Our Team
Jeff Tuller - Chief Technology Officer
Jeff manages Mission Markets’ information and web technologies, in addition to overseeing its incorporation of environmental, social & governance (ESG) performance metrics. He brings to Mission Markets nearly two decades of experience in both technology and finance, in both the for-profit and non-profit sectors. Jeff was a Vice President of Mortgage-Backed Securities at Bear Stearns, specializing in Collateralized Mortgage Obligations (CMOs). At Princeton Financial (a division of State Street Bank) he was Senior Systems Architect for Portfolio Management. His non-profit experience includes consulting for the SIA Educational Foundation, The Atlantic Philanthropies, and most recently as co-founder of socialmarkets.org, a web-based platform for non-profit evaluation using performance metrics. Jeff has a BA from Cornell University, MS from University of New Hampshire in Computer Science, and an MPA from NYU’s Wagner School for Public Service. Jeff is more fond than he probably should be about cars, technology and most things French.
Olivia Frazao - Associate, Business Development
Olivia is an associate and helps with business development for our Earth platform. Prior to this, Olivia completed her BA in international relations at Columbia College, Columbia University. Olivia interned in Sao Paulo at Itaú Unibanco / Itaú BBA, the leading bank of Latin America, and in Portugal at MNF Capital, a boutique private equity firm. She has worked at the New York State Division of Human Rights and at WITNESS. Olivia wrote her thesis on stakeholder accountability of Brazil’s Amazon Fund, and completed a field research project on environmental and economic issues in rural Brazil. She spent a semester studying international development at Universita’ di Bologna, Italy. Olivia is fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish, and Italian, and is proficient in French.
Michael Van Patten - Founder & CEO
Michael is the Founder and CEO of Mission Markets Earth and leads strategic and business development efforts. He is considered an environmental capital markets innovator and is responsible for guiding MM Earths financial and technological innovation and applying it to the environmental capital markets.
Michael has over 20 years of experience on Wall Street and has been directly involved in the design and implementation of specialized ATS’s (Alternative Trading Systems) for private placement and illiquid security transactions including the 1998 co-founding of NYPPEX, a broker dealer that currently operates a leading auction platform for LP interests.
Michael has been a featured speaker at several environmental and social markets conferences and has written several articles regarding environmental capital markets innovation and financial structure. Michael is also involved in several regional and national working groups that are developing standard metrics to measure biodiversity and habitat function and apply them to financial transactions
Aaron Martin - Vice President, Member Services
Aaron is responsible for supporting credit buyer, seller and all stakeholder queries and works to quickly resolve all member concerns. Prior to this position, Aaron founded SOM Importing LLC to import, bottle, brand, retail, and wholesale Turkish olive oil in the United States. He has also worked as a navigation manager at the seismic start-up company Wavefield-Inseis ASA where he managed navigation client relations and helped grow the company from a single flagship to a mid-size fleet that was successfully sold in 2008 for $310 Million. Aaron holds a Master of Public Administration from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Geosciences from the University of Notre Dame.