Meet our Team
The creation of positive impact roots in technical excellence and experience
PCVP is a corporate joint venture between a top-tier US single family office and Posaidon Capital AG. The partnership has been set up design, implement and manage high integrity nature-based carbon and biodiversity programmes to deliver additional positive impacts for nature, climate and people. Jointly, we are dedicated to building PCVP into the world’s leading technical advisory and financial solutions firm for large scale-conservation and restoration areas of global climate and biodiversity significance by 2030.
Matthew McLuckie
With almost 20 years of corporate finance and nature investment experience, Matthew McLuckie is PCVP’s NbS Partner. He leverages his expertise in converging institutional and private capital with investments delivering a positive climate, nature and biodiversity impact.
Mr. McLuckie is currently a Co-Managing Partner at Posaidon Capital AG, a globally leading, nature-focused investment and advisory boutique. He has successfully advised and structured investments across 30 countries in the Americas, Africa and Europe. Mr. McLuckie has a long track record in designing and managing natural capital and conservation-based debt and equity transactions. He has also applied natural capital valuations to large-scale land assets in Africa.
Mr. McLuckie has previous finance experience at Conservation Capital, Credit Suisse and EFG Securities. He has lead-authored several thought leadership pieces on how fixed income, public equities, mutual funds and ETFs are exposed to climate, planetary boundary and nature-related risks.
Mr. McLuckie holds an undergraduate Masters degree in geography from the University of Edinburgh.
James Smith
With 15 years of project development experience, Dr. James Smith leads PCVP’s technical work as NbS Director. He leverages his expertise as a tropical forest ecologist and impact investing specialist in the fields of natural climate solutions and AFOLU carbon project development to execute on PCVP’s portfolio.
Dr. Smith is currently Head of NbS Carbon at Posaidon Capital AG, a globally leading, nature-focused investment and advisory boutique. He has previous industry experience as at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), Mirova Natural Capital, Fauna & Flora International, and IUCN.
Dr. Smith has in depth-experience with carbon and biodiversity project development to VCS, CAR and Plan Vivo standards in Latin America, West Africa and Southeast Asia. He led the multi-stakeholder industry forum at the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance whilst at WBCSD and has supported the continuous improvement and development of the market as a member of NCS Alliance’s Technical Advisory Group, Verra’s Blue Carbon Expert Working Group and VERRA’s Jurisdictional Nested REDD+ Stakeholder Working Group. Dr. Smith is also actively contributing to the developing biodiversity crediting market as technical lead for a pilot project under VERRA’s SD VISta standard Nature Framework.
Dr. Smith holds a B.A. in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford, a MRes in Ecology and Environmental Management from the University of York and a PhD in Tropical Forest Ecology from ETH Zurich.
Colleen Dodman
With over 30 years of tax, structuring, financial management and international operations experience, Colleen Dodman is PCVP’s Finance Partner. She leverages her experience managing complex investments across conservation, eco-tourism, and real estate projects.
She is currently an Executive Director of a single family office where she oversees and manages the Tax and Philanthropic groups within her role, as well as a substantial portfolio of impact investments across Africa. She has been instrumental in the portfolio’s formation and evolution over the past two decades and is deeply committed to advancing community empowerment and conservation initiatives, driven by a profound passion for fostering sustainable development in the region.
Ms. Dodman is a founding member and President of the African Community and Conservation Foundation. She is an active board member of Students First NY, as well as Friends of the Peace Parks Foundation. She also works closely with many other U.S. and foreign non-profits.
Ms. Dodman is a NYS Certified Public Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Public Accounting from Pace University.
Mikael Andren
Mikael Andren is PCVP’s Investment Partner. Mr. Andren is also the President and Chief Executive Officer of a single family office. He sits on the Board of many of the Family’s investment holdings and operating companies, including Green’s Ledge Renewable Holdings and Blueshift Asset Management among other companies.
Mr. Andren is deeply involved in philanthropic causes and holds various roles across a wide range of conservation and community development causes, including the African Community & Conservation Foundation (ACCF) and the Pure Edge Foundation. Prior to becoming President of the single family office, Mr. Andren held roles as a private equity professional with MMC Capital and a mergers and acquisitions professional with the former Donaldson Lufkin and Jenrette.
Mr. Andren holds an MBA from Columbia University.
Paul Milton
With 40 years of experience in international real estate working in collaboration and on behalf of governments, impact investors, national parks and NGOs, Paul Milton is PCVP’s Strategy Partner. He leverages his expertise in developing innovative and measurable investment models in conservation and global natural resource management.
Mr. Milton is also the founder of Milton Group LLC US, pursuing a new approach to tourism investment built on measurable social and environmental impact. In addition, he is also a co-founder of One Planet digital sustainability platform; member of the board of Hart Howerton LLC New York and San Francisco; and co-founded sustainable design firm Sherwood Design Engineers LLC New York and San Francisco.
Mr. Milton acts as an advisor to various governments and conservation organizations, including the Rwandan Development Board. He has collaborated on sustainable conservation programs with Tusk, Peace Parks Foundation, Impact Observatory, Harvard, Frankfurt Zoological Society and the Royal African Society.
Mr. Milton is a catalyst, aligning people with common interests to collaborate and integrate natural and social assets to maximize investor balance sheet values, protect environments and integrate community upliftment.
Paul Ehrenreich
With over 10 years of financial management and international operations experience, Paul Ehrenreich is PCVP’s Operations Partner. He leverages his expertise to manage complex investments across conservation, eco-tourism, and real estate projects.
Mr. Ehrenreich is also currently the CFO-Africa for a single family office. In that role, Mr. Ehrenreich is responsible for the financial and operational oversight of several foreign impact investments including in the hospitality and real estate space as well as working with not-for-profits and foundations across several African countries. He has also worked on the structuring and financing of several impact investment transactions.
Mr. Ehrenreich is Certified Public Account (CPA) and holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from The College of New Jersey.
Stefanie Kaiser
With over 15 years of experience working as consultant and communicator in the forestry and nature-based solutions sector, Stefanie Kaiser leads at PCVP on the development and management of a robust framework for community engagement and impact monitoring across the project portfolio. She has an in-depth understanding of the people, technical aspects and challenges in the voluntary carbon and biodiversity markets and is driven by a desire to create win-win solutions. Deeply committed to promoting fairness and integrity in nature finance, she reconciles value-driven visionary thinking with down-to-earth pragmatism.
In recent years, Ms. Kaiser acted as Head of Nature-based solutions and carbon markets and senior environmental markets strategist for biodiversity tech providers Naturemetrics and Okala. Previously, she held a long-term role in stakeholder engagement and communications for the trade body of the UK’s timber and forestry sector, preceded by a position as an impact and integrity lead for Swiss impact investing start-up Topan AG.
Ms. Kaiser is passionate about supporting collaborative efforts to bring consistency and transparency to the nature finance and nature-tech sector. She has worked with forest communities in Malawi, Kalimantan, and Brazil.
Ms. Kaiser holds a degree in Biology, an MSc in Sustainable and International Development, and an MSc in Tropical Forestry.
Matthew Jordan
With 10 years of experience in forest conservation as an environmental engineer and agroforestry project developer in Africa, Matthew Jordan leads the Nature-based Solutions (NbS) project pipeline at PCVP. His previous roles include Director of Sustainable Development at Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique and lead consultant on numerous NbS projects, including the USAID-SPEED Mozambique REDD+ Policy Gaps Analysis and TNC Angola Community Forest Carbon Project Development.
Mr. Jordan understands the NbS project development process from the perspectives of an implementer, policy analyst, and project developer, with a focus on the Sub-Saharan Africa context. He led the design and development of a large-scale jurisdictional REDD+ project in one of the most complex landscapes in Southern Africa, overseeing all aspects of project feasibility, from community engagement and government authorizations to finance negotiations. Passionate about nature tech solutions, Mr. Jordan is involved in two startups: RAMO Technologies, a platform for NbS project origination and data analytics, and Elrepel, a biodiversity monitoring solution aimed at improving human-wildlife coexistence.
Mr. Jordan holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town, an MSc in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BSc in Civil Engineering and Mathematical Sciences from Portland State University.
Paolo Pasquariello
With 10 years of experience, Paolo Pasquariello is a Carbon Technical Specialist at PCVP. Through his technical knowledge in the field of natural resources management and conservation, he leverages his community-led project implementation and development expertise to develop tailor-made and impactful NBS projects for the PCVP’s portfolio.
Mr. Pasquariello has hands-on experience in project implementation and development for conservation and rural development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Previously, he spent over 3 years engaging and leading pastoral communities in Northern Tanzania to monitor and improve rangelands’ natural resources management by applying remote sensing and spatial analysis techniques. Mr. Pasquariello worked on projects funded by the main international development agencies EU and USAID as well as collaborating with a blend of scientific partners such as The University of York, The Nature Conservancy, WCS and CIRAD. Mindful that humans and nature need impactful and long-lasting tools to thrive again, he then started his journey in the AFOLU carbon market by technically leading and managing NBS carbon project development and feasibility studies for Revegetation and Reforestation, Blue Carbon and REDD+ in East Africa and DRC under VCS and Gold Standard. He deeply believes in carbon credits as powerful tools to improve the communities’ livelihoods through which, let nature be restored and flourish.
Mr. Pasquariello holds a B.Sc. in Environmental Science, an M.Sc. in Environmental Sustainability from the Polytechnic University of the Marche, and a post-graduate specialisation in GIS from the University of Camerino.