• Apex Catalytic

    Guiding Leading Corporations, Investment Funds, and Growth-Stage Startups through Frontier Sustainability Challenges With Unmatched Speed and Rigor

  • Jon Powell founded Apex Catalytic to tackle the world's toughest sustainability challenges and equip others to do the same. He advises top corporations, impact funds, and growth-stage startups on Frontier Sustainability Challenges - problems without a playbook demanding expertise, innovation, and bold solutions.

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    Trusted Advisor

    300+ Leading-edge projects completed, supporting a range of organizations

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    Tech Leader

    Former Co-Founder and Head of Salesforce's Global Sustainability Practice

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    Impact Investor

    Former Co-Head of the Closed Loop Infrastructure Group

  • Why Apex Catalytic?

    Partners work with us when they need exceptional and experience-driven results, delivered fast, without the friction or bloat common with other firms. Our radical enablement model goes beyond delivering best-in-class solutions. We leverage modern digital tools to teach your team how to sustain and build on our work long after our engagement ends, providing you long-term, durable value.

  • Our Service Areas

    We richly and effectively support people at large corporations, impact funds, and growth startups via an Access-Based or Project-Based Engagement Model.

    Our current focus areas are:

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    Sustainable Tech and Data

    Leveraging hard tech, ESG and complementary software, generative AI, big and small data, and other tools and technologies to help organizations achieve ambitious, sustainable outcomes.

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    Circularity

    Developing programs and systems that result in lower-carbon, circular outcomes that drive business value and unlock competitive advantage.

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    Research & Development

    Delivering a range of advanced R&D driving completely new innovations, or working hand-in-hand with your internal team to drive sustainable outcomes, articulate market differentiation, accelerate growth, and accelerate your impact.

  • About Jon Powell

    The toughest sustainability problems don't come with instructions, and Jon has spent most of his 20+ year career navigating uncertainty toward creating positive and sustainable outcomes for the environment while delivering business value.

    Jon's mission is to help companies tackle their biggest sustainability challenges - identifying high-leverage opportunities and solving them, and equipping teams with key frameworks, tools, and ways of executing to help them navigate the future with confidence. These elements are key parts of our goal to enable 10,000 sustainability professionals by 2030.

    Jon earned his PhD at Yale University and is the author of 20+ peer-reviewed research articles across a span of leading-edge sustainability domains. His work has been featured on NPR's Science Friday, New York Times, Associated Press, IFL Science, and is a frequently invited speaker at leading fora for sustainability and impact investment professionals.

  • We've Had the Pleasure of Supporting Many of the World's Leading Organizations, Including:

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  • Get in Touch

    Click below to fill out a short intake form to help us understand the nature and urgency of your sustainability challenge.

    Even if we are not the best fit for your challenge, we'll always try to give helpful suggestions and direction to you.

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