Paradigm One is a closed-loop circular Product-as-a-Service (PaaS) company whose mission is to reduce single-use disposable products in the foodservice sector and accelerate a clean circular economy. We offer a reusable take-out container service to restaurants and their customers that makes zero-waste fun, easy, and convenient while helping food vendors save money, increase revenue, improve customer loyalty, acquire new customers, and lower their environmental footprint. We are currently building a network of restaurants and consumers across the Washington DC Metro Area that are committed to great taste, zero-waste, and a sustainable future.
The program includes a full marketing and promotions strategy to help vendors add value, as well as a consumer mobile app designed to educate, reward return behavior, and incentivize participation. Our objective is to close the loop on the material lifecycle from production through distribution, tracking, collection, sanitization, and redistribution, as well as the advanced recycling of end-of-life products into new PaaS. Our vision is to support the emergence of clean, resilient, and thriving cities with efficient urban metabolisms.
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John Hansen, Founder & CEO, is a clean energy, sustainability, and circular economy specialist with nearly two decades’ experience in international business, project and partnership development, strategy, intra/ entrepreneurship, and corporate, government and multilateral engagement.
His entrepreneurial experience includes working with clean tech start-ups, technology and market research and development, light manufacturing, and development and marketing of innovative product-of-service, circular and socio-environmental business models.
In addition to the development of Paradigm One, some of his previous roles include: international consultant for the United Nations on climate finance and renewable energy project preparation in developing countries; Senior Energy Consultant for Tesla, a clean energy, battery storage, and electric vehicle company; International Business Development for Cenergie/Cygnus Atratus, a fuel cell and waste-to-hydrogen start-up; and, Global Strategy Advisor for Citizens’ Climate Lobby, advocating for efficient, effective and equitable carbon pricing policy and civil society engagement with governments, the UNFCCC, World Bank, and the private sector.
John holds a gMBA in Sustainable Business with a concentration on Renewable Energy, a BFA from the University of Maryland, and has certifications in Clean Energy and Climate Finance, Permaculture, Green Building, Industrial Ecology, and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). (LinkedIn)