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“The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.”

— Steve Martin

Impending Bloom, a Delaware C-corp based in New York City, was founded by George Levasser and is led by an accomplished team of women. Our culture emphasizes support, growth, and exploration, creating a dynamic, mission-driven environment focused on personal and professional development.

We operate with a “Petri dish” approach, pursuing diverse initiatives inspired by Harry Markowitz’s modern portfolio theory. This diversification helps us address the complex and politicized sustainability and ESG markets by running experiments. Cross-pollination and synergies between our business lines drive innovation, minimizing risks and advancing sustainability. In essence, we are a portfolio of interconnected initiatives.

Over two years, we’ve built a fellowship program with 600 alumni now employed at major companies like Huawei, Google, and Amazon. We also developed a sentiment analysis platform, visualizing moral traits of S&P 100 companies in 2D and 3D maps, where each “flower” represents a company and links show sector connections.

Using advanced tools like NLP, topic modeling, and currently developing agentic AI, we explore qualitative data within sustainability. Inspired by our founder’s computational sociology background, this approach transforms qualitative insights into actionable data.

At Impending Bloom, our supportive company culture inspires innovation, challenges norms, and drives progress, setting the foundation for long-term success.

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Our Team

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We come from different facets of the world.Impending Bloom is a design space, problem space, platform made up of researchers, analysts, engineers, business leaders, misfits, creators, dreamers and– all of these come together on our platform. Building a better, more just tomorrow depends on all of us.
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Ha Hoa Thi (Helen)
Ha Hoa Thi (Helen) VP and Head of Sustainability Research and Analysis
Nana Chen
Nana Chen Motion Graphics and UI/UX Designer
Fatih Emin Öge
Fatih Emin Öge Software Engineer
Sijia Feng
Sijia Feng Sustainability Economic Analyst I & Director of Business Development
May Shao
May Shao Sustainability Economic Analyst II
Jorcianne Ferreira
Jorcianne Ferreira Director of Latin American Partnerships
Pina Pi
Pina Pi Director of University Partnerships
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  • Jason Forrest
    • former Head of Data Visualization of McKinsey and Company,
    • Board member of the Data Visualization Society
    • Editor in Chief of Nightingale, a popular data visualization publication
  • Bin Zhong
    • 30+ years of experience as a Senior Engineer, Config Analyst/Devops at Tesla, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and other leading companies
    • Specializing in the development and integration of large-scale, enterprise-level applications and systems
    • Extensive expertise in system architecture, config management, and integrating complex technologies across diverse platforms
  • Chris Lanoue
    • 10+ years experience as a frontend developer and large software development project lead
  • Raghu Gopalakrishnan
    • 25+ years software project manager and developer who has delivered very large, enterprise-level projects
  • Tea Tuominen CFA
    • Fractional CFO, former Private Equity and VC