Unbound Directory: 
The 'Yellow Pages' of CDR

Arnoud de Villegas brings over 20 years of diverse experience in environmental stewardship, finance, and strategic development. As Managing Director of Viridian Ecosystems, he advises clients on developing natural capital strategies that deliver risk-adjusted returns while achieving the greatest possible ecosystem and social impact. Over the past decade, Arnoud has been devoted to scaling reforestation and nature-based solutions across the American West, catalyzing noteworthy and award-winning environmental and social initiatives. In his role as Vice President of Business Development at Mast Reforestation, he spearheaded carbon product originations, forged strategic partnerships, and led growth-oriented initiatives that established the company's influence in reforestation and natural capital markets. Prior to joining Mast Reforestation, Arnoud served as Chief Operating Officer of CalForest, the largest independent reforestation stock producer in the western United States. Under his leadership, CalForest gained significant market share and produced over 130 million seedlings for state and federal agencies, industrial and non-industrial landowners, tribal nations, and non-profit organizations, meaningfully contributing to large-scale reforestation efforts across the American West. Earlier in his career, Arnoud built a strong foundation in global finance and strategic management. He began working for a $250 million fund of hedge funds in London and New York, ultimately heading all equity strategies covered out of the U.S, including Emerging Markets. He went on to live six years in India where co-lead the first successful SPAC reverse merger in Indian capital market history, with $100 million of cash in trust and another $75 million raised post-close. Before pivoting to reforestation, he served as Director of Global Emerging Markets (gem), a $1.5 billion venture capital and private equity group, reporting to its chairman. They made investments in hospitality real estate globally, as well as education content development and publishing services in the US and India. Arnoud serves as a Board Advisor to the University of Montana’s FARTHER Engine. Its mission is to build an economic engine for rural, tribal, and urban communities across Montana and Idaho. Through partnerships, research translation, and workforce development FARTHER advances nature-based innovations and precision technologies in forests and rangelands to promote resiliency and prosperity. 

Rick Wayman has a Bachelor’s degree in International Business from Marquette University and a Master’s degree in NGO Management from the SIT Graduate Institute. Prior to joining CRSI, Rick served as CEO of the Foundation for Climate Restoration and the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

NULIFE GreenTech uses a process called hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) to efficiently transform wet and dry waste biomass into a bio-oil, that is injected into underground geological storage for permanent carbon removal. Our Saskatoon (Saskatchewan) Plant is operational and generating bio-oil. We will be delivering durable, high quality, on-registry CDRs into the market in 2025. I am happy to engage with anyone interested in discussing purchasing our credits, business development opportunities or anything else relevant to the CDR space.

Full stack climate and agtech entrepreneur

Rodrigo has over 15 years’ experience in production, management, consulting, audit and assurance related to energy efficiency, carbon management, renewable energy, waste management, asset management, process optimisation and sustainability. Rodrigo has successfully completed audit and advisory engagements across sustainability, energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions streams for private, public and government entities. Rodrigo has completed detailed GHG emissions reporting, energy and sustainability audits and assisted clients report under emissions and energy reporting frameworks such as the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007 (the NGER Act) and Safeguard Mechanism, Climate Active, and the NSW Energy Savings Scheme (ESS). Rodrigo assisted the Department of the Environment and Energy (DoEE) examining Australia’s landfill gas and alternative waste treatment practices in the context of the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF). Rodrigo is a lead auditor under the NSW ESS where he has successfully completed a suite of reasonable assurance audits across a range of methods including PIAM&V and is also a lead auditor for Puro.earth, a Finnish marketplace for carbon removal, including biochar and terrestrial storage of biomass methods. Rodrigo participated as an energy auditor for the NSW Office of Environment (OEH) Energy Saver Panel, where he undertook the identification, implementation and reporting on energy efficiency activities. Furthermore, he undertook a suite of battery storage and voltage optimisation assessments and assisted the OEH develop their voltage optimisation guide. He has also completed energy efficiency audits for liable entities under the now defunct Energy Efficiency Opportunities Act 2006 for a wide range of industries, including mining, wholesale distribution and transport. Additionally, Rodrigo has direct experience in the food processing (meat processing), chemical production, mining, agribusiness, automobile and the metal mechanic industry.

15 + Years of Combined Experience working in Project Management, Development, Engineering and Construction Management. Business & Engineering Industry Sales, Marketing and Technological Knowledge. Over 8 Years Direct Environmental Experience working as a Volunteer for Greenpeace and Various Other Environmental Groups.

Corby is Marketing Executive at Unbound Summits, on a mission to increase awareness of the importance of our global CDR gatherings to accelerate the industry to gigaton-scale removal. He's passionate about the power of science & technology to save the planet from climate disaster. Having started his career at the one of the UK's largest science parks, Corby is new to CDR, and is inspired by the innovation and ingenuity of the industry. He loves to meet new people and learn about new segments and projects within CDR, so please reach out if you have any news or want to chat! If you'd like to be featured in an Unbound Showcase on the Carbon or Adapt Unbound LinkedIn channels, please contact Corby at corby@unboundsummits.com for more info.