EF Alumni

Benoit Illy

CEO, Fairbrics

Founded:

Cofounder:

Tawfiq Nasr Allah

Interests / background:

Chemical Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Nanotechnology

Location:

Paris

Cohort:

Benoit Illy has taken multiple projects from the lab to large scale industrial success over the at Saint-Gobain and Safran – managing teams of 15 people and budgets of $3M across Europe and the US.

He holds an award winning PhD from Imperial College London with 16 articles and 2 patents.

Company:

Fairbrics

Fairbrics provide carbon negative fabrics for the fashion industry.

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Fairbrics

Funding announcements

EF alum Fairbrics, aims to transform CO2 from factories into clothes

23 January, 2023

Team

Funding announcements

EF alum Fairbrics raises €22M to create polyester fibre from CO2: know more

17 January, 2023

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