Meet Our Team

Emily Dinino, Founder & CEO

Emily Dinino is the Founder & CEO of ThermoShade. She spent two years studying the problem of extreme heat as her master’s thesis and is passionate about finding solutions to protect people and animals impacted by heat stress. Emily has extensive experience in finance and entrepreneurship across investment banking, venture capital, and nonprofit finance. She has been an investor in mission-driven technology and consumer companies from Pre-Seed to Series C and is intimately familiar with the challenges early-stage companies face. Emily holds a BA from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management.

JOHN CARL, CO-Founder & COO

John Carl is the Co-Founder and COO of ThermoShade.  He is an engineering executive with a passion for product development.  He spent the last 23 years in the life science industry developing and manufacturing innovative tools that enable researchers to improve patient care.  He has watched the green technology movement with great interest and is excited to have the opportunity to develop products that will help people in a warming world.  As a veteran of early-stage product development companies, he knows how to build processes and lead teams to get the most out of a start-up. He holds a BS from UC Berkeley in Mechanical Engineering.

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ADVISORS

Erik Johnson

Brent Eubanks, PE