At Enviu, we usually spotlight the businesses and solutions we build. This time, we’re introducing the people behind them.
Meet Enviu’s venture founders, program managers, and global leadership: the operators and strategists who design, test, and scale our ventures and programs. They coordinate teams, iterate business models, work directly with communities, write funding proposals, pitch to investors, and navigate what it really takes to build impact at scale.
Our founders and venture builders work closely with smallholder farmers, micro-entrepreneurs, waste workers, and local partners, understanding the day-to-day realities, trade-offs, and constraints that shape inclusive and sustainable business models.
Alongside them, Enviu’s program managers and global management take a system-level view, connecting the dots across ventures and regions. They show how different interventions reinforce one another, explain why a programmatic approach tackles systemic challenges, and articulate where real impact happens.
Together, they bring deep, practical expertise across East Africa, India, Indonesia, and the Netherlands. If you’re exploring a story, seeking grounded insights, or looking for expert commentary and quotes from practitioners and leaders shaping impact in real time, you’re welcome to reach out directly.
Our global leadership team guides Enviu’s strategy, ensuring our ventures and programs align with long-term impact goals. They connect insights from across regions, support teams on the ground, and help scale solutions that tackle systemic challenges.
Enviu Zero Waste Indonesia focuses on eliminating waste by transforming single-use and linear systems into circular ones.
Our expertise lies in developing and scaling reuse and refill models that tackle single-use waste at the source, particularly in contexts where circular infrastructure is underdeveloped. We specialize in designing practical, market-ready solutions that reduce waste immediately while remaining commercially viable.
Beyond solution development, we identify and address the system-level barriers that prevent circular models from scaling. By working closely with businesses, governments, and communities, we build partnerships that enable waste prevention, resource efficiency, and long-term impact putting people and the planet first.
Enviu Zero Waste Netherlands focuses on testing reuse concepts in a physical environment. This includes systems that are necessary for distributing, collecting and cleaning packaging.
We focus on designing, testing, and scaling reusable packaging systems that replace disposable models at the source. Our work centers on making reuse practical, accessible, and commercially viable by building the infrastructure, logistics, and business models needed for it to work in real-world settings.
Beyond piloting solutions, we tackle the systemic barriers that keep reuse from scaling, from reverse logistics and cost structures to policy and stakeholder alignment. By collaborating with businesses, policymakers, and civil society, we help create the conditions for reuse systems to thrive, delivering measurable waste reduction while prioritizing people, planet, and long-term impact.
Our expertise lies in tackling overproduction, fast-fashion waste, and unfair labor practices through the design and scaling of circular business models. We specialize in reducing textile waste, extending garment life cycles, and enabling sustainable production practices that work in real market conditions.
Working closely with stakeholders across the textile value chain, we develop ethical and resilient supply chains that improve working conditions and reduce environmental impact. In an industry where less than 1% of textiles are recycled into new garments, our work demonstrates how circularity can be commercially viable while prioritizing people and the planet.
Developing business models that incentivize smallholder farmers in Kenya to transition to regenerative agriculture.
Our work focuses on identifying and addressing the key barriers to smallholder adoption of regenerative practices, grounded in extensive market research and issue analysis. We bring deep experience designing and testing solutions tailored to the East African smallholder context, with a strong focus on farmer access to inputs, market linkages, value addition, and collaboration with organized smallholder farmer groups.
We have also explored and developed financial products that can effectively incentivize the transition to regenerative agriculture. This work builds on our proven track record in developing viable business models to eliminate waste and reduce post-harvest loss—achieving reductions of up to 0%, through ventures such as SokoFresh and Shambani Pro.
- Eveline Jansen
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Regional Program Manager,
Enviu Agrifood (Kenya) - eveline@enviu.org