I'm really excited to welcome Jad Daley to Terraformation, where he's been starting off his week representing us at COP30! I first met Jad in 2022 when he was working at American Forests. For those of you who don't know, American Forests is a 100+ year-old organization founded in 1875, one of our country's oldest conservation nonprofits. One of the things that struck me the most when I met him was how entrepreneurial and dynamic he was, which was totally unexpected to all of us at Terraformation, meeting the head of a hundred+ year conservation organization. He would reply to emails on project proposals we were working on at all hours of the night and over the weekend, and was open to all ideas. He was also really inclusive. That's a notion and buzzword that's fallen out of favor these days but reforestation is a global movement - everyone on the planet is literally a stakeholder. In 2022, nobody gave Terraformation the time of day. We were just a bunch of tech people who had little-to-no experience when it came to reforestation, but Jad invited us right away to join in discussions on things like on national seedling strategy (we had started off with modular seed banks back then), which eventually led to talks with the USDA. When Jad first joined American Forests, the organization was well past its glory days: it had originated the idea of the US Forest Service in 1876, and during the time of FDR, it helped establish the Civilian Conservation Corp that planted many of what are today's US National Parks and Forests. But when Jad got there in 2017, it was a shadow of its former self, a meager advocacy organization of only 14 people all in DC. But in just the time since we started Terraformation, we watched Jad steer American Forests through an amazing comeback, expanding with startup-like intensity to over 100 people and operations supporting forestry organizations all across the US and even internationally. I had never seen an established nonprofit do something like that. More impressively, American Forests blazed a trail in public advocacy - ultimately securing over a billion dollars across multiple infrastructure bills during the Biden administration for the restoration and renewal of forests in America. But the thing I admire most about how Jad does his work is that he is non-partisan and - dare I say it again - truly inclusive. As a result, nearly all the infrastructure dollars secured for forests during the Biden administration have remained in place through the Trump administration - literally a billion dollars. He will work hand-in-hand with anyone and everyone, on both sides of the aisle and both sides of the ocean, because we all have a stake in this planetary outcome. I watched all this happen from the outside. And so, when Jad announced his retirement from American Forests in January of this year, I thought, "Wow, what an amazing run, I hope we can do half as well for the world at large." As it turned out, when I reached out to him to chat earlier this summer, he wasn't quite done yet. After many discussions and meetings with our team, we began to envision an ambitious plan to expand and accelerate our work around the world, combining all of our talents with his. And so, I'm happy to announce that Jad has joined Terraformation in the role of President, where we'll be working together to accelerate global reforestation and do this very critical work. We all truly believe that this is a moment whose time has come, when climate restoration and landscape renewal has become a self-evident priority for everyone on this planet. As we also begin to take our first steps off of this world, it is only right to dedicate ourselves to making our first home in the cosmos a beautiful one - as a gift to our children, and as an example for everywhere we might go, an inspiration for mankind's shining future. So, please join me in welcoming @JadDaley to Terraformation - we've got lots of work ahead of us! 🌲💚🌎