Experience you can count on

Our management team has over thirty years’ combined experience in forest carbon and professional forestry.

Guiding a skilled team of dedicated professionals, our leadership group has the deep experience and proven record to deliver carbon projects and payments to our members.

Chief Executive Officer

Kyle Holland, PhD

As the founder of Forest Carbon Works, Kyle has over 15 years’ experience working in forest carbon, is a Registered Professional Forester, Certified Forester and holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. In his prior capacity at EP Carbon, he contributed to more than 45 carbon projects and authored multiple accounting methodologies under the Verified Carbon Standard. Dr. Holland is a well-recognized expert in forest carbon and serves on multiple working groups.

Chief Operating Officer

Toby Schneider

Most recently hailing from Teach for America as their Chief Operating Officer, Toby has a storied background working in the non-profit sector as well as with startup organizations. Toby’s skillset blends data driven decision making with a collaborative-inspired leadership style that has contributed to the improvement and effective scaling of multiple businesses and organizations. He ensures business-wide and inter-team processes are successful, coordinates relationships with vendors and partners, and leads development and growth strategy. Toby holds an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management,
Cornell University.

Chief Customer Officer

Mary Kallock

As an eight-year veteran hailing from EP Carbon, Mary’s experience in carbon project design and development is demonstrated by her many successful forest projects, both internationally and domestically. Her insights on project design and messaging have been fundamental in creating our landowner experience and promoting our brand. Mary leads an enthusiastic and dynamic team whose objective is to familiarize forest landowners with the basics of carbon projects and to help assess project feasibility of woodlands. Mary holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of San Francisco.

Chief Commercialization Officer

Jeff Cole

As a former Vice President at Bluesource, Jeff is highly experienced in project development and credit sales. Jeff utilizes his background in asset quantification, risk modeling, financial modeling, project development and documentation requirements to successfully build projects and sell credits. Jeff has over 12 years’ experience working in forest carbon and holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.

Chief Analytics Officer

Julian Bauer

A former technical manager transitioned from EP Carbon, Julian brings top expertise in carbon quantification and compliance project design. His recent experiences include the development of a 50,000-acre compliance project in Northern California and the maintenance of several tribal projects for the Yurok and Warm Springs councils. Julian holds a Bachelor’s degree in forestry from the University of California, Berkeley.

Investment Manager

Joe Measom

A Chartered Financial Analyst®, Joe has worked in investment and finance related fields for the past decade and brings expertise in capital markets, financial and risk modelling, economics, venture capital and private equity investment. He is backed by a team at Mirova Natural Capital which have been designing, raising and investing strategies in the realm of natural capital investing for more than 7 years, with a particular focus on the protection of forests and the avoidance of carbon emissions. Joe holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

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