Veery Maxwell is an Operating Partner Consultant for Ajax Strategies. She is also a Founding Partner at Galvanize Climate Solutions, after spending 7 years at Ajax as a Founding Partner, investing in technology companies solving climate change. Veery has spent her career focused on climate change, is a deep believer in the virtuous cycle of markets, technology, and policy reinforcing each other to drive decarbonization. She currently sits on the boards of Descartes Labs, Streetlight Data, Sunfolding, Trace Genomics, and Voltus. Additionally, she serves on the nonprofit boards of Clean Energy for America and CREO Syndicate.

Prior to co-founding Ajax, Veery was a Director at Energy Innovation managing a large climate philanthropy portfolio focused on supporting regulatory interventions to drive emissions out of the power, transport, and industrial sectors. Veery previously worked at Climateworks Foundation and The Nature Conservancy.

Veery earned a J.D. degree with honors from UC Hastings School of the Law, and a B.A. degree magna cum laude from Georgetown University with a double major in finance and international business. Veery lives in San Francisco with her husband, daughter, and Norwich terrier.