Jonathan Naimon is the founder of Sustana Cooling Partners, a boutique investment manager. Sustana is developing a global impact fund to expand cold chain access and scale innovative cold tech companies. Sustana also advises Ecobanca, a trust company based in Mexico that is active in recycling, watershed protection and carbon markets.

Before founding Sustana, Naimon led LGA, a pioneering sustainability manager that advised California pension funds, environmental NGOs and EU asset managers. As the founding financial advisor to solar pioneer Sun Edison, LGA developed a third-party finance model that brought institutional investors into renewables and facilitated its exponential growth.

Earlier, Naimon built a corporate sustainability team at Investor Responsibility Research Center, now part of MSCI, and developed metrics used in its “Does it Pay to be Green” study. In partnership with the Global Environmental Management Initiative, IRRC organized investor focus groups on sustainability reporting and securities disclosure.

Naimon also worked as a scientist at ABB, where he identified an electronics company ABB acquired and forged a partnership with the Department of Energy to demonstrate environmental remediation technologies. He managed a national study of oil spill impacts for the Environmental Protection Agency. Before ABB, Naimon was an associate at ICF, where he managed environmental risk and economic benefits analysis of refrigerant alternatives to implement the Montreal Protocol.

He has advised members of Congress and the Progressive Policy Institute on climate policy and counseled municipal and investor-owned utilities on carbon credits. He also helped catalyze a joint venture involving TransAlta and Waste Management to harvest landfill gas.

Naimon earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied environmental law, and a master’s degree in environmental management from the University of North Carolina, where he was an NSF fellow.

He has served as a visiting professor at the Norwegian School of Management and taught cost-benefit analysis at Carnegie Mellon University. The Financial Times, KPBS and Barron’s have cited him in stories on climate change and investment.