Team Wagul
Zach Lubin
Founder/CEO
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Zach is a sports and sustainability expert with a background in global environmental governance and sustainable development. He received his Master of Arts in International Relations from the University of Glasgow and Korea University. In addition to founding Wagul, Zach joined the Global Youth Coalition (GYC) as Project Developer in 2024 after attending the United Nations’ high-level conference on international climate negotiations, COP29, in Azerbaijan.
Outside of work, Zach can usually be found “somewhere else” as an avid traveler. Otherwise, he is almost always immersed in sports. After an exciting soccer career that saw him play in North America, Europe, and Asia, his passion for the sport continues as he coaches kids in his hometown. He enjoys running, cycling, hiking, and playing or watching just about any sport he understands (or doesn’t!).
Vincenty (Vince) has over four years of experience in the field of data analytics and project management and is proficient in various statistical programming languages and analysis software. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Statistics and Data Science with a minor in Environmental Systems and Society from the University of California, Los Angeles. Above all, he loves people, and making an impact on the lives of others is what drives him. With Wagul, he is working to streamline the mechanisms for emissions calculations at the grassroots level.
Vincenty Front
Data Analyst
Paloma Jacome
Web Designer
Paloma has immense expertise in web development, business strategy, and event planning. In addition to her work with Wagul, she is the Director of Eco Event Solutions at Audio Visual Solutions, and she is the City Coordinator for Top Tier Impact in Los Angeles. With a Master of Science in Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Innovation from Loyola Marymount University, Paloma has helped build the website and provided invaluable insight into business operations.
Board of Advisors
Matilda Becker is the Strategic Partnerships Manager and a Research Fellow at Oxford Net Zero. Matilda’s role involves leading research in partnership with policymakers, civil society leaders, businesses, and standards bodies to accelerate net zero integrity and accountability at the international and organizational levels.
Matilda has an academic and policy background, previously working for the business and academic member organization Cambridge Ahead. Matilda completed her DPhil in Geography and Environment at the University of Oxford in 2021. Her research examined the expansion of mineral resource development in Arctic Canada and evaluated the effects of engagement mechanisms on public trust and support for resource development. Matilda also holds an MSc in Water, Science, Policy and Management, also from the University of Oxford.
Matilda Becker
Howard is the founder and Managing Director of Sports and Social Change, a global social impact consultancy focused on cause marketing, CSR, and brand/nonprofit partnerships in sports.
A sports marketing professional for over 30 years, he brings deep expertise in strategic planning, partnership development, capacity building, and communications for nonprofits, NGOs, sport for development organizations, and brand-driven social impact programs. He’s developed campaigns & events for Special Olympics, UN Alliance of Civilizations, City of LA Department of Recreation and Parks, Disability Sports Festival, Affirmative Athletics, Blind Judo Foundation, and endemic brand partners including Gatorade, PowerBar, Red Star Hockey, and Bauerfeind.
A graduate of San Diego State University, where he played Lacrosse, Howard currently lives in Southern California and is an active skier, hiker, drummer, and disc golf fanatic.
Howard Brodwin
Eugene is a senior climate risk and climate finance expert working closely with public and private sector clients on advancing their mitigation, adaptation, and resilience goals via sustainable profits. With over two decades of global finance experience, he’s also come into his own as a coastal resilience finance expert (blue bonds/blue loans) as a very active board member with Waterfront Alliance, Inc. (NYC) and leading its sustainable blue economy initiatives such as the Coastal Resilience Partnership with the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)’s ARISE US private sector network.
He's been a featured speaker, panelist, and moderator across the U.S. (Ceres, Moody’s, Aspen Ideas Climate) and international system (UNFCCC, UN Ocean). A graduate of Vanderbilt University, the Leipzig Graduate School of Management, and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), he’s an avid ocean enthusiast and passionate about taking global finance to the next level by integrating climate data and analytics into everyday and longer-term decision-making.
Eugene Montoya Alessandri
Yesha is a senior climate campaigns leader with experience across political advocacy, government, and large-scale movement building in Australia and the United States. She has a background in environmental policy and industrial relations, and previously worked as a senior adviser to the South Australian Attorney General and as a senior staffer to a State Senate Member of the South Australian Parliament.
Her work focuses on leading national campaigns, building cross-sector partnerships, and translating complex policy challenges into strategies that mobilize thousands of people and influence decision-makers. Yesha brings deep expertise in coalition-building, strategic advocacy, and government relations, with a proven ability to align diverse stakeholders around shared goals.
Maren has more than two decades of experience and holds more than a dozen patents as a senior leader at tech companies, including Adobe, Amazon, and Microsoft, where she managed big teams and million-dollar budgets, and frequently brought competing teams together to get more done more efficiently.
While at Amazon, Maren became so discouraged by their lack of action on climate change that she co-founded Amazon Employees for Climate Justice, which used first-in-the-industry collective organizing tactics to rally thousands of tech workers, bringing international scrutiny to Amazon's climate negligence, and resulting in multi-billion dollar climate commitments.
She is a longtime resident of West Seattle, a Public School mom, tech leader, start-up advisor, and climate justice organizer.
Maren Costa
Ajay specializes in leveraging exponential technologies, such as Immersive (VR/AR), Blockchain, and AI, toward human wellness and well-being while solving the world's most urgent problems by deploying partnership and business development tactics.
He consults with technology and social startups and currently advises startups and SMBs on Business Growth Strategies. Prior to that, Ajay led teams at Nokia, Experi, Paramount Pictures, Hewlett-Packard, and KPMG. Recent Industry experience includes Climate Tech, Renewable Energy, Blockchain, AI, and Wellness.
Ajay is based in the greater Los Angeles region and earned his masters degree from the Tepper Graduate School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and has a B.A. from Luther College.
