Olya Irzak

Olya is a technologist and executive with deep expertise in methane, carbon markets, electricity grids in multiple geographies and reforestation.

She is the Founder & CEO of Frost Methane – a company turning waste into value while keeping methane out of the atmosphere. Previously, she worked at Zola Electric on minigrids in remote communities, Google X on early stage climate projects in geothermal HVAC (Dandelion) and long duration storage (Malta) and at Google Energy on smart grid technologies.

Olya is on the board of Terraformation, Alaskan Future Ecology Institute and the Cleantech Experts Network. She previously lectured Computer Science at the University of Toronto, started the Diamond List and speaks 5 languages.