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EQX Biome (owned by EQX Investor Capital LLC) describes itself on its homepage as "Bringing Wall Street to the Fight for Nature."<ref>https://www.eqxse.com/</ref> It includes among its advisory team multiple former executives of [[JP Morgan Chase]], the #1 bank funding fossil fuels.

<blockquote>Financial markets are perhaps humanity’s most powerful invention — seated at the core of capitalism, they have the power to mobilize unfathomable amounts of capital towards valuable endeavors.</blockquote>

= Leadership =

== Team ==

* CEO + Founder: Dr. Matthias M. Pitkowitz - Former M&A + Capital Markets Lawyer at [[Cravath, Swaine & Moore]]

* Trust + Compliance: Jon Flaute - Former Head of Compliance Programs @ [[UBS]]; Director of Compliance at [[CitiBank]]; and Regulatory Compliance at [[Brown Brothers Harriman]]

* Biodiversity Finance: Sophie van Berchem - Formerly Strategic Research and Data Analytics at [[World Resources Institute]]<ref>https://www.eqxse.com/team-overview</ref>

== Advisors ==

* Peter A. Georgescu - Chairman Emeritus & Former CEO of [[Young & Rubicam]], [[WPP Group]]'s advertising and media services unit whose client partners have included corporate polluters [[BAE Systems]], [[Chevron]], [[Ford Motor Company]], and [[Philip Morris]]<ref>https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Young_%26_Rubicam</ref>

* D. Ronald Daniel - Senior Partner Emeritus & former Global Managing Partner at [[McKinsey & Company]], a funder of [[ALEC]]<ref>https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=McKinsey_%26_Company</ref> which showcased [[Enron]] as its model company for years (during which time it was McKinsey's principal client).<ref>http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_07_22_a_talent.htm</ref>

* William F. Cruger - Former Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at [[JP Morgan Chase]], the #1 bank investing in fossil fuels

* Robert Kissell - A Former Executive Director of [[JP Morgan Chase]]

* Neal Sheory - A Business Vice President of major polluter [[DowDuPont]]

* John Seethoff - Former Corporate Secretary, Vice President & Deputy General Counsel at [[Microsoft]]

* Lara Birkes - Former Head of Strategic Initiative & G20 at the [[World Economic Forum]] & Former VP, Chief Sustainability Officer at [[Hewlett Packard]]<ref>https://www.eqxse.com/advisors</ref>

= Congo Basin Credits =

As reported by [[The Guardian]] on Mar 1, 2023:

<blockquote>A New York investment firm is to launch a $400m (£334m) bid for oil concessions in the Congo basin rainforest and Virunga national park with plans to turn them into conservation projects, the Guardian can reveal.

EQX Biome, a biodiversity fintech company, has sent an expression of interest to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) government for 27 oil exploration blocks put up for auction last July, some of which are in critical ecosystems.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/01/us-firm-bid-turn-drc-oil-concessions-virunga-park-into-conservation-projects-aoe</ref></blockquote>

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