Speakers
Keynote & Mainstage Speakers
AMY CHAN
Chief Sustainability Officer
UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
MARK ARMEN
Founder & CEO
Replenysh
AYA DE LEON
Poet Laureate
City of Berkeley
JENNIFER CHATMAN
Interim Dean
UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
DIANDRA MARIZET ESPARZA
Co-Founder & Director of Impact
Intersectional Environmentalist
KATE GORDON
CEO
California Forward
RICH LYONS
Chancellor
University of California, Berkeley
DAVIDA HERZL
CEO & President
Aclima Inc
ANA MARTINEZ
Co-Founder
Xploration Partners
Associate Director
UC Berkeley Haas' Cleantech to Market (C2M
HELEN MOUNTFORD
President & CEO
ClimateWorks Foundation
CARLA PETERMAN
Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Chief Sustainability Officer
PG&E
URVI PAREKH
Head of Renewable Energy
Meta
JESSICA WINGERT
Program Lead
ClimateCAP
ROBERT STRAND
Executive Director
UC Berkeley’s Nordic Center & UC Berkeley Haas' Center for Responsible Business
JARVIS SAM
CEO and Founder
Rainbow Disruption
Panelists & Featured Speakers
MICHAEL BAKUNIN
CEO
Epic Charging
REBECCA BURGESS
Founder & Director
Fibershed
KAYLA CALKINS
Program Officer- Wildfire Resilience Funders
Climate Resilience Fund
LETICIA CORONA
Chief Growth Officer
Investment Committee
AMANDA ELLER
Strategy Director
Waverley Street Foundation
CONOR FARESE
Director
IDEO
SAMANTHA DERRICK
Executive Director
Plant Futures
RACHEL CORN
Chief Growth Officer
GoPowerEV
CHRISTIAN GAMMILL
General Partner
Cultivate Next / Chipotle
EMMA GRANDE
Director of ESG Strategy & Engagement
Salesforce
CHRIS GAITHER
Head of Sustainability & Privacy Communications
General Motors
JOHN FORAKER
Co-Founder & CEO
Once Upon a Farm
TERRY GRANT
Vice Chairman
Marathon Capital
SIVA GUNDA
Commissioner
California Energy Commission
AF HERNANDEZ
Principal
NextEra Energy Investments
JAMIE HORST
Chief Purpose Officer
Traditional Medicinals
STEPHEN HOHENRIEDER
Founder & CEO
Grounded Capital
MIRA INBAR
Partner
ArcTern Ventures
ANDREW ISSACS
Senior Lecturer with Continuing Status at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business
CHRIS JOCSON
COO
Good Eggs
DAVE JONES
Former Insurance Commissioner of California
UCB Center for Law, Energy and the Environment
SARAH KELLEY
Managing Director
Fibersfund
KAYLA LUCERO-MATTEUCCI
Just Transition Officer
New Mexico Economic Development Department
ADAM LEIPZIG
CEO
Entertainment Media Partners
VINCENT MEDINA
Founder
Café Ohlone / ‘ottoy Initiative
PRACHI MEHTA
Product Manager
Tesla
CHARITY MAY
Founder & Principal
Sacred Futures
PETER LUPOFF
Principal
Lupoff/Stevens Family Office
ADEWALE OGUNBADEJO
VP, Workforce Development
GRID Alternatives
ADRIANA PENUELA-USECHE
Venture Fellow
SOSV
NICHOLAS PINKOWSKI
CEO & Co-Founder
Nitricity
LEWIS PERKINS
President
Apparel Impact Institute
WILL ROSENZWEIG
Faculty Steward
Sustainable Food Initiative at Haas
DAVID SIAP
Senior Manager of Energy
CREO
MANDIRA REDDY
Director of Investment Analytics
Capricorn Investment Group
SABIN RAY
Senior Associate
Ecosystem Integrity Fund
ANNE SIMPSON
Global Head of Sustainability
Franklin Templeton
ANDIE SOBREPENA
Co-Executive Director
Farming Hope
JAMIE STARK
Manager, Growth Portfolio
REDF
JOSH SONNENFELD
Senior California Strategist
Bluegreen Alliance
RAJESH SWAMINATHAN
Partner
Khosla Ventures
MARISA SWEENEY
Vice President, Special Opportunities
S2G Ventures
LOUIS TREVINO
Founder
Café Ohlone / ‘ottoy Initiative
SCOTT TIERNEY
Partner
Valo Ventures
ALICE WATERS
Owner/Founder
Chez Panisse & The Edible Schoolyard Project
AMOS WHITE
Founder
100K Trees for Humanity
GIA VACIN
Deputy Director, Zero Emission Vehicle Market Development
CA Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development
MADDIE VANN
Head of Strategy
The Resiliency Company
NOAH WILSON-RICH
Founder
Best Bees
ALLISON WOLFF
CEO
Vibrant Planet
Recording of the Mainstage sessions on March 1, 2025 at the 2025 ClimateCAP MBA Summit, hosted by UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.
Speakers include:
-Looking Ahead with Chancellor Rich Lyons
-The New Policy Landscape for Green Business with Helen Mountford, President & CEO of ClimateWorks Foundation, and Kate Gordon, CEO of California Forward
-Innovation and Inclusive Green Entrepreneurship with Davida Herzl, Co-Founder, CEO, and President of Aclima
-ClimateCAP 2025 Reflections with Robert Strand, Executive Director of the Nordic Center at UC Berkeley
-Thank you and Next Year's Host School Announcement with Jessica Wingert, Program Lead of ClimateCAP, and Amy Chan, Chief Sustainability Officer of Berkeley Haas
Copyright UC Berkeley Haas School of Business 2025