Daniel leads RMI’s overarching CDR strategy, portfolio, and team. He works to catalyze and shape the development of the emerging carbon removal industry, across RD&D priorities, policy, and markets.
In this role Daniel orchestrates contributions by various RMI programs in support of RMI’s 3-year objective to accelerate the responsible deployment of vital CDR technologies and the formation of policy and market frameworks that are essential for CDR.
RMI’s CDR portfolio includes the leadership of a 12-party public-private-research consortium to investigate the feasibility of a hub for direct air capture in the Pacific Northwest. Daniel serves as the project’s director.
Background
Prior to RMI, Daniel served in operational, entrepreneurial, and advisory roles in carbon removal, corporate net-zero strategy, carbon markets, clean energy, conservation, and sustainable development.
Between 2020 and 2022, Daniel led The Climate Map, a startup nonprofit which merged into RMI in July 2022 and became RMI’s larger CDR Initiative.
Between 2014 and 2017 Daniel was a case team leader at The Bridgespan Group, where he advised leaders in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors on strategy and program development, including Atlantic Philanthropies’ final spend-down of its remaining assets (>$600M) in less than five years.
Earlier, Daniel was a marketing manager at Astrum Solar, an early leader in residential solar and the second fastest growing company in the United States in 2010.
Daniel has experience living or working in Kenya, India, Indonesia, Singapore, South Africa, the UK, and the United States.
Education
MBA, Harvard Business School
BA, University of Virginia
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