Ethan Brown
Founder, President and CEO, Beyond Meat
Ethan Brown is the founder, president and CEO of Beyond Meat, dedicated to plant-based meat substitutes to address health, climate, natural resource and animal welfare challenges. The firm’s Beyond Burger was the first plant-based burger sold in grocery chains and is available at fast food restaurants and is recognized by American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association health programs. Earlier in his career, Brown worked on open-grid electricity restructuring and at Ballard Power Systems. He is a board member of American Cancer Society’s CEO’s Against Cancer and a 2017 Henry Crown fellow within the Aspen Institute’s Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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For thousands of years, we’ve relied on animals to turn plants into meat. Steaks, burgers, and chicken are staples of the American diet. The sustainable food movement that ga...
Meat production requires far more water, grain, land, and fossil fuel than anything else we eat – for example, one pound of beef requires 1,800 gallons of water. Given the uph...