Founding
Climate Solutions International’s founder, Dr. Jan Whittington, is a professor of Urban Planning at the University of Washington. She researches and teaches methods to adapt the annual city budgeting and planning process to get action on climate change, make city infrastructure more resilient and save cities money at the same time.
The World Bank learned of her work and took her to over 300 cities in 30 different countries to develop, deploy and test her methodology. Jan proved that it works, but realized that to truly meet the incoming demand from cities and the needs of the climate crisis she would have to start a company. CSI was born.
We now have an active and growing cohort of North American cities as design partners including Toronto, Indianapolis, Austin, Houston, and Alexandria, VA. We are well on our way to introducing a SaaS product to them that is the culmination of all Dr. Whittington’s learnings.
Leadership
Jan Whittington, Founder and CEO
Leading Global Expert - Climate Budgeting. Developed Core IP
Professor at University of Washington (on leave to serve as CEO)
30+ Years Experience Economics | Finance | Infrastructure
10+ years with World Bank - Muni finance, 30 countries
10+ years at Bechtel Corp - led 20+ global megaprojects
UC Berkeley PhD
Michael La Guardia - President and COO
Founder / CEO SKP, Inc.
SVP Digital Product Under Armour
VP Product Yahoo Sports and Yahoo Finance
Founder / CEO Placeholdername, Inc. (Exit to Google)
Founding VP Product LiveOps (grew to $140M/yr revenue)
Head of Browser Product Netscape
Stanford MBA
Adrienne Greve - Resilience Lead and CRO
Professor at California Polytechnic State University
Engineer and Urban Planner
20+ years Experience in Climate Modeling and Climate Policy
University of Washington PhD