Team
We are experienced investors, engineers, and project leaders who activate climate investment in the real economy. Across our platform, we focus on three interconnected areas of resilience: infrastructure resilience for transport, energy, digital, and urban systems; water resilience through flood defense, efficiency, reuse, and water security; and health resilience through climate-adaptive healthcare, cooling, and emergency preparedness. We pair disciplined capital with hands-on technical and operational support to turn climate adaptation from plans into delivered, financeable assets.
Valeria Ramundo Orlando
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Equilibrium Climate Capital and Greensquare Ventures. She brings over 20 years of experience deploying private capital across climate, energy transition, and infrastructure strategies in emerging and frontier markets.
Valeria has overseen approximately $1 billion in climate- and ESG-linked investments and contributed to more than $2.8 billion in public and private capital raises. Her career spans private equity, structured finance, and government-linked investment platforms, with a consistent focus on aligning commercial performance with national climate priorities and economic diversification.
A recognized leader in ocean and coastal finance, she has helped mobilize capital for marine conservation, coastal protection, and water-related resilience solutions. At ECC, she integrates this systems perspective into the firm’s investment and delivery approach.
She consistently bridges finance, engineering, and policy to deliver durable, measurable resilience outcomes at scale.
Rolando Morillo
Managing Partner at Equilibrium Climate Capital and a 25-year veteran of thematic investing across climate mitigation and adaptation business models and across the blue economy universe. He has led and advised strategies that combine financial discipline with system-level environmental outcomes across both developed and emerging markets.
His career spans global capital markets, institutional investment platforms, and partnerships with governments, development institutions, and long-term capital providers, with a sustained focus on aligning returns with national climate and infrastructure and resilience priorities.
With deep experience in ocean and blue finance, Rolando has supported investment vehicles that integrate ecosystem protection, water security, and durable infrastructure performance. He also advises on blue economy strategy and sustainable finance initiatives, drawing on his pioneering work embedding environmental science, climate risk analysis into investment frameworks. This perspective informs his approach to building scalable, bankable platforms at ECC.
Rigorous investment discipline combined with practical delivery insight forms the foundation of his approach, enabling the development and scaling of resilient, high-quality infrastructure and climate-aligned assets
Tam Nguyen
Co-Founder and Advisor to Equilibrium Climate Capital and leads the overall technical advisory of the Equilibrium Growth Accelerator. He brings more than two decades of experience embedding sustainability within large, complex multinational organizations across multiple industries and geographies.
His career spans corporate strategy, innovation, operations, and new venture development, with a consistent focus on integrating environmental, social, and governance considerations into core business systems and long-term planning. Tam is recognized for designing practical, scalable frameworks that translate sustainability commitments into measurable operational outcomes.
He has played a formative role in shaping widely-adopted sustainability standards and practices, advising companies, investors, and policymakers on how to align commercial performance with impact.
At ECC, Tam strengthens delivery capability, technical rigor, and systems thinking across the portfolio and partner ecosystem.
Sharon Cleary
Managing Director, Investor Relations and Operations at Equilibrium Climate Capital. She brings more than 30 years of experience building organizations, scaling teams, and strengthening execution across startups, nonprofits, and large multinational institutions.
At ECC, Sharon designs governance, reporting, and decision-making systems that enable disciplined capital deployment and coherent portfolio execution. She stewards relationships with sovereign investors, mission-aligned capital, and public-private partners, ensuring that ECC’s strategy, performance, and impact are communicated with clarity, consistency, and credibility, while aligning internal teams around coordinated action.
Her approach blends operational rigor with strategic foresight. She has built high-performing teams, revitalized underperforming functions, and led enterprise-wide transformations that strengthen institutional durability, delivery capacity, and organizational coherence for complex institutions.
Complementing her practice, Sharon leads a graduate course at Cornell University’s Brooks School of Public Policy, an experience that continually sharpens how she structures information, builds consensus, and designs systems for sophisticated organizations.
Amzar Azhar
Equilibrium Cliimate Capital’s Principal for Malaysia and Indonesia, where he supports the firm’s regional strategy, stakeholder engagement, and market development. He is a strategic leader with deep experience mobilizing economic development at the intersection of public policy and private enterprise across Southeast Asia. As Deputy Director of the Indonesia–Malaysia–Thailand Growth Triangle Joint Business Council (JBC), Amzar drives private-sector investment across a region of 85 million people. Mandated by the Government of Malaysia, he leads the national Green City Action Plan under the 12th Malaysia Plan 2021-2025 and 13th Malaysia Plan 2026–2030, translating climate data into actionable investment pathways for urban infrastructure and climate resilience which prioritizes smart sustainable cities, climate change mitigation and adaptation, green and circular economy approaches, and more efficient, low-carbon energy use.
His corporate experience includes serving as Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Compliance at publicly listed Vertice Berhad and as a Board Director at the Avillion Hotel Group. Earlier in his career, he worked at J.P. Morgan Chase Bank and the Institute for Sustainable Energy in the United States.
At ECC, Amzar strengthens local partnerships, project pipelines, and delivery capacity across Malaysia and Indonesia.