Greater Boston
How do we use materials science to solve global environmental and health problems? I'm the CEO and cofounder of Folia Materials. Our patented coating technology transforms ordinary paper into a platform super material to replace plastic in billions of products. As CEO I've taken Folia from idea to a Seed stage company, with industrial manufacturing and Fortune 100 clients. Products made with our paper address low-cost universal access to clean drinking water, and paper-not-plastic food packaging. I have a Columbia PhD in earth and environmental engineering and was a Department of Energy scientist. I worked on global environmental problems: drinking water in Africa, grid-scale thermal energy storage, billion-tonne disposal of carbon dioxide *under* deep oceans, national-scale CO2 disposal, methane emissions, and deep sea oil/gas blowouts like Deepwater Horizon. http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QKt44RMAAAAJ&hl
Folia Materials is a sustainable paper platform company that using plant-based chemistry and nano-science to address global platforms. Folia’s patented coating technology transforms paper into an advanced material platform capable of replacing billions of plastic products. Our coating and coated paper are a drop in solution for partners' industrial manufacturing assets. 1. The only *paper* based microwave food packaging Our paper-not-plastic microwave susceptor food packaging crisps food and controls moisture to improve food quality, outperforming plastic susceptors. 2. Folia Water Global (below) is taking a different business model approach to clean drinking water to solve affordability and access: leveraging the ubiquity of mass market grocery distribution with a 20 cent-20 liter antimicrobial paper water filter.
100s of talks, panels, and pitches 500 Startups, Watervent - Philadelphia, Geneva, Cincinnatti; TIE Pittsburgh, SV, NYC, Boston; Rotary Pittsburgh, South Africa; Wells Fargo SF, Harvard Africa Development Conference, Mass Challenge Mexico, Pipeline H20, Unilever Transform Dhaka, Columbia, NYC Climate Week, Greentown Labs, Georgia Pacific 1915 WI, Miller Center In-Residence, American Chemical Society LEADS, Specialty Papers Conference WI, ClimateTech Cocktails Boston, PuzzleX Barcelona, Forestry Innovation Germany, IRC WASH Netherlands, G20X India, TAPPI Nano, Royal College of Arts Design UK, UNC WASH, 100s of startup pitch events
Folia Water Filters: a mass market grocery staple Dirty drinking water is the #1 cause of hospitalization in low-income countries and 1.2M deaths annually. Folia Water Global is taking a different business model approach to clean drinking water, leveraging grocery retail. Folia has invented a 20 cent-20 liter paper water filter using patented materials science. A roll of our industrially manufactured paper is 1 million liters of safe, germ-free drinking water. Our antimicrobial paper water filter is packaged like a coffee filter and sold at grocery pricing through local retail stores to BOP households. We're on sale in 2,500 stores in Bangladesh, selling B2B through FMCG grocery distributors. Folia Water Global is a subsidiary of Folia Materials.
Judge for various Columbia University startup events, competitions, pitches