(01) About AlphaX

The team behind the intelligence.

AlphaX is a team of specialists in nature, climate, geopolitics, finance and AI, working on one problem: making geospatial risk measurable at the scale of institutional portfolios.

(02) Our people

Meet the team

Vian Sharif PhD
Vian Sharif PhD
Founder & President

Vian works where nature data meets capital allocation, advising industry bodies including TNFD and UKSIF on nature-related initiatives. Her PhD is in Environmental Behaviour Change. She is also an ambassador for HM King Charles' Circular Bioeconomy Alliance.

Nick Hough-Robbins
Nick Hough-Robbins
Chief Executive Officer

Nick runs AlphaX. He has owned the go-to-market strategy, expanded the AI capability and led the company's fundraising. His MBA is from Oxford's Saïd Business School.

Charles Low
Charles Low
Client Success Manager

Economics and finance by training, Charles works on how nature-related risk shows up in financial performance. Much of the job is translation: turning model output into something an investment committee can act on.

Jasper Hajonides PhD
Jasper Hajonides PhD
Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer

Jasper came to data science from neuroscience, studying at the universities of Amsterdam, Princeton and Oxford. He sets the data strategy at AlphaX, across everything from structured time series to generative models, and keeps a close eye on what is actually usable from the current wave of LLM research.

Craig Hamilton
Craig Hamilton
Chief Operating Officer

Before AlphaX, Craig worked in banking, finance and regulatory systems. He now runs operations, with a focus on the infrastructure under the platform: making sure what a product decision promises can be built and then run in production.

Laura Segafredo PhD
Laura Segafredo PhD
Chief Growth Officer

Twenty years of climate work has taken Laura through the energy sector, academia, philanthropy and finance, including a spell as an investor at BlackRock. She advises a fintech/agtech startup and an early-stage climate resilience venture fund, sits on the board of a post-growth think tank, and is a professor at Columbia University.

Ian Quine
Ian Quine
VP Sales

Ian has started and scaled several AI software companies before this one. He is building out sales globally, around the Agentic AI platform and the risk datasets behind it.

Adomas Puzelevicius
Adomas Puzelevicius
Senior Data Engineer

Adomas builds and maintains the data systems the platform runs on, and takes an interest in where the product goes next as well as how it works.

Rafael Camargo
Rafael Camargo
Head of Geospatial Engineering

Rafael leads geospatial engineering. His team turns raw nature data into assessments that hold up at portfolio scale, and builds the tools investors use to see impacts and dependencies across their holdings and value chains.

Chris Hartshorn PhD
Chris Hartshorn PhD
Chief Commercial Officer

Chris works on commercialisation, connecting the people who build technology with the corporate, startup and government buyers who adopt it. He owns the commercial side of the business.

Liesl Van de Vyver Blackman
Liesl Van de Vyver Blackman
Head of Policy Analysis

Liesl built AlphaX's Unmanaged Risk module, which scores the presence and quality of a company's biodiversity policies. Her background is policy analysis, and the work sits between the science of nature and the frameworks finance has to report against.

Valerie Song
Valerie Song
AI Engineer

Valerie builds the LLM-backed parts of the platform, the parts that let users ask questions about a large dataset.

Harrison McKenzie-McHarg
Harrison McKenzie-McHarg
Product Manager

Harrison has come at climate and nature data from three directions: solutions architecture, GHG accounting and land-sector modelling, across the UK, EU and North America. As product manager he decides what gets built, and what the output has to be good enough for.

Nikolai Tennant
Nikolai Tennant
LLM Engineer

Nikolai took his undergraduate and master's degrees at Brown University and has published research in deep learning. At AlphaX he works on the LLM tooling that gets fragmented source data into a usable structure.

Anusha Ramachandran
Anusha Ramachandran
Account Executive

Anusha has worked go-to-market roles in big tech, in high-growth scale-ups and in investment banking. She now works with the institutions weighing up whether nature risk data changes how they invest.