Our team
Meet the team
Meet who is behind Tero Carbon
We are a team with multi-disciplinary experience in the areas of forestry, software, communication and technology united by the purpose of positively impacting our customers and the carbon market. Tero Carbon is an innovative startup that brought together a group of people and supporters with the dream of transforming the carbon market into a new economic matrix for the Amazon and Brazil!
About Tero Carbon
Discover our history
Our team has more than 15 years of experience in the development of forest carbon projects. As a former member of the Forest Management Laboratory (LMF) of the National Institute for Research in the Amazon (INPA), he has experience and technical competence in quantifying the Amazonian tropical forest carbon stock following the technical guidelines of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Working for Hdom Consultoria Ambiental, they developed dozens of forest inventories to estimate forest carbon, in addition to allometry and baseline projections for REDD+ projects.
Members also have experience in developing technological solutions aimed at traceability and transparency of the ESG (Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance) agenda.
The Tero Carbon Team
Meet each of the members
Francisco Higuchi, PhD.
CEO
Forest Engineer (UFPR), Master in Probabilistic Predictive Equation Modeling (UFPR), PhD in Ecology and Management of Tropical Forests (UFPR/INPA/ FFPRI Japan) has more than 15 years of experience in forestry and carbon estimation.
Mateus Bonadiman, MSc.
CPO (Product)
Electrical Engineer (UFRGS), Masters in Telecommunications (ITA), MBA in Project Management (ISAE/FGV), has more than 20 years of experience in research, development of technological solutions and entrepreneurship.
Pedro Henrique Cavalcante Sá
CTO (Technology)
Computer scientist (UFPR) with more than 12 years of experience in the development of technological solutions, including technologies such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI), several programming languages, architecture, infrastructure and database.
Camila Karpinski
CMO (Marketing)
Advertising, for over 10 years in the marketing market. Graduated in negotiation and majoring in Law. Since 2020 she has been leading business communication projects with ESG strategies.
Manuel Angel Berger Molina
Developer
Systems programmer (IFPR) and electrical technician (SENAI), has more than 3 years of experience working in systems development, specializing in front-end and quality processes.