James Schultz is the managing director of GCS and CEO of the GreenCollar Group. He has extensive experience advising governments, international development and financing organizations and the private sector in the development and implementation of climate change adaptation/mitigation strategies and environment and natural resource management investment programs. Prior to joining GCS, James worked for the World Bank, the African Union and the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization. He has a background in anthropology, ecology, economics and international relations and holds degrees from the University of Queensland and the University of Sydney.

Alex Nimz is an expert in environmental markets specializing in carbon finance and economics. He has extensive experience in the U.S. debt capital markets, where he performed roles as an institutional securities trader and market analyst. His foresight and expertise in capital markets is leveraged by an environmental management Master’s degree from the University of New South Wales, where he developed a core disciplinary knowledge in sustainable development, energy infrastructure and market-based policy mechanisms. At GCS, Alex has developed proprietary financial modeling tools used to manage project cash flows and assess the feasibility of potential carbon finance projects. His work translates principles of ecology and science to executable market mechanisms.

Charlie Wilson is a consultant at GCS specializing in agriculture, forestry and land use projects.  He has extensive experience in regional and rural Australia and Asia-Pacific working on natural resource management, wildlife, sustainability and conservation projects. He has worked with graziers, pastoralists, landcare cooperatives and indigenous communities to provide scientific analysis and technical analysis on climate change, natural resource management, agriculture and forestry issues. He holds an Environmental Science degree from the University of Canberra. At GCS, Charlie has developed methodologies and projects for the carbon markets, including the first approved Improved Forest Management (IFM) methodology to protect forest areas threatened by commercial logging – known as Logged to Protected Forest (LtPF).

Simon Ingram is a technical environmental analyst specialising in spatial analysis for environmental management and the use of GIS and remote sensing in environmental markets. With both commercial and government experience in the geospatial industry, Simon has worked on a range of projects from government GIS systems for natural disaster management, to the analysis and processing of data for natural resource management. Simon has also worked in the academic sphere on multidisciplinary academic research for environmental management and was recently part of the remote sensing team to verify the latest United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s ‘Global Forest Resources Assessment (Remote Sensing Survey)’. Simon has a background in geography, economics and communications and has a Master of Environmental Management from the University of New South Wales.