Greg is an award-winning deep tech entrepreneur with 10+ years of executive experience building sustainability-focused international hardware businesses from idea to multi-millions in ARR with Fortune 100 customers and channel partners. He is currently the Founder & CEO of Membrion, where he’s raised $26M in venture funding and built a team of 30 to enable circularity of the world’s most critical materials.
Greg is an internationally sought after speaker and mentor for early-stage start-ups whose mentees have gone on to raise >$100M. Greg’s experience scaling multiple start-ups allows him to “see around corners” and help teams focus on the right things at the right time. Greg is a strong believer in servant leadership and that success means transferring experience to work himself out of a job.
Greg has experience in all aspects of company building from idea to Series B, including fundraising, team building, strategy, board management, sales, marketing, product development, grants, etc. Importantly, when working with companies, he does not simply offer anecdotes for what has worked in the past and instead focuses on joining leaders in the messy process of company building – offering experience to amplify the vision of the team rather than forcing a playbook that may not translate for the uniqueness of each company.
Greg earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2014 and founded 2 other deep tech start-ups prior to Membrion. He holds more than 60 patents, 9 publications with >450 citations, and prior to start-up life worked as an engineer in the aerospace industry for Boeing and NASA. He has been recognized as a Top Innovator by the World Economic Forum, a BloombergNEF Pioneer, as a Top Greentech Company by Time Magazine, and received prestigious alumni awards from both his alma maters. He is based out of Seattle, WA and loves being outdoors with his family, including his 2 young kids.
