Meet our founder, Karl Pettersen. Karl spent nearly 30 years as a recognized leader in finance and in sustainability, in the US, Europe, and Latin America. Karl was nominated as Sustainability Leader of the Year at the 2023 World Sustainability Awards in Amsterdam, and was the Chief Sustainability Officer for the Americas at a leading global investment bank in New York. Karl is also a recognized thought leader and advisor for Fortune 100 companies, having build deep relationships over several decades advising these companies on some of their most complex financial risk situations. He is an innovator, having written some of the most influential credit risk methodologies still in use in the market today, and having built models for risk measurement and pricing used by some of the world’s largest companies.

Why have clients worked with Karl and his teams time and again? We don’t bring just best-in-class technical expertise, we make it human, and deeply empathetic. We know big decisions can create a lot of emotional noise, and we also understand that emotion really drives behavior, not intellectual constructs. So in everything we do, we will understand and embrace your areas of sensitivity, and what makes your culture singular, and we will bring the whole package to you, that brings a technical and human resolution to these tough questions.

In a nutshell, we aim to make you feel confident, competent, and safe, in making some of your biggest decisions. We happen to do it using the language of sustainability and finance.