Steve Bender

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Company: Earth X

Location: California / Texas / Panama

I am an experienced and successful leader in non-profit development and have founded or served on the boards of more than fifteen organizations and volunteer initiatives. I not only have the vision to recognize opportunities to help others, but I understand the business side of establishing sustainable volunteer organizations from charter creation to fundraising to marketing. It has been my pleasure to focus on needs in my local Newport Beach community and find ways to export our successful models to other communities both in the United States and internationally. Causes I support include:

◆ Community and business development

◆ Sustainability and conservation (I’m a certified Naturalist Volunteer with Orange County)

◆ Dental and health care for those in need

◆ Veterans

◆ Special Olympics

◆ Education

A realtor with twenty-five years’​ experience, I use the same skills that have brought me professional success to envision, create, develop, and expand these local and international non-profit organizations. My most ambitious project is the “Doc-in-a-Box”​ series, which sends affordable health care microclinic facilities to countries in need. I serve as President of the Newport Beach Rotary Club.

Kate Bennett

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Company: Brownee

Location: Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

Passionate and determined sustainable development specialist with national and international experience across a wide range of sectors and industries.

Professional objective to promote the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to enhance capacity, capability and collaboration across private sector, public sector and civil society locally, nationally and internationally to ensure SDGs are achieved by 2030.

Committed to the empowerment of individuals and communities through facilitated self realisation, strategic community engagement, self-sourced solutions, and inclusive and tailored business models such as social enterprises and micro-industries.

Relationship-oriented with a compassionate, empathetic leadership approach and the ability to deliver quality outcomes that satisfy the diverse interests of multiple stakeholders.

Passion for stakeholder engagement with a demonstrated ability to communicate fluently and effectively in multiple languages (English, French and Spanish) and to successfully manage and deliver projects in diverse cultural settings.

Strong believer in the power of cross-sectoral collaboration for the promotion of social development, and in the importance of impact investment mechanisms to transform the private sector’s approach to sustainability from risk-mitigation to opportunity-optimisation.

Justin Bzdek

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Company: Symbios Technologies, Inc.

Location: Fort Collins, Colorado

Justin is a teambuilder and entrepreneur whose career has focused on maximum impact on existential and biosphere sustainability problems at the nexus of energy, water, food/agriculture, climate, ecosystem/human/animal health, and social justice. He is presently CEO of Symbios Technologies, Inc. and VP Business Development of Czero, Inc. driving technology R&D and innovation at the water-energy nexus to reduce emissions and decarbonize energy conversion/storage/use, transportation, agriculture, water treatment, and manufacturing.

As a collaborative executive and board director Justin built companies and nonprofits reducing net CO2 and carcinogen emissions by millions of tons while generating more than $200 million in revenues and creating jobs. Justin has built many talented teams and deep product, finance, project, and business development pipelines across renewables and cleantech verticals toward a net-zero future. He is a Hach (now American Chemical Society) Scholar.

Justin Bzdek

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Company: Symbios Technologies, Inc.

Location: Fort Collins, Colorado

Justin is a teambuilder and entrepreneur whose career has focused on maximum impact on existential and biosphere sustainability problems at the nexus of energy, water, food/agriculture, climate, ecosystem/human/animal health, and social justice. He is presently CEO of Symbios Technologies, Inc. and VP Business Development of Czero, Inc. driving technology R&D and innovation at the water-energy nexus to reduce emissions and decarbonize energy conversion/storage/use, transportation, agriculture, water treatment, and manufacturing.

As a collaborative executive and board director Justin built companies and nonprofits reducing net CO2 and carcinogen emissions by millions of tons while generating more than $200 million in revenues and creating jobs. Justin has built many talented teams and deep product, finance, project, and business development pipelines across renewables and cleantech verticals toward a net-zero future. He is a Hach (now American Chemical Society) Scholar.

Robert Cobbold

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Company: Beach Collective

Location: Madrid, Spain

Robert Cobbold is an entrepreneur, public speaker and philosopher who has delivered transformative educational experiences to over 40,000 people worldwide.

COO at Beach Collective.

Founding editor of Conscious Evolution, an online publication, podcast and consultancy aiming to kindle an evolutionary transition and help individuals and organisations find meaning and purpose.

Former programme Manager of The Crowd, a network for senior sustainability professionals; and Common Vision, a thinktank specialising in creative public engagement.

Former programme Manager of Green Schools Project, a nationwide environmental education program.

Worked for the celebrity-led campaign Farms Not Factories which reached over 130M people.

Set up my own business teaching bridge to young people in London called SLAM!

Worked as a private tutor for top London tutoring agencies, including stints in India, China and around the UK.

Published writer, public speaker, podcaster and facilitator.

Mike German

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Company: Amorphic Tech Ltd

Location: Brooklyn, New York

Product Manager and Founder with experience taking a Technology Product from ideation to launch with $10MN in revenue and 300,000 monthly active users.

Key Accomplishments:

1. Took a water technology platform from ideation to launch with 300,000 end-users to provide people in low-income countries with access to clean water.
2. Developed business model and lead Go-To-Market strategy generating $10MN in revenue.
3. Hired, managed, and mentored 100+ engineers, marketers, product managers across the organization.

Kasha Griva

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Company: MS4 Coordinator, Master Watershed Steward

Location: Lemoyne, Pennsylvania

I am a passionate advocate for clean air and clean water. As an MS4 Coordinator, Penn State Master Watershed Steward, Chesapeake Urban Stormwater Professional, and Certified Stormwater Inspector, I have spent many volunteer and professional hours learning about stormwater pollution and working in the field. I also educate children and adults about stormwater runoff and pollution, and how to create change for a better environment.

Ryan Harrison

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Company: Bowersox Investment Group

Location: Kennesaw, Georgia

Ryan brings over 15 years of successful experience in business development, project management, and strategic planning. Ryan is working with the team at BIG to see the vision and mission of the company realized while providing leadership and direction to the corporate team.

BIG’s Mission is to advance and revolutionize the construction, housing, and other highly pollutive industries from their antiquated states to one of efficiency and responsibility by leveraging technology and opportunity. BIG’s commitment is to provide innovative decarbonization solutions within an open source collaboration.

BIG’s Housing Goal by 2029 is to develop master-planned carbon positive communities that not only have complete zero carbon footprints for operative and embodied carbon, but have an overall net positive effect on the environment.

Katherine Hill Ritchie

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Company: Private Capital Investments

Location: Washington D.C. & Baltimore, MD

Entrepreneurial MBA with 20 years of global investment, operational and board experience.

Investment experience: sourcing & due diligence of global investment strategies including early stage venture capital companies, private equity companies/funds & hedge funds

Operation experience at: fintech companies, venture capital funds, private equity, family offices, family-owned businesses and investment consultants.

Industry experience areas: technology, impact, edtech, fintech, consumer products, med devices, SaaS biotech, material science, industrial, renewable energy, IoT & services companies.

In 2009, I launched my own investment consulting firm, Private Capital Investments, LLC and have worked for 8 Single Family Offices (4 Billionaires), I am also am Angel investor, advise companies and currently I manage the Venture Capital Funds at TEDCO (tedco.md)

I am a frequent speaker & content provider for family office events, investment seminars and University lectures.

Eric Homberger

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Company: True Elements

Location: Naples, FL

Optimistic, results-driven executive with proven success leading organizations by engaging with & empowering the people that love to take action & make things happen. My aim everyday is to develop great teams, build a positive culture, invest in talented people and unlock the outstanding ideas that are deep within all organizations. I am a strong communicator that can flex from one-on-one settings to a large presentation hall or an executive board room.

We must lead the change that we want to see in the world!

At True Elements, we curate the world’s water data. By doing so, we have created the ability to visually connect water information to find new insights & correlations. We then harness the power of that intelligence to forecast conditions and risks related to water — understanding the likely future allows for the critical planning needed to a achieve a more resilient future.