Jessica Thompson - SynBioBeta 2020

Jessica brings 10 years of climate project finance experience to the field of sustainable product manufacturing. With a deeply ingrained passion for sustainability, Jessica loves tackling complex problems in decoupling economic activity from resource degradation. She founded yoga product company YOGO in order to take a more hands-on approach to sustainability, leveraging design tools in the application of yoga. The company’s mission is to advance technical solutions in yoga hardgoods, while also bringing a cradle-to-cradle and circular economy approach to material production and disposal.

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