Our Team

Alessandro is Research Professor at the Center for Remote Sensing, Boston University. A pioneer in developing methodologies to measure and monitor vegetation and biomass from space, Alessandro’s scientific breakthroughs are at the core of Chloris’ solutions.
He is a member of the NASA Carbon Monitoring System Science Team since 2014 and has been a Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Research Center.

Giulio is a senior executive with two decades experience in climate and sustainability. As a partner of McKinsey & Company he was a leader of the Sustainability Practice, serving clients across industry sectors, international institutions, and country governments.
He has led the water practice of The Nature Conservancy, the largest conservation organization in the world, and was its Chief Strategy Officer. He has been a climate scientist at Princeton and MIT.

A graduate of the London School of Economics, Emmett spent the last decade launching retail and digital businesses in rural New Hampshire. He has also served as Program Director for the international non-profit, FarmersFirst: Africa, to support climate knowledge and food security for subsistence farmers throughout central Africa. And as the Chief Product Officer for Weather Analytics, Emmett drove the product vision, design and marketing and served as the senior executive in managing U.S. Government accounts, including the Department of Homeland Security, Pentagon and the Intelligence Community. Emmett’s businesses have been featured in Huffington Post and Food Network Magazine, and he was named New Hampshire’s Young Entrepreneur of 2019.

Florian is a seasoned sustainability professional with deep experience with growing partnerships across sectors and industries. He co-led the launch of 1t.org at the World Economic Forum and was its Head of Regional & Innovation Programs. As Strategy Lead at South Pole he provided company-wide strategic advice and thought-leadership. He served as Manager of the Tropical Forest Alliance and other innovative public-private partnerships such as the Friends of Rio+20. He has an MPA from Columbia University and MA in Political Science from University of Lausanne.

Jarrod graduated from Boston University with a degree in Computer Science, minoring in Earth Science and Environmental Science. Before joining Chloris Geospatial, he was an Engineering Team Lead at Atmospheric and Environmental Research. At AER, he deployed scalable, cloud native solutions for running scientific models and processing large scale geospatial data.

Julia is an experienced Senior Data Scientist with a PhD in wind energy from the Technical University of Denmark and a master’s in meteorology. She has a passion for innovations to fight climate change, and is skilled in product development, with comprehensive experience in analyzing complex data structures and performing statistical analysis and modeling to develop sustainable and innovative solutions. Before joining Chloris Geospatial, she supervised the weather data implementation at Indigo Ag and developed near-real-time rain forecasts at ClimaCell.

Olivia graduated from Boston University with a masters degree in Environmental Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems. She has worked on modeling the urban heat island effect with NASA DEVELOP, the planning and processing drone flights over tundra vegetation with the University of Alaska, and modeling of coastal water quality and clarity with the University of Virginia’s Computational Biogeochemistry lab. Olivia is interested in using geospatial data and data visualization to communicate the intersection of climate, biogeochemistry, and urban development to better inform management decisions.