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Ethan Brown
Ethan Brown

Ethan Brown

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LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ethan-brown-b985a247/
Website:
www.beyondmeat.com

About

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First Name:
Ethan
Last Name:
Brown
Title and Organization:
Founder and CEO, Beyond Meat
Bio:
Ethan Brown is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Beyond Meat, a company dedicated to building meat directly from plants. Ethan gained an appreciation for agriculture and the natural world from his father, a professor, conservationist, and hobby farmer. This interest shaped the direction of his career, where he sought to make a contribution to climate change through the clean energy sector. His early work centered on electricity restructuring in support of an open grid, where his analysis at the gubernatorial level directly informed federal and state policies on grid management. Subsequently, Ethan joined the world’s leading Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cell developer Ballard Power Systems, rising to report directly to the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. Though passionate about clean energy, Ethan returned often to the role of livestock in our economy and became convinced that a change in the origin of the protein—from animals to plants--that we place at the center of our plates could simultaneously address human health, climate, natural resource, and animal welfare challenges in a unique and powerful way. In 2009 he started Beyond Meat which now sells products in more than 30,000 grocery stores, restaurants, universities and beyond. The company’s flagship product, The Beyond Burger, was the first plant-based meat to be sold in the meat aisle at major grocery chains. Beyond Meat is routinely recognized for its innovation, including most recently by Forbes as a CircleUp25 Top Consumer Brand for 2018 and Fast Company in its Most Innovative Companies list for 2017. Ethan holds an MBA from Columbia University and an MPP from the University of Maryland. He is a member of the 2017 Class of Henry Crown Fellows within the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute.

Fellowship Program

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Program Membership:
Henry Crown Fellowship Program

Class

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Fellowship Class Name:
Class XXI: 2017 Legally Crown Class


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