Simas Gradeckas is the co-founder and CEO of bloomlabs, the leading biodiversity credit market intelligence platform and consultancy. bloomlabs operates the largest database of voluntary biodiversity market data and publishes a biodiversity finance newsletter with 5,000+ subscribers.
Simas has built bloomlabs from an open source newsletter into a trusted platform used by project developers, public institutions, credit schemes, investors and other stakeholders to navigate the rapidly evolving and fragmented biodiversity credit market. His work has been cited in the European Commission’s Roadmap to Nature Credits. He is a member of the European Commission's Nature Credits Expert Group, a working group member of International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits (IAPB), and a member of the Biodiversity Credit Alliance (BCA). He is a frequent speaker at EU and financial institutions including KfW, the World Bank, GIZ, SEB Bank, Triodos Bank, Bank of Lithuania and the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management.
bloomlabs also actively advises public and private organisations on biodiversity credit schemes and market developments. It is part of a EU-funded pilot project testing biodiversity credits and certificates in European wetlands.