Us
Our Story
Our Team
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Chloe Brault
Head of Strategy
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Clare Thompson
Head of People and Culture
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Colin Jackson
Chief Science Officer & Science Founder
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Ellen Burtenshaw-Davies
Chief of Staff
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Jeremy Nugent
Head of Chemistry
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Keats Nelms
Executive Director of Science Operations
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Matthew Spence
Head of Design & Research Founder
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Mirte van der Lugt
Brand Director
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Paul Riley
CEO & Founder
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Raoul McAlister
Chief Technology Officer
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Sam Lane
Head of Fermentation
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Sarah Cook
Chief Commercial & Operations Officer
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Vanessa Vongsouthi
Head of Protein Engineering & Research Founder
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Virginia Marshall
Chief Finance Officer
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Our non-human collaborators
There are many astonishing examples of organisms eating plastics in nature that have been reported repeatedly over the last decade.
Whether worm, or bacteria, or mushroom, these creatures possess the biology to convert plastics into their original, non-toxic forms.
Unfortunately, none of them can do this at the speed or magnitude that we need to actually tackle the plastics crisis…
At Samsara Eco, we are able to take the remarkable plastic-degrading capabilities found in nature and study them, optimise them, and execute them at a commercial speed and scale.
And so, we’d like to mention our powerful plastic-degrading collaborators here. These tiny, microscopic organisms are our non-human collaborators.
Without them, we wouldn’t be able to do what we do.
Real change happens when we work together. Samsara Eco has the technology, but SAM will build the community.
We wanted to create an exciting consumer facing brand that would not only draw people in but also educate on both the problem and our solution.
Who is SAM?
Our Outreach
Clean Ups
Samsara Eco technology is doing the heavy lifting: the ongoing industrial-scale plastic manufacturing and waste problem.
But we know that making a difference in small ways, with community, in our own backyards matters, too.
We have started small (just us!) doing a few clean-up days (which our team get to clock-in as volunteer days). But we plan to get bigger and join the wonderful clean-up initiatives already being done all over the country.
Supporting scientists of the future
Samsara Eco sponsored and mentored the 2022 University of Newcastle Australian SynBio Challenge team. This group of undergraduate scientists have spent the year studying ways to harness biology to degrade the fossil fuel related pollutants: benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX).
Through supporting this team, Samsara Eco is helping to foster the next generation of scientists needed to solve our pollution problem!
The Challenge is a wonderful, not-for-profit initiative which aims to create a framework through which student teams and their mentors in academia and industry can apply synthetic biology principles to tackle real-world problems.