Rehema Mbalamwezi is a seasoned professional leading UpEnergy's operations across eight markets in Africa, focusing and passionate about developing climate mitigation projects that serve low income households with renewable and cleaner energy solutions. She stands at the forefront of combating climate change and poverty while protecting local environments, leveraging carbon finance to make cleaner technologies accessible to low-income communities. Before her impactful work with UpEnergy, Rehema led engineering services at Unilever Tanzania and served as an Engineering Manager. She also contributed to energy exploration projects across West and Southern Africa.

Matt Evans is a founder and Board Chairperson of UpEnergy and serves as Director of Investments at Environmental Commodity Partners. Matt has spent his career in global climate finance and worked extensively across OECD and emerging markets, investing in and developing decarbonization projects and technologies, and advocating for a just energy transition that prioritizes low-income communities through inclusive climate finance. He worked on teams that issued the first improved cookstove, and first electric cookstove, voluntary emissions reductions. Matt previously served as Managing Director of Impact Carbon, helped launch Impact Water, and contributed to the development of the first Gold Standard Cookstove Methodology while registering the first Gold Standard projects. He also served as Managing Director of WattTime, a Rocky Mountain Institute Subsidiary software developer that shapes electricity loads to lower grid emissions. He also worked on climate and agricultural models at Stanford’s Woods Institute and at Sunpower. Matt holds a BA in Economics from Stanford and an MBA from UC Berkeley.