Our Leadership, Board, Staff, and Advisors bring decades of experience to carbon management, policy, government relations, climate, startup growth, and public affairs.

Leadership & Board of Directors

  • Ben Rubin

    Ben Rubin, Executive Director

    Ben is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Carbon Business Council, working with a coalition of innovators to responsibly restore the climate. He is a Research Fellow with the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy at American University. Full Bio | LinkedIn

  • Zane McDonald

    Zane McDonald, Board Chair

    Zane is the Board Chair and Co-Founder of the Carbon Business Council. He is the Executive Director of the Open Hydrogen Initiative. He has led a wide range of industry decarbonization efforts at GTI Energy and International Energy Agency. LinkedIn

  • Maggie Cutts

    Maggie Cutts, Board

    Maggie is the Director of Partnerships at Prime Coalition, a 501c3 public charity whose mission is to partner with philanthropists to place charitable capital into market-based solutions to climate change. LinkedIn

  • Susan Su Carbon Business Council

    Susan Su, Board

    Susan Su is an investment partner at Toba Capital, focused on investing in climate innovation through both direct investments and fund investments. Susan's background spans Stripe, Reforge, AppSumo, 500 Startups and Sound Ventures. LinkedIn

  • Ken Alex

    Ken Alex, Board

    Ken is the director of Project Climate at UC Berkeley. Ken was a senior policy advisor to Governor Jerry Brown in California, the director of the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research, and the chair of the Strategic Growth Council. LinkedIn

  • Nikki Batcelor

    Nikki Batchelor, Board

    Nikki leads the $100M XPRIZE Carbon Removal, a competition supported by the Musk Foundation to drive innovation, market adoption, and the equitable and just scaling of carbon removal solutions. LinkedIn

Board of Advisors

  • Kayla Dolan

    Kayla Dolan, Advisor

    Kayla is a Policy Advisor for the Carbon Business Council and the Manager of Policy and Strategy for Adamantine Energy. Most recently, she served as Policy Advisor to Senator Bill Cassidy, managing the Senator’s energy environmental portfolio. LinkedIn

  • Stephanie Simon

    Stephanie Simon, Advisor

    Stephanie is the Head of Admissions at Y Combinator. Prior to YC, she was a software engineer at Earnest and co-founded Murmur, a venture backed local search startup. LinkedIn

  • Aditya Agrawal

    Aditya Agrawal, Advisor

    Aditya co-leads the Global Carbon Removal Partnership. He is the founder of D4DInsights LLC, a mission-driven consulting firm focused on catalyzing data and technology solutions for the environment. LinkedIn.

  • Jason Grillo

    Jason Grillo, Advisor

    Jason has worked extensively with the AirMiners community to foster the development of carbon removal startups and innovations across all methods of CDR. He serves as the AirMiners Director of Partnerships and Operations. LinkedIn

  • Page Atcheson

    Page Atcheson, Advisor

    Page is the Development Director for the Global Warming Mitigation Project. Page previously served as the Executive Director of Our Climate, an organization that empowers young people to advocate for climate solutions. LinkedIn

  • Michael Green

    Michael Green, Advisor

    Michael serves as an advisor to the American Sustainable Business Council. He is the Founding Partner at Carbon Capital Advisors, a start-up focused on using innovative technology and finance to address climate issues. LinkedIn

  • Matt Scouten, Advisor

    Matt Scouten, Advisor

    Matt has spent the majority of his career as a business development professional in the investment sector, focused on commercialization. He is currently focused on advancing viable climate initiatives. LinkedIn

Program Development

  • Bella Corpora

    Bella Corpora, Director

    Bella is a Director at the Carbon Business Council and a Research Fellow with the Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy at American University. She currently serves in the UK’s Expert Group on Greenhouse Gas Removals Business Models. LinkedIn

  • Ashritha Karuturi, Associate

    Ashritha is an Associate at the Carbon Business Council. She graduated from Babson College in 2022 with a degree in business administration and previously worked on business operations and strategy at Coolant. LinkedIn

  • Toby Bryce

    Toby Bryce, Policy Advisor

    Toby is a Policy Advisor for the Carbon Business Council. He additionally works on CDR policy and market development with the OpenAir Collective, and is active in the CDR sector as an independent advisor to companies and organizations on commercialization, market development, and policy. LinkedIn

  • Delaney Pues

    Delaney Pues, Senior Fellow

    Delaney is a Senior Fellow at Carbon Business Council and a Cota-Robles Fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she is an Environmental Studies PhD student. Delaney has spoken at leading institutions through lectures, panels, roundtables, and meetings on the role of equity and justice in CDR. LinkedIn