Strategy and Commerce

Mira Nagarajan

Mira Nagarajan joins the Origen family as Strategy- Senior Associate. Mira’s background is in strategy consulting and software, she has long been passionate about climate tech and the importance of carbon removal technology. Before joining Origen Mira worked for Zendesk, she was a founding member of the Corporate Strategy team at Zendesk focused on identifying growth opportunities for the company.

Mira is excited to bring all her skills and experience to Origen, where she’ll join the Commercial team to continue scaling our impact. She is an avid crossworder and completes the NYTimes crossword every day. In her free time, she enjoys running and hiking in the beautiful Bay Area


David Berliner

David is a Climate Finance guru and joins us as our Senior Strategy & Project Finance Lead. He will be developing analyses to support commercial strategy derived from a mix of technical research, market/competitor intelligence, policy understanding and project economic analysis.

David previously worked as Head of Deal Structuring at Vancity Community Investment Bank, where he created and led a Clean Energy project finance team. David has also been honoured with various prestigious accolades, such as the Canada Clean 50 Award (2017), Corporate Knight’s Magazine Top 30 under 30 Sustainability Leader and CIX Cleantech Top 10 (2015) to name a few