Shawn Andrews, CEO, BridgerPeak Energy Capital
Shawn Andrews has twenty-five years of finance and private credit experience. He is the CEO and founder of BridgePeak Energy Capital, a renewable energy credit manager with more than $3.5 billion in loans closed since 2020. Prior to joining BridgePeak, Andrews was the founder and CEO of Windsor Advantage, a commercial loan servicing company with a focus on Small Business Administration and US Department of Agriculture loans. At Windsor, he was responsible for closing and servicing more than $2 billion in government-guaranteed loans. To focus exclusively on renewables, Andrews sold Windsor Advantage in 2018. Andrews was previously managing director and co-founder of an $800 million private credit fund. Andrews began his career in public accounting and is a certified public accountant. Originally intending to follow in his father’s footsteps as an FBI agent, he graduated with highest honors from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico, where he was a presidential scholar and student senator.
Market Mechanism for Methane Management.
Bilateral contracts between hyperscalers and “Small Producer Co-Ops” would unlock stranded supply through increased regional prices. This would ultimately reduce power costs for hyperscalers while incentivizing methane capture and abatement. These contracts could be used to favor small independent producers that reduce methane emissions. Through high-quality offtakes, efficient institutional capital would flow to small independent producers for mitigation and improvement projects increasing the supply and quality of natural gas.
Conner Coleman, Founder, Resiliency Lands, LLC and Diablo Azul Carbon
Connor P. Coleman founded Colorado-based Resiliency Lands LLC in 2016 to serve landowners across the nation as a progressive, conservation-minded land management advisory group committed to promoting resource resiliency. Prior to taking his current role, he spent fifteen years working for multiple land management and conservation entities, including the Nature Conservancy, the US Department of Defense, Ranchlands, and multiple local land trusts, where collectively he was responsible for the administration of more than four hundred conservation easements. Coleman possesses a BS in environmental science, with a focus on wildlife ecology, from Catawba College, along with a master of environmental management and a master of forestry from the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University, with a focus on the sustainable management and restoration of landscape-scale lands. He recently obtained his certificate in advanced ranch management through the King Ranch Institute of Ranch Management at Texas A&M University–Kingsville.
From wasted wood to working markets. Resiliency
Lands helps landowners reduce wildfire risk by thinning unmerchantable timber and turning it into biochar. Through sales of biochar or carbon credits, restoration pays for itself while improving forest health and delivering resilience.
Colter DeVries, Founder, Ranch Investor
Colter DeVries is a fifth-generation rancher from Roberts, Montana, and the Founder of Ranch Investor Advisory and Brokerage. As an accredited farm manager (ASFMRA), accredited agricultural consultant (ASFMRA), and accredited land consultant (RLI), he blends financial expertise with deep agricultural knowledge to assist investors and ranchers in navigating the complexities of land ownership. DeVries is passionate about sustainable land management, advocating for the long-term value of ranches beyond financial returns. He hosts the Ranch Investor Podcast, where he explores the economics, resilience, and future of ranchlands. A dedicated father of two, he remains committed to preserving ranching legacies while ensuring informed investments in rural real estate.
Reimagining the future of America’s grasslands.
Ranch Investor's approach turns grass, water, and open space into investable natural-assets by linking capital with conservation, culture, and community. The result is a living portfolio that rewards investors, empowers ranchers, and stewards the land for generations to come.
Maiky Iberkleid, Co-Founder & President
Michael Iberkleid Szainrok is the cofounder and president of RESILIFT, a climate adaptation company focused on residential flood mitigation. RESILIFT offers end-to-end solutions for homeowners and property managers, including tailored financing, flood mitigation construction, and integrated software and hardware technologies that optimize the process for all stakeholders. The company’s financing model is designed to mirror energy-efficiency programs, leveraging partnerships with mortgage lenders, government grants, and insurance providers to deliver cost-effective solutions. Before founding Resilift, Szainrok served as the head of solutions at Hologram, an Internet of Things startup. Originally from La Paz, Bolivia, he moved to the United States to attend Princeton University, where he earned a BSE in electrical engineering, with a focus on data-driven home automation systems. He later earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.
RESILIFT: Ending the flood threat to American Housing.
RESILIFT eliminates home flood risk by raising houses and communities above the floodplain through a white-glove, end-to-end service that covers project financing, flood insurance, construction, and government coordination. By increasing property values and reducing insurance costs, RESILIFT demonstrates that proactive adaptation delivers a strong return on investment.
Manuel Piñuela, CEO, Cultivo
Dr. Manuel Piñuela is a nature advocate; technology, health, and science entrepreneur; and recipient of multiple awards and recognitions, including being named to the MIT Technology Review “Innovator under 35” list. He is a co-founder of Cultivo, Drayson Tech, and SensL. Experienced in nature restoration and investments, private equity, venture investment, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions. and technology commercialization, Piñuela believes that regenerating land is a crucial solution for building resilience for both present and future generations. In creating Cultivo, he is able to enhance nature’s impact while also positioning it as an appealing, infrastructure-like investment opportunity.
Infrastructure company for natural assets.
Cultivo manages the investment and necessary activities in distressed ranches to turn stewardship into profit through landscape regeneration, ownership and returns. Nature is an essential infrastructure asset. It is a long-lived physical system that provides an essential service necessary for the functioning of a society and its economy.
James Workman, Founder, AquaShares Inc.
Jamie Workman is a dynamic storyteller and entrepreneur whose experience with hunter-gatherers on land and at sea has sparked new thinking about how we replenish freshwater, marine fisheries, mature forests, and biodiversity. Workman founded AquaShares Inc., which pioneered online water savings credit trading in California and Morocco. He is the author of Sea Change: A Success Story of Oceanic Proportions and Heart of Dryness: How the Last Bushmen Can Help Us Endure the Coming Age of Permanent Drought, award-winning books on rights-based, incentives-driven conservation. He also has advised political leaders including Nelson Mandela and US cabinet officials; studied at Yale and Oxford; and taught at Wesleyan and Whitman Colleges. But his real education came from blowing up dams, releasing wolves, restoring wildland fires, guiding safaris, smuggling water to dissidents, breaking down in Africa's Kalahari Desert, and becoming a husband and dad (not ranked in that order).
Turning lost water into a tradeable asset.
AquaShares partners with municipalities to detect and repair leaks in treated water systems, then records the verified savings on its blockchain platform. Companies seeking to offset their water footprint fund these projects, creating a market that links utilities’ efficiency gains with corporate water neutrality.
