Biography
Jonathan Greenblatt is a successful social entrepreneur focused on creating profitable enterprises to change the world.
Greenblatt co-founded Ethos Water in 2002 with his business partner, Peter Thum, in order to help children around the world get clean water by launching a brand of bottled water in the US whose profits directly would support humanitarian water programs in developing countries. Ethos was sold to Starbucks Coffee Company in 2005 and Greenblatt served as a vice president of global consumer products for the company, managing the bottled water business, as well as a member of the board of the Starbucks Foundation, developing the principles to guide its water-related investments. Today, Ethos is sold in more than 5,000 Starbucks locations across the US and has achieved record performance for the company in bottled water sales. Equally importantly, Ethos is projected to invest more than $10 million through 2010 to bring clean water to communities in need around the world. Before founding Ethos Water, Greenblatt was an executive serving in managerial and operational roles at REALTOR.com. Greenblatt served as vice president and general manager of the company's primary consumer products group, managing a $30 million division of the company. Prior to entering the private sector, Greenblatt spent more than five years developing international economic policy in the Clinton Administration where he served in the White House and the U.S. Department of Commerce. Before joining the administration, Greenblatt worked in Little Rock, Arkansas on Gov. Bill Clinton’s first successful presidential campaign in 1992. Greenblatt holds a Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and earned a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from Tufts University. Jonathan serves on the board of RESTORE and as an advisor to numerous social ventures. He is a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and the Advisory Board of the Graduate School of Political Management at George Washington University. |
