Our Team
World Class Leadership passionate about change
Jules Kortenhorst
CEO
Jules has 40+ years of experience in previous roles in consulting, oil and energy, government and climate change and the carbon markets.
Prior to Bridge Carbon, Jules was a Partner at Vision Ridge Partners LLC, a leading sustainable real assets investor.
Jules served as CEO of RMI for a decade, ran several PE-backed companies and was a member of Parliament in the Netherlands.
He has chaired the WEF Global Future Councils for Energy and for Net Zero, is a founding member of the global Energy Transitions Commission and has served on multiple boards.
Donee Alexander
Chief Carbon Officer
Donee is a recognized leader and authority in the field of household air pollution and the transition to clean cooking. She was a founding member of the Clean Cooking and Climate Consortium (4C).
Before joining Bridge Carbon, Donee was the Chief Science Officer of the Clean Cooking Alliance.
Donee holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington and has served as a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Chicago.
Notably, Donee serves as an expert consultant to the World Health Organization’s Household Energy Program.
Jolie Norris
Chief Legal Council
Prior to joining Bridge Carbon as Chief Legal Counsel, Julie spent more than 20 years at Goldman Sachs, including nearly 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 commodity derivatives; sustainability; compliance and regulatory matters; energy and commodity finance; offtake transactions.
At Bridge Carbon, Jolie is responsible for the firm’s legal and compliance functions globally, bringing especially the experience of the past year in managing legal and regulatory matters within carbon markets.
Audrey Davin
Chief Operating 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.Â
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 organizational enhancement.
Julian Parkin
Chief Transformation Officer
At Bridge Carbon, Julian leads Transformation across the Company together with leading the Technology, HR, Procurement, Risk and ESG functions.
Julian began his career as a Chartered Accountant at PwC before spending 17 years in financial services, leading risk management and transformation programs.
He now guides fast-growing organizations through operational, risk, data, and governance transformations across sectors.
He also serves as Head of Finance at InterClimate Network, a charity inspiring future climate leaders.
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.
Margot Clarvis
Head of Global NBS
Margot has more than 17 years’ experience working in research and program development on climate change and ecosystem-based adaptation across the UN, public and private sectors.
Prior to joining Bridge Carbon, she worked with clients in the UN, insurance sector, and carbon market to develop and plan NbS programs and projects in the Middle East and South-East Asia.
Earlier, she was Director of Programs at Earth Security, where she managed research and public-private partnership solutions for NbS in the Horn of Africa, India, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Peris Ruru
Head of Africa Cookstoves
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
Head of IT
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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