Meet the team
Hunter Listwin - Founder
Hunter is an engineer, conservationist, and technologist. He recently founded the Conservation Technology Accelerator (CTA). Before founding CTA, Hunter worked at FullCycle, a private equity firm focused on climate solutions, for Morgan Stanley in Private Wealth Management, and at a Thailand zoo where he helped care for big cats. He has assisted in numerous expeditions from the high Andes to the Arctic Circle. He’s served as a Swiss army knife (aka jack of all trades) for numerous expeditions from the high Andes to the Arctic Circle. While in high school, Hunter started a drone software company and filed his first patent. Hunter is also an avid photographer, woodworker, and Divemaster who’s visited all seven continents to better understand conservation in the field and the role CTA can play. He speaks fluent Spanish.
Hunter received his mechanical engineering degree from Bucknell University.
Walter Sedgwick - Board Member
Walter Sedgwick is a long-time forest landowner and conservationist who has worked with many organizations dedicated to land and animals, serving on the Boards of the National Audubon Society, The Nature Conservancy-Florida, Land Trust Alliance, and the Turtle Survival Alliance. He was Chair of Tall Timbers, Bat Conservation International, Island Conservation, and the Pacific Forest Trust. He is currently on the board of the Wildlife Conservation Society..
Walter is co-founder of Island Press and the Red Hills Land Conservancy which is now part of Tall Timbers. He also helped to found the Turtle Conservation Fund in 2002. With his Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation, he has donated a major collection of Japanese Buddhist sculpture and early Chinese ceramics to the Harvard University Museums.
Anthony Giordano - Board Member
Dr. Anthony J. Giordano is equal parts wildlife population ecologist, predator-prey biologist, veteran frontlines conservation practitioner, entrepreneurial problem-solver, international explorer, social innovator/disruptor, and science liaison to the public. Founder, Executive Director, and Chief Conservation Officer of S.P.E.C.I.E.S. (The Society for the Preservation of Endangered Carnivores and their International Ecological Study), Anthony spends most of his time reimagining and developing transformative, scalable ideas and solutions capable of effectively addressing the complexity and challenges of today’s big conservation problems.
Anthony received a Fulbright Scholarship and was one of Panthera's inaugural Kaplan ScholarAwards for his pioneering doctoral work (Texas Tech University) on the ecology, conservation status, and population genetics of jaguars in the Gran Chaco of South America. Anthony has co-managed some of the first research and conservation projects for many species, including for fishing cats in Bangladesh, and Sunda clouded leopards on Borneo; currently, he is considered one of the leading experts on these and many other cryptic and elusive carnivore species. As co-founder of MendWild, and with a conservation technology company, an ecotourism company, and biodiversity investment fund in the pipeline, Anthony is one of the world’s first serial conservation entrepreneurs.
Sam Gray - Head of Operations
Sam is an operations professional with over 10 years of experience working in fast-paced, hyper-growth companies. Early on in his career, Sam joined Postmates, now a multi-billion-dollar enterprise, to successfully develop and implement their growth strategy across the U.S. Since then, Sam has worked with various start-ups in Silicon Valley and London to establish and execute growth strategies for lasting impact. He is thrilled to apply his operations experience in the conservation space and deliver solutions to CTA’s partners to help protect and improve our planet.
Sam received his BA in Political Science from Pitzer College and an MA in History from the University of Amsterdam.