About us

Turning environmental complexity into confident decisions

Nature and climate risks are now business risks, affecting margins, asset values, supply chains and regulatory exposure. Yet for many organisations, environmental data remains too complex, fragmented or inaccessible to support confident decisions.

Earth Blox changes that. Our software brings authoritative nature and climate data together with an organisation's own, and applies the analysis consistently across every site, asset and supply chain location. Teams can see where exposure concentrates, direct action to the places that warrant it, and track how conditions change over time.

Every result can be traced back to the data and processing steps that produced it, so our customers can show how they reached a finding when they present it to regulators, auditors, investors and boards.

Founded in Edinburgh in 2019, Earth Blox brings together expertise in climate science, Earth observation and software engineering. It is ISO 27001 certified, runs on Google Cloud, returns results to existing systems via an API, and can be custom-branded.

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Used by organisations and their advisers to act on nature and climate risks and opportunities worldwide.

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Our team

Founded in Edinburgh in 2019, Earth Blox brings together scientific pioneers and commercial leaders with a shared mission: to make environmental insight accessible, actionable and impactful. Our team combines deep expertise in climate science and Earth observation with proven experience in building and scaling technology businesses. Together, we are building software that helps organisations strengthen their own resilience, and that of the landscapes, supply chains and communities they depend on.

Dr. Genevieve Patenaude

Executive Director, Founder & Visionary

Former associate professor at the University of Edinburgh and contributing author to the IPCC Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry, Genevieve has led multiple research projects focused on solving global challenges.

Iain McCready

Chief Executive Officer

Iain has built and scaled software companies through rapid growth, international expansion and successful exits. His leadership includes roles at Quorum Cyber and Cortexica Vision Systems, where he led the company through its acquisition by Zebra Technologies.

Mike Mason

Chief Commercial Officer

As CCO, Mike brings 30 years of experience building world-class operations in technology companies and driving value for clients. His approach has ensured the successful growth and exit of several businesses, including TVSquared and LBi.

Martin Reynard

Chief Financial Officer

With over 30 years of experience, Martin has delivered growth across technology and science-led companies. Combining a scientific background with a strong commercial focus, he has played a key role in several successful exits.

Richard Lewis

Chairman

Chairman of Earth Blox since 2021, Richard brings 30 years of commercial experience in the IT sector. Having led dns (Secureworks) to exit in 2009, he has since focused on supporting high growth SaaS businesses scale in Chairman, Non-Exec and Advisor roles, leading to involvement in a number of successful exits.

Katie Critchlow

Non-Executive Director

Katie brings 20+ years of experience in impact leadership and green innovation. She is the former CEO of NatureMetrics, led sustainability initiatives at M&S, WWF, and PwC and was a founding member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Sustainable Finance.

Ben Matthews

Director of Nature & Climate

As former lead of PwC UK’s Nature Analytics team, Ben brings extensive experience in nature and climate analytics, having led the largest corporate pilot for TNFD and contributed to Business for Nature’s Strategy Handbook.

Sam Fleming

Head of Customer Success

An Earth observation specialist, Sam has extensive experience leading teams on global projects to map and protect ecosystems. He holds a Master of Science, Remote Sensing, from University College London and is a PRINCE2 Practitioner.

Ben Butchart

Head of Development

Ben has over 20 years of software engineering and management experience at the Crown Office, JP Morgan, University College London, Dresdner Bank AG, and EDINA, where he led the delivery of geospatial services such as Digimap.

Cassie Anderson

Head of Marketing

Cassie is a CIM qualified B2B marketing and communications specialist with over 15 years’ in-house and consultancy experience building globally focused tech startups in emerging sectors including fintech, AI, and digital identity.

Chris Rose

Senior Commercial Executive

Chris has 20+ years of experience selling enterprise geospatial technologies. He has held leadership sales and channel partnership roles for EMEA and AMER at Data Interchange, Innovyze and Pitney Bowes and served on the Esri Partner Advisory Council.

Iain H Woodhouse

Knowledge and Outreach Lead

Iain is a Professor of Applied Earth Observation at Edinburgh University, specialising in active remote sensing. He has over 27 years experience in academia and industry, 100+ publications, and advises UK government agencies on EO strategy.

Investors and partners

A network of trusted investors, data providers and scientific institutions supports our mission to make nature and climate intelligence accessible, scalable and impactful.

How we work

Nature and climate analysis informs decisions with real financial and environmental consequences. That shapes how we build Earth Blox.

Scientific integrity

The quality of the data determines the quality of the decision it supports. We build on authoritative datasets and methodologies from recognised scientific and commercial providers.

Transparency

Every result shows the datasets, processing steps and weightings behind it. Customers can demonstrate how a figure was reached, and hand the working to an auditor or a regulator.

Accessibility

Assessing nature and climate risk has traditionally required specialist geospatial skills. Earth Blox is built so the people who need the answers can produce them.

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