Team
The VIVO Carbon Team
VIVO Carbon consists of an interdisciplinary and experienced team. We share the vision of reconciling climate protection and productivity and thus enabling agriculture to make a particularly large contribution to climate protection. Our team holds many years of experience in planting agroforestry systems and has already planted more than 25 million trees in Europe.
Michael Weitz
Co-founder | Management
Dipl.-Ing. Agricultural Economics, 15 years of industry and management experience in planning and implementation of agroforestry and plantation projects, founder of Lignovis GmbH.
Jan Frensch
Co-founder | Business Development
MA Sustainable Corporate Management
7 years of experience in innovation management, development of new products, services, tactics, strategies and business models.
Svenja Nette
Co-founder | Funding and networking
M.Sc. Management of Agroecological Knowledge and Social Change, storytelling, education and project development around regenerative land use, founder of #wirstehendrauf and
Janina Alff
Co-founder | Organizational development and public relations
Systemic organizational developer, 12 years of experience as a freelance photographer, 8 years of experience in setting up non-profit organizations, co-founder of Hanseatic Help
Ulrich Kotzbauer
Co-founder
Dipl.-Ing., 30 years of experience in the areas of urban water management, wastewater technology and biogas plants. Founder and managing director of Rotaria Energie und Umwelttechnik GmbH and co-founder and managing director of Biohof Garvsmühlen KG.
Tobias Peschel
Co-founder
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Industrial engineer, 12 years of experience in agroforestry and wood plantations. Lecturer on wood cultivation in agriculture at the TU Dresden. Co-founder of GoBanyo.
Konstantin Schwarz
COâ‚‚ accounting and coordination AFS
M.Sc. Forest Sciences and Master of Environmental Management, several years of experience in project collaboration in the fields of legal acquisition for energy infrastructure projects and international forestry
