Zevero names Nick Donoghue Head of Product

Zevero, the London-based carbon management platform, has appointed Nick Donoghue as global Head of Product, adding a specialist in supply chain sustainability to its leadership bench as the company scales across more than 20 countries.

Donoghue brings close to two decades of experience spanning corporate sustainability, product development and supply chain management. He joins from Novata, a private-markets data platform, where he served as Lead Product Manager. Before that, he spent ten years at Manufacture 2030 (since rebranded Secaro), a supply chain decarbonisation specialist, growing its product team from inception through to Series A. He is also a co-founder of Scope3Navigator, a sustainability solutions aggregator, and has served as a domain expert at Carbon13, the Cambridge-based climate venture builder.

Platform ambitions backed by fresh capital

The appointment follows a $7 million funding round earlier this year that brought Zevero's total capital raised to $14 million. Founded in 2021, the company now employs around 60 people and counts Asahi Group, Tokyo Metropolitan Government, and waterdrop among its clients. It recently acquired Inhabit to expand its sustainability advisory capabilities, signalling a move beyond pure software into integrated strategy services.

Ben Richardson, Co-Founder and Chief Sustainability Officer at Zevero, said Donoghue's "deep understanding of corporate sustainability, supply chains, and product development will be invaluable as we strengthen our platform and support increasingly complex organisations across global markets."

Donoghue framed the opportunity in regulatory terms: "With global regulations in flux, carbon and sustainability management needs to go beyond compliance and connect with commercial goals."

A routine hire in a fast-moving regulatory landscape

For Disrupts readers, the appointment itself is a routine personnel move. What it reflects, however, is a broader structural shift: carbon data is rapidly being repositioned from a compliance overhead into a commercial intelligence layer. As the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the SEC's climate disclosure rules and analogous frameworks in Japan and the UK converge towards mandatory emissions reporting, the demand for platforms that turn raw scope data into decision-ready insight is accelerating.

Zevero's $14 million funding base remains modest against the capital being deployed by larger players in the climate data and ESG software space, where enterprise software groups and specialist sustainability platforms are competing for the same corporate procurement budgets. At $14 million total, Zevero is operating at seed-to-Series A scale in a market that has attracted nine-figure rounds elsewhere. The Inhabit acquisition suggests the company is pursuing a services-augmented model to differentiate on depth of expertise rather than scale of capital.

The cross-sector read-across is primarily into manufacturing and consumer goods, where scope 3 emissions reporting (covering a company's upstream supply chain) represents the hardest and most commercially sensitive part of any decarbonisation programme. Donoghue's decade at Manufacture 2030 is directly relevant: supply chain emissions data is where carbon platforms live or die, because it requires integrating with procurement systems, logistics providers and tier-2 suppliers across multiple jurisdictions. Whether Zevero's platform can handle that complexity at scale, across its 20-plus-country footprint, is the real product question Donoghue has been hired to answer.