Our Team.
Rick Beaumont
Founder & CEO
Natallia Pashko
Product Manager
Randall Dongo-Olsen
Data Manager
Three years ago, Rick was a maritime lawyer in New York City and Senior Executive for one of the top marine insurers in the world. The majority of his day was dedicated to making 7-figure decisions while managing litigation and responding to collisions and oil spills. Honed in that mature market, these skills combined with his interest for proactive ways to combat climate change led him to discover the impact, intricacies, and more importantly the inefficiencies of the carbon markets. Recognizing that inaccessible, fragmented, and inaccurate data was the main hindrance to getting projects funded and built, he and his business partner spent a year and a half researching and building the foundations of their carbon markets data platform. Then in August 2023, he was accepted into the Techstars program where he received his first injection of capital and invaluable guidance. Rick decided that the best way to deploy that capital was to hire a data manager to professionalize and scale data acquisition and to get people using the platform to ensure its development would be directly tied to user feedback. A year and a half later, with two more rounds of funding and a sleek premium product now available to clients, Rick leads a team of eight who all work to develop, refine, and promote Clever Offsets as the gold standard data solution for the carbon markets.
We welcomed Natallia Pashko to Clever as our new Product Manager. An operations virtuoso, before joining Clever, she was instrumental in the early development of our public platform during her tenure as a Project Manager at Paralect. In addition to supporting Clever, she is ambitiously pursuing her second degree in Global Environmental Studies at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. We are thrilled to have such a talented team dedicated to Clever's success and our company values.
When Clever was beginning to attain some gravitational pull, we knew we needed someone that understood how to make sense of massive and unruly data sets. With his academic background in natural resource management and experience with the carbon offsets market through the Environmental Defense Fund, our first choice was Randall. Lucky for us, he said yes and was equally passionate about solving issues stakeholders face when navigating the carbon markets. As Clever's Data Manager, Randall is on our front lines when taking in large sets of unstructured, sloppy data. He and his global team prepare the data for our Data Engineer and Developer by going above and beyond what scrapping and AI can do. His attention to detail and strategy for assembling data has made the quality of our platform a cut above the rest. While most people shy away from complexity Randall knows that "the more complicated data is to ingest, the more valuable we are to clients." Clever takes on messy data leaving behind a cleaner market and cleaner planet.
Zahra Thomas
Sales Specialist
Dr. Nicholas Kreston
Data Engineer & Product Owner
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Ilya Andreyeuski
Developer
Zahra is our Sales Specialist and has been with Clever since the summer of 2024. She got her start in sales straight out of college when she was quickly recruited to train on K Street in Washington D.C. She then moved into the healthcare industry, helping companies with contract management and compliance. As our team has seen firsthand, Zahra leads with a consultative approach because at the heart of her conversations with prospective clients is her desire to solve their problems and give them the ability to make more secure and confident decisions. Her love and commitment to nature was part of the reason she was inspired to join Clever. She is happy to be part of a company that is a piece of a greater solution that strives to participate positively in climate action.
We are thrilled to introduce Dr. Nicholas Kreston, our new Product Owner/Data Engineer. Holding both an MPhil and DPhil from Oxford University, Nicholas is a seasoned data scientist and accomplished academic author. With over a decade of experience in product management and development within geographic analytics roles and insurance markets, he is working with the rest of Clever's Product team to enhance our data offerings to best meet client's specific needs.
Our talented developer, Ilya, joined the Clever Team back in September 2024. After working closely with the rest of the team, he ensures our users have clean, sleek, and simple access to everything our data and product team are looking to implement. He is currently juggling working at Clever and finishing his computer science degree at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics. Before Clever, he began supporting various companies by writing scripts and moved on to Paralect. He enjoys the autonomy and trust that the rest of the team has given him and we couldn’t be happier with the results.