Talal Debs
Founder & CEO
Talal Debs
Founder & CEO
With extensive energy and commodities experience, Talal served as chair of J.P. Morgan’s oil and gas price deck committee, as well as in leadership roles covering infrastructure and commodities credit, insurance, and reservoir engineering and technical analysis; his time at the institution spanning 15 years. Talal has nearly a decade of experience as a researcher and lecturer within the technically demanding field of the foundations of quantum mechanics and relativity theory. He earned his AB in physics and the history of science from Harvard College, his MPhil in history and the philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge, and his PhD in the foundations of modern physics from the University of Cambridge. He is the Founder and CEO of Zefiro and Founder and Managing Partner of X Machina Capital Strategies (“XMC”).
Mohit Gupta
Chief Financial Officer
Mohit Gupta
Chief Financial Officer
With over three decades of experience in the banking and energy trading sectors, Mohit Gupta most notably served as one of the key founding members of J.P. Morgan's Energy Trading business and has also held senior executive roles with Ernst & Young and Wells Fargo. Mohit was instrumental in building J.P. Morgan's venture capital (Lab Morgan) division and aiding the investment bank's repositioning following the 'dot-com crash' in the early 2000s. He served as the company's Payments Business North American Head and Chief Financial and Chief Operating Officer of the Global Payments Business. Following his nearly twenty-five-year tenure at J.P. Morgan, Mr. Gupta served as Managing Director of Ernst & Young's Financial Services Advisory, where he helped lead the development of the treasury services, cash management, and payments operations of the practice. Most recently, Mr. Gupta served as Chief Financial Officer of Global Operations for Wells Fargo, where he helped transform and optimize the bank's operations via strategic applications of technology and digital transformation. Mohit serves as Chief Financial Officer of Zefiro Methane Corp. and Chief Operating Officer of X Machina Capital Strategies.
Tina Reine
Chief Commercial Officer
Tina Reine
Chief Commercial Officer
Tina started her environmental markets career in London at Cantor Fitzgerald’s Environmental Markets group in 2007, selling forward contracts on carbon offsets. During this time, she joined in the policy debate at Houses of Parliament to develop standards and registries for the voluntary trading market. She also helped build out the environmental markets division at JPMorgan and at NextEra Energy, managing an equity investment portfolio of carbon projects. Previously, she was Director of Commercialization for the carbon offset market at World Kinect Energy Services. She was responsible for both structuring deals and origination. She has traded in both the compliance and the voluntary market. Tina earned her MBA from Columbia Business School and serves as the CCO of Zefiro.
Richard Walker
Chief Technology Officer
Richard Walker
Chief Technology Officer
With over thirty years of experience in enterprise technology strategy, Richard Walker has held senior leadership roles at Bain & Company, Deloitte, IBM, and BearingPoint. At Bain, Richard served as a senior partner in the Financial Services and Enterprise Technology practices, co-leading the go-to-market strategy for Web3 within the financial services division, with a focus on blockchain, tokenization, cloud migration, and modernizing IT operating models for global clients. Prior to Bain, Richard spent over a decade as a Principal at Deloitte, leading blockchain and digital assets initiatives for the Financial Services practice, where he developed technology and operations strategies for banking and securities clients. He also served as IBM’s Head of IT Strategy for Financial Services and as a Managing Director at BearingPoint, specializing in technology consulting for the UK’s financial services sector. As Chief Technology Officer at Zefiro Methane Corp., Richard oversees the integration of innovative technologies, including artificial intelligence, into Zefiro’s environmental remediation and carbon markets divisions.
Luke Plants
Senior Vice President of Corporate Development
Luke Plants
Senior Vice President of Corporate Development
Luke Plants is the leading expert in Plugging & Abandonment (P&A) in the Appalachian region. As a former Chief Operating Officer at Plants & Goodwin (P&G) and a third-generation owner/manager, he brings extensive industry experience and expertise. He holds an MBA from Penn State and is a proud US Army veteran. Luke serves as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development for Zefiro Methane and CEO of Zefiro subsidiary, Plants & Goodwin.
Matthew Brooks
Head of Operations
Matthew Brooks
Head of Operations
Matthew Brooks serves as head of Operations at Zefiro. Matthew has spent his entire career focused on energy sector acquisitions, development and operations. Most recently, he served in senior roles in the Land & Legal Department for Urban Oil & Gas Group, a private equity backed E&P company with operations spanning 11 states in the US. He helped develop and implement the divestiture program in the A&D group at Urban and has extensive experience managing acquisitions and divestitures in the domestic upstream oil and gas sector. He earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Clemson University and is a graduate of the University of Mississippi School of Law.