FORLIANCE announces appointments to leadership team
April 21, 2026
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FORLIANCE today announces the appointment of Marco Magini as Chief Executive Officer and Laura McCormack-Waldschmidt as Chief Financial Officer.
Mr Magini brings extensive knowledge to the role, as an experienced leader in the natural climate sector. Joining FORLIANCE from South Pole, he played a key role in building the company’s global carbon project portfolio and trading business. Mr Magini’s experience in the origination and execution of carbon developments across multiple jurisdictions and technologies, as well as leading sales strategies across global voluntary and compliance markets, will be valuable for implementing FORLIANCE’s ambitious growth strategy. Mr Magini succeeds Dirk Walterspacher and Andreas Schnall, who founded FORLIANCE over 10 years ago and have established its strong foundations for future growth. Mr Walterspacher and Mr Schnall will continue to remain as shareholders and advisory board members of FORLIANCE.
In his new role, Mr Magini will spearhead FORLIANCE’s growth strategy, expanding sales and customer relationships across Europe, North America, and Asia, and leading the continued development of projects that deliver high-quality carbon credits.
Commenting on his new role, Marco Magini said: “FORLIANCE has long held a market-leading reputation as a trusted developer of high-quality nature-based solutions, and I’m delighted to join them as they enter the next phase of their mission to accelerate the transition to net zero. I’m looking forward to continuing the momentum as we aim to be the partner of choice for companies looking to achieve their climate goals, as well as continuing to be an advocate for high-quality carbon removal standards and projects that deliver benefits for the environment, biodiversity, and local communities.”
In addition to Mr Magini’s appointment, Laura McCormack-Waldschmidt has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer. Ms McCormack-Waldschmidt has spent over 12 years in the infrastructure and energy sector across private equity investments and asset management. She held various roles at Macquarie Group, where she was involved in acquisitions, divestments, equity and debt financings, and the management of platforms across multiple asset classes and jurisdictions. Prior to this, Ms McCormack-Waldschmidt held a number of debt capital markets roles at global corporate and financial services firms.
Elizabeth O’Leary, Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Board of FORLIANCE, said: “We would like to express our sincere thanks to Dirk Walterspacher and Andreas Schnall for their vision, leadership, and dedication to FORLIANCE and the carbon community more generally over the past decade. As we look to the future, the complementary strengths Marco and Laura bring, alongside a management team with over 40 years of experience, position FORLIANCE exceptionally well to deliver on its growth ambitions.”
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FORLIANCE is a leading nature-based solutions (NBS) carbon developer focused on projects that benefit from natural assets such as forests, wetlands, grasslands, and agricultural lands to generate carbon credits. With a development pipeline across South and Central America, Europe and Africa, FORLIANCE’s projects comprise of Afforestation and Reforestation (ARR), projects that reduce the emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+), and other natural climate solutions to enable greater ecological management of the landscape, and simultaneously have the potential to unlock several benefits for the local population, biodiversity, and global climate. The business is active across many parts of the carbon offsets value chain, advising local governments, producing earth observation analysis, partnering with landowners on financing and developing projects, and trading high-quality carbon offsets. Additionally, FORLIANCE advises corporations on strategies to achieve their net zero and carbon neutrality targets.
