Austin, Texas — Climate • Markets • Community

Ben Brimble

Markets analyst. Philanthropic builder. Working at the intersection of climate, capital, and ideas.

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About

Working at the edges of markets, community, and ideas.

Four years in environmental commodities and energy finance, building pricing infrastructure, originating deals, and translating complex market dynamics into clear strategy. Most recently launched a North American trading desk for a global environmental markets firm, from scratch, as their only US hire.

Outside the day job, I co-founded the Central Texas Climate Philanthropy Collaborative and built a giving fund that has put $375,000+ to work across 25+ local nonprofits. Including designing a pooled giving model that puts smaller organizations on equal footing alongside larger ones.

Based in Austin. Always up for a conversation about climate, markets, early-stage companies, or anything genuinely interesting.

Ben Brimble
$375K+ Climate philanthropy
500K MWh RECs traded
25+ Nonprofits funded
4 yrs Climate markets
Experience

Where I've been.

Go2 Markets Sep 2025 – Jun 2026 • Austin, TX
Energy and Climate Solutions Manager, North America
  • Built a REC trading book from scratch as the company's only North American hire, executing approximately 500,000 MWh across ERCOT, MISO, WECC, SPP, and Ontario, plus North American RECs, I-RECs, and European Guarantees of Origin.
  • Owned the full deal cycle without an inherited book: prospecting, pitching, pricing, structuring, negotiation, and execution through delivery.
  • Originated structured power and attribute offtake opportunities by cultivating direct relationships with renewable developers and matching them to corporate buyers.
BMO Capital Markets Jun 2022 – Jul 2025 • Remote
Analyst, Environmental Commodities Trading — formerly Radicle (acquired Dec 2022)
  • Identified a REC arbitrage opportunity across Renewable Portfolio Standards, led a team to build the commercial thesis, and presented to managing directors. Became a top trade desk priority.
  • Built a carbon pricing model used daily across all covered markets, streaming real-time data from ICE and Bloomberg.
  • Developed web-based workflow tools with quant engineering: a market-quote scraper, SQL pricing database, and Live Order Board.
  • Led international policy analysis for Carbon Sales and Trading, producing reports distributed to 550+ external clients.
Gallagher Re Jul 2021 – May 2022 • Seattle, WA
Reinsurance Broking Analyst
  • Applied catastrophe and actuarial modeling to structure reinsurance programs, reducing clients' rates by a risk-adjusted 28% average and contributing to $650K in new branch revenue.
Investorflow.org Jun 2020 – Jun 2021 • Seattle, WA
Investor Relations Associate
  • Managed a network of 500+ global investors and authored 20+ investment summaries matching opportunities to members by geography, impact theme, and risk preference.
Philanthropy

Building climate capital in Central Texas.

I co-founded the Central Texas Climate Philanthropy Collaborative and launched the Central Texas Climate Action Fund, a field-of-interest fund housed at Austin Community Foundation that pools donor capital and distributes it equally across a curated portfolio of climate nonprofits.

The design is intentional. Equal distribution gives smaller organizations the same footing as larger ones and creates real incentives for cross-pollination across a group tackling climate from multiple angles. A formal application and expert review process selects each cohort. In 2026 that meant 47 distinct applicants, 22 recruited community expert reviewers, and 10 funded organizations.

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$375K+ Raised and distributed
25+ Nonprofits funded
47 Grant applicants (2026)
22 Expert reviewers
Writing

Climate finance, markets, ideas.

On Substack when the thought is worth finishing. I'm interested in where climate capital actually goes, how environmental markets work and where they fail, and what it looks like to build philanthropic infrastructure in a city that doesn't have enough of it.

First essays incoming. Subscribe if you want them when they land.

Essays on climate finance, markets, and the economics of getting things built.

Carbon markets REC & energy finance Climate philanthropy Austin Ideas
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Music & Culture

The non-spreadsheet half.

Dubstep and silence. Fast cars and long walks. Austin spirit and global taste. What I'm listening to, watching, and obsessing over outside of work.

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