Company Announces the Appointment of Erik Kobayashi-Solomon
Tel Aviv, Israel, Chicago, IL, USA. May 6, 2021
Albo Systems announced that Erik Kobayashi-Solomon has been appointed to the company's Board of Advisors, joining CEO Jacques Amselem and CMO Ariella Charny.
Erik Kobayashi-Solomon
Mr. Kobayashi-Solomon has over 20 years of experience in the institutional investment
world, the past several of which have been spent focusing on leading-edge private
companies with novel solutions to help civilization mitigate and adapt to climate change
and to restore the earth’s climate. He is an international author, a Forbes contributor,
and before founding a business strategy and valuation consultancy, served as the
market risk manager for a global long-short hedge fund, the market strategist for
Morningstar’s Equity Research Division, and as the architect of the International
Financial Corporation’s standardized equity valuation model for emerging market private
equity investments.
"We are pleased to welcome Erik to the Albo team and excited about the insights and
help he will bring to us at this early stage of our evolution," stated Jacques Amselem,
Albo’s co-founder and Chief Executive Officer. "Erik’s deep understanding about the
issues that face us due to climate change and his position at the nexus of a wide variety
of both start-ups and strategic investors in this area promise to offer Albo a terrific
perspective into how best to position the company for initial funding rounds and the
initiation of our commercial operations."
"I am excited about joining Jacques and Ariella on Albo’s Board," stated Mr. Kobayashi-
Solomon. "I look forward to working alongside the team to bring Albo’s innovative
combination of satellite imagery and AI technology to the fore of carbon credit validation
and verification and to track and monitor methane emissions. There is so much work
that needs to be done to increase access to and liquidity of the carbon credit markets if
civilization is to have a chance at halting and reversing the effects of climate change. I
am convinced Albo will play a vital role in the carbon credit markets and in our society’s
push to create a sustainable paradigm for 21st century business."
About Albo Systems
Albo Systems is an Israel-based startup on a mission to help reverse climate change by
making CO2 removal scalable. Albo is disrupting the carbon credit market by replacing
the manual process of monitoring of CO2 with AI-powered remote sensing automation.
Albo completed the Techstars Tel Aviv Accelerator program in 2020 and were named
by Techcrunch as one of their favorite Techstars startups worldwide from the Fall 2020
cohort. Albo recently signed its first customer, a Finish forestry company called Wuudis,
and is on track to sign with several US, European, and Israeli agtech companies. Albo
has also partnered with US-based Soil1 to conduct rapid soil sampling to calibrate its AI
models.
Albo is a team of six, comprising entrepreneurs, R&D executives, scientists and
engineers, all driven to tackle the immense challenge of climate change with
innovative technology.
Contacts:
Jacques Amselem, CTO
jacques.amselem@albosys.com
+972 (0)52 6194126
Ariella Charny, CMO
ariella.charny@albosys.com
+972 (0)54 4536837
SOURCE: Albo Systems
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