Tom oversees the leadership team to advance the organization’s strategic vision, goals, and objectives.He helps set the strategic direction and represents the organization and its work to potential funders and adopters. 

Tom has nearly 20 years of experience in the investment banking and non-profit sector, where he has spent the last 7 years working exclusively in the climate action sector. 

As a climate finance leader, Tom was a founding member of WaterEquity, the first-ever impact investment fund manager with an exclusive focus on climate change adaptation with solutions to the global water crisis. Serving as the sole Managing Director, he scaled the firm from the start-up phase to a mature organization with multiple funds under management. 

Tom’s prior experience also includes executive-level positions at UBS Investment Bank and serving as the senior-most leader responsible for the Grameen Foundation’s impact investment strategy in the capacity first as a fund manager and later as the Head of the Capital Management & Advisory Center.

He received his BA with honors from the University of Michigan in Quantitative Economics, holds an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

When he’s not at work, Tom enjoys parent teaching at his son’s preschool, marathon running, kayaking in the bay and watching his favorite telenovelas from Colombia. He is an annoying University of Michigan football fan (Go Blue!) and credits his spiritual upbringing for guiding him towards the social sector later in life.

Leslie has been working since 2006 to slow climate devastation to make time for the world to transition at full speed to sustainable fuels and energy solutions.

She earned BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering from MIT, and her MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering with a MEMS specialization from UC Berkeley, where she won the Sam Silver award.  She’s an inventor with 58 issued U.S. patents who has worked at who has worked at HP Labs and Agilent Labs.  At HP, she was the Micromechanics Project Leader, and she earned the Technical Achievement Award. She has also founded two technical MEMS consulting companies; MEMS Insight and SmallTech Consulting.

At Arctic Ice Project, Leslie focuses on the technical side of the organization. In her role, Leslie ensures that all field research (starting with establishing collaborations and permissions, and proceeding through the modeling, testing, deployment, monitoring and assessment using advanced instrumentation and post-analysis) is successful in generating the needed answers on the performance, and the ecosystem and biological safety of the solution. Leslie continues to assure the team engages with cutting-edge climate science and technologies so Arctic Ice Project is at the forefront of climate work concerning the evolving polar climate. She seeks out and builds key partnerships with scientists worldwide, and helps the team fuel collaborations, publish in academic and technical journals, and present at technical and non-technical conferences.

Additionally, Leslie is an Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford University, where she has been teaching a highly-rated annual seminar class on “Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Climate Change” since 2011.

She’s a devoted mother and loves hiking, wildflower gardening, and painting, as well as singing with her family in Schola Cantorum, a semi-professional community chorus.

Heather brings energy, focus and deep experience across a broad range or organizational disciplines. Cum Laude at Master’s Degree level, with 22+ years in human resources, accounting and entrepreneurial leadership, Heather delivers a proven strategic mindset and a talent for execution. Operational excellence and productivity in a non-profit is mission critical to ensure maximum utilization of every dollar donated to the purpose that it was intended for. Heather ensures we target as much funding as possible to where it’s needed - in the field and in the lab, and provides absolute transparency on the source, use and progress in the effective deployment of financial funds.

 Heather is a product of a deeply environmental background, raised on the mantra of recycling long before it became fashionable, and continues to strive to make a positive difference on this planet, appreciating its beauty and pristine environment. She has been in love with the ocean since early childhood, in large part to Jacques-Yves Cousteau and him exposing an entire universe barely discovered on our own planet.  She brings her two boys up in the same way - loving and understanding the beauty and complexities that is our collective home. This passion, her knowledge and her experience all reinforce her diligence in making sure AIP’s financial rigor is a benchmark for non-profit reporting.

 Heather actively supports 4Ocean, Cape Clasp, Ocean Conservancy, Arctic Ice Project, World Wildlife Org and multiple other environmental endeavors. In Heather’s free time, she enjoys spending time outdoors, biking, hiking, traveling, reading and spending time with her family.