Our approach: Inspired by nature, driven by excellence
Our experienced founder team have spent decades working in business sustainability, with a focus on agriculture, sustainable sourcing and supply chains.
Two of IB’s co-founders, Ignacio Gavilan and Tobias Webb, have a half century of business sustainability experience, and bring with them a huge network of relevant companies, some of whom InsectBiotech are already working with.
For example, since 2000 Ignacio and Toby have worked directly on sustainability strategy, in different ways, with companies such as Nestle, Mars, Tesco, Cargill, Bayer, Unilever, Danone and dozens of others. Our sustainability strategy is informed by that experience and the evolving journey of these businesses. We remain in constant contact with them and others.
Through one of IBG’s investors, we have access to, and take part in, more than a dozen agriculture sustainability conferences per year.
With this exposure to best practice, networks, contacts, and resources IB will be taking a leading position on business sustainability. This is not just across our manufacturing and distribution.
We have bold ambitions to be driving force in regenerative agriculture, particularly in the olive sector. Our strategy will take an iterative approach as we begin operations and expand into a larger company.
We will be developing a comprehensive 21stCentury sustainability plan, with targets and performance reporting aligned with global best practice in sourcing, operations and manufacturing, and distribution. Our impact will be much wider than just our product footprint though, as via sourcing arrangements we can drive regenerative agriculture in the supply chain.
Alongside that, our impact will be positive for forests, land use and ocean sustainability as our product will displace unsustainable feedstock supplies currently used in petfood, aquaculture, animal feed and fertiliser production.
We plan to report on our progress annually, keep investors engaged in our progress and develop a live sustainability data dashboard so as to deliver full transparency. We will be developing and reporting on, a full lifecycle analysis of our products and reporting on our impact regularly.