The Team

Our team is made up of experienced specialists with decades of industry knowledge and technical expertise dedicated to scaling the BECCS market in Switzerland and Europe.

  • Stephanie Bischof

    Managing Director at Airfix

    Stephanie Bischof is the Managing Director of Airfix. Stephanie has a broad background in corporate finance and performance management in various industries.

     

    Prior to Airfix, Stephanie built the finance business partnering department at the Swiss Railway company. Stephanie holds a masters degrees in Business and Education from the University of Innsbruck, and has a diploma in mediation and conflict resolution by IEF Zurich. She is committed to driving climate impact.

  • Aymeric Reymond

    Head of Project Development at Airfix

    Aymeric is a specialist in climate mitigation and adaptation financing, working across a number of decarbonisation sectors including sustainable cities, energy efficiency and nature-based solutions. Aymeric leads the CO₂ transport and storage offering within Airfix. Prior to Airfix, Aymeric co-established South Pole’s Impact Fund practice, developing funds that mobilise private sector capital to achieve climate impact. 

  • Martin Stadelmann

    Executive Director, Climate Investments at South Pole and Chairman of the Board for Airfix

    Head of South Pole’s Climate Investments business line, Martin is an international climate finance expert. Martin has played a leading role in the Landscape Resilience Fund and contributed to the Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance and the finance chapter of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. Martin has worked in the carbon markets since 2006, and currently develops new instruments to mobilise capital for carbon removal technologies to meet net-zero targets.

  • Dylan Marks

    Senior Specialist, Climate Investments at South Pole

    Working at the intersection of climate innovation, impact funds and multi-stakeholder platforms, Dylan’s focus at South Pole is on establishing carbon removals as a credible instrument in the voluntary carbon market and beyond. He now supports the Airfix team part-time as a CDR Manager on advisory services and communications. Dylan holds a BEng in Chemical Engineering from the University of Edinburgh and an MSc in Climate Change, Development and Policy from the Institute of Development Studies.

  • Dr. Cyril Brunner

    Climate Scientist at Environmental System Sciences ETH Zurich

    Working in the Climate Physics group led by Prof. Dr. Knutti, Cyril leads the project SPEED2ZERO where toolboxes, action plans and technologies are developed that enable a sustainable transformation in Switzerland. In addition, he is involved in research on CDR, examining all land-based approaches to remove CO₂ and other greenhouse gases from the atmosphere, including BECCS.

  • Karim Rahmani

    Founder at Carbon Impact

    Based in the beautiful Loire Valley in France, Karim is passionate about energy and climate. Trained as a civil engineer, he has worked for more than fifteen years in power generation both in Europe and the Middle East holding various strategic and operational positions at companies such as Rexel and General Electric. In 2020 Karim decided to work fulltime on Carbon Impact.

  • Pablo Villars

    Project Lead at Migros Pioneer Fund

    Pablo identifies and accompanies pioneering projects in the fields of sustainability and social transformation. Besides the financial support from the Migros Pioneer Fund, Pablo helps projects like Airfix to keep focusing on impact throughout their entrepreneurial journey. He holds a MA in International Affairs and has professional experience in consulting, communications and business development.

  • Eva Van der Want

    Head of Carbon Removals Business Development at Airfix

    Eva has 12+ years of experience in strategic business development and key account management and 8+ years expertise in advisory of global corporations on funding climate action as part of their net-zero journey. With her previous working experiences at South Pole,  myclimate and the Swiss business association, Swisscleantech, Eva is well positioned to leverage her network to build the BECCS market within the DACH region. Eva holds a Bachelor in European Studies and a LL.M. in International Law and Globalisation from Maastricht University, in the Netherlands.

  • Jonas Lötscher

    Senior CDR Manager at Airfix

    Jonas focuses on advisory services and stakeholder engagement at Airfix. He has more than 15 years of experience in the advisory field, working with government entities, technology companies and development organisations in Switzerland, the Arab region and Africa. Prior to joining Airfix, Jonas worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on digital transformation projects in Mauritania and Kenya. Jonas holds an MBA from the University of Bradford School of Management and a MA in International Relations from the Graduate Institute for Development Studies in Geneva.

  • Stephanie Bischof
  • Aymeric-Reymond
  • Martin-Stadelmann
  • Dylan-Marks
  • Cyril-Brunner
  • Karim
  • Pablo Villars bw
  • Eva-van-der-Want
  • Jonas-Lötscher
  • Stephanie Bischof
  • Aymeric-Reymond
  • Martin-Stadelmann
  • Dylan-Marks
  • Cyril-Brunner
  • Karim
  • Pablo Villars bw
  • Eva-van-der-Want
  • Jonas-Lötscher

Anchor investors

  • South Pole has been at the forefront of decarbonization since 2006. It has developed nearly 1,000 projects in over 50 countries to reduce over 200 million metric tonnes of CO₂ emissions, and to provide social benefits to communities who are particularly vulnerable to climate change. South Pole also implements comprehensive climate solutions and strategies that turn climate action into long-term opportunities for companies, governments and organisations around the world.

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  • The Migros Pioneer Fund supports sustainable solutions for societal challenges with the goal of initiating systemic change towards a future-oriented society. The impact-oriented funding approach combines financial support with active funding and risk management. The fund is part of the social commitment of the Migros Group and has an annual budget of approximately CHF 15 million. The Migros Pioneer Fund is supported by companies such as Denner, Migros Bank, Migrol, migrolino and Ex Libris.

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Partnering with

  • Carbonfuture is the world’s leading provider of high-integrity, durable carbon removal. The company works with some of the world’s most ambitious climate leaders such as Microsoft and Swiss Re, and is an Implementation Partner for the World Economic Forum First Movers Coalition. What sets Carbonfuture apart in the carbon removal market is their MRV digital tracking system, which ensures unparalleled integrity and transparency in the carbon removal process, ensuring that all credits sold through the marketplace are of high quality and reliability.

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  • Carbon Impact is an independent France-based carbon removal developer. The company sequesters biogenic carbon in long-term sinks using standardised modules to capture CO₂ from biomass power plants across Europe. Carbon Impact is a purpose-driven company. Convinced that negative emissions are part of the solution to climate change, their aim is to capture and sequester carbon at megaton scale by 2030.

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  • Founded in 2021, Inherit’s target is to create a durable and nature-friendly solution for carbon removal. Inherit’s team covers the areas of domain expertise needed to unlock the carbon removal solution they are developing: CO₂ treatment technology, biogas, CO₂ storage and carbon markets. Inherit is based in Oslo and their investors are Equinor Ventures, Startuplab and Stratel.

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