Executive team

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Tony Yammine

CEO & Co-Founder

Advisory board

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Colin Holgate

Senior Business Advisor

Colin is a highly-experienced business engineer. Previously, Colin served as President Asia Pacific Operations of CGI Group Inc, Managing Director of Logica Australia, Asia, Middle East and Africa, and Chief Executive Officer of Logica Australia. Colin has a wealth of senior management experience for blue chip companies, including IBM, First National Bank, Deloitte Consulting, Unisys and Praxa Limited.

Michael Molitor

Senior Carbon Advisor

Michael is a veteran climate scientist and practitioner. His experience includes working in the Climate Research Division at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Climate Change team at BP, Global Leader of Climate Change Services at PwC, Senior Advisor on Climate Change at McKinsey, and co-founding Emmi.io. Michael received his PhD from Cambridge University, and post-doc fellowship at Harvard University.

Andrew Menzies

Advisor and Investor

Andrew is the Co-Founder & Chairman of LocalAgentFinder, listed as AFR’s Fast 100, one of Australia’s fastest growing companies. Andrew is also an active investor in a range of successful startups.

Board members

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Mike Zimmerman

Mike Zimmerman is a partner at Main Sequence, where he leads the Supercharge Industrial Productivity Challenge, and also invests in the Feed 10 Billion People and Next Intelligence Leap challenges. He is a director at Castlepoint Systems, Emesent, Kasada, Lumachain, Loam Bio, Presien, RIOS Robotics and Regrow Ag. Mike also sits on the Board of the Australian Investment Council and is the President of the Board of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Alumni Association.

Investors

Common Sense Ventures

Common Sense Ventures is an Australian family office backing early-stage, fast-growing businesses. They partner with ambitious managers looking to solve problems that will help the world.

Main Sequence

Main Sequence was created by CSIRO in conjunction with the Australian government to commercialise deep technology and public research.

Main Sequence led Avarni’s $3M raise, which we announced in December 2022.

Vulpes

Vulpes has been investing in Southeast Asia for over a decade and was an early investor in two of Singapore’s first unicorns, PropertyGuru and Trax.

We create a better future together with

Avarni enables us to greatly enhance the speed and quality at which we deliver greenhouse gas emissions insights to our customers. We are excited to work closely with them as a key partner in expanding Earth Finance's Scope 3 decarbonization solution set.

Garrett Kephart

President at Earth Finance, Inc.

Because of Avarni, we have been able to get a thorough understanding of our impact areas and emissions, not only in our own operations, but also in our supply chain. They have provided cutting-edge and helped Underworks set solid 2030 carbon reduction goals.

Annelou Ringers

Sustainability Manager at Underworks

Avarni's software is easy to use and very intuitive, upload of data is simple and straightforward, results for Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions are shown in a very clear form - and they are always ready to help, have quick meetings, chats and receive and apply feedback.