Tomo Kumahira

Tomo Kumahira, from Tokyo, Japan, is pursuing an MBA/MS Environment at Stanford as Knight Hennessy Scholar. He graduated from Brown University with a Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations, receiving the Mark and Betty Garrison Prize. Tomo aspires to tackle climate change by scaling up capital-intensive, long-term technology solutions in the living essentials space such as agriculture, forestry, and water. He started his career as a private equity investment professional at Mitsubishi Corporation and served as Vice President of Corporate Finance and Strategy at Komaza, a Kenya-based startup partnering with over 22,000 smallholder farmers to promote sustainable forestry in Africa. At Komaza, Tomo developed the world’s first securitization instrument for smallholder forestry, raised over $50M of blended finance, and led carbon program development, recognized by Climate Policy Initiative Innovative Climate Financing Award and Environmental Finance Magazine Impact Project/Investment of the Year. Tomo is Acumen East Africa Fellow and Robert Bosch Foundation GGF Fellow.

About Mizu Risk Lab

Mizu Risk Lab is a risk management platform that mitigates water risks in agriculture. It integrates water and temperature projections to evaluate risk exposures for agriculture financiers, asset owners, food & ag businesses, inputs suppliers, and farmers. The climate risk analysis platform integrates advanced modeling and simulation technologies across climate, water, crop, and finance, immediately deployable for food company CXOs, ag-focused investors, and farmland owners managing agricultural assets along the food supply chain.