Our Team
Advisors
CEO at World Cement Association
Ian Riley
After graduating from Cambridge University in 1979, Mr. Riley worked in a number of management roles in the UK, the USA, Australia and Japan before moving to China in 1998. He was General Manager of a British project management and consulting firm, based in Shanghai and also Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai before joining Holcim/Huaxin in 2006.
As Huaxin VP responsible for international business, strategy and sustainability, he oversaw Huaxin’s first overseas venture in Tajikistan. Mr. Riley was Greater China Country Head for LafargeHolcim from 2014 to 2019. He has been CEO of WCA since September 1, 2019.
Advisor to Carbon Upcycling Technologies
Mark Hornett
Member of the Kimmeridge Energy Advisory Board. Kimmeridge is a Private Equity group based in New York.
Prior to 2021 Mark worked for Kimmeridge in the positions of Chief Operating Officer of Kimmeridge Energy’s Operations Group and Managing Director of International assets.
Before Kimmeridge, he was President of a publicly traded German energy company. Mark’s career has been primarily in the energy sector and has worked both domestically and internationally he has held a variety of senior management roles. He has worked with teams that have built start up companies through to successful exit.
CEO at Carbonomics, LLC
Seth Baruch
Seth specializes in the development of carbon offset methodologies. Seth also guides companies through the entire process of generating a carbon credit — from project inception to verification and issuance. The offset methodologies developed by Seth are reducing tens of millions of tons of GHG emissions per year.
Seth also developed the first two carbon offset protocols related to carbon capture and utilization, including CO2 injection in concrete.
Prior to Carbonomics, Seth founded a carbon advisory consulting company, which was sold to Climate Change Capital in 2007.