Eric Ezechieli

Co-Founder & CEO

Eric Ezechieli is a regenerative entrepreneur and Co-Founder of Nativa—Europe's first certified B Corporation and Benefit Corporation, co-founded in 2010 in Italy. Nativa is a strategy and design consultancy that helps companies, organisations and leaders evolve from extractive to regenerative business models. Eric holds a BA in Economics from Bocconi University and an MEd in Sustainable Innovation & Education from Stanford University. He was selected by Singularity University at NASA Ames in 2010. He was named Most Valuable Player of the global B Corp movement in 2016 for introducing the Società Benefit legal form to Italy. He received The Good Lobby Award in 2018 and served as an advisor to the G7 Advisory Board on People-Centred Innovation. He is Chairman of The Natural Step International, co-founder of Assobenefit, and a Singularity University faculty member and keynote speaker. Nativa has driven the B Corp movement across Italy, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay, Panama, and Spain.