John Mulliken

John Mulliken is an Operating Partner at Azolla Ventures, where he provides strategic, organizational, and operational guidance to portfolio company leadership. He is also a Senior Lecturer in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School. His work focuses on climate strategy, climate finance, and building climate technology ventures, and he is affiliated with both the Business and Environment Initiative of HBS and Harvard’s Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability.

John brings over two decades of experience in technology, operations, and climate innovation. He was Chief Technology Officer at Wayfair, where he helped scale the business through its IPO, and later served as Chief Integrated Product Officer and Head of Global Carbon Markets at Indigo Ag, where he launched the first large-scale, verified agricultural carbon credit program. He began his career at the Boston Consulting Group, where he was until recently a Senior Advisor.

John serves on the boards of several public and private companies, including URBN and Bombas, and is actively involved in shaping climate policy through the Carbon Zero Project. He holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Reed College and an MBA with distinction from London Business School.