Realigning the Economics of Agriculture
Our Team
We are a bunch of developers, ecologists, scientists and designers from all over the world, connected by our common purpose of planetary regeneration. Feel free to connect with us.
Christian Shearer
Chief Executive Officer
Christian has been working in ecological agriculture for 15 years, primarily with farmers in Southeast Asia. As a co-founder of Terra Genesis, he has worked with natural products brands, helping them to invest into creating regenerative supply systems. Christian is passionate about accelerating the adoption of regenerative agriculture.
Aaron Craelius
Chief Technical Officer
Aaron has worked in a wide range of areas including desktop programming in C++ and C#, back-end and front-end web development, and embedded and FPGA work. As an avid environmentalist, harnessing the technology to benefit the planet and its inhabitants has been a long-time dream.
Gregory Landua
Chief Regeneration Officer
Gregory is co-author of Regenerative Enterprise and co-creator of the 8-forms of capital framework. Gregory is a Regenerative Agriculture Practitioner and farmer. As co-founder and CEO of Terra Genesis International, he has helped grow an ecosystem of organizations dedicated to regenerative agriculture.
Ethan Frey
Lead Developer
Ethan Frey has years of experience in distributed systems, cryptography, customer-oriented web design, and blockchain. And a strong desire to build something meaningful to humankind. He is delighted to combine these passions at Regen Network.
Clare Politano
Developer
Clare is a software engineer dedicated to a regenerative future. She is the co-founder of PayCheck, a transparency and pay equity platform. Clare previously worked in refugee resettlement, sustainable manufacturing, and nutrition and food advocacy.
Pete Farmer
Developer
After nearly thirty years of software development, mostly in finance and insurance, the telco sector, and several tech startups, Pete finds that plying his craft in the service of planetary regeneration to be refreshingly worthwhile. He supports front and back-end development activities.
Alyssa Pace
Marketing and Communications
Passionate about food systems, sustainability, and justice, Alyssa supports Regen Network marketing and communications to excite the public about blockchain's potential to build a better world while respecting the deep-rooted wisdom of global farmers.
Kyle Birchard
Ecological Economist
Kyle works at the intersection of economics and natural resource management. In recent years, he has helped estimate the benefits of watershed restoration in the San Francisco Bay, measured the impacts of drought on agriculture in arid lands, and provided support for an environmental finance initiative in Washington state.
Ron Steinherz
VP Partnerships
Daniel Swid
Head of Design
Daniel has contributed to the foundational success of 5 technology startups and has worked in Silicon Valley, Israel, and Asia Pacific. At VMware R&D he founded the prototyping practice and has a gift for scaling and accelerating early stage teams.
Dr. Gisel Booman
Science Lead
With a PhD in Landscape Ecology, Dr. Booman leads the integration process between the Ecological Protocol development and the current state of remote sensing.
Brecht Deriemaeker
Co-founder, Engineer
Brecht is a seasoned field engineer with a love for appropriate technology, previously with The Blueprint Alliance. Strong focus on systems design and rapid iterative testing. MS Electromechanical Engineering, MS Industrial & Product Design.
Garrette Furo
Partnerships and Business Development
Garrette is an early adopter of digital assets and decentralization who specializes in financial products and financial technology related to blockchain technology. Garrette has supported the public and private sector on related matters and his clients have included mature ventures, bulge-bracket banks and family offices.
David Fortson
Marketing
David is the co-founder and CEO of LoaCom, a movement and marketing firm working with better world companies. David and the LoaCom team joined the Regen Network team to support marketing, movement-building capacity, events, fund development, and strategy.
Will Szal
President of the Board
Will is based in rural Massachusetts and has a background in gift economics and local food systems. Within Regen he heads up Hiring & HR, Legal & Accounting, Economics, Regen Foundation, and serves as President of the Board of Directors of the corporation.
Sara Johnstone
Investor Relations
Sara is a recovering tech consultant with a background in marketing, operations, community management, strategy and business development who recently found her way into regenerative agriculture. Sara is committed to redirecting capital to solutions that heal ourselves and the planet. She is thrilled to be supporting Regen Network with investor relations.
Sarah Baxendell
Director of Philanthropic Partnerships
Sarah brings a decade of relationship building with philanthropic partners through her role designing, planning, funding, and implementing food supply projects and urban ecological interventions. She was most recently the Executive Director of Hilltop Urban Farm, the largest urban farming project in the United States.
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Our Advisors
Regen Network is at the intersection between many different fields, from blockchain technology to remote sensing and biology. In developing Regen Network, we're drawing on the knowledge of experts in each of these fields.
Jae Kwon
CEO & Founder - Tendermint + All in Bits, Inc
Brian Fox
Open Source and Technology Architecture
Alex Kehaya
Market Fit and Business Development
Gustav Simonsson
Blockchain and Security
Ben Best
Environmental Data Scientist
Greg Austic
Open Hardware
Rick Dudley
Blockchain Architecture
Board of Directors
The board of directors for the Regen Foundation helps steward the Regen community.
Amanda Ravenhill
Non-profit Admin
Dorn Cox
Open Data for Agriculture
Gregory Landua
Chief Regeneration Officer
Will Szal
Economics
Our Partners
These amazing companies are helping us bring Regen Network to life.
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