Cody Finke, PhD
CEO and Co-Founder
Hugo Leandri
CTO and Co-Founder
Leadership
scientists. innovators. operators. here to solve the hardest problems—and build a better climate future.
Brimstone is working on the most impactful climate solutions for the industrial sector. we're starting with cement.
Jamie Bresson
VP of Engineering
Marcelo De Oliveira
VP of Material Science
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Simon Brandler
VP of Policy & Public Affairs
Liza Darwin
Head of Communications
Our mission
decarbonize cement and accelerate the clean industrial revolution
Brimstone was born from a mission to decarbonize one of the most produced materials on the planet: cement.
Our founders, Cody Finke and Hugo Leandri, met at Caltech, where they began working on solutions to some of the world’s most overlooked environmental problems. The cement industry has long been considered one of the most challenging to decarbonize, with most emissions coming from its main ingredient, limestone.
Cody and Hugo believed that to decarbonize cement, their product would need to be chemically and physically identical to the ordinary portland cement that builders everywhere know and trust. The process would need to be extremely low-carbon and cost-competitive at scale. The Brimstone team developed a breakthrough decarbonized process that produces the same cement and supplementary cementitious materials used today. These materials have the same quality and performance builders have used for decades, but with a key difference: our process doesn’t contribute to climate change.
Now, we're focused on scaling our solution—and transforming cement from climate problem to climate hero.
Board and advisors
Cooper Rinzler
Board Director
Rachel Slaybaugh
Board Observer
Matt Compton
Board Observer
Brett Olsher
Senior Advisor
our board members and advisors bring expertise in scaling early-stage ventures in the climate, materials and deep tech sectors.
proudly backed by leaders in climate tech
