Sustainability — Climate — Energy — Food — Resilience
Anacapa Strategies advises companies, investors, family offices, and public institutions on the risks and decisions sitting at the intersection of sustainability, climate, energy security, food security, and organizational resilience.
About
Climate, energy, and food systems no longer move on separate timelines. A drought reshapes a power grid. A carbon policy reshapes a supply chain. The problems that matter most today rarely arrive as single-domain crises — they are wicked problems and meta-crises: interlocking failures across climate, food, energy, technology, and governance that compound each other and don't yield to conventional, single-lane analysis. Anacapa Strategies exists because the organizations navigating these mega-trends and grand challenges need advisors who can see the whole system at once, not five separate consultants speaking past each other.
We are a bespoke practice by design. Every engagement is led by a senior advisor, grounded in primary research, and built to produce decisions your board can act on — not a binder that sits on a shelf.
Jeff Stoike, Ph.D.
Jeff has over twenty-five years of experience in international sustainable development as a researcher, entrepreneur, policy-maker, and consultant, with a career spanning institution-building in the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and leadership roles across academia, government, and the corporate and non-profit sectors.
He is President of Blue Action, a venture platform accelerating climate technologies through FF Blue Action — a joint venture with Founders Factory backed by Builders Vision and the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, among other institutional partners. He also runs a non-profit providing capacity-building to frontline communities in the climate crisis.
He holds a Ph.D. in International Sustainable Development from Yale University. His prior roles include place-based impact investing and climate philanthropy at The Urban Institute and scenario planning and corporate diplomacy at the U.S. State Department.
Jeff has advised the White House and multiple heads of state, taught at Yale, UC Berkeley, the University of Texas, and the University of British Columbia, and spoken at forums from the UN Ocean Conference to Sundance. He has advised several family offices, and his thought leadership has appeared in The New York Times, Forbes, and The Economist. He advises on media for social impact and strategic futures. He is based in Austin, Texas.
Wicked problems don't have clean owners. We map how climate, energy, food, and operational risk move together inside your organization — and find the critical path through, not just a recommendation for one piece of it.
Every recommendation traces back to primary data, scenario analysis, or field verification — never assumption.
Anacapa Strategies holds no vendor relationships or product lines. Our only interest is the quality of the counsel.
New Asset Classes
The name is a nod to blue-sky thinking, not a category. Jeff serves as President of Blue Action, a venture platform built on a simple premise: the largest capital pools in the world are still being asked to choose between impact and return, when the real opportunity is proving they were never in tension. Blue Action exists to build and prove out new investable categories at the intersection of hard infrastructure, climate technology, and frontier science — categories institutional capital doesn't have a template for yet.
Through FF Blue Action — a joint venture with Founders Factory, which builds and invests in startups alongside world-leading partners — the platform has run its first proof of concept in the maritime and ocean economy: a sector large enough, capital-starved enough, and technically complex enough to demonstrate the model at scale. The thesis travels well beyond it.
Proof of concept: maritime & ocean infrastructure
Port-side retrofits, electrification, shore power, diesel abatement, alternative fuels, and low-carbon operations.
Ocean energy, coastal infrastructure upgrades, resilient waterways, and coastal economic development.
Marine conservation, aquaculture technologies, biodiversity monitoring, and coastal adaptation.
Autonomous vessels, ocean data platforms, and marine protected area monitoring.
Evidence the model works
Second-generation air lubrication systems cutting merchant fleet fuel bills by roughly 8%.
Autonomous, sail-powered marine freight with owned marine terminals.
Electro-chemistry direct air capture and carbon-neutral methanol fuel production.
Autonomous solar and hydrogen vessels for ocean data, subsea cable monitoring, and defense.
Portable nuclear fission systems powering commercial vessels, ports, and data centers.
Barge-floating data centers that eliminate freshwater use and cut operating costs and latency.
The coalition backing the model
The coalition above proved the model in one sector. Jeff's focus at Anacapa Strategies is applying the same architecture — patient capital, systems thinking, and a refusal to trade impact for return — to the next asset class that needs one.
Services
Each engagement draws on the practice area most relevant to your decision, and on the connections between them.
Materiality assessments, target-setting, and reporting frameworks that hold up under investor and regulatory scrutiny.
Strategy & reportingPhysical and transition risk analysis, scenario modeling, and adaptation planning for facilities, portfolios, and supply chains.
Risk & scenario planningGrid dependency assessments, diversification strategy, and procurement advisory for organizations exposed to energy volatility.
Grid & procurementSupply chain resilience, sourcing diversification, and agricultural risk advisory for producers, buyers, and public agencies.
Supply chainContinuity planning and crisis response design that accounts for climate, energy, and food shocks as a single connected threat picture.
Continuity & responseHigh-level strategy for organizations retooling industrial models around decarbonization, new technologies, and structural market shifts.
Strategy & innovationForward-looking scenario design that connects geopolitical shifts — trade, resource competition, policy realignment — to organizational strategy.
Geopolitics & foresightInvestment strategy, deal sourcing, and venture-building support for climate technology platforms, family offices, and corporate innovation arms.
Capital & venture-buildingStrategy at the intersection of media, storytelling, and venture-building — helping mission-driven platforms and investors build audiences and narratives that move capital and policy.
Media & narrative strategyKeynotes, panels, and closed-door briefings on sustainability, climate, energy security, geopolitics, and venture capital for corporate off-sites, investor forums, and industry conferences.
Keynotes & briefingsContact
Tell us what you're facing — a board question, a risk you can't yet quantify, a decision on the calendar. We reply within one business day.