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Field ecology, energy markets, and structured finance.

Our chief scientist led ecological recovery across more than a million acres. Our advisors built the biomethane market in Brazil and run a Power-to-X hub in Denmark. The people who run the structuring, the field operations, and the measurement have done it at scale before.

Leadership
The Sovereign Land leadership team in New Mexico
Stephen Crouch
Stephen Crouch

CFO

20 years structuring P&Ls and capital stacks across industrial manufacturing, building products, and energy systems.

Charles Curtin
Charles Curtin

Chief Scientist

Landscape ecologist. Led science programs spanning 3M+ acres across the Malpai Borderlands, NM and Blackfoot Valley, MT. Chairs the New Mexico Biomass Working Group. Designed the ecological intervention framework.

Gon Zifroni
Gon Zifroni

Founder & CEO

15 years scaling industry cloud platforms at Autodesk and VMware Pivotal.

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Terry Harris
Terry Harris

Ecosystem SPV Lead, State of New Mexico

30+ years rural development and financial structuring. Built the NM coalition, tribal, county, state, federal.

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Ben Adolph

Merge Impact, Ground-Level MRV, New Mexico

Ground-level MRV: bioacoustics, soil sensors, and biodiversity monitoring. Standardised carbon-unit methodology via Global Carbon Standards. Habitat-density leading indicators endorsed through the UN Biodiversity Forum.

Fabrício Peres
Fabrício Peres

Field Research Lead, Iberian Peninsula

Decade in management consulting, 14 years at a global crop science leader across sugar cane, coffee, rice, soy, maize, and sorghum: Latin America strategy lead, sugarcane business unit lead, founded and led company-wide sustainability program. Deep networks across Iberian and Latin American research institutes. Direct relationship with Brazil’s largest farmer cooperative for regenerative agriculture (500,000+ member farmers). Operational risk assessment, program design, and field-level structuring across global deployments.

Advisors
Marcio Schittini
Marcio Schittini

Advisor, Bioenergy Markets

Pioneered Brazil’s biogas-to-biomethane market over 15 years. Co-founded Acesa Bioenergia and founded Ecometano. Council member of the Brazilian Biogas & Biomethane Association (ABiogás) since 2015. Advises on bioenergy market formation and offtake.

Hanne Klintøe
Hanne Klintøe

Advisor, Power-to-X

Heads Power-to-X development for Aabenraa, home of the Kassø plant where Laura Maersk became the first container ship to bunker green methanol. The cluster she builds is now expanding under the European Hydrogen Bank, part of Germany’s €1.3B cross-border hydrogen auction. Advises on municipal alignment for integrated bio-facility hubs.

Rob Avis
Rob Avis

Fifth World, Ecosystem SPV Lead, North America and Gulf Region

Petroleum engineer turned regenerative designer. Co-founded Verge Permaculture and has trained over 5,000 practitioners in regenerative land design.

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