Shashank Samala is Co-Founder and CEO at Heirloom. He grew up in southeast India where he saw first-hand impacts of climate change on some of the world’s most vulnerable people. Shashank was previously Entrepreneur in Residence at Carbon180, a leading climate policy NGO working on atmospheric carbon removal, and a founder at Tempo, which builds mission critical electronics for surgical robots, satellites, rockets and more. Shashank previously worked at Square and has his Bachelors of Science from Cornell University.