About Us

Anant Jain is the Cap-and-Trade Product Manager, he leads the North American market coverage, focusing on the WCI and RGGI markets, but also tracking the emerging Canadian Markets, as well as regulation across other US states and Mexico. Anant has driven the creation of our CaT forecast models, and loves to share long-term perspectives.

Anant has completed a master’s in management from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. For his Master’s thesis, he compared abnormal returns for renewable energy firms with conventional energy firms listed in public markets. He has also travelled the a large section of the globe as part of the merchant navy. He enjoys travelling, trekking, and playing the guitar.

Anant Jain

Utkarsh Akhouri is the Clean Fuels Product manager, overseeing the reporting, analysis and forecasting for all of the Clean Fuels and derivative markets across North America. These include LCFS, BC-LCFS, Oregon CFR, Canadian CFS, RFS-RINS, and analysis of fuels and feedstock markets.

Utkarsh graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He past experience across different various commodities, including metals and energy markets, and has tracked those markets’ push to sustainability. He’s a passionate theatre artist who firmly goes by the saying “all the world’s a stage and all the men and women, merely players”. He’s also a fanatical ballroom dancer, and will lead you into a tango before you can say ‘yerba mate’.

Utkarsh Akhouri

Rohit is an Analyst at CaliforniaCarbon.info, specializing in the Clean Fuels Markets. He helps in analyzing carbon market interconnectedness for our Clean Fuels Products

Rohit graduated from BITS Pilani with Electrical and Electronics Engineering minoring in Finance. Passionate about analyzing data and generating actionable insights, he has versatile experience spanning from Trade Analysis to Customer Analytics. Off work you can find him grooving to 90's music or immersed in a historical fiction novel.

Rohit Sai Janga

Craig Rocha is a Cap-and-Trade market analyst, he has a research background in energy, and so focuses on the RGGI market, as well as the power sector in the WCI market.

Craig holds a MSc in energy economics from Edinburgh Business School and graduated form BITS Pilani in mechanical engineering. He was a member of the Hyperloop India team representing India at the SpaceX Hyperloop competition. He loves playing squash, was his university captain, and will even switch over for the odd game of tennis.

Craig Rocha

Ujjwal is a junior analyst on the Clean Fuels Markets, he supports our Clean Fuels Product, and helps in the research and presentation of Fuel Insight Reports.

A post-graduate from Madras School Of Economics, he is passionate on all things involving business, economics, and politics. Outside of work, he is a football aficionado, loves to sing, watch documentaries, play table tennis, travel and trek. Being from the mountains of Nepal, summiting the Everest is at the top of his bucket list.

Ujjwal

Aakriti Ahuja, is a Junior Analyst at Californiacarbon.info, working in the Data and Insights Team.

She is a post-graduate in Economics from TERI School of Advanced Studies. Her academic interests lie in both qualitative and quantitative research and econometric modelling. She likes to write articles on broad categories in the field of economics and her articles can be found on the SSRN journal. Apart from work, she has a creative mind and likes to make paintings.

Aakriti Ahuja,

Sarfaraz Hussain is a Clean Fuels market Junior analyst, focusing on the research, analysis, and reporting for the Clean Fuels market across North America.

He graduated from IIT Kharagpur with a Masters in Chemical Engineering, he is a technology and business enthusiast who always want to dig deep into how things work. He does not believe in Planet B. He thinks the only way Humanity is going to survive is by saving planet Earth and that will be through adapting Sustainability in every sector of society and reaching the Net Zero goal by 2050.

He likes playing Cricket on Sundays, cooking occasionally, traveling like a Nomad, and jumping into new genres of books, music, and movies.

Sarfaraz Hussain

Jon Costantino was the original Climate Change Planning Manager for the California Air Resources Board's Office of Climate Change and he oversaw the first publication of the AB 32 Scoping Plan in 2008.

As AB 32 climate change manager he saw the program through its infancy. In that role, he developed internationally followed policies and implemented programs with billion-dollar implications for California's largest industries. Jon was also the lead legislative analyst at ARB, where he made technical and policy recommendations on both state and federal legislation. During his years covering California's Capitol, Jon gained rare insights about California's biggest industries and most powerful stakeholders, including water, agriculture, construction, energy and all aspects of transportation fuels.

Jon Costantino

Michael Carter is Mentor and Advisor to Climate Connect Limited. Based in Colorado, USA, his work has included market and industry analysis on a range of industry topics including commodity pricing, wholesale pricing analysis and forecasting, and retail cost analysis. Michael was, till recently, head of Energy at SNL Financial, leading a team of several hundred analysts providing information to US markets. SNL was recently acquired by McGraw Hill. Prior to SNL, he worked with Duff & Phelps, Platts and Financial Times. Michael holds a Master’s degree from Colorado School of Mines and Bachelor’s degree in Geology from The Australian National University.

For CaliforniaCarbon.info, Michael provides strategic guidance on how to develop forecasts, publications and analytics benchmarked against global information industry standards. With vast experience in RGGI and EUETS markets, he also suggests ideas and concepts that could be adapted for newly formed carbon markets such as California, Quebec and China

Michael Carter

Nitin Tanwar  is the Founder and CEO of Climate Connect Ltd. Nitin can be found brainstorming with the team on strategic directions for CaliforniaCarbon.info, engaged in raising funds for operations, and aiding in marketing. As CEO of the parent company Climate Connect, Nitin formulates the executive strategy of all the products within the stable. Before founding Climate Connect, Nitin was a Carbon Associate with commodities trading giant Cargill.

He holds a Master’s in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, a Certificate in Sustainability from ETH Zurich, and a Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from Punjab Engineering College, India. He is a regular speaker at international conferences and was one of the youngest authors to publish in Elsevier’s Energy Policy journal. To escape from the daily routine, he enjoys trekking and one day hopes to make his way up to Machu Pichu in the Andes!

Nitin Tanwar

Rahul Rana is the ex-Head of Marketing and Business Development at CaliforniaCarbon.info. He helped define the product in its earlier years with Climate Connect Technologies.

As an advisor he aids with his vast experience on the products, and it’s connected markets. Rahul has completed his MSc in Climate Sciences and Policy Studies at The Energy and Resources Institute in Delhi, India. He spends his free time travelling, reading classics, and playing music on his guitar.

Rahul Rana

Arpit is an industry expert with a wide-ranging experience in climate policy and environmental markets. Over the last decade, he has held a variety of roles focusing on designing public policy, consulting, project management, business development, and media planning in government, private, and non-profit organizations. Until recently, Arpit was leading the policy and regulatory development process of California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS). He is currently part of Amazon’s net-zero team which is driving the sustainability efforts to help meet the company's Climate Pledge and Shipment Zero goals. Arpit holds a Masters in Climate and Society from Columbia University and a Bachelors in Energy Engineering from NIT Bhopal.

Arpit Soni

Tom Tuchmann  is Trained as a professional forester, Tom provides US Forest Capital’s range of advisory services and coordinates the efforts of our strategic partners who offer specialized expertise on a project basis. Prior to founding US Forest Capital, Tom was Western Director and Special Assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. During his tenure, he successfully directed negotiations and the implementation of the $480 million Headwaters Forest Agreement. He also was charged with designing and managing a Presidential Forum that resulted in the $50 million conservation management plan for Lake Tahoe.

Tom graduated with forestry degrees from Northern Arizona University and Pennsylvania State University and has served as Adjunct Professor at the Lewis and Clark School of Law.

Tom Tuchmann

Dr. Sabine Joseph is a Data Science and Machine Learning advisor to California Carbon. Before consulting companies through her own business, she was involved with the delivery of commercial AI solutions across the entire project life cycle at Microsoft and Accenture. She's also passionate about merging technical solutions with design methods and trains data science professionals.

Sabine pursued her undergraduate studies in the Netherlands and Canada and holds postgraduate degrees from leading universities in London and Paris, including a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from University College London. She currently enjoys a simple lifestyle in rural Portugal with gardening, surfing, arts and crafts, as well as solving intellectual challenges.

Dr. Sabine Joseph

Malini has a vast Experience as Head of Strategy & Operations with a demonstrated history of working in the information services industry.

She is a Strong product & services management professional skilled at Retention Analytics and Strategies, Client Engagement, Go-to-market Strategy, IT Strategy, Product Innovation, Advanced Analytics & Data Science, and Direct Marketing.

Malini Vittal

Lisa DeMarco is a Senior Partner and CEO of Resilient LLP, with over two decades of experience in law, regulation, policy, and advocacy relating to energy and climate change. Ms. DeMarco was previously a partner at Macleod Dixon LLP from 2002 to 2012, partner at Norton Rose Canada LLP from 2012 to 2013 and partner at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP from 2013 to 2014. She represents several governments and leading energy companies in a wide variety of natural gas, electricity, pipeline and energy storage matters before various regulatory agencies, including the OEB and the National Energy Board. She has been an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, is a guest lecturer at a number of law schools, and presents regularly.

Lisa DeMarco