Origin Materials is the world’s leading carbon negative materials company. Their mission is to enable the world’s transition to sustainable materials.
Co-CEO’s John Bissell and Rich Riley join us today on episode 218 to discuss sustainable manufacturing, plant-based plastics, climate change, and how green energy just won’t be enough for us to reach our climate goals.
Their customers include Danone, Nestlé Waters, PepsiCo, Ford Motor Company, LVMH and Revlon – as well as PrimaLoft, which supplies major apparel brands such as Patagonia, LL Bean, Lululemon, Nike and Adidas. All of these companies have partnered with Origin to drive their sustainability performance and achieve their net-zero goals by decarbonizing their materials supply chain leveraging Origin’s carbon negative technology platform.
More about John Bissell and Rich Riley
John Bissell co-founded Origin Materials in November 2008 and has served as its Chief Executive Officer and a member of its board of directors since inception. Mr. Bissell has extensive experience in R&D, engineering, and business development in the chemical industry. In 2008, Mr. Bissell received the People, Prosperity, and the Planet Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and in 2014, he was on the Forbes 30 under 30 list in the Energy & Industry category. Mr. Bissell holds a B.S. Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Davis.
Rich Riley has served as Co-Chief Executive Officer and a member of its board of directors since October 2020. Mr. Riley was the CEO of Shazam Entertainment Ltd, a leading mobile music application that was acquired by Apple Inc. in 2018. Mr. Riley was an executive at Yahoo! Inc. from January 1999 to September 2012 with roles including EVP, Americas and SVP &MD EMEA Region.
Mr. Riley was a finalist for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year, Featured in Forbes 40 under 40 Ones to Watch and included three times in Billboard Magazine’s Power 100 list. Mr. Riley is a Trustee at St. Luke’s school, a member of the advisory Board for the Entrepreneurship Department at the Wharton School and a member of the executive Board of Boy Scouts of America, Connecticut Yankee Council. Mr. Riley received a B.S. in economics with concentrations in finance and entrepreneurial management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
About Origin
Origin’s platform turns the carbon found in biomass into useful materials, while eliminating the need for fossil resources and capturing carbon in the process. Global customer demand for Origin’s carbon negative technology platform is very strong – with more than $10 billion in offtake agreements or capacity reservations, commercial scale-up of Origin 1 enables Origin to produce sustainable chemicals and materials for its customers to begin meeting that demand.
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