Arthur Chow is a Vice President at S2G Ventures. Arthur supports the Food & Agriculture strategy, focusing on consumer brands, marketplaces, and automation across the supply chain. His responsibilities include evaluating and executing investments as well as managing and supporting portfolio companies.

Arthur began his career in investment banking at UBS and later joined Frontenac, a middle market private equity firm, where he focused on food and consumer buyouts. Seeking operating experience, he worked for the Kraft Heinz Company and managed a $2 billion commercial P&L within the Foodservice business unit. Arthur then joined S2G prior to pursuing his MBA, where he primarily spent time working with several early-stage consumer-focused food companies including Tovala, Once Upon a Farm, and Dom’s Kitchen and Market.

Arthur received a BBA from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business with Highest Distinction and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Melanie Nakagawa is Microsoft’s Chief Sustainability Officer. Ms. Nakagawa has spent nearly 2 decades at the nexus of policy, business and technology where she has been committed to using the power of technology and innovation to advance sustainability. Ms. Nakagawa leads Microsoft’s ambitious plans to become a carbon negative, water positive, and zero waste company. She most recently served as Special Assistant to President Biden and Senior Director for Climate and Energy on the National Security Council at the White House. Prior to the White House, she helped launch Princeville Capital's inaugural global growth equity climate technology fund investing in companies delivering transformative solutions to climate change. Ms. Nakagawa received a J.D. and M.A. from American University and A.B from Brown University.

To win the fight for our planet, this planet - the ONLY planet - the climate movement must be powered by racial justice. That is the reason why Ebony got involved in the environmental justice movement.As a visionary strategist, operations, and program design leader with proven success in building and leading interdisciplinary teams, Ebony leads cultural change to foster justice, equity, diversity and inclusion. She is a mother, wife and daughter. Now, as the current Executive Director at the largest national legacy environmental organization Ebony is a champion for advancing racial and environmental justice. As she continues to expand her focus to include protecting people’s voting rights and ensuring that everybody is able to participate in our democracy, she knows there is no climate justice without racial justice. As a longtime justice strategist, Ebony is leading Greenpeace in the fight to dismantle systems of oppression and engage more Black and Brown communities in this work — so that there can truly be a greener, more peaceful, more just world for all.

Jon is co-founder and CEO of FootPrint Coalition Ventures, an environmentally sustainable technology VC he started in partnership with Robert Downey Jr. and Steve Levin. Jon previously started and monetized several VC backed sustainable tech companies including ColdWatt (sold to Flex), Glori Energy (IPO on Nasdaq), and Motivate (sold to Lyft). In addition to his cleantech work, Jon is an active technology angel investor and serves on the Board of Saturn Technologies. He is also non-executive chairman of GTI Capital Group, a permanent capital investment company he started while living in New Delhi. Jon is active as an iMentor in New York City and sits on the Urban Resiliency Board for the New York City Partnership. Jon holds a law degree from Stanford, and attended Dartmouth College.

As Director, Sustainability and ESG at United Airlines, Frannie is responsible for leading the development and implementation of sustainability initiatives as part of United's overall global environmental strategy. She leads a team of professionals and technical experts focusing on United’s ESG strategy, value chain, and strategic customer engagement with the objective of driving progress towards meeting United's climate ambitions. This portfolio supports United’s pledge to be 100% Green by 2050 and the communications and disclosures that tell United’s climate story with integrity, transparency and consistency. Frannie is a business leader focused on not only addressing and mitigating environmental risks and reducing long-term liability, but also advancing strategic initiatives with a focus on environmental sustainability and resiliency. Frannie has worked in a wide range of market sectors across the country, leading various cross-functional initiatives that yield environmental and operational benefits. Frannie has earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies with a concentration on environmental science from St. Norbert College. She currently resides in the Chicagoland area with her husband and two small children, who are her daily reminders that tomorrow’s promise is held in the work we do today, and that we must act now to provide younger generations with an opportunity to thrive.

Jerome Foster II is an African-American environmental justice advocate, consultant, motivational speaker who strives to create transformative structural social and environmental change through art, technology, and policy for good. He is currently the Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of Waic Up, an organization mobilizing a campaign to get one million young to register to vote in the upcoming 2024 elections called OneMillionOfUs and using the power of journalism to spread awareness of critical social issues. He is also the youngest-ever White House Environmental Justice Advisory Councilmember, advising the Biden Presidency alongside a council of community organizers and scientific experts developing policy recommendations on environmental justice and issues affecting the health and well-being of people and the natural environment. Jerome is driven by the promise of a world which lives by the ideals of economic, social, and environmental reciprocity and equity. With a background in software engineering and virtual reality development, He has also been recognized with multiple awards and honors, such as the Defender of Science Award, the Youth Environmental Champion Award, and the World Series of Entrepreneurship. His experience in climate activism extends further via his work with National Geographic, where we journeyed across Iceland as a Climatology Researcher and Virtual Reality Engineer.

Kate Brandt serves as Google’s Chief Sustainability Officer and leads sustainability across Google’s worldwide operations, products and supply chains. In this role, Kate partners with Google’s data centers, real estate, supply chain, and product teams to ensure the company is capitalizing on opportunities to strategically advance sustainability. Previously Kate served as the United States’s first Federal Chief Sustainability Officer. In this capacity, she was responsible for promoting sustainability across Federal Government operations including 360,000 buildings, 650,000 vehicles, and $445 billion annually in purchased goods and services.Prior to the White House, Kate held several senior roles in the U.S. Federal Government including Senior Advisor at the Department of Energy, Director for Energy and Environment in the White House Office of Presidential Personnel, and Energy Advisor to the Secretary of the Navy. Kate is the recipient of the Distinguished Public Service Award, the highest award the U.S. Navy can give to a civilian, for her work helping the Navy go green. Fortune Magazine named Kate to their 40 Under 40 list in 2021 and Outside Magazine also named her, in honor of the magazine’s 40-year anniversary, as one of 40 women who has made the biggest impact on our world. Kate serves on the boards of BSR, Restor, and the Corporate Eco Forum. Kate received a Masters degree in International Relations from the University of Cambridge where she was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. She graduated with honors from Brown University.

Xiye Bastida, a 21-year-old Mexican climate activist, is a Mother Earth defender, mobilizer, high level speaker, author, and thought leader. Hailing from the Otomi-Toltec Indigenous community in Central Mexico, she has been actively involved in organizing climate strikes and protests since 2019, co-organizing the largest climate strike in New York City with 300,000 participants. In 2020, she co-founded the Re-Earth Initiative, focusing on providing resources and knowledge to frontline communities. Xiye's advocacy led her to address world leaders at the Biden Climate Summit in 2021 and at the annual UN Climate Conference, emphasizing the importance of climate justice, youth engagement, and a just transition. She also serves as a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Champion and a Climate Governance Commissioner. Xiye authored the first chapter of the "All We Can Save Anthology" and was recognized by the United Nations with the U.N. Spirit Award. In 2023, she was named ELLE Woman of the Year, and ambassador to the U.N. High Level Champions. She is TIME100 Next 2023 and has given the keynote speech at the International Day of Peace 2023.Xiye is an honor's student at the University of Pennsylvania and is the Executive Producer in an upcoming climate documentary.

Aaron is a carbon removal entrepreneur. He’s a three-time founder and Breakthrough Energy Fellow. His past experiences also include fellowships with Prime Coalition and Carbon 180 and a stint in politics working in the United States Senate. As CEO at Mars,  he's motivated by the company's mission to remove and sequester greenhouse gasses into the industrial supply chain. Outside of his work in carbon removal, Aaron provides business mentorship to black women, queer people of color and other underrepresented groups.