David Antonioli serves as Chief Executive Officer of Verra where he oversees all aspects of the organization. This includes ensuring the financial and operational health of the organization and that the organization’s certification programs meet high-quality integrity and transparency standards. David works to ensure that the standards Verra identifies, develops, and manages can be used by the private sector, countries, and civil society to achieve increasingly ambitious climate and sustainable development goals.

David works closely with the Verra Board of Directors to chart the future of the organization and spearheads outreach to government, business, and environmental leaders around the world. As a world-renowned expert on climate change, David began his work in this sector when he worked for ICF Consulting in 1994, providing technical advice to Latin American countries developing their GHG inventories and serving on the team that pioneered verification procedures for emission reduction projects. In 1999, David joined the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Mexico as its global climate change advisor, overseeing the development of an energy-sector grid emission factor and baseline studies for forest protection efforts.

In 2003, David joined EcoSecurities in Oxford (UK) where he led a joint venture to develop landfill gas-to-energy projects under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). At EcoSecurities, David also spearheaded the company’s efforts in the voluntary market, helping to identify key infrastructure and procedural needs that the voluntary carbon market lacked in the early days of its existence.

David holds a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Princeton University and a Master’s in Public Policy, with concentrations in Environmental Policy and International Development, from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Hans Kobler is the Founder and Managing Partner of Energy Impact Partners (EIP), a $3 billion global investment firm custom-built to invest in energy transition. EIP brings together forward-thinking industrial and climate innovators to help decarbonize the global economy. He is responsible for directing EIP’s overarching investment strategy and leading a global team that invests in multiple asset classes in the U.S. and Europe.

Hans is a 25-year veteran of energy and climate technology investing and a pioneer of corporate venture capital. He started his career as a management consultant at Bain & Company before leading the energy technology group at GE Equity, General Electric’s venture capital arm. Hans went on to found and serve as CEO of Digital Power Capital, a venture capital fund focused on advanced power technologies. His entrepreneurial spirit then led him to build and lead ICx Technologies, a leading sensor technology company targeting security, transportation and energy, which he took public on Nasdaq in 2007. He launched EIP in 2015 on the premise of advancing climate innovation through collaboration.

Hans holds a Master of Aerospace Engineering from the Technical University of Munich with distinction, an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and attended INSEAD’s MBA (SS) program.