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Ms. Gardner is a principal and co-founder of Tiemann Investment Advisors, LLC. A former tech CFO and General Council, Ms. Gardner has identified climate change as a major risk for long term investors. Since 2005, she has devoted her energy towards understanding the risks and solutions and, since 2011, has worked to develop methodologies for managing and reducing the carbon risks in client portfolios. In 2014, Ms. Gardner announced TIA's "Future Generation" portfolio strategy, through which public market investors could avoid carbon risk while maintaining proper sector balance. In 2021, Ms. Gardner launched Nucleation Capital, a separate venture fund to enable climate-focused investors to invest in private ventures developing scalable climate solutions primarily focused on advanced nuclear and deep decarbonization innovation.