Casey R. Pickett

Casey R. Pickett is the Managing Director of Incubation at ClimateHaven. While working in the Yale Office of the Provost, he developed and managed Yale Planetary Solutions and the Yale Carbon Charge, and was host and executive editor of the Pricing Nature podcast in collaboration with the Yale Center for Business and the Environment. Previously, he served as Director of Innovation for Connecticut’s Economic Development Department, where he designed CTNext, a public-private partnership to build networks, accelerate growth for innovative companies, and attract top talent to Connecticut’s cities. 

Casey holds an MBA and a Master’s of Environmental Management from Yale. In graduate school, he co-founded a startup natural beverage company bottling maple sap to raise the value of healthy forests. Before that, he was a Sustainability Engineer for Turner Construction Company, a regional director for Dean for America, and co-founder of a sustainability think-and-do tank. 

He earned his BA at Oberlin College, and lives in New Haven with his family.