Board of Directors

  • Lord Aamer Sarfraz

    EXECUTIVE CHAIR

    Founder of NetZeroAg - 17 years of investment and entrepreneurial experience. Member of the UK House of Lords

  • Ali Erfan

    CO-FOUNDER

    25 years of investment experience, former senior partner at 3i group

  • Dr Bob Zeigler

    DIRECTOR

    Former Director General of the International Rice Research Institute, 30 years experience in agriculture in the developing world

  • Richard Atterbury

    DIRECTOR

    28 years investment banking experience with leadership roles at Nomura, Lehman and Morgan Stanley

  • Hamid Jourabchi

    DIRECTOR

    25 years experience in investment and finance, leadership roles at family offices, Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, CMB

Technology and Carbon

  • Professor Paul Palmer

    HEAD OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE

    Academic career at Bristol, Harvard, Edinburgh, Oxford in Earth Observation

  • Dr Jerome Woodwark CEng MIMechE

    HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION

    Academic career at Cambridge and Edinburgh in Earth Observation

  • Pinar Ozturk

    CARBON ADVISOR

    Formerly Gold Standard, Sustaincert, World Bank

  • Dr Reiner Wassmann

    Field Measurement Advisor

    Formerly Head of Climate, IRRI

    Co-recipient of the IPCC 2007 Nobel Prize award

Operations

  • Ali Tariq

    COUNTRY CEO, PAKISTAN

    Part of NetZeroAg founding team, 21 years experience working with low-income communities on development projects

  • Dr Riaz Mann

    SENIOR AGRONOMIST

    Part of NetZeroAg founding team, 41 years experience as an agronomist

  • Zafar Iqbal

    HEAD OF SUSTAINABILITY

    12 years experience working with smallholder farming communities

  • Ihsan Khan

    VP LOGISTICS

    12 years experience in community development projects, 5 years of international logistics

  • Jahanzeb Akram

    VP FINANCE

    12 years of experience with the founding team

Experienced field team