Soheil Salehian

Registry Architect

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Soheil Salehian, registry architect, is an artificial intelligence software engineer and forest conservationist with experience in building AI systems in hardware for forest conservation and carbon projects in the Amazon and Mexico. He has several patents in AI systems in hardware and computer vision created for millions of users. Before joining Winrock International, he was a Principal Software Engineer at Walmart eCommerce building detection systems, and prior to that, he has worked as a technical leader in startups and large companies like Intel. He has a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Calgary and also a degree in tropical forest conservation from the Yale School of the Environment. His mission is to empower Indigenous communities with the power of data and high technology to uphold their ancestral forest guardianship principles on a large scale while monitoring their forests.

Our Team

ACR benefits from a responsive, best-in-class team with wide-ranging expertise, including carbon project development, climate policy, carbon market design, carbon credit methodology development, third-party verification, and registry design and operations. We understand the complex technical, market and regulatory issues involved in developing carbon projects and work with asset owners to navigate the process from project registration and verification through to the issuance of carbon credits.

ACR is governed by Environmental Resources Trust LLC, a wholly-owned nonprofit subsidiary of Winrock International. The ERT Board of Managers ensures ACR maintains focus on harnessing the power of markets to improve the environment.