Team
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Emilie Mazzacurati
Emilie is a climate tech entrepreneur and investor with 20 years of experience working at the intersection of climate change and capital markets. She was the founder and CEO of Four Twenty Seven, a climate risk analytics firm that pioneered the use of climate science in financial decisions and was acquired by Moody’s in 2019. Read more
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Arindam Bhattacharya
Arindam brings over 30 years of global energy industry experience with SLB (formerly Schlumberger) in executive leadership roles covering operations, strategy, technology, innovation and corporate venture capital. In his most recent role as Managing Director for SLB Ventures Arindam led investments to scale innovation around industrial decarbonization, critical minerals and clean power to support the Read more
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Osama Idrees
Osama is a venture investor with 15 years of experience across industrials, manufacturing, energy and the built environment. He originated and ran Électrité de France’s (EDF) North America corporate venture capital arm to accelerate their net-zero transition, sourcing and leading investments totaling over $40M, across sectors including carbon capture, electrification, climate fintech and long-duration energy Read more
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Natalie Ambrosio Preudhomme
Natalie leads Tailwind Futures’ thought leadership and communications. Previously, Natalie led climate-related thought leadership at Moody’s Commercial Real Estate business, empowering CRE investors and lenders to integrate climate risk and resilience information into their financial-decision making. She joined Moody’s through the acquisition of Four Twenty Seven, a pioneering provider of physical climate risk data, where Read more
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Brooke Zhang
Brooke Zhang is a Senior Associate with Tailwind Futures. Brooke has expertise in developing climate adaptation investment strategies and advancing social equity within the climate tech space, including co-designing ESG accounting tools for B2B clients and managing partnerships for cleantech startups. She has supported accelerator programs like Urban Future Lab’s GROW + TOGETHER and contributed Read more
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Carson Mayo
Carson Mayo joined Tailwind Futures directly out of his undergraduate studies at UC San Diego. Carson interned in project finance at First Citizens Bank where he evaluated debt financings for utility-scale battery energy storage systems and at RWE Clean Energy where he evaluated equity financings of solar photovoltaic developments. Previously he also assisted in accounting Read more