International Leadership Award – Ashley Murray Muspratt

C3E Ambassador Alla Weinstein presents the award for International Leadership to Ashley Murray Muspratt, Founder and CEO of Waste Enterprisers Ltd, Waste Enterprisers Holding and Pivot Kenya.

Presenter:

Alla Weinstein
Chief Executive Officer and President, Principle Power, Inc.

Ms. Alla Weinstein is Chief Executive Officer and President of Principle Power, Inc., a company that supplies floating offshore wind systems. Before co-founding Principle Power, she was the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of AquaEnergy Group, a company that successfully developed a wave energy conversion technology that was acquired by a TSXV-listed renewable energy company, where she was the General Manager and a Director. Weinstein brings more than 35 years of industry experience building global engineering projects for companies like Honeywell and Boeing.

Weinstein is a frequent speaker in the United States and Europe on the development of renewable energy and has served as the first President of the European Ocean Energy Association.

Weinstein holds a Bachelor’s of Engineering in Electrical Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management.

Award Recipient:

Ashley Murray Muspratt
Founder and CEO of Waste Enterprisers Ltd, Waste Enterprisers Holding and Pivot Kenya

Ashley Muspratt is a waste-to-energy entrepreneur focused on using business to solve human waste management challenges in developing cities. She is the Founder & CEO of Waste Enterprisers Holding (USA)/Pivot Ltd (Kenya), a start-up company that converts human waste to solid fuel for industry. Ashley’s academic background includes a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley’s Energy & Resources Group and an M.S. from the university’s Civil and Environmental Engineering department. Her business background evolved over a childhood spent working at and helping manage her parents’ small businesses. Ashley is driven in her work by a passion for protecting the environment and a penchant for tackling global challenges.

Ashley was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer in 2011, was a Fellow at the 2012 Unreasonable Institute and mentor at the 2014 Unreasonable Institute East Africa, and has been an invited speaker at numerous conferences, including Harvard’s Africa Business Conference, World Water Week (Stockholm), and World Biofuels Market (Rotterdam). She has published over 10 peer-reviewed journal articles in the sanitation and renewable energy literature.

Ashley lives in Mombasa, Kenya, where Pivot is constructing a waste-to-fuel factory. When she’s not in CEO mode, she enjoys the outdoors, a variety of sports, cooking, reading, traveling, and crossword puzzles. In addition to Kenya, she has lived and worked in China and Ghana; conducted short-term assignments in India, Uganda, and Senegal; and traveled extensively across Europe, Southeast Asia, and the U.S.

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