Careers

Join us in solving the biggest challenge of our time

1.5ºC

Accreditation

Additionality

Biochar

Biomass

Carbolysis

Carbon

Carbonisation

CO2e

District Heating

Durability

Emissions

Exothermic

Feedstock

H/Corg

Net Zero

Permanence

Photosynthesis

Purity

Pyrolysis

Scalability

Stability

Sustainability Legislation

Syngas

Tars

Whether you’re new to carbon removal or a carbon connoisseur, this glossary will help you decode the most common terms, abbreviations, and frameworks  in the carbon removal industry. 

Reliable carbon credits

Carbon credits

High quality biochar

Renewable electricity and heat

Energy

Our patented process

Carbolysis™

Our facilities

Reactors

Our northstar mission is to remove 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide.

Our founders joined forces in 2013 at Singularity University at the NASA Ames Research Centre, where they began to develop a novel carbon removal solution based on a decade of academic research. The company got started in 2018 with initial funding and the R1 reactor prototype assembly. We are also proud alumni of Stanford’s founder community StartX batch SS 2019 and since then, our team has grown into a highly motivated group of engineers, climate experts and change makers. With decades of combined experience, our experts and industry veterans are working together to achieve our mission.

Henrietta Moon

Henrietta has wide founding experience, having founded an education startup and launched and scaled several high-profile global initiatives in technology. She was the youngest person in Finland to be a Board member in a publicly traded company in 2018 (YLEPS: OMXH NASDAQ). She is recognised as a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, a Bloomberg New Economy Forum Catalyst of 2021, Young European Leader 2023 and a member of the Stanford-StartX founder community.

Chris Carstens

Chris is a UC Berkeley trained Mechanical Engineer and inventor with more than 20 years of hands-on experience developing emerging environmental technologies. His areas of expertise include biofuel production, methane pyrolysis, graphene production, and novel methods of gas separation and storage. Chris has advised the Secretary of Energy as a member of the department’s Methane Hydrate Advisory Committee and is an alumnus of Singularity University (GSP 13) and StartX.

Bjørn Dahlen

Bjørn leads our engineering development and deployment. Based is Oslo, he’s worked at the intersection of energy innovation and project execution going on three decades now and brings with him learnings from MNCs and technology startups alike. Bjørn holds a Master of Science in Thermal Energy and Mechanical Engineering from NTNU.

Charlotta Liukas

Charlotta specializes in building deep tech and startup operations. She develops and manages R&D, and outreach projects. Previously, she worked in the international development sector, managing large R&D projects for the UN and the Gates Foundation.

Jack Holmes

Jack Holmes has over a decade of experience in start-ups, project finance, and development. Previously, he led the development and financing of 49 projects in a start-up across Sierra Leone and Uganda, which electrified 60,000 people through an award-winning off-balance-sheet financing platform. He has also worked for a European solar developer that became the in-house development team for a $1.2bn pan-African industrial investment group. Jack holds a BA Hons in Geography from University College London.

Jukka Hirvenoja

Jukka has over 30 years of experience in power engineering including fluid bed boilers (BFB and CFB) and flue gas cleaning equipment for power generation, pulp mills and steel mills. His career was started with power plant lifetime extension assessments and followed with engineering, development and sales of boilers, fabric filters, ESPs, large dedusting systems, flue gas deacidification and SCR systems. Most recently he was in charge of successful development of  BFB boiler for Power Plant and Pulp Mill applications. Jukka holds a Masters degree in Thermodynamics and Material Science and is committed to produce equipment for industrial scale carbon removal. 


Kirsi Tanski

Kirsi is a business development and marketing professional specialized in horticulture and global food chains, with over twenty years of global business experience. Previously she was responsible for business strategy, business development, portfolio, and marketing of professional growing media in over 100 countries.

Becca Aspinwall

Becca has over 15 years experience advising clients in the energy and infrastructure sectors, focusing on projects across the energy transition spectrum, including renewables, energy storage, energy-from-waste, biomass, CCUS, hydrogen and electric vehicles.  Becca was previously a Legal Director for an international law firm and brings experience of leading major projects from a commercial and legal perspective.

Temitope Popoola

Temitope is a business professional with over 7 years experience in the commercial banking industry. She brings her knowledge of business processes and operations to the Carbo Culture team.

Zach Landau

Zach brings experience from large oil gas and chemical process and piping systems. He specializes in the characterization and development of both new and existing processes.

Hanna Ojanen

Hanna is a public affairs professional with a focus on EU Diplomacy. Previously, she worked as a Planning Officer at the Prime Minister’s Office in Finland and as a public policy consultant.

Sascha Habel

Most of his 12-year-long career, Sascha focused on R&D, scale-up, and commissioning for environmentally friendly separation and recycling processes, as well as equipment design related to the electroplating industry. After moving to Finland, he switched to the mining industry and was primarily responsible for mining processes and diagrams in multiple projects. Sascha holds a master’s degree in Process Engineering and will play a key role in the design and implementation of Carbo Culture’s next-stage process.

Matt Mallory

Matt is a product and market expert, and has a successful track record working with research teams and industry partners to launch new technologies at small scale startups and larger corporations. With a BSc in physics and an enthusiasm for science, he is excited about how innovation and Carbo Culture’s technology can be used to mitigate the climate crisis. 

Jessi Osorio Velasco

Jessi's focus is on applying technology from R&D into commercial applications. She brings deep research experience in the thermochemical processing of biomass, having previously worked on the production and scale-up of value-added products from renewable and waste streams. She is a chemical engineer and currently a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. 

Garrett Manley

Garrett has worked as a mechanical engineer for 10 years. He has a wealth of experience in machine design, specialty material handling, and design for manufacturability.

Siddhartha Gadiraju PhD

Siddhartha leads  R&D activities for the company to develop the process for scaling and manages the R&D team. Prior to this, he was leading an R&D team to develop burner systems and testing protocols for heat pumps. With a PhD in Mechanical Engineering, and experience in both lab-scale and industrial testing, he brings his startup experience to make an impact on fighting climate change with Carbo Culture.

Timo Hämäläinen

Timo has over 12 years experience in the mechanical engineering of industrial equipment, most recently in the minerals processing industry. He will develop our equipment design for rapid and safe scale-up. Timo holds a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and is enthusiastic to put his skills to use in mitigating the climate crisis.

Joe Plante

Joe brings ten years experience in general construction and thirteen years experience working with heavy machinery and managing shops. He has worked alongside mechanical and process engineers to develop cutting edge agricultural equipment, working on anything from simple conveyors and shuttle trucks to advanced robotics. He brings this extensive experience to aid in Carbo Culture’s mission of making a positive global impact.

Manuel Villaseñor

Manuel has worked many years in industrial mechanics and maintenance, with experience in the treatment of medical waste, industrial processing plants and fabrication. He brings these exciting skills and knowledge to the Carbo Culture R&D team.

Ilkka Taponen

Business developer with over 10 years of experience in growing hardware startups from new vegan proteins to spacetech. Ilkka leads our business development, working with partners, customers and suppliers across the carbon removal project spectrum, from energy companies to biomass operators. 

Rahul Pardasani

Rahul specialises in leading Talent Strategy and has extensive experience scaling up multiple successful growth startups in the Nordics. He brings in a passion for fostering creative, curious, and collaborative work environment and believes that great people decisions are critical for socially conscious organisations to sustain their unique commitment to profit and purpose.

Ari Pesonen

Ari is a technical specialist with extensive experience in overseeing building and execution of wide range of industrial facilities, factories, and laboratories in his career. At carbo culture, Ari leads the management of our R&D site and has the ownership of site’s operational activities such procurement, management, maintenance, inventory, reporting, and all site safety matters.

Mikko Niemelä

Mikko has an extensive background in development and maintenance of plant automation systems, and leading the discipline for instrumentation & control engineering on multiple projects in his professional career. At Carbo Culture, Mikko will be leading the designing, testing, and improving of all automation processes on our engineering systems and would play a critical role in advancing our technology. 



Jyri Rahkonen

Jyri has versatile work experience in the chemical industry with strengths in process control and operations of heated high pressurised reactors. He joins our R&D facility at Kerava and will be working as a process operator collaborating with our engineering team to ensure adequate supervision and monitoring of our production processes.

Daniel Goodman

Daniel comes from a background in engineering and entrepreneurship. For the last several years, he was the co-founder and CTO of an e-commerce indoor agriculture company, Hamama, which offers patented systems to grow food at home. Daniel brings a wide range of experience to Carbo Culture including IP creation, regulatory compliance, product development and R&D, business planning, supply chain, and manufacturing operations. Daniel received a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and a MSc from the MIT Media Lab.

Karoliina Moberg

Karoliina is an experienced marketing professional who leads the company's marketing efforts with a focus on the biochar business. She has a background in both marketing communications and horticulture. She is passionate about creating value for customers.

Pekka Järvenpää

Not all chemists wear white coats. 
Pekka works with biochar development, having more than 20 years of experience in biomaterials processing and horticulture. He is exceptionally attracted to horticultural growing media, risk assessment of material chains, sampling and analytics, along with fighting against climate change.

Valtter Koukkunen

Valtter brings a diverse professional background to the table, grounded in solid IT-service management experience from a reputable global industrial company. Alongside his IT role, he has also worked as a process operator in Finland's largest primary metal manufacturing business. This unique blend of roles reflects Valtter's adaptability, showing he can handle both the intricacies of IT service management and the practical demands of industrial operations. His varied experiences highlight his ability to navigate different domains, consistently bringing innovation and efficiency to his work.

Our team

Karen McClellan

Karen is a sustainability, energy and decarbonisation finance executive. She has been working in climate-related project finance for over three decades, as a banker and as a CFO, advisor 
or CEO for companies.

Alex Patist

Alex is a seasoned industry leader in bioprocess development and operations deployment having served in leadership positions in the biomaterial and biofuels industry for over two decades.

Advisors

Join us on our journey to remove 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

We are excited to work with industry pioneers in scaling our technology, developing new biochar applications and decarbonising the energy sector.

Our northstar mission is to remove 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide.

Our team

Advisors

Partners and collaborators

Join us on our journey to remove 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere