Andrew Personette
Executive Director 		Andrew Personette Andrew has a passion for designing systems to improve peoples lives. Before shifting his focus entirely to sustainable design, he designed contract furniture, high end men’s fashion, show rooms and store interiors for Jhane Barnes Inc. In 2005 he founded Acolyte, a consulting firm focused on developing socially responsible businesses. His background in the furniture industry and focus on social and environmental responsibility are what spurred the creation of EcoSystems' furniture. Also a co-founder of Design Green Now, Andrew was recently seen on ABC, discussing this series of panel discussions, workshops and contests that concentrate and put into action knowledge about sustainable design. He loves to develop strategies for sustainable design and recently presented at the Brooklyn Business Summit regarding Local Green Innovation. You can often catch Andrew with a big smile on his bike ride to work.
Matt Tyson
Innovation Director

Matt Tyson Matt takes on each day with the intent to enrich the relationship between people and the planet through design, education, and consulting. He leads with the words of Albert Einstein, "The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created that situation." Matt is Co-Founder and Innovation Director at EcoSystems, where he balances forward thinking design with strict environmental standards. He is Co-Founder and on the board of directors for Design Green Now, where he creates panel discussions and design jams to educate and inspire business professionals and students. Matt is a Managing Partner at DMD Green, where he consults with an acute focus of providing solutions for clients that are both environmentally friendly and profitable. In his free time you will find him building bicycles or researching how nature's solutions can be applied to human problems.
Pablo Souto
Creative Director / IDLab		 Pablo Souto Pablo is an Argentinean born and Venezuelan grown Architect with a Masters Degree in the U.S.A. In year 2000, participating in the World Millennium Environmental Congress in Seoul, Korea, he conceptualized his design thesis “The Green between Red and Blue”, Polarizing scenarios to understand the inner boundaries among problems and solutions -in order to comprehend the whole-, applying it throughout the vast scale of design. Work highlights include: Photographic Urban Landscapes: exhibited at the Architecture Biennial in Venice (2007); design and build of governmental, commercial and residential architecture and interiors; First prize conceptual and product design awards from Interior Design Educators Council (2000) and Coca-Cola Folk Art Contest (1999). In 2007 he joined Andrew and Matt in this entrepreneurial furniture experiment, under an extreme sustainable approach, to co-found EcoSystems. His strong design philosophy is keeping him creating, rather than in Costa Rica just surfing.
Sharon Brind, LEED AP
Sales Representative 		Sharon Brind Sharon grew up in a household where everything either got fixed and reused or repurposed. So it is no surprise that she has a keen interest in materials, processes and anything unearthed from another time period. She has worked for numerous showrooms and galleries in the Art and Antiques Industry in NYC for the past 10 years. While working with top architects and interior designers in NYC she became aware of the immense impact that sustainable design and products could have on the industry. As an active and dedicated volunteer for GreenHomeNYC and a LEED AP, she is fully dedicated to helping people achieve more sustainable interiors and to leave less of a footprint. Inspired to make sustainable design and lifestyle choices synonymous with everyday day decisions she enthusiastically joins the team at EcoSystems. And when she is not at her day job, she is earnestly convincing her friends to get out and go hiking on the weekend.