Jay Bolus
President
MBDC
Jay Bolus is one of the most authoritative speakers on the human and environmental impacts of products and materials. Using his extensive knowledge of Cradle to Cradle Design™ applied to products and materials, Jay has the unique insight required to understand how to work with a company’s global supply chain to inventory, assess and optimize products. As President of MBDC, his passion is working with product development teams to add business value through continuous improvement using the Cradle to Cradle Design principles. He has worked alongside companies on product optimization across industries, including with C&A, whom Jay worked with to create a line of Cradle to Cradle Certified™ fully compostable t-shirts. Through MBDC, he has also worked with Rambler’s Way on the first Cradle to Cradle Certified™ organic wool clothing line and contributed to the certification of wool yarn for Stella McCartney. Other collaborations include L’Oreal USA, MechoSystems Inc, Shaw Industries, Method, Milliken and Owens-Illinois. Jay has been published in Environmental Science and Technology and was named one of the top 100 most influential people in business ethics for 2007 by Ethisphere magazine. He received his Bachelor of Science in Biology with a Business minor from the University of Richmond and his Master of Science in Environmental Engineering from the University of Virginia.