Chad Hunter Email & Phone Number

Denver, CO, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Aspiration operates at the intersection of personal finance, technology, and climate action. We provide financial services have a positive climate impact while improving our customer’s financial well-being. As VP of Sustainable Financial Products, I act as Head of Product and Head of Sustainability for our company. I am responsible for creating and.

San Francisco, CA, US

As Head of Sustainability, I oversaw all of Aspiration's corporate and product climate and sustainability initiatives. I developed and implemented our corporate sustainability strategy, as well as revamped all of our climate features within our financial products.

New York, New York, US

EDF's Climate Corps program is an innovative fellowship program that trains talented and passionate graduate students and pairs them with companies and public institutions dedicated to meeting their climate and energy goals. As a 2024-2025 member of the Climate Corps alumni advisory board, I provide guidance to improve the program each year and help expand.

Rochester, NY, US

I am an Advisory Board Member for the University of Rochester's Chemical Engineering department. Each department, as part of our Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) accreditation process, is required to have an Advisory Board made up of people who have a vested interest in the department. As a board member, I help make sure the.

Marina Del Rey, CA, US

Catona Climate, formerly Aspiration Partners, Inc., is a leading provider of high-quality carbon credits, enabling enterprises and individuals to make climate action part of everyday life. While Head of Digital Products, I oversaw all of Catona's software strategy and partnerships as it related to our internal carbon credit operating system and our.

Marina Del Rey, CA, US

Business line owner for our digital carbon products (SaaS) business and enterprise partnerships (B2B2C/SMB), which was a"Skunk Works" like project to build a new business line from 0-1. I oversaw two full-stack product management squads, defined the overall strategy, product vision, and product innovation process. I managed the P&L, completed enterprise.

San Francisco, CA, US

ESG modeling expert that oversaw all data, analytics, and predictive modeling to create Aspiration’s technology platform that powers Aspiration’s consumer climate action productsWorked hand-in-hand with the Product and Engineering teams in sprints to build a set of proprietary datasets including (1) environmentally-extended input-output (EEIO) data and (2).

Denver, CO, US

Carbon Insights was one of the first financial transaction carbon footprinting SaaS products in North America. Developed an API-as-a-service for financial institutions to track the CO2e emissions of any credit card transactionDeveloped the vision for and built our proprietary U.S. EEIO model in python that included CO2e, land-use, and water-use emission.

Golden, CO, US

• Team Lead – Integrated Transportation Energy Storage and Hydrogen Systems Analysis
• Client-facing project lead for multiple projects supporting a U.S. Department of Energy technology office
• Grew my teams R&D budget by 4X from $500k/yr to $2M/yr and grew my team from 2 to 8 analysts
• Helped write and win R&D project proposals for the U.S. DOE funding opportunity announcements and national lab calls
• Engineering manager, product owner, and model developer for NREL's SERA model
• Technical mentor for multiple NREL researchers focusing on integrated transportation energy storage and hydrogen analysisAwards:

Golden, CO, US

• Managed a research portfolio and analyzed sustainable transportation system technologies and policies to help public and private clients make strategic business decisions
• Managed US Department of Energy client research portfolio of ~$500k/year
• Used Python and R to model vehicle fleet travel, energy consumption, and GHG and PM emissions inventories with various temporal and geographic resolutions
• Supporting project evaluating R&D portfolio allocation under uncertainty by creating real-options models
• Used Python, R, and internal models for data cleaning, modeling, and visualization
• Employee of the Month in March 2018

Los Angeles, California, US

• Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Climate Corps Fellow at Bird
• Created a life-cycle GHG, PM, NOx, and SOx emissions model for an electric scooter
• Analyzed impact of transportation mode-shift to electric scooters on urban area emissions relative to city policy goals
• Developed data-driven sustainability strategy foundation for Bird’s Scope 3 emissions

US

• Helped implement large capital projects by building the capabilities of the refinery to support the new equipment and operating strategies and ensure maximum value delivery in the long-term
• Facilitated the flawless and safe execution of large capital projects up to $80M in scale
• Developed the organizational and individual capabilities by building tools and coaching personnel
• Developed KPIs and analyzed data to evaluate and communicate project results to management

US

• Focused on a hydrocracking unit turnaround (T/A). Process equipment T/As provide a invaluable time to implement new technology, update operating strategies, and improve safety and reliability
• Supported the planning, coordination, and execution of a hydrocracker unit T/A
• Designed and managed $1.5M project to build and operate temporary facilities needed for a T/A
• Directed and managed the upgrade of reactor internal hardware to improve unit performance

US

• Specialized in maximizing both short-term and long-term unit profitability through process improvement identification and implementation.
• Oversaw daily operations of two naphtha hydrotreaters and six sour-gas and propane scrubbers
• Implemented revenue improvement opportunities of >$1.5M/yr and energy efficiencies of ~$1.3M/yr
• Analyzed department's monthly chemical usage, plans, and budget to maximize OPEX efficiency

US

• Specialized in Project Development and R&D applications to improve process operations at affiliate manufacturing plants
• Helped scope, develop, and engineer two major capital projects up to $1.5B in scale
• Identified and modeled a process improvement that demonstrated a NPV > $30M
• Created MATLAB model for abnormal event detection on hydrotreating reactors

London, England, GB

Worked with a team of MIT graduate students to analyze and minimize gasoline octane giveaway. Statistical models developed and recommendations made to the BP business team

Basel, Baselstadt, CH

Worked with a team of MIT graduate students to (1) increase microparticle manufacturing efficiency and production rate (+50%) and (2) experimentally investigate novel liposome formulations and resulting properties for optimal targeted drug delivery. Recommendations on production strategy path forward provided to Novartis Business Team

Detroit, Michigan, US

Investigated and quantified Pt-oxide hysteresis and correlated it to oxygen reduction reaction kinetics. Key findings help understand reaction kinetics to guide research for the most efficiency fuel cell cathode technology

Cambridge, MA, US

Fabricated and characterized novel layer-by-layer assembled mixed-conducting membranes for solar powered water electrolysis applications using conductive polymer matrices. Samples characterized by Profilometry, AC Impedance Spectroscopy, UV/Vis Spectroscopy, and SEM

Rochester, NY, US

Researched the efficiencies of different aspects of a potential zinc flow battery with goal of improving so it can be commercialized for storage of "green" electricity off the electrical grid

Ithaca, NY, US

Researched a low temperature chemical vapor deposition synthesis method of graphene on a copper substrate. Characterized samples by Raman spectroscopy, SEM, and AFM

Mscep, Chemical Engineering

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Management And Corportate Sustainability

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Chemical Engineering, Minor In Mathematics