Leadership and Investors

Before co-founding Charm, Peter was CEO and co-founder at Segment, an enterprise software company that grew to 600 people before it was acquired by Twilio in 2020 for $3.2 billion. He previously studied aerospace engineering at MIT.

Before becoming a Charmer, Tim held finance leadership roles at several high-growth companies in the climate sector, including Impossible Foods, Stripe, Plenty, and Meati. Before transitioning to these start-up operating roles, Tim served as a growth equity investor at ABRY Partners and started his career in investment banking at McColl Partners. He graduated from Duke University as a Robertson Scholar with a B.S. in Economics. He also currently serves as the Sustainable Finance Director for the Roundtable of Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB).

Before joining Charm, JZ led operations and operations excellence teams in the petroleum refining industry for 20 years at Delek, Marathon and ExxonMobil. He holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from University of Michigan and an MBA from University of Nebraska.

Before becoming a Charmer, Nora designed and led the government engagement and business development strategy at Saildrone as the Senior Director of Government Relations. She previously worked at the White House in the Obama Administration, and has held a variety of roles in the private sector, government, and nonprofits at the intersection of industry, policy, and government. She is a graduate of Haverford College.

Before becoming a Charmer, Harris led Energy Consumers engagement at ClearTrace Technologies, and led the direct sales team at Carbon Lighthouse and helped lead the pivot to a subscription model. Harris also spent time at Bloom Energy, and Pacific Gas and Electric after completing a bachelor's degree at UC Berkeley with a minor in the Energy and Resources Group.

Before becoming a Charmer, Grace worked as the Head of Commercial Engineering at a process engineering startup decarbonizing the beverage industry, where she scaled benchtop technology through sixty times the throughput, and managed commercial installations. She holds a S.B. and S.M. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

Before becoming a Charmer, Ed was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, where he built readout systems for superconducting sensors. Ed received his PhD from Princeton University, where he studied the Big Bang by building, deploying, and analyzing data from the SPIDER balloon-borne telescope. He holds a B.A. in Physics and in Astrophysics from UC Berkeley.

With a diverse background in operations, HR, and organizational growth, Emily spent 10 years as GM of Blue Man Group – Boston before transitioning to HR in the videogame industry, including as Director of Operations at Irrational Games. Most recently, she was SVP, People Operations at Just Global, helping scale a B2B digital marketing agency globally. She attended Simmons University in Boston and is passionate about building people-centric organizations that drive impact and innovation.