Cascade Climate
Vilas Rao has a diverse background in strategy and agriculture, with experience at companies such as Cascade Climate, InnerPlant, Arable, Bayer Crop Science, The Climate Corporation, and McKinsey & Company. Vilas also worked as a Research Associate at the Federal Reserve System. With a degree in Economics from Stanford University and a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School, Vilas brings a strong academic foundation to their career in the corporate world.
Cascade Climate
Cascade Climate works to accelerate progress in climate interventions that leverage Earth’s natural systems—from soils to oceans to glaciers—to stabilize our climate. As a philanthropically-backed nonprofit, we coordinate and resource ambitious initiatives across science, industry, philanthropy, and policy to overcome the core bottlenecks that are holding back the most promising open-system climate interventions. Our initial focus is advancing the development of a healthy market for enhanced rock weathering (ERW), underpinned by its scientific evidence base and its potential for durable, gigaton-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR).