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CLimateinnovation Discover Strategize Partner Execute Scale Julia Thayne Julia Thayne With more than 15 years of experience across public private and notforprofit sectors Julia has dedicated her career to transforming ideas into impact founding and leading organizations strategies and teams for equitable climate action. Julia served as Senior Principal at the global climate nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute where she led a team of 20 direct reports a grant team of 100 and a budget of 16M to accelerate firstofakind investments in decarbonizing industry aviation shipping and trucking. She was Clean Industrial Hub Director for the nonprofit Mission Possible Partnership coleading a 2year 24M grant from the Bezos Earth Fund. Previously she served as the Executive Officer of Economic Development for Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti overseeing 8 City departments including the Airports and Port and disbursing 150M in financial assistance to businesses and NGOs during the COVID19 pandemic.