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Zero Carbon Capital
About
"The climate crisis is an urgent and existential threat to humanity. We believe the financial landscape is going to be fundamentally rewritten by climate risk, and the companies that make big contributions to this zero-carbon transition will be highly valuable in the future."
Pippa Gawley, Zero Carbon CapitalInvestment focus
Key team members
Pippa has been a clean-tech investor in the US for the last four years, and was an active and passionate member of the impact investing world in the Bay Area before moving to the UK a year ago. She learnt by investing alongside experts in the field of early-stage climate innovation and impact investment, and as a member of several angel networks including E8 and Investor’s Circle (now Social Venture Circle).
Before this, Pippa worked in interactive user experience research and design at eBay, building and leading teams to deliver product improvements. She was also the managing director for a consultancy in this space. She started her career learning about financial analysis at Capital One.
Pippa is a life-long learner with a Master’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Cambridge, and recent relevant qualifications from Oxford Said Business School (‘Impact investing’) and Stamford University (‘Energy innovation and emerging technologies’).
Prior to ZCC, Alex was a senior director at Google, where most recently he was a founder and managing director at Area 120, Google’s internal innovation lab focussing on starting, supporting and spinning-in very early stage, risky ideas. Area 120 started over 50 projects in its first two years and has had numerous successes. He was previously the Product Director for Gmail and Google Calendar, leading the transition to Mobile and AI-first product development and driving Gmail’s growth to 1 billion users.
Prior to Google he worked in analytical, product, and business management roles at retail financial institutions including HSBC and Capital One.
Alex holds a Master’s degree in Astrophysics from the University of Cambridge.
Boyd Carson, the founding and managing partner of Sapphire, has nearly 30 years’ experience in the accounting and corporate finance markets, having worked as a Director for PwC LLP’s Transaction Services group in New York. Boyd currently serves on several private and non-profit boards, including companies that invest in green technologies, such as hydro and solar.
Boyd is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, and the 2015 winner of the EISA Rising Star award. Boyd is currently completing a Master’s degree in Finance at Harvard University.
Sapphire is a multi-award-winning firm based in London and Belfast which specialises in SEIS and EIS funds. Sapphire currently manages the Zero Carbon EIS Fund bringing the expertise in investment management, corporate finance, accounting and taxation to the funds in the most cost-effective way possible.
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