About Us
Jon Powell founded Apex Catalytic to advise leading corporations, growth-stage startups, and impact investment funds to address Frontier Sustainability Challenges - those without an established solution or playbook that often carry risk, uncertainty, and require a deep blend of expertise to solve.
We have unmatched expertise as:
* trusted advisors: 300+ projects completed supporting leading organizations
* tech leaders: co-founder of Salesforce's Global Sustainability Practice
* impact investors: co-head of Closed Loop Partners Infrastructure Group
* academics: instructor at Yale University and author of 20+ peer-reviewed research articles
Clients engage with us when they want superior work products or outcomes, delivered quickly, without the friction and bloat common with larger firms. We further deliver a novel enablement model where we use modern digital tools and resources to teach you or your team "the how", empowering you to carry forward or build on our work together far after our engagement ends.
Our Representative Service Areas Include:
Tech
Leveraging hard tech, software, generative AI, and other tools and technologies to help organizations achieve ambitious, sustainable outcomes.
Circularity
Developing programs and systems that result in lower-carbon, circular outcomes that drive business value and unlock competitive advantage.
R&D
Delivering a range of advanced R&D as a stand-alone project or in coordination with your internal R&D team to drive sustainable outcomes, articulate market differentiation, and accelerate growth.
Data Strategy
Analyzing, evaluating, and developing methods to help you better collect, make sense of, and leverage a wide range of data to drive sustainable outcomes, lower cost, or create value.
Enablement
Delivering learning and enablement on advanced sustainability topics (e.g., climate tech, AI including generative, circular economy, impact investing) using effective pedagogies and modern digital tools, either integrated into project engagements or standalone as formal workshops.
