Our Team

World Class Leadership passionate about change

Jules Kortenhorst

CEO

Jules Kortenhorst is a globally recognized leader on energy issues and climate change. He is co-chair of the Energy Transitions Commission, a global coalition of leaders from across the energy landscape committed to achieving net-zero emissions by mid-century in line with the Paris Agreement. He is also the CEO of Bridge Carbon, a carbon market development company. Until 2023, he served for a decade as the CEO of RMI, (formerly known as Rocky Mountain Institute), a global non-profit organization focused on accelerating the energy transition. Prior to joining RMI in 2013, Jules was the founding CEO of the European Climate Foundation, the largest philanthropic organization dedicated to climate change in Europe.

Earlier in his career, Jules served in the Dutch Parliament, was the CEO for International Operations of ClientLogic Corporation, and worked for nearly ten years in various roles at Royal Dutch/Shell, including as managing director of Shell Bulgaria. He began his career at McKinsey & Co. He currently serves on the Boards of Enstall Group BV, of LongPath Technologies, and of the Circle Economy. Jules earned a master’s in economics from Erasmus University in the Netherlands and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Donee Alexander

Chief Carbon Officer

Donee is a recognized leader and authority in household air pollution, clean cooking, and carbon markets, with deep expertise in advancing solutions that deliver both emissions reductions and development benefits.

Before joining Bridge Carbon, Donee served as Chief Science Officer of the Clean Cooking Alliance and was a founding member of the Clean Cooking and Climate Consortium (4C), helping to advance the integration of clean cooking solutions within global climate and development agendas.

Before coming to Bridge Carbon, Donee played a key role in the development of the draft CLEAR carbon methodology, helping to advance approaches for more accurate and robust quantification of emissions reductions from clean cooking carbon projects.

Donee holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington and completed postdoctoral research at the University of Chicago.

Jolie Norris

Chief Legal Officer

Prior to joining Bridge Carbon as Chief Legal Counsel, Jolie spent more than 20 years at Goldman Sachs, including 10 years as a Managing Director and Head of the Global Commodities legal team.

Jolie has covered a wide variety of legal matters relating to global commodity markets, including financial derivatives; sustainability; compliance and regulatory matters; energy and commodity finance; and commodity offtake transactions.

At Bridge Carbon, Jolie is responsible for the firm’s legal, compliance, corporate governance, and ESG functions. She brings a commanding blend of expertise in managing legal and regulatory matters, shaping how the firm navigates regulatory complexity across global carbon markets.

Audrey Davin

Global Chief Operations Officer

Audrey brings over 25 years of experience leading large teams and projects focused on supply chain, operations and innovation.

Audrey has extensive expertise, predominantly from her tenure with consumer goods companies, including Unilever, Carlsberg and Danone.

Most recently, Audrey managed Unilever’s supply chain and operations across Asia.

Her career has been marked by transformative leadership in regional and global capacities, focusing on operations strategy, corporate development, business transformation, manufacturing deployment, and organisational enhancement.

John Sadler

Chief Financial Officer

Prior to joining Bridge Carbon as Group Chief Accountant, John spent two decades with TotalEnergies, in what became the Gas, Power and Renewables Division, overseeing the teams tasked with the accounting, control and reporting of the company’s energy trading portfolio under full marked-to-market.

This entailed leading the continuous development of trading and accounting systems, analytics, methodologies, and controls, increasing automation and driving the efficiencies and productivity needed to safeguard execution and growth of financial operations within a fast-changing and highly regulated Trading business.

Minh Tran

Chief Commercial Officer

Minh is the Chief Commercial Officer for Bridge Carbon, responsible for developing business opportunities, managing commercial activities, and growing our market ecosystem.

He brings extensive experience navigating market uncertainties, managing risks and capturing commercial opportunities across energy markets with leading players such as Puma Energy, Schlumberger and Wood Mackenzie.

In his previous consultancy roles, Minh has worked with a diversified range of cross-sectorial clients to help them extract growth and create business value as they undertake their energy transition journey.

Margot Clarvis

Head of Africa and Global NBS

Margot has more than 17 years’ experience working in program development and management on climate change and ecosystem-based adaptation across the UN, public and private sectors. She has worked with clients in the UN, insurance sector, and carbon market to develop NbS programs and projects in the Middle East and South-East Asia.

Earlier, she was Director of Programs at Earth Security, leading public-private partnership solutions on climate- and NbS investment in the Horn of Africa, India, Indonesia and the Philippines. She has a PhD in Environmental Policy from the University of Geneva and an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London.

Peris Ruru

Regional Director, East Africa

Based in Kenya, Peris is responsible for leading the cookstove champion program on the ground. Prior to taking this role at Bridge Carbon, Peris worked for over three years at CQC as Kenya country manager.

She has previous logistics and carbon compliance experience also in Kenya at Impact Water, an organization whose goal is to sustain safe drinking water systems in 19,000+ schools and to explore partnership opportunities to provide safe drinking water systems to more schools in Kenya primarily through government partnerships.

Geoffrey Grimm

Chief Information Officer

Geoff leads the IT department for Bridge Carbon managing the IT strategy and implementation across enterprise applications, operations and security, and data and analytics.

With over a decade in data analytics, applications, and infrastructure, Geoff has experience as a data scientist, engineer, and manager of cross-functional technology teams in both research and mission-critical industries.

Prior to joining Bridge Carbon, he led a team on the US Department of Defense’s ADVANA platform, a real-time analytics and tracking system for DoD leadership.

Audrey Davin

Chief Operating Officer

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Julian Parkin

Chief Transformation Officer

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John Sadler

Chief Financial Officer

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