Nonprofit climatetech startup incubator Greentown Labs introduced in the present day the appointment of Georgina Campbell Flatter as its incoming Chief Government Officer.
Based in 2011 out of the MIT ecosystem, Greentown Labs goals to speed up climatetech innovation and commercialization by empowering entrepreneurs and enabling collaboration, bringing collectively founders, corporates, traders and policymakers. The group opened a second location in Texas, Greentown Houston, in 2021, with the intention of accelerating the vitality transition. In accordance with Greentown, the nonprofit has grown to be the biggest climatetech startup incubator in North America, reaching almost 600 member corporations.
Flatter joins Greentown after co-founding and main climate and local weather innovation-focused nonprofit TomorrowNow.org. Previous to becoming a member of TomorrowNow.org, she spent a decade at MIT, together with as a senior lecturer, and main world know-how and social influence initiatives.
Bobby Tudor, Greentown Labs Board Chair and Chairman of The Houston Vitality Transition Initiative, stated:
“It’s uncommon to search out a person who has spectacular local weather and vitality experience together with nonprofit and entrepreneurial management—we’re lucky Georgie brings all of this and extra to Greentown Labs. On behalf of the Board of Administrators, I’m delighted to welcome Georgie as our subsequent CEO and I’m desirous to see all that Greentown will accomplish beneath her management. Since Greentown’s growth to Houston in 2021, we’ve seen the facility of its position in our ecosystem and we’re proud to have Georgie main Greentown’s subsequent chapter.”
Flatter will take over the CEO place from Interim CEO Kevin Dutt, who took on the position after Kevin Knobloch stepped down as CEO in mid-2024. Knobloch had been with Greentown since September 2023, after longtime CEO Emily Reichert stepped down in late 2022.
Flatter stated:
“We’re at a transformational second within the vitality transition, with an unprecedented alternative to drive options in vitality manufacturing, sustainability, and local weather resilience. Greentown Labs is, and has at all times been, a house for entrepreneurs and a powerhouse of collaboration and innovation. On this subsequent chapter, I’m excited to construct on our entrepreneurial roots and the power of our ever-growing communities in Boston and Houston. Collectively, we’ll unite entrepreneurs, companions, and assets to sort out frontier challenges and scale breakthrough applied sciences.”
