Tim Nixon

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Tim Nixon is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Signal Climate Analytics. He is an ongoing research contributor to Reuters News and serves on the judging panel for the Reuters Sustainable Business Awards. He is the Founder and served as Managing Editor of the Sustainability thought-leadership platform at Thomson Reuters. He is a Founder and Knowledge Partner to the United Nations Science, Business & Policy Forum, and is a member of the United Nations Expert Group, Data for the Environment Alliance (DEAL).  He led a multi-year initiative of research collaboration with the Calvert Center for Responsible Investing.  Tim is an innovator for positive change by nature and has a decades-long record of building impactful products and initiatives across legal and financial services businesses.

Iain Sprigman

Research Director

Iain Sprigman's expertise lies in devising novel analytical methodologies for assessing ESG transformations within various sectors, with the dual aim of guiding investors and informing corporate strategies. His acumen in data analytics, strategic business planning, and ESG initiatives is dedicated to providing actionable insights that encourage responsible investment practices within industries with high carbon footprints.

Iain is an alumnus of New York University, where he amalgamated studies in Entrepreneurship, Business, ESG, and Environmental Sustainability with a minor philosophical inquiry. His academic journey extended into a teaching assistantship at Yale's Executive MBA program, focusing on Sustainable Finance, and was complemented by achieving certification as a Sustainable Finance Analyst from the WSFA.

Dr. David Lubin

Senior Advisor

David Lubin has more than 25 years of experience successfully founding and managing technology and consulting firms that have become world leaders in the field of corporate performance management, business analytics, and new media. David Lubin previously Co-Founded Constellation Research & Technology and served as it’s Managing Director.

Dr. Lubin served as Chairman of the Sustainability Innovators Working Group, a research consortium established by David Lubin and Professor Daniel C Esty of Yale University. In that role, Dr. Lubin directed a large-scale research effort in which world-leading firms such as IBM, Unilever, Federal Express, Microsoft, and many others worked collaboratively on new models for developing and executing corporate sustainability strategy. In addition, Dr. Lubin directed a research study for the IFC / World Bank entitled, Assessing and Unlocking the Value of Emerging Market Sustainability Indices.

Dr. Lubin served as Chairman of the Board of Palladium Group, a firm he founded with David Norton (the Balanced Scorecard) in 2005, whose mission is advancing applications of business analytics to improve corporate performance. Prior to Palladium, he co-founded Renaissance Solutions, Inc. in 1991. Renaissance went public in 1995  and grew to become a global IT and management consulting firm employing over 6000 people. Prior to Renaissance, Dr. Lubin was Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Spectrum Interactive, Inc. Spectrum launch in 1981, was a leading pioneer in the field of multi-media hardware, software, and applications in online learning and electronic merchandising. Spectrum was venture capital financed and ultimately successfully acquired in 1989.

Before beginning his career in business, Dr. Lubin was a member of the faculties at both Tufts and Harvard University. David Lubin received his Doctorate at Harvard University in Human Development in 1977.  He continues to advise venture and private equity funds, as well as non-profit organizations. He is a frequent speaker and writer, including a seminal article in Harvard Business Review entitled, The Sustainability Imperative (David Lubin and Dan Esty, HBR, May 2010) and Bridging the Sustainability Gap, MIT Sloan Review, 2014.  He was also the Principal Contributor to the UN PRI and UN Global Compact report entitled the Value Driver Model.

Christopher Mangieri

Co-Founder & Strategic Advisor

Chris Mangieri is a Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor of Signal Climate Analytics and previously Co-Founded Constellation Research & Technology. He is an entrepreneur and a co-author of multiple climate-related reports, including an upcoming United Nations Environment Programme GEO for Business report on future-proofing infrastructure for climate resilience. Chris is an expert in climate data analytics, data integration, and sector-based decarbonization. He spent time as an environmental engineer at Langan Engineering where he worked on the Hudson Yards redevelopment project in NYC. He completed his M.S. in Sustainability Management with a concentration in Finance from Columbia University and holds a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Vermont.

Robert Jenkins

Co-Founder & Senior Strategic Advisor

Bob has over 25 years experience in the Financial Services and Asset Management industries having served in numerous executive and investment management roles at Fidelity Investments in addition to time spent as a strategy consultant in the Asset Management/FIG practice of McKinsey & Company.  As the Global Head of Research and Mutual Funds at Refinitiv, Bob oversees the Lipper fund analytics business propositions and investment research functions. Bob also serves on the Investment Committee of Refinitiv overseeing the firm’s global defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans.

Additionally, Bob is a member of the Investment Advisory Committee of Betterment - a large robo-advisor - for whom he works closely thinking through investment product and strategy particularly involving their ESG/SRI offerings. Over his career, he has held FINRA Series 4, 7, 8, 9/10, 24 and 63 General Securities licenses and has served as a General Securities Principal and as a Senior Registered Options Principal.  In addition to numerous speaking events and financial media appearances, he has authored several white papers on topics such as Retirement Investing, Investment Policy and Portfolio Manager Selection.

Claudine Schneider

Senior Advisor

Serving in policy, executive and consulting roles, solving the climate crisis has been part of Ms. Schneider’s DNA since her service in the U.S. Congress, where she introduced the first comprehensive, and only revenue-neutral Global Warming Prevention Act. The least-cost energy approach has long dominated her policy priorities and she authored and passed into law the first Appliance Efficiency Standards (Energy Star Program)

Among many other activities since then, she has briefed Margaret Thatcher on climate and led a BBC climate film with Prince Charles.

Ms. Schneider co-founded Energia Global, an energy efficiency and renewable energy company focused in Costa Rica, enabling it to become one of the least energy intensive countries in the world.

As Senior VP of Econergy, she led the effort to recruit 50 Fortune 500 corporations (From Target to Tiffany’s, from Bank of America to  Baxter International)to sign a contract with EPA committing to reducing their 6 GHGs.

Now, she is working with Signal Climate Analytics and is committed to solving this challenge! In April 2019, the New York Times profiled her long track record on climate leadership in an article entitled “When Did Moral Clarity Become Radical?”

To learn more about Ms. Schneider’s climate-related accomplishments, awards and honors, skills, employment history, and board service, please view her resume here.

Jackson Robinson

Senior Advisor

Raised on the model homestead for The Have More Plan, a back-to-the-land book on self-sufficiency authored by his parents that enjoyed 22 re-printings, Jack grew up learning about gardening, recycling, alternative energy, and small-scale livestock. These early lessons are important factors in Jack’s personal and professional life. After graduating from Brown University, Jack entered the financial services industry in Boston working in banking, brokerage, and then money management. The combination of these experiences gave Jack a foundation in fundamental research, quantitative techniques, and technical analysis.

In 1983, Jack founded Winslow Management with the primary mission of providing green investment services to individual and institutional clients. After several years of managing environmentally responsible portfolios and discovering how they often outperformed unscreened portfolios, he decided in 1991 to focus exclusively on green investing. Under Jack's leadership, the firm developed a unique growth investing style and become widely recognized as a leader in the green investing field.

In March 2009, Winslow merged with Brown Advisory where Jack was a Partner and the Head of Sustainability Strategies. As the founder and portfolio manager of the Winslow Green Growth Fund, Jack led the conversion of the fund into what is today the Brown Sustainable Growth Fund (BIAWX).

In 2015, after mentoring Brown Advisory on the path for success in sustainable investing, Jack rejoined several of his fellow Winslow colleagues at Trillium Asset Management, the first American firm dedicated to SRI investing.  Here Jack was Vice-Chair, sat on the investment committee, and co-managed the Sustainable Opportunities Strategy.  Jack remained with Trillium until July of 2020 when the firm merged with Perpetual Limited (PPT) of Australia.

Cary Krosinsky

Senior Advisor

Cary Krosinsky is a widely respected educator, author and advisor teaching popular classes at universities such as Yale, NYU and Brown University. 

He was a member of the NY State Common Decarbonization Advisory Panel appointed by Governor Cuomo and Comptroller DiNapoli which during 2018-19 informed the fund’s June 2019 Climate Action Plan and which is now actively implementing his suggestion of minimum standards. 

His latest, 7th book, Modern China, calls for better relations between China and the West for the sake of solving climate change, produced with the Sustainable Finance Institute where he is Co-founder and which is bringing Western methods of sustainable finance to Asia.  His earlier books are considered seminal and helped steer the sustainable investing industry from negative approaches towards positive strategies.

He is also author/co-author of numerous papers on the intersection of finance and the necessary sustainability transition, and is co-founder of Real Impact Tracker, the Carbon Tracker Initiative and advises in numerous capacities, recently to The Metals Company which merged into a SPAC at a valuation of US$2.8B.