#177 Sanchali Pal, Founder of Joro App

Sanchali founded Joro to empower people to take climate action that matters, starting with how they spend money. Prior to Joro, Sanchali worked on sustainable development in East Africa and South Asia at Dalberg, where she saw firsthand the devastating effects of the climate crisis for vulnerable populations, and...

#176 Matthew Kleiman, Co-founder & CEO of Cumulus

Matthew Kleiman is the co-founder and CEO of Cumulus. Prior to co-founding Cumulus, he was the Program Director at Shell TechWorks, Shell’s Skunk Works-style technology center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, focused on developing and deploying new technologies for Shell’s capital projects and operating facilities. Before joining Shell, Matt held various...

#175 Sunny Sanwar, Founder & CEO of Dynamhex

Sunny Sanwar is an engineer and entrepreneur who lived through cleantech 1.0 and is building the rails on which climatetech can thrive. He was formerly co-founder and CTO at Verd2GO, an energy storage startup. Currently he is Founder and CEO of Dynamhex, Inc — an intelligence platform for climate action planning...

#174 Nneka Kibuule, Senior Vice President for Aligned Climate Capital LLC

Nneka Kibuule is a Senior Vice President for Aligned Climate Capital LLC. In this role she focuses on investing in growth equity companies in energy, sustainable land use, clean transportation, resilient and efficient infrastructure.  Previously, Nneka was the Director of Energy Innovation at Elemental Excelerator and worked at Pacific...

Seat at the Table: BIPOC & Women Sustainability Leaders (2021)

In the wake of the hardships that many have faced in 2021, the climate crisis and deep fissures of inequity in America and the world have never been so apparent. Yet among the dismantling of normal as we know it, BIPOC and women leaders have continued breaking glass ceilings...

#173 Heidi Kujawa, CEO and Founder of ByFusion

Heidi Kujawa is the founder and CEO of ByFusion, an innovative manufacturing company on a mission to clean up the planet and block plastic waste for good. ByFusion’s modular systems convert all types of plastic waste (including marine debris) into a high-performing, reusable building material made entirely of plastic...

#172 Matt Prindiville, CEO & Chief Solutioneer for Upstream®

Matt Prindiville is the CEO and Chief Solutioneer for Upstream®, a norms-disrupting non-profit sparking innovative solutions to plastic pollution and today’s one-way “throw-away” society. In this role, Prindiville works with entrepreneurs, policymakers and culture hackers to ideate and accelerate the transition from single-use to reuse. His responsibilities include content...

#171 Nicol Ragland, Founder of Regenerate Oklahoma

Influenced and informed by time spent with the Indigenous in multiple countries, Ragland continues to engage in a long term photographic and film exploration into humanity’s relationship to culture and the wild. Recognizing culture to be an accumulation of ideas where we explore ways of exploring, this infinite play...

#170 Veeral Hardev, VP of Strategy at Ubiquitous Energy

Veeral Hardev is VP of Strategy at Ubiquitous Energy. Hardev has over a decade of experience commercializing novel nano-materials products for the electronics industry. This includes his time at Nanosys, Inc. where he led materials and business development, and product management. Hardev holds an MBA from the Berkeley Haas...

#169 Alison Blay-Palmer, UNESCO Chair on Food Biodiversity and Sustainability Studies

Alison Blay-Palmer, the UNESCO Chair on Food Biodiversity and Sustainability Studies, is the founding Director for the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems and a Professor in Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Her research and teaching combine her passions for sustainable food systems, biodiversity and community viability...

#168 Corey Glickman, Vice President & Head of Infosys Sustainability & Design

Corey Glickman is vice president and head of the Infosys Sustainability & Design business, which develops and deploys Smart Space technologies at private and public organizations. Corey has over 35 years of experience in industry consulting, providing advice on technology and business. He is an expert in strategic design,...

#167 Sharina Perry, CEO of Utopia Plastix

Sharina Perry is a serial entrepreneur with a long history of starting and growing new ventures. Sharina perfected a patent-pending plastic alternative formulated into compounded plant-based resins using crops farmers plant in regular crop rotations. Utopia Plastix™️ helps solve the problem of plastic waste, carbon emissions, and promoting agriculture....