- New CRO appointment bolsters neustark’s strategic journey following a recent $69 million growth equity funding round success
- Christoph joins neustark from Celonis, bringing extensive hyper-growth and go-to-market experience to achieve neustark´s mission of removing 1 million tons of CO2 in 2030
Neustark, a Switzerland-based, leading carbon removal specialist and one of the fastest growing companies in Europe, has appointed Christoph Kisker as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Christoph joins neustark from software-as-a-service company Celonis, where he was a senior leader and played a key role in expanding the team from 50 to 4000+ employees over the past eight years. As CRO and a member of neustark’s executive team, Christoph will lead commercial functions to scale neustark’s growth globally.
Christoph brings a wealth of hyper-growth and go-to-market experience from his tenure at Celonis, a company renowned for its rapid growth and success. His expertise in scaling operations and building robust go-to-market teams will be invaluable as neustark doubles down on its mission to remove 1 million tons of CO2 in 2030 through its innovative carbon removal solutions.
“We are incredibly excited to welcome Christoph to the neustark family,” said Valentin Gutknecht, founder and co-CEO at neustark. “His experience in leading hyper-growth organizations will be instrumental as we enter the next phase of our journey. With Christoph on board and on the back of our latest successful growth equity funding round, we are even more confident in our journey to scale the climate impact we generate by rapidly deploying our carbon removal solution at sites across the globe.”
Neustark has rolled out its carbon removal (CDR) technology at 19 sites across Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, and Germany. The IP-protected solution allows the durable removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by capturing CO2 at point source at biogas producers, then binding it into mineral waste such as demolition concrete via an accelerated mineralization process. With 40 plants currently under construction throughout Europe, the company is now poised for widespread deployment.
“Neustark is one of the fastest-growing climate tech companies in the world supported by leading investors like Blackrock, with a proven technology that makes measurable and scalable climate impact. I am very excited to join this ambitious team and drive exponential growth to build a brighter future for all generations on our planet,” said Christoph.
He added: “Celonis is a once-in-a-generation company, and I am convinced that neustark is on the same trajectory. Neustark enables customers like Microsoft and UBS to achieve their strategic net zero targets by eliminating their hard-to-abate CO2 emissions. We durably store and remove CO2 in mineral waste streams by integrating our tech into the value chain of our CO2 storage partners, such as concrete recyclers like Holcim.”
To reach its goal of removing 1 million tons of CO2 in 2030, neustark aims to deploy around 1000 capture and storage sites globally over the next five years. Christoph’s appointment comes at a critical juncture for the company, as it seeks to scale its go-to-market organization, securing hundreds of CO2 storage partners throughout Europe and North America and Asia Pacific – as well as CDR offtake agreements with companies committed to embedding carbon dioxide removal (CDR) in their climate strategies to achieve net zero emissions
This announcement follows neustark's recent successful funding round, which secured $69 million in a funding round led by Decarbonization Partners, a partnership between BlackRock and Temasek.