As our General Manager for Client Engagement at Biomimicry 3.8, Victoria works with the firm’s clients to develop bio-inspired business solutions that work with, rather than against, natural systems and processes. These solutions include land use, product design and packaging, sourcing models, built environment, brand strategy and corporate visioning. Prior to her work at Biomimicry 3.8, Victoria served as Managing Director of the Land to Market program at Savory Institute, a ground-breaking regenerative sourcing solution for food and fashion products. Early corporate partners of that program included Kering, Eileen Fisher, Nestle/Purina, Hormel, and General Mills. Earlier in her career Victoria co-founded, built and later sold Kindred Keziah Inc., a strategy and innovation consulting firm serving multinational clients including General Motors, Proctor & Gamble, Delta Airlines, Coca-Cola, MGM Resorts and United Distillers. A certified Biomimicry Specialist, Victoria received her B.A. from Colgate University, and her M.Sc. in Biomimicry from ASU. She serves on the Board of Visitors of the Nicholas School...Read More >
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Seth GaleWyrick is a biomimicry engineer with Biomimicry 3.8. He is a Certified Biomimicry Professional, holds a Master’s degree in biomimicry from Arizona State University and a Bachelor’s in Engineering Mechanics and Astronautics from the University of Wisconsin Madison. His passion is leveraging the combination of engineering, design thinking, and biomimicry to help clients solve their toughest challenges by enabling breakthrough sustainable innovation. Seth’s has more than 15 years of experience as a consultant in product development where he led over 50 projects from R&D through design, engineering and into production. He successfully launched products in a wide range of industries including medical devices, outdoor recreation, industrial equipment, and consumer electronics. He holds 11 patents and 5 open applications. In addition to project work, Seth facilitates courses and workshops where he enjoys introducing people to biomimicry concepts and methodology. He also serves as faculty at ASU teaching Biomimicry & Engineering for the MS program and he frequently lectures at design,...Read More >
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Posted in on September 21, 2018 by Miki Fukushima
Mark Dorfman is biomimicry chemist and senior principal with Biomimicry 3.8. His work centers on the premise that living organisms, by necessity, have developed sophisticated, highly effective, life-friendly chemistries that can inspire provocative, high-performing, sustainable technology for modern society. Mark applies the design principles of nature’s time-tested chemical strategies to develop innovative solutions to the toxic chemical and material challenges of the 21st Century. He couldn’t image a better way to spend the work week! Mark has worked closely with clients such as Estee Lauder, Colgate, Ashland Chemical, Natura, Johnson and Johnson, WD-40, Coca-Cola, Levi’s, Conoco-Philips, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Kimberly-Clark, Patagonia, UC Berkeley’s Center for Green Chemistry, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on a set of challenges as diverse as nature herself. Mark has been a featured speaker the GreenBiz Forum, The Guardian’s Making Green Chemistry Mainstream event, Greener Electronics Council summit, Chemical Manufacturer’s summit, Outdoor Industry Association’s Sustainability Working Group meeting, Textile Exchange conference, and the Green...Read More >
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Posted in on September 1, 2016 by biomimicry
Jamie Dwyer is a biomimicry research and design principal for Biomimicry 3.8. She is a Certified Biomimicry Professional, having earned her Master’s of Science in Biomimicry after earning degrees in biology and architecture—two seemingly divergent fields that are perfectly united through the practice of biomimicry. As a client services project manager and lead researcher for Biomimicry 3.8, Jamie facilitates biomimicry in the built environment. She works to transform the design framework by helping designers apply biological intelligence derived from nature’s forms, processes, and systems. In addition, Jamie has served as a biologist at the design table for major clients like Kimberly Clark, Terrapin Bright Green, BNIM, Jacobs Engineering, and HOK. Jamie also teaches biomimicry courses and workshops, including as the co-instructor for the Inspired by Nature: Biomimicry for the Built Environment training in San Francisco, and Discovering Nature’s Genius immersion workshop in Montana. She has been a featured speaker at numerous events including the Living Future unConference, the Living Product...Read More >
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Dr. Dayna Baumeister is the Co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8. With a devotion to applied natural history and a passion for sharing the genius of nature, Dayna has worked in the field of biomimicry with business partner Janine Benyus since 1998, traveling the world as a biomimicry thought-leader, business consultant, and professor. Together they founded the Biomimicry Guild consulting practice, The Biomimicry Institute 501c3, and in 2010, Biomimicry 3.8, a B-Corp social enterprise that helps clients find innovation inspired by nature and offers the highest level of biomimicry training to professionals worldwide. Dayna’s foundational work has been critical to the biomimicry movement, establishing it as a fresh and innovative practice, as well as a philosophy to meet the world’s sustainability challenges. As an educator, researcher, and design consultant, Dayna has helped more than 100 companies consult the natural world for elegant and sustainable design solutions, including Microsoft, Nike, Interface, General Mills, Boeing, Herman-Miller, Kohler, Seventh Generation, and Procter & Gamble. Dayna...Read More >
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Erin Rovalo is a senior principal at Biomimicry 3.8. Drawing from an architectural background, Erin weaves design thinking expertise with biomimicry to achieve a distinctly innovative approach to sustainable solutions. Between her work at Biomimicry 3.8 and as a Ph.D. researcher, Erin’s goal is to deliver a holistic methodology for driving innovation alongside ecosystem regeneration and conservation. Erin’s scope of work includes leading innovative built environment projects. During the course of her career, she has supported more than 30 built environment projects, including a groundbreaking project to help a carpet factory function like a forest. She works with developers, planners, architects, and engineers to help them seize unique opportunities to design, build, and operate resiliently and abundantly within Earth’s operating conditions. Her work also stretches beyond built environment to include solving packaging design and consumer products challenges for clients. She has successfully managed biomimicry innovation initiatives for Natura, Estee Lauder, Lone Meadow, Interface, and Burt’s Bees. Erin is a Certified...Read More >
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Nicole Miller serves as the managing director of Biomimicry 3.8, a certified BCorp and social enterprise dedicated to helping change-makers create a more sustainable world by emulating nature’s designs and core principles. Since joining the company in 2012 Nicole’s leadership has played a pivotal role in the growth and success of the company’s core services. Nicole’s background in Corporate Sustainability and global supply chain development support her work to bring biological intelligence-based innovation solutions to a wide range of global clients dedicated to innovation and sustainability. As managing director, she also drives internal strategy, projects and initiatives that support the legacy of Biomimicry 3.8, with her primary goal to create a 100-year company. She also works closely with key strategic partners and clients to get biomimicry into the hands of the designers, innovators, and changemakers that shape our world. This has included work with Google, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Target, Interface, Estee Lauder and other leading Fortune 100 innovators and...Read More >
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Janine Benyus is the Co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8. She is a biologist, innovation consultant, and author of six books, including Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature. Since the book’s 1997 release, Janine’s work as a global thought leader has evolved the practice of biomimicry from a meme to a movement, inspiring clients and innovators around the world to learn from the genius of nature. She has personally introduced millions to biomimicry through two TED talks, hundreds of conference keynote presentations, and a dozen documentaries such as Biomimicry, produced by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Tree Media, 11th Hour, Harmony, and The Nature of Things with David Suzuki, which aired in 71 countries. Most recently, Janine has been a featured speaker at Harvard’s SHINE conference, Sustainable Brands 2016, and Bloomberg BusinessWeek Design 2016. However, Janine’s favorite role is biologist at the design table, where she introduces innovators to 3.8 billion years worth of brilliant, time-tested solutions through her work at Biomimicry 3.8. In 1998, Janine...Read More >
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Posted in on August 31, 2016 by biomimicry