Our Founder
Meet our Founder. A visionary leader with unparalleled market-leading expertise.
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Get in touchIGP is a global advisory firm founded by one of the world’s leading experts in nature based solutions, conservation finance & structured carbon finance.
**Team Profiles coming soon!** Our team and partners bring together combined expertise across project origination, carbon project design & execution, corporate and project finance, and leading technology solutions.
Cheri Sugal
Profile
Cheri created IGP with the vision of scaling early financing available for the development of Nature-based Solutions. She brings 30 years of experience financing conservation and generating carbon assets with on-the-ground experience in 65+ countries. She has deep experience in delivering projects in emerging markets, with governments, NGOs, communities, and the private sector and financial structuring to facilitate early private financing into emission reduction projects.
Experience
Cheri’s previous roles included:
- Head of Structured Carbon Finance at South Pole Carbon Asset Management
- Founder of Cheri Sugal Consulting, 10 years developing advising on the design of jurisdictional and national emission reductions programs (Mexico, Cambodia, Guyana, Zambia).
- Director for Africa & Latin America at Terra Global Capital; and
- Founder & Senior Director of the $100M Global Conservation Fund at Conservation International
IGP's founder brings three decades of experience across the globe:
- On-the-ground work in 65+ countries, mainly in the global south, designing, developing and financing nature-based conservation programs;
- Creating the pioneering USD 100 million fund for the creation and management of more than 100 million hectares of new protected areas (the Global Conservation Fund at Conservation International);
- Advising governments and the World Bank on capital deployment and benefit sharing design into National & Jurisdictional REDD+ programs (Colombia, Mexico, Guyana, Cambodia, Zambia);
- Designing NbS projects throughout Africa and Latin America, including participatory design with indigenous and local stakeholders, that have been successfully validated and are delivering carbon credits; and
- Leading project structuring and financing for investors and corporates leading to deployment of tens of millions of dollars of early-stage capital.
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