CEC GUEST MENTOR
At the Circular Economy Club (CEC) we believe it is crucial to connect senior experts on the circular economy with those trying to disrupt the world with their circular projects. Parallel to the on-going CEC Mentors program, the club is running a series of Mentorship opportunities with the world’s leading circular economy thinkers, who join the program as Guest Mentors.
From September 2019 to January 2020, CEC ran the CEC Mentor competition to receive a 1-on-1 mentoring session with Jamie Butterworth, Founding Member at Circularity Capital, former CEO of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and Member of the CEC Advisory Committee.
Are you a circular economy entrepreneur or SME? Do you have specific questions that you would like to pose to Jamie Butterworth? Well, then you could be in with a chance of winning an exclusive mentoring session.
CEC teamed up with Jamie Butterworth in a #CECMentors opportunity. For the winner of this exclusive opportunity, Jamie Butterworth will be able to point you in the right direction, helping you to tackle specific circular-related challenges in a 40 minute-long video-conference mentoring session.
Jamie was previously the Chief Executive Officer of The Ellen MacArthur Foundation. Jamie is currently Member of the CEC Advisory Committee and Founding Partner and Member of the Investment Committee at Circularity Capital. Circularity Capital seeks out businesses that can out-perform the market and their linear competitors by decoupling future growth from resource constraints. Jamie has developed a deep understanding of how the circular economy drives value, working with a number of the world’s leading brands to support them in successfully deploying circular business models.
Applications applied HERE before January 15th, 2020, for the opportunity to win a mentoring session with Jamie Butterworth.
The winner of the CEC Mentor competition, announced on January 2020, is the eye-wear startup W.R.YUMA, who are using the most sophisticated 3D printing technology to recover plastic waste and turn it into beautiful eyewear.
Learn more about Jamie Butterworth
Get to know Jamie Butterworth in the “GLOBE 2014” interview.
BIOGRAPHY
Jamie Butterworth is a Member of the Investment Committee and part of the investment management team at Circularity Capital. Jamie leads Circularity Capital’s work in connecting investee management teams to new business development opportunities in the circular economy.
Jamie was previously the Chief Executive Officer of The Ellen MacArthur Foundation. He was instrumental in developing and launching the “Circular Economy 100” platform for multinationals, SMEs, academic institutions and municipalities to capture the commercial opportunities of the circular economy. Jamie has a proven track-record in building and growing European SMEs both in his role at the Foundation and prior to this at B&G, a leading UK SME and manufacturer of instrumentation and navigation systems.
Jamie is a business fellow of Oxford University’s Smith School and has contributed to a number of forums on the circular economy including at the World Economic Forum and the European Commission Resource Efficiency Platform.
Read the full biography here.
