About Us
Our Founder
Meet our Founder. Three decades of leadership in conservation finance.
IGP brings the market around the table — working with practitioners across finance, law, insurance, and project development on every mandate.
Founder & CEO
Cheri Sugal
Cheri founded IGP with the vision of scaling the early financing available for the development of Nature-based Solutions. The firm draws on her 30 years of experience financing conservation and generating carbon assets, with on-the-ground experience in 70+ countries.
IGP's practice spans emerging markets — working with governments, NGOs, communities, and the private sector — and the financial structuring that brings early private financing into emission reduction projects.
IGP's founder brings three decades of experience across the globe
Cheri has spent three decades designing, financing, and scaling nature-based conservation programs across more than 70 countries — most of them in the global south. Early in her career, she created the pioneering USD 100 million fund at Conservation International's Global Conservation Fund. Under her leadership, it supported the creation and management of over 100 million hectares of new protected areas. She then served as Director for Latin America and Africa at Terra Global Capital, where she designed Nature-based Solutions projects across both continents. Built through participatory design with indigenous and local stakeholders, those projects have been successfully validated and are delivering carbon credits today.
Cheri has led capital deployment work with national governments and the World Bank, including benefit sharing design for National & Jurisdictional REDD+ programs in Colombia, Mexico, Guyana, Cambodia, and Zambia. She went on to lead project structuring and financing as Head of Structured Finance at South Pole, deploying tens of millions of dollars of early-stage capital into high-integrity Nature-based Solutions for investors and corporates. She also founded Imperative Global Group and served as its Chief Investment Officer.
Now, as CEO and Founder of Integrity Global Partners, Cheri brings this full-arc experience — from on-the-ground project design to institutional capital deployment — to unlocking finance for nature at scale.
Experience across
- Conservation International — creator of the pioneering USD 100 million fund
- Terra Global Capital — Director, Latin America & Africa
- South Pole — Head of Structured Finance
- Imperative Global Group — Founder & Chief Investment Officer
- The World Bank and national governments — capital deployment and benefit-sharing design
Three decades. More than 70 countries. Institutional capital deployed into high-integrity Nature-based Solutions.
Collaborators and Advisors
A firm built with the market itself
Across the market, IGP collaborates with experts assembled for each mandate. We bring expertise from structured finance, insurance, law, infrastructure, academia, and benefit sharing.
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IGP works alongside practitioners across the carbon market — finance, law, science, and market infrastructure — on the book, on events, and on mandates.
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