Paul Young

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ABOUT PAUL YOUNG

CTO and Co-Founder at Kita | We Insure CarbonKita is the carbon insurance specialist. Our mission is to enable carbon removal projects and technologies to scale by offering a portfolio of insurance products that reduce carbon risk. Reduced risk in carbon credit transactions leads to greater flows of upfront capital and accelerates the pace of positive climate impact. Kita is a coverholder at Lloyd\'s of London - the world\'s leading specialist insurance and reinsurance marketplace.As Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Kita, I love what I do and feel privileged to utilise my multi-disciplinary experience combining entrepreneurship, science, technology and finance in the fight against climate change. Before founding Kita, I co-founded two successful startups and eventual acquisitions. Twenty-three years of experience leading R&D teams within data science-focused FinTech startups. Following my PhD in Cosmology, my early career included implementing and managing machine-learning-based investment strategies managing multi-billion dollar portfolios at one of the world\'s largest hedge funds, leading to co-founding my first startup, a hedge fund successfully acquired by GLG. Following five years as Head of Research for Altis Partners, an extremely mathematically sophisticated hedge fund, I became involved in my second startup as Managing Director responsible for establishing a successful B2C wealth management company, Collidr. These experiences and expertise led me to co-found Sybenetix, a successful FinTech startup Nasdaq acquired in 2017. As part of the acquisition deal, I remained at Nasdaq as Head of Buy-Side Product.Since then, I have focused my career on Sustainable finance, an area close to my heart where my experiences can have the most impact. Including working on the advisory board of Geospatial Insight on the design of new sustainable finance data products for ESG investors that use remote sensing and AI to measure greenhouse gas emissions. Also, work as an advisor, investor and part-time CTO to Home James, an electric taxi and vehicle services company. Most recently, I was part of Carbon13 Cohort 2, which proved to be both inspirational and energising and where I met my two co-founders at Kita, Tom & Natalia.Specialities: Startups, FinTech, data science & fund management. Sustainable finance and ESG data products. Data Science leadership. Carbon markets. Fundraising and investor relations.