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Tom’s latest venture, Loop, is changing the way the world shops for and consumes products. Loop is a circular shopping platform that enables consumers to buy their favorite household products, like Haagen-Dazs, Nature’s Path, Seventh Generation, and Tide, in durable, reusable packaging that can be refilled again and again.

Tom is also the Founder and CEO of TerraCycle, a global leader in collection and repurposing of complex waste streams. TerraCycle operates in 21 countries, working with some of the world’s largest brands, retailers and manufacturers to create national platforms to recycle products and packaging that currently go to landfill or incineration.

Through TerraCycle, Tom is creating circular solutions for hundreds of waste streams such as cigarette butts, dirty diapers and used chewing gum that otherwise have no path to be recycled. TerraCycle operates the largest supply chain for ocean plastic in the world, partnering with companies to integrate this material into their packaging.

Pasi is the Co-Founder & CEO of Solar Foods, a food-tech startup disconnecting food production from agriculture. Using a proprietary organism, renewable electricity, water, and air, Solar Foods is creating a high-protein ingredient.

Before becoming CEO he led a strategic initiative with the name Neo-Carbon Energy. It was the single-largest renewable energy research in Finland so far. Spin-off projects from that initiative include Soletair pilot plant producing fuel from air, Neo-Carbon-Food concept for producing healthy protein from air – now commercialized by Solar Foods – as well as the wold’s first simulation for global 100% renewable electricity system named the “Internet of Energy”.

Pasi is the Mission innovation Champion for Finland. Mission Innovation (MI) is a global initiative of 24 countries and the European Commission working to accelerate global clean energy innovation. The Champions are individuals with a track record of progressing creative new ideas that can drive the pace and scale of the clean energy revolution.

Ramya led the spin-out of Malta from Google X and leads the Malta team today. Malta is a cost-effective and reliable way to store energy – be it wind, solar, or fossil fuels – to feed the growing power demands of our world.

She currently serves as a Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Initiative Ambassador and was included in Business Insider’s 2020 list of 21 Rising Stars in clean energy.

Before founding Malta as an independent company, Ramya was the CEO of Rye Development, a hydropower development firm that she grew to be the leading developer of new hydropower projects in the United States. She was responsible for the expansion of Rye’s platform into energy storage, with the addition of two sizable pumped storage hydro development projects in the U.S. Pacific Northwest. Prior to her work in the hydropower space, she was a public finance banker, most recently as a Director at UBS where she focused on public power clients and senior managed more than $10 billion in financings. She holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government and a BA in Anthropology from Amherst College.

Tom has spent three decades advancing sustainable innovation across global industries. As President and CEO of Solidia Technologies, he leads a team commercializing technologies that have the potential to move the needle on carbon while modernizing one of the world’s oldest and largest industries.

Solidia’s tech is one of the few innovations that truly hits the quadruple bottom line, strengthening the cement and concrete industry in purpose and profits with measurable impacts on carbon, water, energy and waste and products that are higher performing and better for the planet. The $1 trillion global cement and concrete industry is one of the few large enough to make that impact matter, quickly.

Tom sees sustainability as a business necessity – table stakes for countries and companies looking to be compete in a resource-constrained world. He has shared this conviction in a TED Talk during The Countdown launch, at the Aspen Institute’s Ideas Festival, The Denmark Green Business Summit, The Economist Sustainability Summit, Cleantech100, and with CNN, CNBC, the BBC, The New York Times, the Financial Times, Bloomberg, and many more.