
Entelechy Leadership Stories · 2022-07-14 · 26 min
We are back for another great interview in our Entelechy Series In today’s episode, we chat with Tames Rietjek. Tames is an accomplished C-Level Executive with expertise and proven successes in financial markets, sustainability performance, financial crime prevention, stakeholder management, and business data science. Currently, Tames is the Business Development at Ocean Cleanup, a company whose mission is to rid the oceans of plastic. He was first involved with environmental impact when he developed and launched an exchange in carbon emission rights, and carbon credits under the Kyoto protocol. Under this project, they were cleaning up dirty air, also known as the abusive consequences of economic development. The project was intended to have countries share the burden of the cost of global warming. However, the market on the Kyoto protocol was flooded with financial crime which took away the basis of trust in the carbon credit itself. It was during a raid by the national security agencies at the Euro exchanges in carbon credits who were investigating the number of criminal transactions that were facilitated by those exchanges.