Forestry expert · Nature-tech product lead
I help organizations design carbon, agroforestry and biochar programs that work on the ground — and the MRV and finance systems needed to scale them.
About
Most people in climate work sit on one side of the gap — either policy and finance in the Global North, or implementation in the Global South. I've spent seven years working both.
I started by volunteering for a year at an Indigenous tree nursery in the Philippines, then managed a 1,200-farmer agroforestry program in Kalimantan with Fairventures. At ETH Zurich's Crowther Lab I co-shaped Restor and grew its practitioner community from zero to 8,500 users. I co-founded GainForest to pilot blockchain-based rewards for verified nature impact. Over the years, I've worked closely with investors, funders, policymakers and field teams across the restoration space.
That's the gap I close for clients: making sure money, data and decisions flow both ways between the people designing climate finance and the smallholders delivering the outcomes.
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Services
Pre-feasibility, PDDs, MRV plans, and credit pathway strategy. Specialized in smallholder-inclusive ARR, agroforestry and biochar projects.
Agroforestry and regenerative land-use programs that work for farmers and funders. Built on seven years of field experience across ten countries.
Product ownership, user research and tool deployment for climate-tech platforms. I speak both engineer and field practitioner.
Portfolio
treeo.one
Origin team
Winner of the Google Impact Challenge Germany 2018, led the project for its first year at Fairventures Worldwide — back before it was spun out and branded as TREEO. Today I advise the team as they scale smallholder tree monitoring globally.
Visit treeo.one →
restor.eco
Community Engagement Officer
Grew the global restoration practitioner community from 0 to 8,500 users and shaped the platform's UX with Google as build partner.
Visit restor.eco →
maps.gainforest.app
Co-creator, Product & Community
Co-designed the interactive map, shaped UX/UI and monitoring systems, built community tools, and worked directly with users across the Global South. Also organized a 150-person AI-and-environment conference.
Visit GainForest →Built and led work at:
Testimonials
“Lookfar greatly appreciated the opportunity to work with Simeon to help us build up our AI capabilities in support of our biodiversity conservation mission. Simeon shared his extensive technical and practical knowledge with us in a way that was clear, organized, and actionable — a great way to start our AI journey. We look forward to working with Simeon again in the future.”
“Simeon joined us as we began integrating trees into our organic cereal and poverty reduction programming. He’s deeply attuned to our needs and capacities, integrates seamlessly into our German-Ugandan team, and helps us move climate solution strategies from idea to implementation. He’s honest about what works and what doesn’t, has a sharp sense for where the field is moving, and tells us what we don’t want to hear when we need to hear it. We continue to rely on him.”
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