Jeremy Sokulsky has pursued innovative means to improve the environment for over a decade from the public, private and non-profit sectors.  In 2004 Mr. Sokulsky founded Environmental Incentives to investigate and further the use of incentives and performance-based policies as tools to inspire environmental improvement. Mr. Sokulsky is a certified Professional Engineer in the State of California in Civil Engineering. He earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Mr. Sokulsky’s overall goal is to assemble the policy, scientific and operational infrastructure to enable ecosystem service-based policies and incentive programs as tools to achieve measurable environmental improvement.

Mr. Sokulsky has managed teams and lead projects to develop wind energy projects, investigate nutrient, metals and bacterial pollution to water bodies, and analyze market-mechanisms for environmental management.  His experience with environmental markets includes the development of a Water Quality Crediting and Trading Program for the Lake Tahoe Basin, completing an analysis of water quality trading programs in the United States, participating in national water quality trading and wetland mitigation banking dialogs, and analyzing public and private payment programs for watershed ecosystem services in Latin America and Australia. Mr. Sokulsky has completed a comprehensive investigation of water and land related markets for wetland mitigation banking and conservation real estate to support a private investment fund. He also brings real market experience to assist policy-makers.  He has executed renewable energy credit transactions as well as modeled and assisted in negotiations for wind energy development projects worth over $60 million. Mr. Sokulsky has also focused on environmental program management and governance through the development of the multi-agency Tahoe Management System, which brings together elements of continual improvement and adaptive management to improve operational effectiveness and incorporate scientific findings into management decisions.