Cyrus Wadia is the CEO at Activate. He holds a master's degree and PhD in energy and resources from UC Berkeley and bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering from MIT. Most recently, Cyrus was the director of worldwide product sustainability at Amazon, where he launched the company’s first sustainable shopping program, and previously vice president of sustainable business & innovation at Nike.
Cyrus served in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, responsible for a $1 billion initiative defining the cutting edge in materials science and innovation. He has also served as co-director and faculty member of the Haas School of Business Cleantech to Market program, senior advisor on energy and manufacturing for McKinsey & Company, and project manager at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.