Malte Schneider

Background

About Malte Schneider

Experienced leader passionate about employing the right mix of entrepreneurial innovation, finance, policy, and multi-stakeholder collaboration to scale up action to meet our climate & sustainable development goals-~20 years of experience working on climate change and wider sustainability from various perspectives - Strong experience in building and consulting start-ups, SMEs, large corporates, research groups, and international organisations such as the UN - Large international network of business leaders, start-up entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and policy-makers - Excellent overview of climate/sustainable finance and carbon markets, incl. key actors, initiatives and innovations - Strong experience in start-up ecosystem through building the Climate-KIC accelerator (supported more than 100 companies which raised >1 B€ in follow-on investment)- Hands-on start-up building expertise through VC backed climate (prop)tech start-up pursuing an ambitious hardware/software approach to kickstarting a new industry on industrial deep retrofit - Varied cross-cultural/functional leadership experience; line management of up to 25 people; budget responsibility for up to ~20M€/y; change management, incl. through crises - Multi-Stakeholder engagement and design/management of large programs and portfolios