forbes’ 50 over 50 for Impact and Virginia Business’ Virginia 500 Power List.
Jennifer serves on a range of global councils including the Advisory Board for NBIM and Nestlé’s Creating Shared Value Advisory Council. She also chairs the board of Enduring Earth.
Based in Washington, D.C., Jennifer has a passion for storytelling, mentoring future leaders and spending time outdoors.
Jason Scott is the chairman of CREO Syndicate. He is also an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Spring Lane Capital, a private equity firm investing in sustainable and renewable infrastructure and is a Senior Advisor to Renewable Resource Group, an asset manager focused on sustainable agriculture, water resources, renewables and other natural resources.
Jason previously co-founded and is on the board of Encourage Capital. Encourage is a sustainability focused asset management and advisory firm formed through the merger of EKO and Wolfensohn Fund Management. Prior to EKO, Jason was a founding Director and investment analyst at Generation Investment Management, co-founded by David Blood and former Vice President Al Gore, Jr. Jason helped build the firm and its first and second products, investing in global listed equities and sustainability solutions respectively.
From 1999 to 2004, Jason worked with Acumen Fund, Flatiron Future Fund/Foundation and New Philanthropy Capital. From 1996-1999, Jason was President of a NYC-based software company.
Previously, Jason helped found and build national service non-profit Public Allies. Jason is currently on the boards of Clean Energy for America and the Frankfurt Zoological Society.
Jason graduated from Duke University cum laude and has an M.B.A. with honors jointly from Columbia and London Business Schools. Jason will be an Executive-in-Residence in the Economics Department at Duke University in the fall of 2023, teaching a class on private markets investing in sustainability solutions.
Martin Whittaker is a recognized leader within the corporate sustainability investing industry, with over twenty-five years’ experience at the intersection of global business, finance, philanthropy and social and environmental impact.
He is the founding CEO of JUST Capital and is responsible for the overall leadership of the organization. He is also a senior advisor to Edelman, a co-founder and Board member of the CREO family office investment syndicate and the Carbon Disclosure Project U.S.; and a member of the Forbes Finance Council and Forbes Contributor. Martin was recently named to the 2020 NACD Directorship 100 – the annual list of the most influential people in the boardroom and on corporate governance – and to Business Insider’s 2020 List of 100 People Transforming Business.
He also sits on the G7 Impact Taskforce’s Working Group on Impact Transparency and Integrity, Harvard Business School’s Impact Weighted Accounts Initiative Advisory Council, and is a Commissioner to the World Business Council on Sustainable Development’s inequality initiative. Previously, Martin was a founding partner and investment committee member at Sonen Capital, an impact investing firm, where he led private equity, real asset and direct investing activities.
Martin has also served as Director of MissionPoint Capital Partners, a family office-led private equity firm; Senior Vice President at Swiss Re, where he was part of the Environmental and Commodity Markets team; and Managing Director at Innovest Strategic Value Advisors, Inc., a pioneering sustainable investment advisory and ESG research firm. Martin received his Ph.D. from University of Edinburgh, an MBA from the University of London, an M.Sc. from McGill University and a B.Sc. from the University of St. Andrews.
Christian Zabbal is a Managing Partner with Spring Lane Capital. Prior to this, he was Managing Partner of Black Coral Capital, a family office specializing in cleantech and renewables. He also serves as board member and co-founder on CREO, a group of large family offices that share a common interest and mission in investing capital in food, water, and energy companies and technologies.
He is part of the investment committee of Sustainable Development Technology Canada, a Canadian Crown corporation focused on investing federal funds to promote the spread of new technologies and businesses in the sustainability space.
Prior to that, Christian served as a Partner at ghSMART & Company, Inc., a management consulting firm specialized in talent assessment and development for the private equity industry. Christian was one of the original partners of the firm, and drove much of the firm’s development of programmatic talent improvement programs for large funds and corporate clients.
Prior to ghSMART, Christian was a junior partner at McKinsey & Company, a management consulting firm. He was a leader in the media practice and worked in the New York, Amsterdam and Montreal offices. Christian published several thought-leadership articles on broadband deployment and the evolution of new media while at McKinsey, and occasionally still speaks at various events on these topics.
Christian started his career as a cancer researcher, developing new types of cancer therapy, and holds an MBA in international finance from McGill University. He lives in Montreal and buys a lot of princess-related items for his 4 girls.
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