ecobrew
Climate tech: helping breweries and distilleries capture the CO₂ they vent instead of buying it back.
COO and Head of ProductJul 2025 to present
Strategy and Marketing Contributor (part-time)Jul 2023 to Jun 2025
- Delivered a working CO₂-recovery prototype in five months, turning the vision into an actionable plan and coordinating priorities, sourcing, assembly, and testing.
- Automated three-hour trials that previously required two operators, increasing throughput from one trial per week to two or three per day.
- Proved a ~40% capture advantage over competitors, improving customer savings and the system's unit economics.
- Found and sized new markets through customer research, market analysis, and economic modeling, identifying a potential $19M+ annual CO₂-value opportunity and advancing to formal discovery under NDA with a Fortune 1000 distillery brand.
- Created fundraising materials supporting $300K raised and $120K in term-sheet offers. Scoped pilots that secured multiple LOIs.
- Managed procurement and suppliers, solving hard sourcing problems on a startup budget.
- Built an AI analysis workflow (Claude/ChatGPT, Python, Excel) that cut trial analysis from 2+ hours to ~6 minutes, including cross-trial comparisons and sensor-error analysis.