Speakers

During Ron Gonen's tenure as CEO, RecycleBank has grown from an idea to a company that today is rewarding millions of people for their positive green actions across North America and the UK. RecycleBank has been recognized by a number of leading business and environmental organizations including the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer, the United Nations Environment Programme as a Champion of the Earth and the Wall Street Journal as one of the top 10 venture backed clean tech companies. Mr. Gonen is a recipient of the University Medal of Excellence from Columbia University, which is awarded to annually to alumnus under the age of 45 for outstanding achievement in scholarship, public service, and professional life. He received a BA in History from the UMass-Amherst where he graduated with Departmental Honors and was a Massachusetts Commonwealth Scholar, and an MBA from Columbia Business School, where he was a Eugene M. Lang Center for Entrepreneurship award winner.