Carbonflow™ develops and markets software for carbon reduction market participants. Carbonflow was founded in 2006. Our offices are located in San Francisco, Sydney and Zurich. Carbonflow provides unique browser-based products and services that empower any organization to manage and monitor carbon projects on a secure multi-party platform. Carbonflow’s solution provides accessible technology to everyone, including those in developing countries with limited internet access. Carbonflow’s solution delivers a suite of products and services to address exactly what the market is asking for – faster and more efficient processes, with more transparency and better quality data.
Carbonflow’s technology is designed by market experts to precisely follow the carbon project lifecycle: from project idea to registration and from monitoring to issuance of credits. Carbonflow understands carbon project methodologies and UNFCCC requirements, as well as the voluntary and regional compliance markets in the United States and Australia. Every carbon project can benefit from Carbonflow’s project management solutions. Carbonflow’s solutions were developed with input and guidance from leading carbon market verifiers DNV and SGS and international project developers.
Our collaborative team comes from three core disciplines – the technology, environmental and financial industries – which gives Carbonflow keen understanding of the needs of those participating in greenhouse gas reduction projects.
Neal Dikeman
Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board
Neal has been one of the founding partners of Jane Capital Partners LLC, an energy and technology merchant bank whose clients have included the technology arms of multinational energy companies. Carbonflow is his fourth startup, and the third he has helped launch cross-border. He previously cofounded SC Power Systems, Inc. and its successor Zenergy Power plc (AIM:ZEN) in superconductor technology, helped launch WaiterPad POS Systems, Inc. in wireless hospitality POS solutions, and led the spin-out of Fideris, Inc. in fuel cell test & measurement. He has served as a director of several technology companies, edits the Cleantech Blog, named one of the 50 Best Business Blogs by London Times, and chairs Cleantech.org. He previously served as Director of Business Development for Globalgate, the parent company of Yellowpages.com, and as an associate at private equity fund manager Doyle & Boissiere. Before entering private equity, he began his career in energy investment banking at Bankers Trust, and has a B.A. from Texas A&M University.
Robert Dornau
EVP Global Business Development & Strategic Alliances
Robert brings Carbonflow and its customers an excellent understanding of all aspects of the carbon market, in which he has participated in different professional roles since 1999. From 2006-2009, Robert was Vice President at SGS, heading the SGS Climate Change Programme to become the leading GHG verification company. From 2004-2005 Robert was independent carbon market consultant, with clients included the Endesa Climate Initiative, the trading platform NewValues and the World Bank for which Robert worked as conference director of CARBON EXPO. Between 2001-2004 Robert was manager of the International Emissions Trading Association, IETA. He was elected to the IETA Board in his capacity at SGS in 2008. Before working for IETA he worked as Project Manager for Deutsche Börse Group, as one of the first advocates of emission trading in Germany.Robert has a Master’s Degree in economics from the University of Konstanz, Germany. Robert has several publications in refereed journals and participated in numerous conferences as speaker or chair.
Richard Barber
Chief Technical Officer | VP of Engineering
Richard oversees Carbonflow’s engineering and product development teams. He has led or served as head of engineering for five successful technology startups on two continents, including during multiple exits. He joined Carbonflow from Mindjet, where he was VP of Engineering for the global leader in visualization based collaborative software, including work on Open XML document standards. He had previously served as VP of Engineering and CTO of iKnowMed, a venture-backed provider of electronic health records technology, and as VP of Engineering for Franz, Inc. Prior to moving to Silicon Valley Richard served as CTO and VP of Product Development for Scientia, a provider of scheduling software. He began his career helping launch a startup from Cambridge University in England, serving as chief architect and later CEO of Procyon, the creator one of the first cross-platform object-oriented visual development environments: Procyon Common Lisp. Acquired by Franz, Inc, the product line is the market leader (under the name Allegro CL).Richard holds Masters degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science and a BS degree in Physics from Cambridge University, plus has several pending patents in collaboration software and data visualization. He has published numerous papers on artificial intelligence and object-oriented programming and authored BONES: An Expert System for Diagnosis with Fault Models.
Karla Bell
Co-Founder | VP of Government Affairs
A long time pragmatic environmentalist, Karla is probably best known as the driving force behind developing the Green aspect of the Olympics starting with the first Green Olympic Games in Sydney while working for Greenpeace in the Atmosphere and Energy campaign. She has since been an advisor to both the public and private sector on green infrastructure and emissions trading, and has been a proponent of the need to bring transparency and automation to help scale emissions trading markets. Born in Fiji, Karla holds an undergraduate degree from Macquarie University in Sydney and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art in London on Sustainable Development. Her writings can be found on GHGBlog.com.
Simon Dawes
SVP Environmental Engineering
Simon joined Carbonflow as Chief Environmental Engineer from Det Norske Veritas, a leading provider of global climate change validation and verification services. Simon oversees Carbonflow’s informatics and customer service operations and is responsible for ensuring the GHG standards and data integrity of the Carbonflow platform.With over 10 years in DNV’s climate change group, Simon held a range of roles including Country Manager for Australia and Head of Climate Change Services for Australia / New Zealand. He has conducted greenhouse verification and audits in a number of jurisdictions and programs, including Joint Implementation, Clean Development Mechanism, the NSW government Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme, the AGO Greenhouse Challenge Plus Programme, and numerous others. Among his accomplishments, Simon was instrumental in the development of and served as the first program administrator for the Australian Greenhouse Office Greenhouse Friendly program in 2000 and served as the DNV verifier for the initial agencies in the NZ Government Carbon Neutral Public Service program.
Prior to DNV, Simon worked for fifteen years as an engineering manager in the electricity distribution sector for Energy Australia, one of the country’s leading power utilities. Mr. Dawes is a Chartered Professional Engineer, and holds an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Business.
Neal Dikeman
Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board
Neal has been one of the founding partners of Jane Capital Partners LLC, an energy and technology merchant bank whose clients have included the technology arms of multinational energy companies. Carbonflow is his fourth startup, and the third he has helped launch cross-border. He previously cofounded SC Power Systems, Inc. and its successor Zenergy Power plc (AIM:ZEN) in superconductor technology, helped launch WaiterPad POS Systems, Inc. in wireless hospitality POS solutions, and led the spin-out of Fideris, Inc. in fuel cell test & measurement. He has served as a director of several technology companies, edits the Cleantech Blog, named one of the 50 Best Business Blogs by London Times, and chairs Cleantech.org. He previously served as Director of Business Development for Globalgate, the parent company of Yellowpages.com, and as an associate at private equity fund manager Doyle & Boissiere. Before entering private equity, he began his career in energy investment banking at Bankers Trust, and has a B.A. from Texas A&M University.
Robert Dornau
EVP Global Business Development & Strategic Alliances
Robert brings Carbonflow and its customers an excellent understanding of all aspects of the carbon market, in which he has participated in different professional roles since 1999. From 2006-2009, Robert was Vice President at SGS, heading the SGS Climate Change Programme to become the leading GHG verification company. From 2004-2005 Robert was independent carbon market consultant, with clients included the Endesa Climate Initiative, the trading platform NewValues and the World Bank for which Robert worked as conference director of CARBON EXPO. Between 2001-2004 Robert was manager of the International Emissions Trading Association, IETA. He was elected to the IETA Board in his capacity at SGS in 2008. Before working for IETA he worked as Project Manager for Deutsche Börse Group, as one of the first advocates of emission trading in Germany.Robert has a Master’s Degree in economics from the University of Konstanz, Germany. Robert has several publications in refereed journals and participated in numerous conferences as speaker or chair.
Sean Schickedanz
Non-Executive Director
Sean is General Partner of Clean Pacific Ventures. A long time fund manager and angel investor, he has made over 25 early stage venture investments in the last 10 years, including Opentable.com, ACA Financial, ProClarity (acquired by MSFT), CallTower, USBX (acquired by Imperial Capital), SunLink and Marrone Organic Innovations. He has been a director of ten start-ups at various stages of development. Prior to co-founding Clean Pacific Ventures, he was Managing Partner at Sunflower Capital Partners. He was previously a Managing Director and group head at Montgomery Securities. Sean holds a JD/MBA from Duke University. Sean currently sits on the board of portfolio companies Carbonflow and Marrone Organic Innovations.
Gerry Langeler
Non-Executive Director
Gerry is a partner at OVP Ventures. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Carbonflow, Collaborative Software Initiative, EnerG2, Max-Viz, M2E Power and Viral Logic Systems Technology (VLST) and is a Board Observer to Advanced Inquiry Systems, SafeHarbor, and Serus. Prior to joining OVP, Gerry was co-founder of Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) where he served as President, and helped lead Mentor through its IPO to over $400M in worldwide sales and over $1B in market capitalization. He began his technology career at Tektronix. Gerry received his AB in Chemistry from Cornell University and his MBA from Harvard University.
Mr. Peter Fusaro
One of the leading authors and speakers on the topic of hedge funds, risk management, and energy and environmental trading markets, he has written over a dozen books, including NY Times Best Seller What Went Wrong at Enron, and recently Cut Carbon, Grow Profits. Peter is Chairman of Global Change Associates in New York, which provides strategic advice to financial service and energy companies on cleantech, carbon trading and renewable energy. He has a BA from Carnegie-Mellon University and an MA in International Relations from Tufts University.
Carbonflow’s Technical Oversight Committee is made up of leading standards and certification experts and executives from some of the most respected firms and non-profits in Greenhouse Gas and Renewable Energy Credit certification and verification. The TOC is an independent committee, and serves in an informal oversight role to ensure that the Carbonflow infrastructure enables its customers to maintain the highest quality and standards for their environmental credits.
Luc Larmuseau
The Global Director of Climate Change Services at DNV.
Mr. Larmuseau holds Masters degrees in Chemical and Environmental Engineering from Universiteit Gent.
Dr. Jan Hamrin
Past President and Founder of the Center for Resource Solutions, creator of Green-e Renewable Energy Certification Program and the Green-e Climate program.
Jan holds a PhD in Ecology from the University of California – Davis.
Carbonflow’s mission is to help solve the global warming crisis through economic systems
- We provide automated software solutions which enable users to cut the cost of reducing carbon emissions, by reducing time to delivery, levels of risk, and transaction costs.
- With lower costs, we enable a rapid increase in supply of credits, an improved transparency into the environmental integrity of the abatements and ease of entry into the market for smaller offset projects.
- Ultimately, increased supply results in faster, more economic, higher levels of abatement of greenhouse gases.
Accessibility
- We provide accessible technology to everyone -including those in developing countries with limited internet access.
- The sharing of information and documents between parties in different organizations is secure, fast and reliable.
Data and Information Security
- We follow industry best practices in web-based security.
- Access to confidential information is fully controlled by the information owner.
Cost efficiency
- Our products can run on inexpensive hardware and their use minimizes communication overhead.
Ease of use
- We deliver a familiar web experience to make people quickly feel comfortable and avoid the need for training.
Other major players in the carbon markets share Carbonflow’s vision and are partnering with us to revolutionize efficiency and scale in the carbon market. Carbonflow enjoys exclusive relationships with Det Norske Veritas (DNV) and Société Générale de Surveillance SA (SGS).
Established in 1864 in Norway, DNV is an independent foundation with the objective of safeguarding life, property, and the environment. It is also a leading international provider of services for managing risk. With over 6,100 employees, DNV was the first company to be accredited by the United Nations (UN) to verify greenhouse gas emission reductions from projects in the developing world under the Clean Development Mechanism 2004.
Now with more than 150 trained climate auditors, DNV is the largest verifier of carbon credit projects in the world. DNV has agreed to an exclusive relationship with Carbonflow for the development and marketing of the Carbonflow™ Solution.
SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. Recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity, we employ over 50 000 people and operate a network of more than 1 000 offices and laboratories around the world.
The SGS Climate Change Program was established in 1997 and offers a range of services for mandatory and voluntary reporting of greenhouse gas emissions. SGS is accredited and active in all GHG programs worldwide. Our expertise is based on the validation and verification of hundreds of greenhouse gas projects and inventories.
Security
Carbonflow follows industry best practices in web-based security. We run our systems on Amazon Web Services (AWS), one of largest and most robust groups of data centers in the world. Your data is immediately backed up securely, with multiple location redundancy. AWS guarantees 99.99% availability and is SAS 70 level 2 certified. It is regarded as such a high level of security that the US government is using it for computing and data storage. This solution is more cost effective, more efficient and very likely considerably safer than any solution you could develop on your own servers.
Project and Document Security
Connect+ allows you to securely manage the data, documents, emails, and work flow in one place. Every company, every document and every project has its own access control list. As the Project Administrator, you can always see and manage every user who has access to your projects. As a Document Owner, you control who can view the documents you’ve created and who can edit them.
Your Data
Any carbon project and portfolio generates a massive stream of data, generally unsecured via email or unsecure websites. In current practice, none of this data is secure and very little of it is accessible. Connect+ manages this data problem efficiently and securely, by allowing you to see, manage, and control all the data you have access to, through the Project Map and Dashboard. It is your data: if you put it in, you own it.
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