Mathieu Carlier

Alain Retière

Jan Mattsson

Mathieu Carlier

Mathieu has two decades of experience delivering complex multi-million dollars projects for the UN, EU, Gates Foundation, governments, and large companies in international development. 

His experience in deploying complex data systems for Presidential and Legislative Elections, or health ministries in over 50 war-zone or post-conflict countries has provided him with a unique vision of the most pressing global development challenges faced by many countries, and how to solve them with innovative solutions. 

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He is now keen to make Everimpact the climate solution that helps cities and companies tackle climate change.

Alain Retière

With three decades of field experience in sustainable development in more than 120 countries, he is the former director of 2 UN satellite agencies. 

From 2008 until 2011, he managed CLIMSAT, the UNDP scientific and technical service platform dedicated to assisting sub-national climate change adaptation and mitigation planning. Prior to that he initiated and led for 10 years UNOSAT, the UN emergency satellite service, for which he received in 2005 the UN21 Award from Secretary-General Kofi Annan. 

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Alain is a climate change expert, agro-ecologist and senior scientific adviser to various sustainable development organizations.

Jan Mattsson

With four decades of experience with development, humanitarian and peacekeeping operations, he is the former UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNOPS, an organization specialized in the implementation of development, humanitarian, and peace-building operations on behalf of multiple partners.

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As a public leader and in more recent engagements with international organizations such as the World Bank, the Green Climate Fund, and the Museum for the United Nations - UN Live, Jan has continued to pursue his passion for sustainable development. Jan is keen for Everimpact to make a difference for the Planet and for our customers and partners.

Chair, Advisory Board

Hanne Breddam is a tech entrepreneur working with emerging technologies facilitating sustainable tech innovation and growth.

Back in 2000, she founded the company BusinessMinds in Denmark, Australia, and the Philippines. In 2008, Hanne sold the Danish arm of BusinessMinds to PwC including 50 consultants. BusinessMinds activities (Denmark, Australia, and the Philippines) merged into QVARTZ in 2018 and she became a QVARTZ Analytics equity partner. After the merger with Bain &Co Hanne resigned in September 2020 to continue independently.

Today, Hanne is on the executive team of IT-Kartellet, a board member, and an investor in startups.
She has advised on data analytics and management for 50+ companies within 10+ industries.

Advisor

Axel Brachet is a Finance Director at Google. He's worked at Google for 15 years, in the US, France, and Spain. Axel is passionate about Sustainability: he's on the core team for Google’s European start-up
accelerator program focused on the Sustainable Development Goals. He met Mathieu and Jan as Everimpact joined the Accelerator in 2020. From the start, he's been impressed by Everimpact's team, vision, and technology. He lives in Paris with his wife and 3 kids and loves cycling and rugby.

Advisor

Vicky Sins Vicky leads the Climate, Just transition and Nature work at the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA), a global non for profit-driving corporate accountability on the SDGs. Before joining WBA 3 years ago Vicky spend almost 15 years in the Financial Service Industry in the Energy and Commodity sector as well as on the Clearing side where she also headed up the CSR work. At the moment she also sits on the Institute of Management Accountants global task force on sustainable business management. After living and working abroad for a number of years in Asia and London she now lives in the Netherlands with her husband, 3 kids, and dog. She loves the outdoors, the beach, and living an active and healthy life.

Advisor

As Vice President for the Emerging Opportunities Portfolio for the Maritime Services segment in Wilhelmsen, Nakul is deeply engaged in the company’s corporate venturing endeavours and is an avid proponent of bridging industry domain expertise with new-age technology capabilities. With a maritime industry involvement of over 25 years, Nakul combines a wealth of international maritime commercial, operations, and management experience, with qualifications in marine engineering, business management, and direct seafaring experience.

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He is also a strategic advisory board member for a number of maritime start-ups and mentor in several incubators and accelerators globally in the maritime domain plus is a Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science & Technology, Royal Institution of Naval Architects, and the Nautical Institute and a keen commentator on maritime innovation and digitalization.

Advisor

Sylvain Goupille has an unparalleled experience in climate finance after having spent his entire professional life in bringing financial innovation into climate action, first as part of the Climate Advisory Business of PWC, then setting-up and managing the Climate Finance business of BNP Paribas before co-founding and managing Mirova-Althelia, a pioneer fund management firm specialised in nature-based solutions. He currently manages several companies specialised in impact and climate finance. Sylvain holds an MBA from HEC Paris.