Edward West is an entrepreneur, designer, engineer, educator, and executive. He does strategy, network design, as well as builds and funds companies to help address the most significant and pressing challenges that we face, with a portfolio of work spanning from renewable energy, to regenerative agriculture, to vehicle electrification, to curriculum design and cultural preservation.

Some of his selected projects include, as an Adventure Partner at Salmon Nation Trust, the co-creation of The Edge Prize, a new decentralized accelerator and fund to support bioregional regenerative projects and companies.

He was Co-Founder and CEO of Hylo, a new kind of social network that helps members of communities-of-purpose to connect, collaborate, share resources, and build things together.

In 2006, he served as Co-founder and President Mission Motors, manufacturer of high performance electric motorcycles and advanced electric vehicle components.

He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Yale University, and an MBA from Presidio Graduate School.

Timur is a real estate developer specializing in creating innovative spaces that integrate functionality, sustainability, and well-being. With expertise in adaptive reuse, coliving spaces, microstructures, master planning, glamping, and wellness-focused developments, he has successfully delivered projects in regional markets such as the Greater Bay Area and the Yucatán, Mexico.

Timur brings expertise in 3D printing and modular construction to enhance development capabilities.

From reimagining urban landscapes to crafting serene retreats, Timur is dedicated to building spaces that foster connection, innovation, and inspiration.

Nathanael Miksis is an energy and technology strategist with a passion for solving complex infrastructure challenges and designing systems that support long-term sustainability. With a master’s degree in operations research, he brings analytical precision and systems-level thinking to energy and materials flows, resource optimization, and financial modeling—turning technical expertise into practical, impactful solutions.

Over the course of transacting more than $1.2B in wholesale electricity deals, Nathanael has worked with large utilities, community energy agencies, and public institutions like the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART). At BART, he led efforts to secure 75% of the system’s power needs from renewable sources, delivering $174M in savings while advancing decarbonization at scale.

More recently, Nathanael has focused on leveraging AI to transform how we gather insights and make decisions. He created Civiai.org, a retrieval-augmented research and governance platform, and leads workshops that explore how AI can help professionals navigate complexity and design adaptive solutions. Nathanael sees technology as a dynamic tool for uncovering opportunities, creating abundance, and empowering communities to thrive within the systems they depend on.

Grounded in long-term thinking and a commitment to sustainable innovation, Nathanael’s work connects data, strategy, and human potential to build a more resilient and regenerative future.

Josiah Cain is a landscape architect and ecological design consultant with over two decades of experience working at the nexus of ecology, infrastructure, and urban design. For the past 12 years, he served as a Principal and Director of Innovation at Sherwood Design Engineers. Prior work experience includes building two companies, and a senior leadership role at Rana Cohabitat. Josiah has also lectured widely, taught studio courses, and was Program Director for UC Berkeley’s Professional Certificate in Sustainable Design.

In addition to a BS in landscape architecture from UC Davis, Josiah holds an advanced degree in Design, Technology, and Environment from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He also has design certificates in Permaculture, Green Roof Design, Rain Harvesting, and Constructed Wetland Treatment Systems.

A third generation resident of the San Francisco Bay Area, Josiah grew up in the back to the land movement of the 1970s where he developed a strong ethos that drew him to sustainable design, permaculture and regenerative systems.

Inspired by institutions such as Rocky Mtn Institute, Ocean Arks, Esalen, and The Center for Maximum Human Potential, Josiah co-purchased a 172 acre working farm where he lives and works. Green Valley Farm + Mill (gvfam.com) is a mixed use property in Sonoma County which supports 7 households and approximately 12 commercial tenants who share a passion for land based resilience and regeneration, including a vegetable farm, organic dairy, hospitality, and environmental education.

Aaron Brodeur is a versatile designer, developer, and entrepreneur based in San Francisco. He serves as the head of design at Terran Collective, where he helps create exceptional products for diverse clients. His expertise spans user experiences, interfaces, visual design, illustration, and branding, and he is dedicated to empathizing with end-users.

As a developer, Brodeur consistently updates his knowledge of new technologies and libraries, working on projects ranging from large systems to smaller-scale products. His background in design ensures that his work is visually appealing and user-friendly. He has experience working both as part of larger development teams and independently.

In his entrepreneurial journey, Brodeur's first success came after joining Virgance in 2008 as its first employee. As the design and front end development lead, he played a crucial role in the company's growth, which led to its acquisition by NRG for over $100 million.

John Manoochehri is an architect and environmental scientist based in Stockholm and San Francisco.

He has a diploma in architecture from the graduate school of architecture in Stockholm, at KKH, and has taught technical courses and design studios at Master’s level at the Stockholm undergraduate architecture and planning schools, at KTH.

His sustainable design company Resource Vision has been on design teams with BIG, White, Strategisk Arkiekter, and other major Scandinavian offices, working on some of the largest projects in Swedish history, including Kiruna city move. He has written an architectural design method handbook with Kjellander + Sjöberg Architects, and contributed technical advice to modular housing fabricators. He founded the Resource Talks podcast to investigate sustainable architecture and modern environmental science and policy.

He started an architectural design technology company, Last Meter®, with the support of the Swedish Real Estate Federation, to enable the integration of service-based consumption into the spatial and financial models of modern real estate, to facilitate the adoption of circular consumption models at scale.

Treasury was founded in 2022, by him together Zaha Hadid Architects, and Spaceform, a visualization platform backed by BIG, Thomas Heatherwick Studio, UNStudio and more, asa registry and discovery system for the world’s most valuable spatial assets – architectural design, film scenes and sets, real estate, world monuments, experiential art, nature scans, and other spatial content.

Treasury protects and distributes the work of spatial creators – architects, real estate owners, artists, engineers, and reality capture professionals – in the era of spatial computing and generative AI.

Previously, he worked at the United Nations Environment Program in Geneva, where he wrote UNEP’s policy framework on sustainable urban consumption, ‘Consumption Opportunities’. He wrote the World Wide Fund for Nature’s global handbook on sustainable cities, ‘Urban Solutions’, integrating the UN Sustainable Development Goals framework with the WWF Urban Solutions model.

He has a degree from the University of Oxford and lives in Stockholm and San Francisco.