Mike Kelland
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder & Board Member
Jane Kearns
Board Member (Evok Innovations)
Pat Foody
Independent Board Member
“Having spent the last ten years learning about the
problems and implications of a changing climate
system, I’m delighted to finally turn my attention
towards figuring out a solution.”
– Robert Izett
Dr. Greg Rau
Senior Scientist & Co-Founder
Kevin Albert
Board Observer (BDC)
Dr. Will Burt
VP Science and Product
Kelsey Cuddihy
VP Internal
Mariam Melashvili
Senior Process Engineer
Diana Philip
VP of Community Relations
Vincent Willis
VP Project Development
Steve Rackley
Scientific Advisor
Tim Cross
Regulatory Lead
Robert Izett
Ocean Technology Developer
Dhruv Mehta
Project Manager
Aaron Olson
Lead Platform Software Developer
Max Holloway
Ocean Modeller
Mackenzie Burke
Lab & Field Tech
Tia Chai
R&D Chemist
Maksim Voloshin
Site Operator
Isaac Olalere
Site Supervisor
Anas Khalid Khan
Site Operator
Rebecca Cunningham
Site Operator
Myles McNaughton
Site Operator
Eric Christmas
Senior Advisor-Indigenous Affairs
Alex Whitworth
JLO Ambassador / Site Operator
Phoenix Seelochan
Policy and Community Relations Intern
Haley Olson
Principal Metallurgist
Michael Lai
Site Operator
Advisors
In addition to our staff, Planetary’s team includes a panel of advisors who volunteer their time and expertise. Together, these advisors boast decades of experience working in the climate space, developing carbon markets, and launching young companies. We are very grateful for their advice and guidance.
These advisors are not paid by Planetary.
Lisa DeMarco
Lisa DeMarco is a Senior Partner and CEO at Resilient LLP. She is recognized as one of the world’s leading climate change lawyers with over 25 years of experience in all aspects of climate change and clean energy law. Lisa regularly advises on renewable power project development, energy storage projects, sustainable and climate finance transactions, carbon capture and storage, climate-related financial disclosure, corporate climate risk, ESG, green bonds, and sustainable business strategy.
Lisa plays an active role for Fortune 500 companies in corporate ESG, climate change, and transition strategy, target setting, and compliance. Lisa is the current Chair of the International Emissions Trading Association, a director of the boards of the MaRS Discovery District, and Planetary Technologies. She is a member of the Climate Economy Strategic Council and of the Expert Advisory Group of Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity Initiative (VCMI). Lisa is ranked by Chamber Global as one of the world’s leading climate change lawyers and regularly attends on the United Nations climate negotiations.
Lisa provides Planetary with strategic guidance across all legal dimensions, with a particular emphasis on carbon credits contracts. She provides insight into the likely directions the carbon credit market will evolve nationally and internationally.