Shaun thrives by creating innovations, relationships, and companies. His first love has been and always will be science, as as he’s progressed through his career he’s experienced the need to translate that science into real-world innovations to help solve so many of the problems that we humans are so good at creating. Shaun has spun out companies that are developing male contraceptives and that are addressing the excessive use of pesticides, but he is most excited about the material revolution that is happening. His latest company, Kombucha Biomaterials, aims to play a fundamental role in re-inventing the way we as a society interact with nature around us through closed-loop manufacturing processes that depend on generative rather than exploitative production practices.