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The Undaunted team works closely with colleagues across the Ri and Imperial College London, as well as the much broader climate innovation communities across London and beyond.

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  • Alyssa Gilbert

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    Alyssa Gilbert Director of Undaunted & Director of Innovation at the Grantham Institute

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    Alyssa is the Director of Undaunted and has as strong background in climate policy. She also leads on innovation at the Grantham Institute , focussing on speeding up the creation, development and scale up of innovative solutions to the climate crisis.

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  • Jim Shaikh

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    Jim Shaikh Head of The Greenhouse

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    Jim runs Undaunted's accelerator programme,  The Greenhouse . 

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  • Nicole Bachanova

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    Nicole Bachanova Programme Manager of The Greenhouse

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    Nicole is responsible for planning and designing accelerator programme, ensuring that the start-ups receive all the support they need via workshops, mentorship, networking and more.

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  • Claudia Cannon

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    Claudia Cannon Communications and Marketing Officer

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    Claudia leads on Undaunted's marketing, multi-channel communication activities and media relations.

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  • Cathal Hughes

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    Cathal Hughes Projects Manager

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    Cathal leads on projects supporting innovative early-stage cleantech SMEs, developing an active London climatetech community and advocating for climate policies and measures to accelerate the UK’s net zero transition.

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  • Kate Field

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    Kate provides administrative support to aid Undaunted activities and operations.

  • Melissa Mahdi

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    Melissa Mahdi Project Manager - Shared Prosperity Fund

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    Melissa leads on the compliance and budget management for Undaunted's Shared Prosperity Fund  Retrofit Accelerator programme with the Greater London Authority.

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  • Dr Paul Rouse

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    Dr Paul Rouse Flexi Fund Manager, CO2 Removal Hub (CO2RE)

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    Paul manages the Greenhouse Gas Removal Hub’s ( CO2RE ) flexible fund which is helping to ensure that Greenhouse Gas Removal (GGR) techniques can develop rapidly, effectively and responsibly, alongside action to reduce emissions.

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  • Guillermo Montero

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    Guillermo Montero Project Manager

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    Guillermo leads all project management activities for Undaunted. He manages key relationships and activities with the Greater London Authority and Undaunted's funders, as well as the the financial aspects of all our programmes and projects.

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The Undaunted community

Our current Greenhouse startups

The Greenhouse is Undaunted's climate accelerator programme, which supports the growth of young, sustainable businesses looking to tackle climate change.

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Our alumni

Find out more about the community of climate innovators who've progressed through Imperial’s climate accelerator - now known as The Greenhouse - since 2011. Learn about what they're up to as they develop and scale-up.

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Members and advisors

Our advisors helped us to establish our group of founder members, and contributed to envisioning the ethos of the Centre for Climate Change Innovation (CCCI), which evolved into what is now Undaunted.

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