Managing Director
Quantified Ventures
Denver
George leverages his deep experience in ecosystem markets, environmental finance, and environmental law to advance outcomes-based environmental solutions using market- and performance-based tools.
George most recently served as the CEO and Founder of Bespoke Mitigation Partners (BMP) and Partner of Earth & Water Strategies. Prior to forming BMP, he was the Chief Market Officer for Resource Environmental Solutions (RES). George led market initiatives for RES, with a focus on expanding the organization’s client base, geographic footprint, and wetland, stream, nutrient, and species offset markets. In this capacity, George spearheaded RES’ efforts to open nutrient and stormwater markets in the Chesapeake Bay Region; species markets in the Appalachian, Western, and Mid-Western U.S.; stream markets in Texas and the western U.S.; and wetland and stream restoration projects for water quality and carbon markets.
Earlier in his career, George permitted and sold more than $150M of environmental credits in the United States relating to wetlands, streams, endangered species, and water quality as the Founder and Director of Environmental Banc and Exchange (EBX). He has worked with numerous resource agencies, landowners, investors and private and public credit buyers on the implementation of mitigation projects. He has been a leader in promoting new polices at the federal and state levels relating to market-based solutions to achieve environmental objectives, including federal wetland mitigation rules and a capital gains bill for mitigation credits.
Prior to founding EBX, George worked at the law firm of Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver for more than 11 years and was named Partner and a Member of the Environmental Law Group. He was involved with litigation, transactional work, and business counseling relating to natural resource damages, environmental permitting, and insurance coverage. During his tenure at the firm, he was appointed to Chair of the Environmental Law Section of the Maryland State Bar, to the Voluntary Cleanup Task Force, to the Brownfields Industrial Redevelopment Council, and became a member of the Judicial Conference for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
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