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Jonathan Goldberg

Jonathan Goldberg

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With over 15 years of experience in energy investing and project finance, Jonathan Goldberg is the founder and CEO of Carbon Direct, a first of a kind company that scales the negative emissions industries to combat climate change. Prior to launching Carbon Direct, Goldberg founded BBL Commodities, a commodity hedge fund. He started his career at J. Aron, the commodities division of Goldman Sachs, and was then a partner at Glencore, managing the firm’s US derivative business prior to its IPO. Mr. Goldberg’s focus on climate change and negative emissions continues through his work at Columbia University where he sits on the board of the Center on Global Energy Policy.

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