Nathan Laurell

Nate Laurell is the former CEO of The Fresh Factory and current board chair, advising the company on all aspects related to continued growth and high-level strategic considerations. He previously founded New Frontier Holdings, an investment firm focused on sustainable energy and agriculture; a cofounder of Energy.me, a retail energy supplier; and was the founder and CEO of AMP Americas, a company that builds, owns, and operates sustainable infrastructure to create and supply renewable energy. Before that, he was a principal and director at Infinium Capital Management, a proprietary trading firm with offices in Chicago, New York, and London. He started his first company in college and has since been involved with a series of start-ups spanning the software, finance, and energy sectors. In addition, Laurell is currently a partner and member of the Advisory Council of Acumen Fund, a patient-capital fund based in New York. He earned a BS and MS in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed the Chicago Management Institute's program at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and the executive seminar at the Aspen Institute.