Roberta Mazzariol is a seasoned investment banker and lawyer with over 30 years of experience advising on complex cross-border transactions, including M&A, capital raising, and strategic partnerships. She led more than 100 transactions totaling over $50 billion in aggregate value across multiple sectors, leveraging her expertise to structure deals that align financial growth with environmental impact.

As founder of Adamas Carbon, she oversees the development of innovative market-based solutions for climate action, including the monetization of carbon credits, renewable energy certificates, and other ESG-linked instruments..

As a Senior Managing Director of Atlas Advisors, Ms. Mazzariol worked with corporates, investors, and governments. Her work bridges traditional investment banking with the evolving global sustainability marketplace. Previously, Ms. Mazzariol was an investment banker at J.P. Morgan, where she executed high-profile M&A transactions in the consumer and industrial sectors, and began her career in corporate finance at General Motors’ Treasury Department.

She is a L.L.M. candidate at Columbia University with concentration in environmental law, holds an M.B.A. from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business and a J.D. from the University of São Paulo Law School, Brazil.

Mr. Bocresion a senior financial services professional with 30+ years of experience gained in investment banking, private equity, fintech investing and public accounting who has advised institutional investors, corporates, emerging companies and sovereigns on transactions and strategy. He worked with a global client base, including many of the leading private equity firms, and originated and completed transactions valued in excess of $74bn.

Mr. Bocresion is a Co-Founder of Adamas Carbon, LLC focused on the project development, structuring, monetization and asset management of environmental attributes. Mr. Bocresion brings extensive experience working with institutional investors, buyers and project developers around the world in the development, structuring, financing and sale of carbon credits around the world.

Between 2009 and 2019 Mr. Bocresion was the Managing Partner of Aeneas Holdings, LLC, a merchant banking firm. From 2012 to 2014,  he co-founded and served as the Chief Investment Officer of Copia Agribusiness, LLC, a private equity fund focused on investing across the agribusiness value chain in select Sub-Saharan African countries

Between 1993 and 2008 Mr. Bocresion worked as an investment banker at JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch and Atlas Advisors. From 1986 to 1991, Mr. Bocresion worked at KPMG Peat Marwick and Laventhol and Horwath in New York.

Mr. Bocresion received an MBA from The Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College in 1993 and a BSBA from Boston University in 1986. Mr. Bocresion also sits on the Board of Directors of StoneCastle Partners, LLC. Mr. Bocresion was also a Senior Non-Resident Fellow of the Policy Center for the New South between 2015 and 2107.

Ricardo Martiniski is a Managing Director at Adamas Carbon, where he supports clients in structuring and monetizing carbon credits and other environmental attributes within global sustainability markets. Mr. Martiniski collaborates with corporates, project developers, and investors to design innovative financing strategies that leverage carbon markets to drive both environmental impact and financial performance.

Mr. Martiniski also serves as a Managing Director at Atlas Advisors, where he has worked on strategic M&A, capital raising, and cross-border advisory with solutions that advance climate goals and ESG commitments. Over his career, Mr. Martiniski has advised on more than 45 transactions with an aggregate enterprise value exceeding US$15 billion, bringing expertise in sectors undergoing energy transition and decarbonization.

Prior to joining Atlas Advisors, Mr. Martiniski worked at Lazard Frères in São Paulo, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and strategic advisory transactions across Latin America, including work in energy, natural resources, consumer, and industrial sectors. He began his career as an investment banking analyst at Violy & Company, a boutique investment bank specializing in Latin America.

Mr. Martiniski holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo – Fundação Getulio Vargas (EAESP-FGV), one of Latin America’s leading business schools.

Raul Ramirez-Diaz is a finance student at Baruch College and an intern at Adamas Carbon. He turns complex carbon market data into decision-ready insights by building research pipelines, automating data cleaning and enrichment in Python and Power Query, and maintaining centralized datasets that support analysis across projects and transactions. Previously, he completed internships in consulting and investment banking, contributing to analytics, financial modeling, and client-ready materials. He has a growing interest in data-driven climate solutions and the intersection of markets and sustainability.

Dr Vera Songwe is Chair and Founder of the Liquidity and Sustainability Facility. She is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution for Global Development. Dr Songwe was also a senior advisor to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). At the BIS, the “bank of central banks,” she worked with the Financial Stability Institute.

Dr Songwe is a global climate champion. She is the co-chair of the “Independent High Level Expert Panel on Climate Finance,” where she has supported the government of the UK and Egypt for COP27 and also for Egypt and the UAE under COP28 alongside Lord Nick Stern. Under these COP presidencies, they authored the “Songwe-Stern Report on Climate Finance” as well as the report on “Accelerating Implementation of Climate Finance.” She co-chaired the “Task Force Clima Independent Group of Experts on Climate Finance” for the Brazilian G20. She also co-authored the report “Financing Nature: A Transformative Agenda,” launched at COP28. Dr. Songwe is a co-chair of the “Food System Economics Commission,” an independent interdisciplinary academic commission that equips political and economic decision-makers with tools and evidence to shift food and land use systems.

Dr Songwe is the former United Nations Under-Secretary General and the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). In this role, she led work in many areas, including macroeconomic stability, private sector development, the African Continental Free Trade Agreement, digital Africa, structural transformation, energy, and Africa’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr Songwe has led numerous efforts to bring greater prosperity to Africa. She has worked with African heads of government, Ministers of Finance and Central Bank governors, international organizations, and the private sector on the issuance of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), monetary policy, financial innovation and inclusion growth, economic integration and trade, and private sector development.  She is a globally recognized and respected leader in her field and has contributed policy advice to many continental and institutional leaders worldwide. She served as a member of the G20 Independent Expert group on MDB reform co-chaired by Larry Summers and NK Singh.

Previously, Songwe was the Regional Director of the International Finance Corporation, covering West and Central Africa.  She oversaw a multi-billion-dollar portfolio of investments in energy, transportation, banking, manufacturing, and technology.

Prior to this, she held a number of roles at the World Bank, including serving as Country Director, Adviser to the Managing Director for Africa, Europe, and Central and South Asia. She spent 10 years of her career working and living in Asia. She joined the World Bank as a Young Professional. Prior to joining the Bank, she was a Visiting Researcher at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minnesota and at the University of Southern California.

Songwe was named one of 2023’s “8 Women with a New Vision for Earth” by the Global Landscapes Forum. She was the recipient of the 2023 International Economic Association Fellow Award as well as the 2023 Woman Pioneer Award awarded by GIMAC. Songwe was named African Icon of the year in 2022 by the African Bankers Association for her work on SDRs, inflation, debt management, and domestic resource mobilization. She was named one of the “100 Most Influential Africans” by Jeune Afrique in 2021 as well the top 50 most influential African Women by Forbes magazine in 2019 and by the Financial Times as among 25 Africans to watch.

She holds a PhD in Mathematical Economics from the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, a Master of Arts in Law and Economics and a Diplôme d’études approfondies in Economic Science and Politics from Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. She also was presented with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in December of 2022 and holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science, both from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.