Founded 2019
Founders Benoit Illy, CEO Tawfiq Nasr Allah, CTO

Fairbrics uses engineered microbes to convert captured CO₂ into polymer precursors. Its process can be integrated into existing chemical plants—enabling brands to produce carbon-negative materials for fashion, packaging, and chemicals.


Founders

Benoit
Illy

CEO

Benoît holds an award-winning PhD in Materials Science from Imperial College London. Over the past decade, he has taken several high-tech projects from the laboratory to large-scale industrial success at major manufacturing companies such as Saint-Gobain and Safran, across Europe and the US.

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Tawfiq Nasr
Allah

CTO

During his PhD studies at Université Paris-Saclay, Columbia University and working as a researcher at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Tawfiq pioneered the field of CO2 transformation and developed technologies that transform this harmful waste into high-value compounds. 

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