Jackie Vandermel is the Founder and CEO of Mendria, an AI platform that gives institutional real estate and infrastructure owners an investment edge by modeling how lenders, insurers, and buyers will re-underwrite their assets, and identifying what they can change today to improve future financing terms and asset value. Mendria aims to help companies make the best decisions when they buy, build, finance, and upgrade the physical world. And for sustainability, Mendria creates a financial signal by showing where investments in resilience and efficiency can translate into better financing, lower insurance costs, and a higher asset price.

She studied Mathematics–Statistics at Columbia University, and previously helped build the world’s first open, global emissions inventory (consisting of 744M+ assets) at Climate TRACE, built data and AI infrastructure for an asset management firm, worked as a software engineer at Scale AI, and conducted research at Princeton and Stanford. Through her nonprofit leadership, she has led partnerships with the White House, Google, and Warner Bros. She has presented at American Geophysical Union conferences and was nominated for the 2026 Earthshot Prize.