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Welcome to Decarbonizing Commerce, where we explore what’s new, interesting, and actionable at the intersection of climate innovation and commerce. Join your host Keith Anderson, and together we'll meet entrepreneurs and innovators reinventing retail, ecommerce, and consumer products through the lenses of low-carbon and commercial viability.
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The Venture is an original podcast hosted by serial business builders from McKinsey. In each episode, our experts cut through the noise to show how leaders can launch new companies, testing their theories in conversations with legendary venture builders in Asia. We break down their journey – how they did it, the challenges they faced, how they built successful businesses.
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Jonathan Sudharta, the co-founder and CEO of Indonesian telemedicine company, Halodoc, is making healthcare more accessible in the world’s fourth-largest country. When Jonathan started his career as a pharmaceutical sales rep, he spent a lot of time in waiting rooms, watching patients wait—often for hours—just to see a doctor. He recognized an oppo…
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The leader behind one of Turkey’s top banking apps shares how an initiative from the country’s largest bank disrupted a crowded fintech market. With over 600 fintech competitors, İşbank’s Nays app carved its own path by delivering a gamified user experience that attracted 1 million users in its pilot and 3 million in just 12 months. Ceyda Yalçın, l…
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Dan Vahdat, the founder and CEO of Huma, is on a mission to change how the healthcare industry approaches research, treatment, and care. Growing up in a family of doctors, Dan saw how 24/7 treatment of patients often deteriorates as soon as they leave the hospital – which is typically when complications occur. To fix this, he started Huma in 2011, …
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Host Keith Anderson is joined by Ankit Patel, Vice President of Sustainable Solutions at ZeroMe, a platform for companies to engage and align their workforce with the company's sustainability goals through personalized awareness and education. Together, they cover interesting topics like the commonalities and distinctions between the rise of e-comm…
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Keith Anderson is joined by Darko Mandich, founder of MeliBio, a sustainable plant-based honey alternative. Together, they discuss the importance of new sustainable alternatives to industries that impact both the environment and animal welfare, contrasting conventional approaches with the innovative practices of MeliBio regarding the commercial con…
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In this episode of Decarbonizing Commerce, host Keith Anderson welcomes Phil White, co-founder of Grounded, a boutique agency and B Corp focused on embedding sustainability into business models. Phil discusses how Grounded helps both large and emerging brands integrate sustainability into areas like product design, packaging innovation, and retail …
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In this episode of the Decarbonizing Commerce Podcast, host Keith Anderson interviews Morgan Mixon and Rima Suppan, founders of Peachies, a London-based premium nappy brand focused on reducing environmental impact. They discuss how Peachies aims to disrupt the traditional nappy market with high-quality, eco-friendly products designed for contempora…
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Host Keith Anderson is joined by Jaxie Friedman, Sustainability Manager for Atomo Coffee. Together, they discuss the innovative approach Atomo takes towards creating sustainable coffee. Jaxie delves into the environmental challenges facing the coffee industry, including emissions and deforestation, and how Atomo's upcycled ingredients contribute to…
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In this episode, join host Keith Anderson as he speaks Suzy Monford, founder and CEO of advisory firm Food Sport International. With an extensive career as an executive in the global grocery industry, and having worked at places like H-E-B Central Market, Kroger, and Coles and Woolworth's in Australia, Suzy has been a pioneer at leading grocery and…
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In this episode of Decarbonizing Commerce, host Keith Anderson speaks with Minchan Park, director of portfolio selection at Unreasonable Group, a company helping scale growth stage, impact-driven ventures working on some of the world's biggest problems. They discuss the Unreasonable Fellowship program, the new Unreasonable Food collaboration with M…
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Today's guest is Katherine Sizov, co-founder and CEO of Strella, whose hardware-enabled software as a service uses data to predict the shelf life of produce and allows everybody from distribution centers, packers, wholesalers, and retailers to make better decisions about when to ship, when to sell, and where to allocate what produce. Katherine join…
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Relive a recent talk from Firstmovr’s JBPx Amazon eCommerce Growth Summit. The session was focused on two Amazon climate and sustainability initiatives for vendors and sellers: the Climate Pledge Friendly badge and Compact by Design. The session covers the programs' commercial benefits, guidance on how to qualify, and more. Learn more about Keith a…
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This episode features Tessa Callaghan, co-founder and CEO of Keel Labs, which produces a fiber from seaweed material being used in the fashion and other industries. In addition to sharing her and her co-founder's journey to starting Keel Labs, Tessa covers what they experienced firsthand as designers in the fashion industry, some of the ways that t…
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Mark Rushmore is co-founder and CCO of SURI, a sustainable electric toothbrush company. Mark and his co-founder began their careers at P&G, one of the great incubators of talent within the CPG industry. With a long entrepreneurial track record and some exits, he and his co-founder had the opportunity and the idea to start a consumer product brand t…
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In this episode of Decarbonizing Commerce, host Keith Anderson welcomes Matthew Isaacs, co-founder of My Emissions, to discuss the critical intersection of climate innovation and commerce, focusing on the environmental impact of food production and consumption. Matthew shares how his journey with My Emissions began during the COVID-19 pandemic when…
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In this episode, you'll meet Ryan Lupberger, founder and CEO of Cleancult, a company making cleaning products that are better for you and better for the environment. Ryan shares his experiences and lessons learned from starting up to scaling up, discussing how to meet both retailers and consumers where they are in terms of education and behavior ch…
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This week's episode features Adhithi Aji, founder and CEO of Adrich, a smart packaging solution for connected e-commerce. Adrich takes some of the friction out of replenishing consumable products, helping overcome some of the challenge of changing behavior in the shift to more sustainable consumption models. Tune in to hear more about how it plays …
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Join Keith Anderson as he talks to an old friend, Chris Perry, CEO of Firstmovr. He is not only a trusted advisor to the industry, but he's been in house at world class brands like Reckitt, WellPet, and Kellogg's. Chris tells us about his perspective about some of the challenges that the industry that wants to make it a priority faces in reaching o…
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Join Keith Anderson as he meets and learns from our guest this week, Autumn Fox, Climate Sustainability Senior Manager for Mars. Together they discuss the company’s roadmap to net zero emissions, looking at how far they’ve come and how they, and the rest of the industry, might continue to move forward. Together they touch on plans that affect agric…
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In this episode, join Keith Anderson as he meets and learns from today's guest, Mike Robinson, who is part of the founding team of The 8th Notch, a software platform helping retailers and carriers essentially do what they already do, but more effectively and cost efficiently--incidentally, reducing emissions in profound ways. Together they discuss …
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Keith’s guest this week is Julia Marsh, the co-founder and CEO of Sway, a biomaterials company replacing plastics with regenerative materials made from seaweed. As a designer, Julia spent over a decade building brand and packaging systems for consumer goods companies, tech startups, and design studios, winning the Closed Loop Partners Beyond the Ba…
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The CEO of a cutting-edge fintech explain how his start-up offers investment services once reserved for the ultra-wealthy to successful professionals. As the eight cofounders of Singapore-based Arta Finance got to know one other during their years together at Google, they recognized a massive market gap for investment services aimed people like the…
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Join Keith Anderson and Santiago Navarro, founder and CEO of Packamama, a company reimagining wine packaging to lower emissions while winning at the shelf and preserving tradition. This episode is an interesting case study covering the importance of packaging from a transit perspective, the unavoidable risk of breakage, and the consumption experien…
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This week Keith talks to Irina Gerry, CMO of Change Foods and a sustainable foods industry thought leader, using precision fermentation to commercialize a new way of producing real milk proteins and dairy foods with biotech. Irina's also a founding member and vice chair of the board of the Precision Fermentation Alliance. Together they walk through…
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Introducing Mike Newman, founder and CEO of Returnity Innovations, a partner to retailers and brands for reusable packaging, Keith Anderson talks to Mike about his venture and lessons he’s learned. With a blend of entrepreneurship as well as environmental science and policy experience, Mike has a practical view of the immediate impact that reuse ca…
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Learn more about David Kat: Wastless’s website Link to David’s LinkedIn To listen to the full episode join our Plus or Pro memberships at decarbonize.co: https://decarbonize.co/member-benefits/ 👈 Episode resources: Tackling the 1.6-Billion-Ton Food Loss and Waste Crisis | Boston Consulting Group Why is one-third of our food wasted worldwide? | UC D…
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In this episode, Keith Anderson interviews Kari Morris, co-founder of Martie, a venture-backed online surplus discount store specializing in shelf-stable groceries. Kari shares the company's inception, emphasizing its mission to address surplus in the food industry. The conversation explores Martie's rapid evolution, its retention mode, and the str…
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The global coleader of Leap by McKinsey discusses the firm’s latest global survey, which finds that business leaders and investors are bullish on building new businesses. Despite ongoing economic uncertainty, businesses are increasingly enthusiastic about creating new ventures, according to McKinsey’s latest global survey on new-business building. …
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Today's guest is Francesca Hahn, vice president for digital commerce, U.S. At Mondelēz, the multinational snack leader. Francesca is responsible for the strategy, vision, execution, covering everything about how Mondelēz brands are discovered, shopped for, purchased, fulfilled online, including two direct to consumer sites. Before Mondelēz she had …
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Keith speaks to Catherine Conway, Director and Reuse Lead for GoUnpackaged, one of the UK's leading consultancies specializing in reuse and refill packaging. Catherine has been working in the reuse refill space since 2006. We discuss her work with the Refill Coalition, which is a group of UK based retailers that are working together to develop a st…
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In this installment, host Keith Anderson sits down with Danielle Jezienicki, Founder of Impact FWD, a consulting practice specializing in sustainability and impact. Danielle brings a wealth of experience, having previously served as the Vice President of Sustainability for Grove Collaborative, a pioneer in plastic-neutral retail. During this insigh…
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In this episode of the Decarbonizing Commerce Podcast, host Keith Anderson delves into the world of supply chain adaptation in the face of climate change. Joining him is Berk Bahceci, Founder and CEO of Heraclea, a family-owned olive oil producer based in Turkey. Berk shares how his company has maintained supply chain stability and quality yield am…
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In this episode of the Decarbonizing Commerce Podcast, host Keith Anderson sits down with David Bryngelsson, CEO and founder of CarbonCloud. With a background in climate science, David shares his journey from academia to founding CarbonCloud, a climate intelligence platform for the food industry. They delve into the challenges and opportunities of …
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In this episode Keith is joined by Tanvi Patel, Senior Data Analyst for Climate and Sustainability Data at SPINS. SPINS is a data technology company specializing in wellness, health, beauty, food, and beverage, at the heart of where innovation meets sustainability. In this episode, we delve into Tanvi's unique career journey, which beautifully inte…
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Keith is joined by Emily Fultz, the Vice President of Marketing and Sustainability, North America for the Swedish company, the Humble Co. Emily has more than 25 years of experience in the U.S. consumer goods market, having worked at Starbucks, IRI (now Circana), Campbell Soup, Henkel, and most recently the Clorox Company. They discuss how Emily has…
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On this episode, Keith is joined by Anne Coghlan; co-founder and COO at Scope3, the source of truth for supply chain emissions data. Before co-founding Scope3. Anne was head of product at Waybridge, a company created to make the supply chain for raw materials more efficient, resilient, and sustainable. In it they discuss the size of the emissions c…
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George Wojciechowski is a Cofounder and CEO at Manifest.eco. Prior to launching Manifest.eco, George cofounded ShipBob, a predominant name in the global ecommerce fulfillment space. He joins host Keith Anderson as they discuss a wide range of topics including packaging, transportation, and freight, and powering, lighting, and cooling a massive fulf…
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Keith is joined by Caroline Buck, Co-founder and CMO at Petaluma. Petaluma is on a mission to create a more sustainable and humane agricultural system by using ingredients that offer optimal nutrition, reduced ecological harm, and humane treatment of farmworkers and animals. They discuss a plethora of fascinating topics such as her career trajector…
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On this the very first episode of Decarbonizing Commerce host Keith Anderson is joined by Nora Schaper. Nora is an eco-preneur and a co-founder of HiBAR, the world's first salon-quality, plastic-free hair care (and now solid luxury face wash and natural deodorant). A lover of nature, Nora despises plastic more than the average person, but believes …
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The CEO of a leading Southeast Asian steel distributor explains why he decided to launch a venture designed to reuse steel, reduce carbon emissions, and disrupt his core business. If the many infrastructure projects across Southeast Asia have a common denominator, it’s steel. And in just 12 years, Singapore-based Mlion has become the region’s large…
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Welcome to Decarbonizing Commerce, where we explore what’s new, interesting, and actionable at the intersection of climate innovation and commerce. I'm your host Keith Anderson, and together we'll meet entrepreneurs and innovators reinventing retail, e-commerce, and consumer products through the lenses of low-carbon and commercial viability. https:…
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The founding partner of a Southeast Asian VC fund explains his company’s global ambitions to create economic opportunity, promote sustainability, and reduce carbon emissions. Human activity began altering the climate in the mid-19th century, when the industrial revolution began unleashing unprecedented amounts of carbon into the atmosphere. But an …
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Cardiovascular disease remains the number one killer in every developed country, but only one in ten US patients with severe heart ailments received treatment in 2022. Egnite, a healthcare start-up, has ambitious plans to dramatically improve treatment of heart disease by harnessing the power of AI and big data to identify patients who fell through…
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In this episode of The Venture, we share a conversation with Thomas Gros, CEO and cofounder of circulee, a Berlin-based distributor of pre-owned digital hardware. The German start-up provides smaller businesses with a green and cost-effective alternative to new IT devices, offering them professionally tested and warrantied hardware previously lease…
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In this episode of The Venture, we share a conversation with Brian Clark, chief product officer of Ascend Bit, a Bangkok start-up recently spun off from the Ascend Group, itself a part of Thailand’s C.P. Group. Ascend Bit’s mandate is to leverage blockchain solutions on behalf of the group, focusing on applications for businesses and tokenization f…
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In this episode of The Venture, we share a conversation with Tirayu Songvetkasem, also known as Mac. He is the head of Maknet and chief digital officer of Siam Makro, the Thai branch of a multinational serving the hotel, restaurant, café and catering sector (HoReCa). Makro recently leveraged the mothership's market experience and network of partner…
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In this episode of The Venture, we share a conversation with Oi-Yee Choo, CEO of ADDX, a full-service capital markets platform based in Singapore. The fintech start-up uses blockchain and smart contract technology to provide access to a range of securities previously unavailable to mass affluent investors. And in less than three years, ADDX’s innov…
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In this episode of The Venture, we share a conversation with Moritz Hartmann, global head of Roche Information Solutions for Roche Diagnostics, one of the Swiss multinational’s two divisions. Adapting to constant technological change and disrupting via science has fueled the 125-year-old company’s longevity, which now uses digital tools and data sc…
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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 33:25) > In this episode of The Venture, Andrew Roth shares a conversation with Andre Menezes, cofounder and CEO of Next Gen Foods, a Singapore-based, food tech start-up. Its first product, TiNDLE, a plant-based chicken, is already making waves with chefs and diners in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Amsterdam…
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Read more > Listen to the podcast (duration: 38:39) > In this episode of The Venture, Andrew Roth shares a conversation with Samuel Rhee, Chairman, Chief Investment Officer, and cofounder of Endowus, a Singapore-based financial technology company that transformed the city-state’s cumbersome social security investment process into a fully digital ex…
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