Our Team

CEO

Per Espen Stoknes is a serial entrepreneur, including co-founding clean-tech companies GasPlas and Biovotec. He is currently an assistant Professor at the BI Norwegian Business School receiving numerous Best-Professor awards.

Educated as certified psychologist with an PhD from Univ of Oslo in ecological economics. He is an experienced strategy consultant and foresight facilitator, and an author of several books, among them Money & Soul (2009) and the award-winning book: What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming (2015). His latest books are Tomorrow’s Economy (2021) on MITPress, and Earth For All (2022) with the Club of Rome.

Per Espen has served as member of Norwegian Parliament, and on the EU Commission’s mission board on Horizon Europe’s Climate Change and Societal Adaptation, and sits on the International Advisory Panel for Biodiversity-credits IAPB, hosted by UK & France governments. He has been project lead for the Club of Rome’s.

www.Earth4All.life project. https://www.stoknes.com

CFO & Impact Metrics

Currently, Managing Director for Amesto Footprint. Her ambition is to accelerate sustainable businesses by developing efficient digital solutions for sustainability management and reporting. Former CEO at Regnskap Norge, the Norwegian Association for the Accounting Industry. Started her career as an advisor at PWC and then 14 years in various leader positions in Gjensidige Insurance. Passionate about leadership, orgnisational development and innovation.

Established a circular accounting cluster in 2019 and was the initiator of developing the Nordic standard for sustainability reporting 2020 - 2021. She is fired up about re-thinking economics; from a linear logic to a circular mindset in economics.

Good experience in leading major change processes and increased digitization. Customer orientation, sales and communication. Co- author of two textbooks: “Innovation in practice” (2014) and “Accounting and financial management in circular businesses (2023).

CCO - Head of Communications

Owen Gaffney is currently Chief Impact Officer at Nobel Prize Institute, Stockholm. He has worked as a changemaker, strategist, writer, filmmaker, and global sustainability analyst at Stockholm Resilience Centre and Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. He is co-founder of the Exponential Roadmap Initiative, has written/produced/advised on multimedia and documentaries for the BBC, Netflix, TED, WWF and World Economic Forum.

He co-founded the Future Earth Media Lab and he is on the faculty of Singularity University. He trained as an astronautic and aeronautic engineer and he is a qualified journalist, filmmaker and writer. For a decade he has worked in Earth system science communication. His work focuses on policy, media and business impact of global sustainability research and visualizing humanity’s impact on the planet. His writing has appeared in the New York Times and in leading academic journals Science and Nature. His work on visualisations with Felix Pharand Deschenes have been shown at the UN Rio+20 Summit and the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Head of Retail Investment & Leverage

Co-founder of Trine, a retail investment tech company, deploying over SEK 1bn in solar energy across emerging markets, providing sustainable electricity to 3.1 million people, avoiding 1.2 million tons of CO2, and generating 4-8% annual returns net of fees and credit losses for over 14,000 investors.

Has raised nearly SEK 100M worth of venture capital at various stages. Launched the world’s first government guarantee for crowdfunding with SIDA, and established direct investments and partnerships with reputable financial institutions including KfW, DFC, and IsDB. Manaberi co-created and implemented the world’s first Sustainable Development Goals impact assessment for off-grid solar by UNDP which showed that Trine impacts 10 of the 17 goals.

He is the receiver of numerous awards, speaking engagements and press including a Royal award by HM King Carl XVI Gustaf, Speaker at G20, COP22, CNN and appearance on BBC live.

CTO - Head of Biodiversity Credits & Natural Capital

Gregory Landua is a regenerative entrepreneur and ecologist with over seven years of experience as the co-founder and co-Chief Regeneration Officer of Regen Network, a platform that enables a new approach to ecosystem service markets based on verified ecological state.

He has a Master of Science in Regenerative Entrepreneurship and Design from Gaia University, and a Permaculture Design Certificate from Cascadia Permaculture. Gregory is also the co-author of the pioneering book, Regenerative Enterprise, and several whitepapers on regenerative agriculture and business.

He has worked with leading companies and organizations to transform their negative impact into regenerative effects, and to design and implement cutting-edge agroforestry projects around the world. He is passionate about reinventing the economics of agriculture and creating a land ecological commons management platform that supports ecological and social regeneration.

Analyst and Key Account Manager

Birthe Bjervig is a Policy Analyst Intern at the OECD in Paris, working with the Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development team. She supports countries in strengthening governance systems and institutional frameworks to align with the SDGs, with a focus on developing economies and SDG indicator 17.14.1.

Previously, she interned at the Permanent Mission of Norway to the WTO and EFTA in Geneva, contributing to work on trade and development, investment facilitation, LDCs, gender equality, and dispute settlement. She co-led Norway’s contribution to the “Women for Multilateralism” initiative and took part in the WTO General Council and 12th Ministerial Conference.

Birthe holds an MSc in Business (siviløkonom) with a major in Leadership and Change from BI Norwegian Business School, including a specialisation in sustainable development in developing countries from FGV EBAPE in Rio de Janeiro. Her thesis, Analyzing the Influence of Foreign Direct Investments on Sustainable Development in Developing Countries, draws on fieldwork in the Amazon and Rio de Janeiro, where she also worked on community-led development projects focused on education and youth development.