About us

Turning environmental complexity into financial insight

Nature and climate risks are now business risks — impacting margins, asset values, supply chains and regulatory exposure. Yet for many organisations, environmental data remains too complex, fragmented or inaccessible to support confident decisions.

Earth Blox changes that. Our platform translates nature and climate data into financial insight organisations can use to manage risk, allocate capital and identify investment opportunities. These insights are designed to be used across the business, from sustainability and risk teams to commercial and operational decision-makers.

Built for clarity, Earth Blox helps organisations focus on what matters and move faster from information to action.

Because in a world shaped by nature and climate, the ability to act on environmental insight is not just a sustainability advantage — it is a business imperative.

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From enterprises and financial institutions to consultancies, NGOs and academic institutions, organisations around the world trust Earth Blox to turn environmental insight into better decisions, stronger operations and measurable results.

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Our team

Earth Blox brings together scientific pioneers and commercial leaders with a shared mission: to make environmental insight accessible, actionable and impactful. Our team combines deep expertise in climate science and Earth observation with proven experience in building and scaling technology businesses. Together, we are building a platform that turns nature and climate data into financial insight organisations can use to manage risk, protect value and make better decisions.

Dr. Genevieve Patenaude

CEO, Executive Director

Former associate professor at the University of Edinburgh and contributing author to the IPCC Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry, Genevieve has led multiple research projects focused on solving global challenges.

Mike Mason

Chief Commercial Officer

As CCO, Mike brings 30 years of experience building world-class operations in technology companies and driving value for clients. His approach has ensured the successful growth and exit of several businesses, including TVSquared and LBi.

Martin Reynard

Chief Financial Officer

With over 30 years of experience, Martin has delivered growth across technology and science-led companies. Combining a scientific background with a strong commercial focus, he has played a key role in several successful exits.

Richard Lewis

Chairman

Chairman of Earth Blox since 2021, Richard brings 30 years of commercial experience in the IT sector. Having led dns (Secureworks) to exit in 2009, he has since focused on supporting high growth SaaS businesses scale in Chairman, Non-Exec and Advisor roles, leading to involvement in a number of successful exits.

Katie Critchlow

Non-Executive Director

Katie brings 20+ years of experience in impact leadership and green innovation. She is the former CEO of NatureMetrics, led sustainability initiatives at M&S, WWF, and PwC and was a founding member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Sustainable Finance.

Ben Matthews

Director of Nature and Climate

As former lead of PwC UK’s Nature Analytics team, Ben brings extensive experience in nature and climate analytics, having led the largest corporate pilot for TNFD and contributed to Business for Nature’s Strategy Handbook.

Sam Fleming

Head of Customer Success

An Earth observation specialist, Sam has extensive experience leading teams on global projects to map and protect ecosystems. He holds a Master of Science, Remote Sensing, from University College London and is a PRINCE2 Practitioner.

Ben Butchart

Head of Development

Ben has over 20 years of software engineering and management experience at the Crown Office, JP Morgan, University College London, Dresdner Bank AG, and EDINA, where he led the delivery of geospatial services such as Digimap.

Tim Newman

Head of Product

Tim spent eight years at Ordnance Survey where he oversaw a 5X increase in subscriber numbers for the OS Maps consumer app. He holds a Master's degree in Chemistry (Oxon) and an MSc in Polar and Alpine Change from Sheffield University.

Cassie Anderson

Head of Marketing

Cassie is a CIM qualified B2B marketing and communications specialist with over 15 years’ in-house and consultancy experience building globally focused tech startups in emerging sectors including fintech, AI, and digital identity.

Chris Rose

Senior Commercial Executive

Chris has 20+ years of experience selling enterprise geospatial technologies. He has held leadership sales and channel partnership roles for EMEA and AMER at Data Interchange, Innovyze and Pitney Bowes and served on the Esri Partner Advisory Council.

Iain H Woodhouse

Knowledge and Outreach Lead

Iain is a Professor of Applied Earth Observation at Edinburgh University, specialising in active remote sensing. He has over 27 years experience in academia and industry, 100+ publications, and advises UK government agencies on EO strategy.

Investors and partners

A network of trusted investors, data providers and scientific institutions supports our mission to make nature and climate intelligence accessible, scalable and impactful.

Committed to responsible impact

We are guided by a clear purpose: helping organisations understand and act on nature and climate risk.

That principle informs who we work with, how we operate and the standards we apply to our work.

We prioritise working with organisations committed to improving their environmental performance and supporting the transition to more sustainable and resilient systems.

By combining scientific integrity with practical application, we aim to make a meaningful contribution — through our technology and through the partnerships we build.

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