Barbara Muniz Soares is an experienced business development leader with over a decade of success driving sustainable growth across carbon projects, waste treatment, and biotechnology sectors. She has led the launch of new business units and cross-functional teams, enabling organizations to scale while aligning commercial strategy with evolving regulatory and environmental frameworks.

Deeply committed to environmental sustainability and impact-driven innovation, Barbara excels at identifying opportunities where climate intelligence creates measurable business value. Known for resilience and long-term thinking, she brings the same discipline developed through sports and long-distance hiking to navigating complex markets and building enduring partnerships.

As a mother of two, Barbara combines empathy, adaptability, and decisiveness, qualities that shape her leadership under pressure. This perspective fuels her focus on developing solutions aligned with Saltica’s mission: transforming climate uncertainty into actionable intelligence and financial insight for those exposed to environmental risk. She is dedicated to building scalable tools and partnerships that help businesses anticipate climate impacts, reduce losses, and make better decisions in an increasingly volatile world.