Jai Anderson joins Corporate Carbon - media release 28 October 2021

Growing the team in light of unprecedented demand - Jai Anderson joins Corporate Carbon

Leading carbon project developer, Corporate Carbon today announced Jai Anderson will join the company as CFO responsible for Finance and Strategy. Jai brings to the team two decades of experience in the finance industry across treasury, capital markets, venture capital and funds management.

Corporate Carbon delivers climate solutions from project development to sale of credits, ensuring emissions reductions, carbon sequestration and co-benefits for the environment, individuals and businesses.

The team is being expanded at a time when the business is seeing unprecedented demand for capital investment in emissions reduction projects. Jai will be assisting Corporate Carbon as they scale their operations and nurture some of their highly innovative incubations, focused on decarbonisation which includes carbon capture and storage.

Jai Anderson comes to Corporate Carbon having worked previously across the advisory funding value chain  at Hologram after spending nearly a decade at Rabobank looking after the bank's capital markets funding in Australia and New Zealand with formative roles at Meat & Livestock Australia, Sapien Ventures and Keiretsu Forum.

“This need to expand the team really marks a positive inflection in the growth of the company, at the same time that we are seeing global capital, community interest and government policies, all focusing on mitigating climate change through carbon abatement,” said Corporate Carbon Chair, Matthew Warnken.

“Jai's skills and expertise will greatly enhance the way that we operate and help position us for this next exciting phase of growth. He is well acquainted with the team and the business, which means it shouldn’t take him too long to make a significant impact."

“Jai has been working in an advisory capacity with us for some time and we are delighted to have someone with his skillset on board. We are seeing unprecedented demand for capital investment in emissions reduction projects, and Jai has just the right skills and networks to unlock these opportunities,” said Corporate Carbon Managing Director, Gary Wyatt.

"It gives me great pleasure to be joining Corporate Carbon, a company with a strong team of innovators who have already achieved some standout commercialisations. This is a pivotal time for carbon markets, and I am really looking forward to playing my part in helping develop the sector," said Jai.

For more information and media enquiries contact:

Jai Anderson, Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Carbon

+61 408 945 417 | jai@corporatecarbon.com.au

Gary Wyatt, Managing Director, Corporate Carbon

+61 458 567 992 | gary.wyatt@corporatecarbon.com.au

BACKGROUND

Jai Anderson has twenty years of experience in the finance industry with a proven track record of strategic funding transactions ranging from early-stage venture capital to large public multinational debt and equity executions. He was an early pioneer of sustainable bonds in Asian markets and has worked extensively with a number of highly successful cleantech and agtech companies.

Prior to joining Corporate Carbon, Jai has held investment banking roles at Rabobank, Goldman Sachs and UBS. With the last 10 years at the helm of Rabobank's Australian Funding team completing senior bond and equity issuances, which included some landmark transactions in the Australian, New Zealand and Asian markets.

More recently he has worked in venture capital with Fintech and Blockchain specialists Sapien Ventures and with one of the world's largest private investor networks Keiretsu Forum.

He spent a year working in the research, development and innovation area of red meat industry group Meat & Livestock Australia where he assisted in creating stronger investment ties with the sector which was aided by the interest in their carbon neutral 2030 program.

He holds a Bachelor of Economics from University of Sydney and an MBA (Executive) from Australian Graduate School of Management.

Corporate Carbon delivers climate solutions from project development to sale of credits, ensuring emissions reductions, carbon sequestration and co-benefits for the environment, individuals and businesses. It has been instrumental in demonstrating the commercial viability of capturing CO2 in agricultural soils. It created the first soil carbon credits under the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) and through its spin-off company (AgriProve) has registered more than 75% of all soil carbon projects under the ERF.

Delivering more than 8.8 million ACCUs to the Clean Energy Regulator and commercial clients, Corporate Carbon has expertise in managing Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) delivery risks, navigating complex policy, legislation and regulatory compliance, and a track record in developing novel processes, methods and supporting technologies to assist in their activities.