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THE LEADERSHIP TEAM

Founding Team
Diversity at heart
Diversity, Passion and Experience

A team is only as strong as its members and their collective experience. If they are similar, the team may make unnecessary mistakes and progress may be slower.

A highly diverse team with vastly different backgrounds is more powerful and flexible, leading to unpredictable and dramatic results.

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OPEN ORIGIN INC
Wesley Powell CEO at Cloud Financial Corporation
Wesley Powell
CEO
Open Origin
An Innovator who enables and empowers entrepreneurs through the creation of partnerships with startups, enterprises, and governments to deliver products and services that they could never deliver alone.

A serial entrepreneur and enterprise consultant for global banks, NGOs, state and national governments with an emphasis on massive scale IT and infrastructure projects. He has also pioneered the use of artificial intelligence on identity and entitlement data, which led to the independent development of an AI solution focused on real time stock market analysis.
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Jay Fossett
Chief Business Officer
Open Origin
Jay is a business and investment advisor with 15 years of providing investment and business theses, growth strategy, management, funding and project structuring for infrastructure, agriculture and technology investments.
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 Jay’s portfolio emphasis includes investment staging for sovereign entities; management structuring for early stage tech and science businesses, advisory development on infrastructure projects; and advisory work for emerging market investment funds. 
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Jay is a contributor on various panels and working groups and maintains active relationships at the African Union, US and UK based investment groups and with the World Bank, DFC (fmr OPIC), Swedfund and the UN. Jay’s work is based out of New York and London.


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Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri
Chief Purpose and Marketing Officer
Open Origin
Indrani is a global human rights leader, award-winning director, photographer, marketer, and lecturer at Princeton University. Recognized by the United Nations as a Women’s Entrepreneurship Distinguished Fellow, and as a Max Mark-Cranbrook Global Peacemaker, she has worked in film, advertising, tech, branding, disruptive innovation, sustainability, and social justice advocacy. An expert at moving millions to action, she empowers equality, diversity, and sustainability, with over 20 years of experience as a non-profit leader, building innovative impact-oriented programs and directing foundations across the world.
Nathan Hart Tribal Relations and Investment Office at Cloud Financial Corporation
Nathan Hart
Tribal Relations and Investment Officer
Open Origin
Nathan has worked toward the fostering and growing of tribal economies through his work with tribal Nations, state governments, and organizations focused on improving the growth of Indigenous communities.  The entities he has worked for have missions to develop affordable housing; advance tribal economies; to educate, empower, and engage;and to develop leadership through Indigenous values-based community capacity-building.  Nathan is also an alumnus of the Americans for Indian Opportunity leadership program that advances, from an Indigenous worldview, the cultural, political, and economic rights of Indigenous peoples in the United States and around the world. Nathan is Cheyenne and a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.
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KAMAKA LTD
John Campbell CEO at Kamaka
John Campbell
CEO
Kamaka
John has a diverse professional background which includes over a decade in banking and finance. With a keen interest in technology development, he made a transition to this field and excelled in the commercialisation of technologies.
John's expertise in technology development led him back to the financial sector, where he established himself as a skilled project finance specialist. He has carved a niche for himself in assessing and developing projects in the agricultural, mining, and environment sectors. John holds a Masters degree (First Class Honours) in Science and is currently pursuing a PhD in Economics.
Karl Gee COO of Kamaka
Karl Gee
COO
Kamaka
Karl is a serial entrepreneur and master facilitator in the energy sector having a career of over 40 years to develop strong relationships in the segment. He participates in business development of energy conservation and management products, projects and programs.
He works with best in class renewable energy technologies through to implementations and is considered a subject matter expert in the field of connecting the dots for deployment. His work addresses opportunities with project developers around the world to improve the business case through risk mitigation. The work in Eco-Industrial Park solutions enables a wide array of developers and manufacturers to come together in a circular economy at both scale and impact. 

Jonathan Chen of Kamaka
Jonathan Cheng
CFO
Kamaka
Jonathan has a MBA in finance from Northeastern University, and a BA in General Engineering from Harvey Mudd College. He is the founder of Breakwater Investment Group with 30 years of experience. Breakwater Investment Group is a Native-owned and operated Registered Investment Advisor helping indigenous communities protect their financial assets. He serves as CFO for Kamaka, Ltd a Maori owned renewable energy company based in New Zealand.
Jonathan has served in the role of CFO for a number of early stage energy projects and project companies. The general engineering studies coupled with his finance background provide his prior work efforts with a strategic skill set.
Marlin Dean of Kamaka
Marlin Dean
Tribal Relations
Kamaka
Marlin has 25 years commercial experience as a successful serial entrepreneur. With a proven track record in scaling high growth, multi-site operations into internationally recognized franchise brands.
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As a media trained presenter, author and high performance business coach, Marlin currently serves as a Māori business mentor for NZ Trade and Enterprise. He is a former panel member of the World Indigenous Forum, and in 2018, served as a Commercial Strategy Advisor for his tribe as part of their post treaty settlement.
He is interested in Māori social and economic advancement through sustainable commercial development, strategic indigenous relationship building and international trade. His focus is now on fostering strong international relations to facilitate indigenous participation in developing Eco-Industrial Park solutions as a strong economic platform for a transformational indigenous economy.

Marlin is of Māori indigenous heritage and is a tribal descendant of the Ngāti Kahungunu and Te Aitanga a Mahaki tribes in Aotearoa New Zealand.
John DeWee
John DeWees
Chairperson
Kamaka
John ('JohnnyD') has been a founder, partner, director, lead investor and strategic advisor for multiple start-up and established companies over a professional career spanning three decades.
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Prior to joining Kamaka John had roles in  cyber security, software development, capital solutions including investment banking and M&A, health, hotel services and hospitality. John played a key role in bringing Kamaka and Open Origin together and the formation of 'Open Origin-Kamaka'.
Since joining Kamaka, John has played a vital role in the renewable energy and biofuels developments undertaken by Kamaka and forging strong relationships with 3rd party project and technology developers.
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Expertise at a glance:
‍Corporate Governance, Startups Private Equity, Strategic Investment, and Mergers and Acquisitions
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Cloud Financial Corporation
Founding Organization
Capital Bank and Risk Management
Security, Transparency, Growth

As a leading provider of financial logistics, we combine financial services, operations, and risk management in a single entity to securely and transparently deploy global capital to local projects. We stand for the success of our clients.

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Wesley Powell
CEO
An Innovator who enables and empowers entrepreneurs through the creation of partnerships with startups, enterprises, and governments to deliver products and services that they could never deliver alone. A serial entrepreneur and enterprise consultant for global banks, NGOs, state and national governments with an emphasis on massive scale IT and infrastructure projects. He has also pioneered the use of artificial intelligence on identity and entitlement data, which led to the independent development of an AI solution focused on real time stock market analysis.
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Jay Fossett
Chief Business Officer
Jay is a business and investment advisor with 15 years of providing investment and business theses, growth strategy, management, funding and project structuring for infrastructure, agriculture and technology investments.
 Jay’s portfolio emphasis includes investment staging for sovereign entities; management structuring for early stage tech and science businesses, advisory development on infrastructure projects; and advisory work for emerging market investment funds. 
Jay is a contributor on various panels and working groups and maintains active relationships at the African Union, US and UK based investment groups and with the World Bank, DFC (fmr OPIC), Swedfund and the UN. Jay’s work is based out of New York and London.

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Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri
Chief Marketing Officer
Indrani is a global human rights leader, UN Women’s Empowerment leader, award winning director and photographer.
She has worked in film, photography, tech, branding, disruptive innovation, sustainability, and social justice advocacy.
An expert at moving millions to action, she empowers equality, diversity, and sustainability. A seasoned non-profit leader, building innovative impact-oriented programs and directing foundations across the world.
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Steve Cardwell
Board Member, Cheyenne and Arapaho Business Development Corporation
Steve is the President and CEO of the national award-winning construction company, Brenco Industrial Services. Steve’s passion is working with Native youth. He founded Native ReVision, the non-profit organization that produces the annual Native All-Star Football Classic. Steve resides in Dallas and is a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes.

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