About Us.
Green Hand Projects is a full-service consulting agency specialized in financial, environmental and social impact projects.
Carson Ross and Matthew O’Neill founded Green Hand in 2024 with the aim of combining their expertise in climate project management and impact finance, respectively, in order to support companies and organizations to be both effective in their program implementation and financially successful through sound and efficient business practices.
Hi. I’m Carson.
I’m an environmental and community development advocate with more than ten years of experience in sustainability and environmental management. My approach to work centers environmental justice, and when evaluating the long-term outcomes of a project I ensure the broader social impacts of the work are considered at every point in the process.
Having lived and worked in North America, Africa, and Europe, and taken part in local, regional and global scale projects, my perspective is grounded in listening to and serving local needs to inform catered solutions.
I arrived in this sector through my combined love of the outdoors and food. My love of cooking led me to gardening and agriculture, and opened my eyes to the ways in which something as integral and widespread as food production can be the cause of so much destruction, degradation, and suffering — but also healing, resilience, and beauty. Through this lens I’ve explored our relationship to land, animals, and one and other. I believe to heal our environment we need progressive, science-based policy and international coordination — AND that individuals and small groups have the power to make a difference.
My expertise includes hands on field research and data collection, data analysis, monitoring and reporting, compliance with US and EU environmental policy, project management, stakeholder management, events management, and media production. I have an MPA in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University and a BA in International Development from McGill University.
Matthew is a co-founder at Green Hand Projects and currently a partner and CFO/COO at CKBG, a platform holding company that specializes in building consumer brands globally. At CKBG Matthew has led the company across finance, strategic planning, operations, legal, product and manufacturing, HR, organizational design, and route to market.
Prior to joining CKBG, Matthew was previously the Head of Special Projects at Human Ventures (HV), a venture fund and start-up studio in New York City that employs a human-first approach to investing across early stage consumer, health, and media companies. Matthew was responsible for high priority incubation projects as well as assisting in sourcing and evaluating new investment opportunities for deploying capital from HV's venture fund and co-investment vehicles.
Matthew is a former foundation worker, and worked underneath the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus at Grameen America where he led the finance and impact evaluation department and was responsible for broadening the organization's data driven approach to decision making for solving business puzzles across the organization. At Grameen, Matthew was a founding team member of the Grameen America Social Business Fund, an innovative impact investment vehicle designed to provide loan capital to low income women across the United States..
Matthew started his career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana, West Africa where he was a grassroots ambassador of the USAID's Feed the Future Initiative.
