Pursuing a sustainable world through better data

Our Team

Philip is an experienced geospatial data analyst, with a focus on food and forestry supply chains. He is a graduate of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University with a degree in Geography and Geology. He also received a masters degree from the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management at UC Santa Barbara. During his time at the Bren School, Philip got his first experience working in the nonprofit sector applying his data analysis skills on the ground to help optimize the profitability of smallholder farmers in Kenya with a local nonprofit group.

Philip continued his career in the nonprofit sector when he joined The Sustainability Consortium (TSC). While at TSC, Philip helped businesses adopt risk-based sourcing procedures for supply chains using insights derived from a trade network mapping tool he developed for dozens of commodities and consumer goods products.

Philip later became a published author in the world renowned journal Science for his work on machine learning applied to global deforestation. Philip’s algorithm automatically identifies the causes of deforested parcels of land (e.g., permanent land clearing for agriculture versus temporary deforestation from agroforestry practices or wildfires). His work is featured in the Global Forest Watch platform developed by the World Resources Institute and has garnered him prominent speaking roles including the keynote at the AI for Sustainable Finance Seminar hosted by the Alan Turing Institute and the University of Oxford, as well as a featured presenter role at the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Annual Conference.

Caroline has been working in the corporate sustainability sector for 10 years. She is a graduate of the University of Arkansas, where she studied Biological and Environmental Engineering and obtained an MBA from the Walton College of Business. After college, she led the research team for the Food, Beverage & Agriculture Sector at The Sustainability Consortium (TSC), where she helped develop key performance indicators for consumer goods companies across several environmental and social sustainability issues. TSC is where Caroline and Philip met, and the rest became history. After TSC, Caroline was a consultant for Walmart, where she worked closely with the sustainability department and the food sourcing departments for Walmart, Sam’s Club, and ASDA in the UK on strategic food sourcing projects and pilot programs that included a sustainability component.

Recognizing the opportunity that access to data through improved technology platforms could offer businesses committed to sustainability, she went on to graduate from the Turing School of Software & Design and became an active software developer. She proceeded to earn an Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Associate Certificate and spent some time developing secure, cloud-based infrastructure for Cuttlesoft, a custom software development firm located in Denver, Colorado.