Meet the team


  • Fondatrice

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  • Fondatrice

    Tutto inizia con un'idea. Forse vuoi lanciare un'attività. Forse vuoi trasformare un hobby in qualcosa di più.


  • Fondatrice

    Tutto inizia con un'idea. Forse vuoi lanciare un'attività. Forse vuoi trasformare un hobby in qualcosa di più.


  • Fondatrice

    Tutto inizia con un'idea. Forse vuoi lanciare un'attività. Forse vuoi trasformare un hobby in qualcosa di più.

  • Roberta Benedetti Del Rio

    Co-Founder & Managing Partner

    Investor with Generation IM for 10yrs and founding team at Just Climate; M&A at Morgan Stanley; Deep Transitions & Project FRAME steering group

  • Alvaro Poncioni Mérian

    Co-Founder & Chairman

    Former Global Head of Building Materials at Morgan Stanley; extensive senior relationships in carbon-intensive industries and Board positions

  • Esteban Abad

    Co-Founder & Partner

    Seasoned investor with 25yrs experience across Generation IM, ThreeHills, Indigo and Barclays

  • Kate Burson

    Operating Partner

    Business and market development at Tesla. Initiated and led “energy policy revolution” in  New York

  • Alisa Roskach

    Investment Director

    Investor with Grassroot Business Fund and IFC; business development in logistics and tech; M&A at Morgan Stanley

  • Ana Raviña EirÍn

    Investment Director

    Leveraged finance investor with CPPIB and Morgan Stanley; funds structuring advisor with ISF

  • Daniela Alarcón

    Head of Impact

    Corporate sustainability, GHG accounting, project management

  • To Be Announced

    Investment Associate

    Associate at leading climate-tech VC

Roberta Benedetti Del Rio

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

  • She grew up on a farm, where her love for nature was born.


    Roberta has been a pioneer in sustainable investing since her early career. She was an investor for over a decade with Generation Investment Management, including being part of the early team that launched its climate-led investment arm, Just Climate. 

    During this time, she has been a key part of initiatives to advance the fiends of climate impact accounting and investing in systems change, including as Co-Chair of the Deep Transitions’ global investors group and part of the Steering Committee of Project FRAME. She started her career as an investment banker in the Basic Materials team at Morgan Stanley. 

    She executed $1.4 Bn in sustainable investments, with notable transactions including Meva Energy, Stegra (fka H2 Green Steel), Infinitum, Ovo Energy, Notpla, FNZ. 


Kate Burson

COO

  • Her efforts to foster systems change span across policy, law, industry and finance.


    Kate is an experienced business builder and operator. She combines business scale up expertise alongside strong regulatory and policy experience, across core sectors in Radia’s investment strategy, including energy transition and transportation.

    Kate brings unique commercial and policy experience from roles at Tesla, where she led the development and commercial roll-out of Nth-of-a kind C&I battery storage for grid services, and the Governor of New York’s office, where she co-founded the NY Green Bank ($1 Bn AUM) and initiated and led electricity market restructuring for State of New York.

    At Radia, she is responsible for platform building and overseeing firm set-up, portfolio value creation, including providing commercial and policy support and corporate connections to portfolio companies. 


Daniela Alarcón

Head of Impact

  • She believes curiosity sharpens your vision—and has a running mental list of “things I was just thinking about."

     (maybe sth about asking many thoughtful questions)

    Daniela Alarcón is an impact investment professional with deep expertise in climate technology, sustainability, and industrial decarbonization. She has worked across impact assessment, carbon strategy, and technical due diligence—integrating frameworks such as EU Taxonomy, SFDR, and GHG Protocol into investment decisions. Her background includes roles at Wallbox, Voiz, and the IFC-aligned Sage Experience, where she now serves on the board. She earned her MBA in Sustainability from IE Business School, completing part of the program at HEC Paris, and holds a BA in Biological Sciences from Rice University.


Alvaro Poncioni Mérian

Co-Founder & Chairman

  • He has visited xx cement plants across the globe.


    Alvaro is an experienced investment banker and corporate advisor, with a 20 years career including as Global Head of Building Materials at Morgan Stanley and Managing Partner of corporate advisory firm EDNAM Capital. He acted as a trusted advisor to senior decision-makers around the globe and has advised on completed M&A and capital markets transactions totalling more than US$110 billion. 

    He sits on the Boards of Dangote Cement, Nordkalk, Grupo Estrella, Ciplan.


Alvaro Poncioni Alisa Roskach

Investment Director and Head of IR

  • FUN SENTENCE TO BE ADDED (maybe sth about her ability to build relationships)

    Alisa’s background combines investment and business development experience. She brings 6 years of investment across the mezzanine and project finance from international organisations like the International Finance Corporate (World Bank Group and the leading investor in emerging markets) Washington and  Africa, but also 5 years in various leadership roles at technology scale-ups and listed corporations, mostly in the transportation industry - Bringg, Fretlink and Sprinklr out of Paris - where she drove multimillion-euro sales pipelines and expansion strategies. 

    She started her career in M&A at Morgan Stanley in London and worked in Hong Kong at Société Générale covering Asian markets. A graduate of the LSE and ESCP Europe, Alisa speaks six languages. 


Esteban Abad

Co-Founder & Partner

  • He has watched all nature documentaries ever made.


    Esteban is a seasoned investor, with a 25 years investing career in firms such as Generation Investment Management, Three Hills, Indigo Capital and Barclays. 

    His investment background spans across the capital structure, from credit to preferred equity. He also brings significant portfolio management and board experience, including leading complex restructurings.

    He executed $400 mln in sustainable investments, with notable transactions including Zenobe Energy, Hispatec, Anesco, Environmental Services Group, Direct Health. 

Ana Raviña Eirín

Investment Director

  • FUN SENTENCE TO BE ADDED (maybe sth about the places she has worked in / traveled to)


    Ana Raviña Eirín is a seasoned finance and development professional with over a decade of experience across investment banking, impact investing, and climate finance. She served as Associate Director at ISF Advisors, where she led strategy and financial advisory for public and philanthropic investors, designing innovative investment vehicles and blended finance solutions across emerging markets. Ana has previously worked with the Cabinet of Christiana Figueres on climate finance initiatives and held investment roles at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and Morgan Stanley. 


    She holds a Master’s in Public Administration from Columbia University, an MSc in Management from HEC Paris, and degrees from ESADE Business School, speaks five languages and has worked in over a dozen countries.