THE TEAM

CTO and Co-founder

John Tavares

John has 20 years of experience commercializing and scaling B2B platforms, including Enso Financial Analytics. He played a critical role in building and scaling Galaxy Digital’s OTC electronic markets and was formerly the COO at CrossTower.

CEO and Co-founder

Pratik shah

Pratik is an expert in FX, swaps, and emerging markets. He has built and launched electronic platforms, and has 20 years of experience trading at major banks. He was most recently the CIO at CrossTower.

CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER

Chris kohler

Chris has 20 years of experience in institutional investing, sustainability consulting, and capital raising. As a growth leader, Chris helped raise more than $60 million at a digital assets hedge fund and more recently helped scale and institutionalize the digital assets prime brokerage, FalconX, $8 billion valuation (2022).

Partnerships Lead

Keith henthorn

Keith has 30+ years of experience leading corporate sales divisions and partnering with CFOs at Fortune 500 companies. He pioneered FX micropayments for companies including Amazon, eBay, and Paypal.

Engineering LEad

Andre gomes

Andre has former experience at Tesla and NASA, as well as within the renewable energy industry having worked at Big Sun Solar, a community solar project, and most notably at LevelTen Energy.

OUR ADVISORS

Advisor

Erika Knierim

Erika is an attorney, legal engineer, and finance professional with over 14 years of experience, focusing on corporate and transactional matters at Founders Law, while also specializing in tokenization, blockchain, and Industry 4.0 technologies.

Advisor

Andrew noll

With a strong background in renewable markets and an MBA from Cornell and Queen's University, Andrew has excelled at Sol Systems by implementing strategies that maximize client value in the renewable energy sector, overseeing more than 200 successful transactions.

ADVISOR

Jose (Pepe) Ruiz

Since the age of 23 when he first became a partner of a Wall Street firm he created several successful trading franchises. Jose continues his journey by working deep in the blockchain space putting theory into practice. He is currently the president of DEFX a decentralized exchange built for the future.

ADVISOR

Andrew ross

An Investment Banker at Regiment Securities, Andrew has more than 30 years of experience in the public and private sectors.  As Illinois Governor Pat Quinn's COO, he managed a $31 billion capital program and crafted the state's renewable energy policies.

OUR MISSION

Innovo is on a mission to transform the environmental commodity market

The renewable energy sector has long needed an upgrade in software for settlement & inventory management. Innovo strives to enable this next step forward for the energy industry to grow towards 100% green. We're on a mission to accelerate the renewable energy transition away from fossil fuels. Leveraging a modernized tech stack, the Innovo Settlement Network enables power producers, energy utilities, & net-zero companies to save costs & reduce settlement time on their energy commodity procurement. By utilizing our settlement network, more capital will be available for energy origination, propelling additionality back into the grid.