Tristan Jackson

Barr 2013 - 2015

Alumni

Legatum Fellow

From:

United States of America

Sector:

Energy/Utilities

Location:

Morocco

Degree:

MBA, Sloan School of Management

Kanoot helps answer the need for sanitation, energy, and fertilizer inputs by building infrastructure using closed-loop principles of waste recapture and repurposing. Kanoot’s R&D team is engineering portable bio-processors housed in shipping containers, capable of handling a waste stream of one to four tons per day. In the coming century, agricultural output from Latin America and Africa must increase to meet the growing global demand for food and materials. Fertilizers from bio sources will provide essential nutrients to support this progress and ensure food security, while waste management systems and locally generated renewable energy will support farming communities in remote rural areas. Kanoot’s bioprocessor prototypes are scheduled for a test pilot in Morocco in 2015. Kanoot will eventually market anaerobic bioprocessing technology across Latin America and Africa.

Tristan grew up on an undeveloped Maine island without grid power or running water. He has built his own home, including waste management and energy systems. With experience in El Salvador, Ecuador, Panama, and Morocco, he is familiar with the challenges of processing waste and generating energy in locations with limited infrastructure. Over the past 15 years he has studied and tested renewable energy systems with the goal of marketing a low cost waste management, energy, and fertilizer solution for agricultural communities.

As an undergraduate, Tristan was the president of Kyoto Now!, a student organization that advocates for the reduction of campus carbon emissions.

Tristan holds a Bachelor’s in Psychology and Sociology from Cornell University. He is an MBA candidate at the Sloan School of Management.