Press & Public Speaking
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Finovate Spring
San Francisco | May 2023
Climate Change, ESG & Financial Services, What Do Wall Street & Your Customers Want?
FEATURED START UP: Plug and Play Tech Center Sustainability Link:
Engaging Your Consumers in Sustainability
Chicago | May 2023
SPEAKER: American Bankers Payments Forum
San Diego | May 2023
Open for Business with Fintechs Panel with Peter Gasparro, Chief Development Officer at Barclays, and Jagdeep Sahota, Chief Payments Officer at Banc of California. Hear how to best work with fintechs and integrate them into your company to expand and grow acceptance.
Learning Objectives:
How banks and card networks bring new fintechs into the payments ecosystem
How fintechs & emerging payments create new opportunities for businesses and consumers
How to best work with fintechs and integrate them k to expand and grow acceptance
SPEAKER: International Women’s History Month Innovation Spotlight
Los Angeles | March 2023
Hear pitches from the most promising women-led tech entrepreneurs and an insightful discussion on the tech industry with a panel of dynamic female leaders. This private pitch session will bring together venture capitalist, angel investors, and corporate executives to see presentations of leading startups interested in the LA technology ecosystem.
FEATURED START UP: Plug and Play Ventures Demo Day Winners
Selection Day Winners | Sunnyvale | March 2023
Of 500 start ups initially aggregated, Carbon Zero was one of 20 start ups asked to demo our product live at PnP’s HQ in Sunnyvale, CA where an audience of corporate banking partners selected our platform as one of the most innovative solutions presented, granting us entry in Plug and Play’s Fintech Batch 17.
Payments Solution Spotlight | Las Vegas | March 2023
One of 4 start ups selected to demo live for the Payments Solution Track.
PRESS: Forrester and Finovate Conferences Continue Diversity Dialogues
Information Week | Joao-Pierre S. Ruth | September 2022
“Though the topics of equity, inclusiveness, and diversity may seem to ebb and flow, Peirce described them as essential social callings for companies.”
Topic: Breaking the Mold - Innovations in Card Features
New Orleans, September 28-30, 2022
PANELIST: Payments Innovation Forum
Topic: Staying Top of Mind & Top of Wallet in the Era of Conscious Consumerism
London, September 21-22, 2022
Topic: Why Diversity Matters – It’s Not Just A Feel Good Move; It’s Good For Business.
The Case For Diversity For Your Organization,Team, Customers & Revenue Growth
NYC, September 12-14, 2022
INTERVIEW: Chat with Leaders Podcast, featuring Cathryn Peirce
Why Social And Environmental Impact Are Business Imperatives
Atlanta, August 29, 2022
PRESS: These Fintechs Don’t Want All of Their Hires to be Payments Experts
American Banker | John Adams | August 2022
PRESS: Five Ways Banks and Fintechs are Trying to Slow Climate Change
American Banker | Miriam Cross | August 2022
PRESS: How Can We Make Payments Sustainable?
Storm 2 | August 2022
“Carbon Zero is on a mission to make carbon neutral living as simple as swiping a credit card. This company empowers brands, banks and fintechs to help their clients live sustainably by providing white label climate tech for the automatic measuring, reducing, and offsetting of consumers’ carbon footprints.”
PRESS: Climate Fintechs are Cropping up to Fill a Gap in Green Banking
American Banker | Miriam Cross | August 2022
”Cathryn Peirce, co-founder and CEO of Carbon Zero Financial, also believes that a positive approach is best. “We’re opposed to the doom and gloom of, ‘Look at what you’ve done,’ ” she said. “That’s not how you get people to change behaviors.” Carbon Zero has a proprietary algorithm it uses to calculate the carbon footprint of a financial institution user’s spending. Peirce originally intended for Carbon Zero to launch its own credit card, but pivoted to a business-to-business model a few months ago.”
PRESS: Austin’s Fastest Growing Fintech Startups
Fintech Energy | August 2022
“Carbon Zero Financial builds white-label climate features for credit card products, enabling all card programs to automatically calculate, offset, and reduce their cardholders’ carbon footprints as they spend.”
PRESS: How Gen Zers are Reshaping Credit Card Marketing
Bankrate, Credit Cards | Ted Rossman | June 2022
”These themes unexpectedly hit home for me during a recent panel discussion at Payments Forum. One of the speakers was Cathryn Peirce, Founder and CEO of Carbon Zero Financial. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting to get a whole lot out of this particular session … Yet this ended up being one of my favorite panels of the conference.”
PANELIST: American Banker Payments Forum, May 2022
Youngest Featured Speaker
3 Panels:
PRESS: The Scion Of A Banking Family Crafts A Fintech Future
Forbes | Elizabeth MacBride | May 2022
“I asked Sidhu for the names of other women in finance that she has her eyes on. She sent two. Cathryn Peirce: Founder & CEO of Carbon Zero. Carbon Zero’s credit card, sustainable rewards system, and easy to use app enable everyday people to live carbon neutral lives.”
PANELIST: Innovate for Good Conference 2022:
Structures & Finance to Tackle the Climate Crisis
San Francisco, April 29, 2022
Exploring the role of finance in scaling climate solutions, hosted by University of San Francisco School of Management and the San Francisco Commonwealth Club
Panel starts at 1:28:33
INTERVIEW: Changing the Climate:
Episode 95
Cathryn Peirce is the Founder and CEO of Carbon Zero Financial, a company with a mission to ensure that the very credit card we use measures, monitors, and neutralizes our carbon footprints as we spend, thereby turning everyday purchases into powerful investments for environmental and social impact.
INTERVIEW: Female Founders in Climate & Finance Series:
GreenPortfolio | March, 2022
Carbon Zero Financial is leading the fight against climate change by making the act of voting with your dollar a data enabled, tech enabled, and automated experience. With our platform, it’s never been easier to lower your carbon impact, raise your carbon consciousness, and align your consumerism with your concern for the planet.
Penn Charter Magazine Alumni Spotlight: Cathryn Peirce
Spring 2022
“‘Whenever I see a problem,” Cathryn Peirce OPC ’12 said, “I like to roll up my sleeves and address it.’ That would be an understatement. Only 28 years old, she has started several businesses and nonprofits to help marginalized groups build financial wealth, address the question of reparations for racial injustice, and educate students about sexual violence.”
Topic: The Role of Data in Fintech
Austin, March 10, 2022
How innovative approaches to data analysis unlock new opportunities for insight and impact in fintech.
Business Insider | December 2021
“Company Will Empower Users to Fight Climate Change, Live More Sustainably, and Offset Their Carbon Footprint”