Algae Energy - Turning CO2 Into Food and Fuel, featuring Ross O. Youngs

Speaker Details:

Ross O. Youngs, Founder and CEO of Univenture
For 20 years Ross Youngs has been on the forefront of environmentally-friendly packaging design, former SBA National Business Person of the Year and CEO of five-time Inc 500 Fastest Growing Company Univenture, Inc., utilizes a variety of bio-plastics materials for designing sustainable and biodegradable packaging and products that will give industry and consumers functional and responsible choices for critical products.

Since 1988, when Youngs revolutionized disc packaging with a thinner, lighter, and safer patented design called Safety-sleeve®, Univenture’s core values have been to create more environmentally-friendly alternatives. Every Univenture polypropylene or bio-plastic product replaces traditional packaging or storage with bio-plastic or recycled content, or recyclable materials that use 30-93% fewer resources to manufacture.

Youngs has been a successful inventor and designer of products, systems and technologies for over 30 years and has innovations in photographic & print systems, industrial processes for disc manufacturing, plastic converting technologies and consumer products and packaging. Youngs holds over 50 worldwide patents. Youngs describes his background in Environmental Science and Industrial Engineering as preparing him to conserve both natural and industrial resources.
Youngs has steered Univenture’s highly capable team into algae systems engineering and technologies with specialized photo-bioreactors in a massive coordinated effort involving Universities, Industry, and the public sector in simultaneous research, development, and implementation at scale.