Donnel Baird is a climate tech founder with a mission to avert climate disaster. With a focus on climate tech, fintech, startups, business development, marketing strategy, finance, community organizing, and venture capital, Baird has used lessons learned from software, sustainability, policy, and financial innovation to make a difference in the financially underserved real estate climate tech sector. Baird is an Echoing Green Fellow and served on the Second District Board at the New York Federal Reserve Bank. He has an MBA in Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies from Columbia Business School and a background in history, literature, African-American/Black studies, and political science and government from Duke University.