Watch: Valentina Yaman at Amazonia Rising 2022

Watch Senior Advisor Valentina Yaman share her experience in Ecuador and activating the country’s carbon market for the first time. She also discusses how JumpScale works with investors to consider indigenous worldviews, the rights of nature, and the personal and ecosystem impacts of their work. This panel discussion is from the 2022 Amazonia Rising Conference, and the full speaker list is found below.

Featured Speakers:

Valentina Yaman

Valentina has been a strategist, serial entrepreneur, and executive performance coach for the last 15 years. She has created, launched, and led over a dozen social enterprises and organizations on a mission to promote economic sovereignty for indigenous communities and the betterment of individual performance. She currently works as a strategist and Senior Advisor in Jumpscale and has her coaching practice. Prior she served as a strategist in the UTU Fund, started the first farmers-to-table online floral market, and served as the youngest board member in Fairtrade International Floral Industry. As a healthcare professional, she combines her Vedic background with her master's in transpersonal psychology and human potential. She has been coaching successful C-Suite executives and some of the poorest farmers in the highlands of Ecuador for over a decade.

Brian Muraresku

Brian C. Muraresku graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University with a degree in Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit. As an alumnus of Georgetown Law and a member of the New York Bar, he has been practicing law internationally for fifteen years. He lives outside Washington, D.C., with his wife and two daughters. In 2016, Muraresku became the founding executive director of Doctors for Cannabis Regulation. Their work has been featured on CNN and ESPN. In an arbitration with the NFL in 2018, Muraresku represented the first professional athlete in the United States to seek a therapeutic use exemption for cannabis.

Chris Varrone (moderator)

Chris is Managing Director at Pickwick Capital Partners, LLC, a FINRA-licensed registered broker-dealer. He makes his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan when he's not traveling to Colorado, the West Coast, or beyond. He is also the founder and President of Riverview Consulting, Inc., an energy and cleantech advisory firm.

Domingo Peas

Domingo Peas is from the Achuar Nation of the Ecuadorian Amazon. He has a long history of serving the indigenous peoples movement. Currently, Domingo is the technical advisor and field representative for the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of the Ecuadorian Amazon (CONFENAIE), which is an organization that represents 11 indigenous nationalities from the region. In this capacity, Domingo is an official spokesperson for the Amazon Sacred Headwaters Initiative for the protection of the basins of the Napo-Marañon Rivers.

Gregory Landua

Gregory is co-founder and co-Chief Regeneration Officer of Regen Network. Regen Network is land ecological commons management platform and the backbone for a new approach to ecosystem service markets based on verified ecological state. He is also co-author of the pioneering book, Regenerative Enterprise, the Levels of Regenerative Agriculture Whitepaper, and the Regen Network Whitepaper. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Terra Genesis International.