Board of Directors

Scott is President of Imagine H2O, a global nonprofit organization that empowers people to develop and deploy innovation to solve water challenges globally. The organization’s water innovation accelerator program alumni have collectively raised over $590 million in early-stage capital. Scott previously developed ESG and cleantech investment strategies for institutional clients at Royal Bank of Canada and Piper Jaffray.

Hope is the President & CEO of Southeast RCAP, a nonprofit focused on improving the quality of life for low-income individuals by promoting affordable water and wastewater facilities, community development, environmental health, and economic self-sufficiency. Hope has been actively involved with community economic development efforts for over 22 years. Hope is also a Certified Public Accountant and professor at Virginia Western Community College.

Adam serves as managing partner of Ecosystem Investment Partners and has over thirty years experience in owning and running businesses that align economic incentives with environmental outcomes. He has focused specifically on mechanisms that enable land-based offsets and the financial value of natural systems since the late 1990s and is one of the national leaders in this investment space.

Natalie was VP of Regulatory and Stewardship with Pivot Bio, a company born out of an ambition to replace synthetic nitrogen fertilizer with a more sustainable and safer tool for farmers. Natalie established and led their regulatory program, ensuring product safety, authorization to commercialize, and compliance with regulatory requirements. Natalie previously worked at DuPont for nearly 30 years and held roles including technical, biotechnology affairs, and product registration.

Linda is the Senior Director of Strategy & Innovation for the Research & Innovation group at The Trust for Public Land, where she leads a team of data analytics experts that build interactive decision support tools used by communities, policy makers and planners to help them understand the location, values, and uses of parks and open space, and to support informed decisions on access and protection.

Kiran Jain has held influential positions in both public and private sectors. As Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Oakland, she co-founded and served as CEO of the Oakland Fund for Public Innovation to strengthen local resilience. She was the founding attorney at Kiva, the pioneering microfinance platform, mobilizing more than $2 billion for entrepreneurs worldwide. Her board and advisory roles—spanning BRIDGE Housing and the California Institute for Energy and Environment—further reflect her commitment to innovation, sustainability, and equitable growth.

Luis is a Senior Advisor for Digital Solutions at Xylem and Principal of HydroDigital, LLC, a consulting company helping utilities adopt digital solutions for managing the urban water cycle. Luis has worked for nearly two decades on the development and commercialization of real time decision support systems for water management, a digital framework that integrates internet or things, big data, and artificial intelligence to optimize water systems.

Rohan Patel has been a leader in the government, non-profit and corporate sectors over his career. Most recently Rohan was the Vice President of global public policy and business development at Tesla. Rohan has served in senior positions at the White House, Council on Environmental Quality, and the USDA.  Rohan is on the board of a number of non-profits, serves as a venture partner for a climate-focused venture fund, and is the Executive Director of a political organization, Majority Democrats. 

David is CEO of The Earth Partners and a Fellow at Forest Trends, with over 25 years of experience developing environmental markets and financing models for ecological restoration. He has worked across venture capital, private equity, and public-private partnerships to scale nature-based solutions, designing and implementing strategies that align financial and ecological outcomes. He has led investments to restore grasslands, forests,  wetlands, streams, and coastal systems.

Leigh is the Director of Environmental Infrastructure at the Connecticut Green Bank, leading the Green Bank’s expansion beyond clean energy into ecosystem service markets, resilience, and conservation. The programs Leigh oversees are designed to leverage private capital, especially in vulnerable communities. Prior to the Green Bank, Leigh helmed the Conservation Finance Network where she expanded the use of innovative financing strategies for social and ecological resilience.