Carbon Direct

General Counsel and Executive Committee member who joined LSEG in 1996 and chairs FTSE International Limited. Has led major corporate transactions including the Refinitiv-LSEG deal.

Cale Kennedy serves as Associate General Counsel at Carbon Direct, where he is part of the senior leadership team and advises on commercial transactions, internal governance, employment matters, and areas including AI use and information security. His responsibilities include structuring and negotiating commercial agreements, developing internal policies, advising on product and brand decisions such as naming, positioning, and licensing, and supporting risk management efforts. His prior experience includes litigation and advisory work across industries such as technology, biotech, and other regulated sectors.

Chief Innovation Officer with expertise in electricity generation and storage, data centers/AI infrastructure, and space technologies. Holds a PhD.

VP of Power Commercialization with expertise in electricity markets, data science, net zero strategy, and environmental science and policy. Holds a PhD.

Greg FitzGerald is Vice President of Decarbonization Science and European Advisory at Carbon Direct, where he also serves as a Senior Scientist. He has worked in the climate field since 2009, focusing on climate solutions and carbon management.

Hannah Brigham coordinates diligence of carbon dioxide removal projects on Carbon Direct's Science Team, with a background in carbon accounting, climate-smart agriculture, and project management. She previously worked as a sustainability consultant at ClimatePartner and served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Madagascar.

Chief Scientist focused on direct air capture, carbon utilization, environmental science and policy, and point source capture. Holds a PhD.

Marie Sobieski is Associate General Counsel at Carbon Direct, where she serves on the senior leadership team and advises on commercial transactions, internal governance, employment matters, and areas including AI use and information security. Her responsibilities include structuring and negotiating commercial agreements, developing internal policies, advising on hiring and contractor engagements, and supporting risk management and product and brand decisions such as naming, positioning, and licensing. Her prior experience covers litigation and advisory work across industries including technology, biotech, and other regulated sectors.

VP focused on net zero strategy, sustainable bioresource supply and use, biomass carbon removal and storage (BiCRS), and biofuel. Holds a PhD.

VP of Landscape Decarbonization focused on biodiversity, forest ecology and management, and climate-smart agriculture. Holds a PhD.

Tristan Goodbody earned his PhD in remote sensing of forests and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia, where his research integrated 3D forest structure data from digital aerial photogrammetry and lidar to improve forest inventories and sampling methods. He holds a BSc in Natural Resources Conservation, also from UBC. At Carbon Direct he conducts due diligence on nature-based forest carbon projects across North and South America and builds geospatial pipelines to standardize remote sensing analysis.

Legal Counsel at AVV handling deal execution and legal matters, with over 10 years of legal experience. She previously worked in-house at East Ventures and Indomobil Group and is a licensed advocate.