Leadership and Investors

Before becoming a Charmer, Anna held product management, business operations, and strategy roles at several startups. She was most recently with Canvas, a construction robotics startup. Before transitioning into tech, Anna worked in real estate private equity and started her career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley. She holds a B.S. in Hotel Administration with a minor in real estate from Cornell University.

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, Katie worked as a drilling engineer and drill site manager for Chevron on unconventional assets in the Permian Basin. In 2018, Katie decided to use her career to make an impact on climate and began working on building decarbonization at Carbon Lighthouse. She graduated from Villanova University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering.

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, 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 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.