Delivering Premium Income for Regenerative Ranching and Farming
Our Story
CarbonAGX’s co-founders set out with a clear mission: use their finance and technology skills to advance the regenerative agriculture movement. Founded in 2022, CarbonAGX is transforming the agricultural landscape with its advanced data collection technology, enabling ranchers to easily verify their rotational grazing practices required for third-party certifications such as Audubon Bird Friendly and the American Grassfed Association. This verification process allows ranchers to earn a premium for their grass-fed/grass-finished beef while contributing to the production of healthy soil and nutrient-dense food for consumers. Our solution not only supports sustainable ranching practices but creates transparency and authenticity in the marketplace.
Team
Lisa Hagerman
Co-founder & CEO
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Lisa has 20 years of experience in the field of impact investing and sustainable finance. She is a leader in cross-sector collaboration and in the creation of public-private partnerships to accelerate economic development. In 2022, Lisa co-founded CarbonAGX, a regenerative agriculture and climate-tech startup, created to help ranchers/farmers get rewarded for their regenerative agriculture practices through data collection and third-party incentive programs/grass-fed beef certifications. Prior to CarbonAGX, Lisa spent over ten years as the Director of Programs at DBL Partners, an impact venture capital firm. In this role, she led the firm’s impact measurement and management practice across the areas of public policy, environmental stewardship, and workforce development. Previously, Lisa was the Director of More for Mission, a research and advocacy initiative promoting impact investing, based at the Harvard Kennedy School. In 2012, More for Mission merged with PRI Makers to form Mission Investors Exchange. Lisa completed her doctorate in economic geography at Oxford University on Public Pension Fund Investment in Urban Revitalization, a project supported by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations. She was previously a Vice President at Economic Innovation International and has ten years of banking experience at Wells Fargo and Citibank. Lisa also serves as the Executive Director of the Daniel P. Hagerman Foundation that supports environmental stewardship. Lisa received her B.A. from Bucknell University, her M.A. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a Ph.D. in economic geography from Oxford University. Lisa lives on Sanibel Island where she counts mollusks as a volunteer for the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum and cruises the Gulf on her paddle board.
Kevin Sun
Co-founder & CTO
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Kevin has 30 years of technology experience in the field of cash management and climate finance. He has a proven track record of realizing innovative and disruptive product visions using cutting-edge technologies. Prior to joining CarbonAGX, he was a Managing Director at BlackRock. Kevin was the CTO and Technology Founder for Cachematrix, a Liquidity Trading Platform with $1 trillion under management. Cachematrix was acquired by BlackRock in 2017. Kevin was the technology leader and software architect at USWest, E*Trade, and the United States Department of Labor. He developed mission-critical systems that are key to the rollout of broadband internet and online trading in the 90s and was instrumental in the US government web initiatives in early 2000. Kevin received his M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas and his B.S. in Computer Science from Zhejiang University, China.
Kevin lives in Colorado where he enjoys biking on the best trails in the United States, and participates in the vibrant Colorado artistic communities in theater and literature.
Hannah Schilling
Former Summer Intern
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Hannah Schilling is a former summer intern at CarbonAGX in 2024. Hannah is currently a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences at Bucknell University studying Sociology and Philosophy and an Arts Merit Scholar with a minor in Dance. She works as a part-time Student Development Monitor/Officer at Bucknell, dancing as a member of the Bison Girls Dance Team and Bucknell Dance Company and is a member of the Phi Sigma Tau International Honors Society in Philosophy. In addition to her interests in conservation agriculture, her long-term career goals are in the fields of behavioral health or law.
Peter Sun
Former Software Engineer
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Peter is a recent graduate from Southern Methodist University, majoring in computer science. A passionate full-stack software engineer, technology and exploring all that's possible to build with it has been a life-long interest of his. Peter was a software engineering intern at Spacee, where he used his skills to help improve web applications end-to-end to interface with devices for use for clients in the retail industry, and has brought this diverse skillset over to CarbonAGX. Peter plays the key role in developing CarbonAGX r-Planner mobile app, the backend APIs and managing software development life cycle. As a certified AWS architect, he is also responsible for building out and managing the AWS cloud infrastructure for CarbonAGX.
Peter is currently working at Charles Schwab.
Ganesh Baskar
Former Summer Associate
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Ganesh Baskar is a former summer associate at CarbonAGX in 2024. Ganesh is currently an MBA candidate at SMU Cox School of Business specializing in financial strategy and management consulting. Previously, Ganesh served in various business roles in financial operations at BNY Mellon and supply chain industries, at Ryder Supply Chain Solutions and the University of Texas at Dallas. He enjoys integrating the financial side of a business to maintain operational efficiency. Ganesh received his B.S. in Supply Chain Management & Finance from the University of Texas at Dallas.
Ganesh is currently working at X (aka Twitter).
Advisory Board
Betsy Indreland
Betsy Indreland is the co-owner and rancher of Indreland Ranch located in Big Timber, Montana. Betsy, and her husband, Roger Indreland, have been holistically managing and operating Indreland Ranch for over forty years. Betsy is well known in the ranching community and advocates for regenerative grazing for the benefit of healthy nutrition, the environment, livestock and wildlife. The Indreland’s holistic ranching is accomplished through practices that foster resilience to economic and environmental factors and by providing opportunities and profit to all involved. Indreland Angus is a registered Angus business rooted in the philosophy that cows must consistently excel at converting the resource of basic grass to beef. Betsy is a graduate of Montana State University, Bozeman.
Ashby Monk
Ashby Monk is the Executive Director of the Stanford Research Initiative on Long-Term Investing. Outside of academia, he has co-founded several companies that apply advanced analytics to drive better capital allocation and investment decision-making, including RCI Navigator (acquired by Addepar), FutureProof, NetPurpose, D.A.T.A., GrowthsphereAI, SheltonAI, Long Game Savings (acquired by Truist), and KDX. He is the co-author of The Technologized Investor and is a member of the CFA Institute’s Future of Finance Advisory Council. He was named by CIO Magazine as one of the most influential academics in the institutional investing world. He received his Doctorate in Economic Geography at Oxford University and holds a Master’s in International Economics from the Universite de Paris I - Pantheon Sorbonne and a Bachelor’s in Economics from Princeton University.
Kate Lauer
Kate Lauer is a lawyer and former Legal Counsel, Strategic Priorities at Stripe, a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for businesses to transact on the internet. For over 30 years, Kate has worked as a lawyer and policy advisor. For almost 20 years, she advised financial regulators and global standard setting bodies on developing risk-based approaches to regulation and supervision of nonbank institutions in order to advance financial inclusion. She is also a member of the board of directors of the International Accountability Project. Kate received her JD from New York University and a BA in Economics from Dartmouth College.
Stuart Grandy
Stuart Grandy is a Professor of Soil Fertility and Biogeochemistry and Co-Director of the UNH Center of Soil Biogeochemistry and Microbial Ecology (Soil BioME). He leads interdisciplinary teams that examine how agroecosystem management influences soil health as well as the microbial processes driving soil organic matter formation and nutrient cycling. He has published more than 100 academic papers in top academic journals detailing the role of soil organisms in regulating soil carbon cycling, trace gas emissions, and productivity. His research applies novel microbial-explicit models and fundamental understanding of soil biogeochemical processes to improve agroecosystem processes and management in collaboration with academic, industry and producer stakeholders.