Founder & CXO
Grenova, United States
Ali Safavi, founder, President, and Chief Experience Officer (CXO) of Grenova, is on a mission to enable laboratories around the world to become sustainable and waste-free. Ali founded Grenova, which is short for Green Innovation, after working in the life sciences industry and discovering an unsustainable practice within the laboratories. Grenova was founded based on innovating green technologies and manufacturing automated devices to wash and reuse plastic consumables for the laboratories. Today, Ali’s award-winning company has created the only technology solution in the industry that enables life sciences and healthcare laboratories to reduce their plastic consumables biohazard waste and cost by over 90%.
As a result of his work, Grenova has eliminated over 1.2 billion pipette tips, equivalent to over 2.6M lbs. of plastic that would have otherwise ended up in landfills as biohazard waste. In addition, Grenova has helped the industry save over $80M by washing and sanitizing pipette tips. Grenova headquarter is currently located in the Greater Scott’s Edition in Richmond VA, 32,000 sf. With over 50 employees. Ali’s ultimate vision is to implement an automated
cleaning technology device in every lab across the globe to safely clean and sterilize all of the used plastic consumables from each lab’s daily operation and return them back to the lab for reuse over and over again without any compromise on quality and performance. For these efforts, Ali was named one of the Top Healthcare Innovators of 2019 in Healthcare Technology magazine, Top Innovator by Silicon Valley Magazine, and Top 10 Best Successful CEOs of 2020.
As a result of his work, Grenova has eliminated over 900M pipette tips, equivalent to over 2.6M lbs. of plastic that would have otherwise ended up in landfills as biohazard waste.
The Tipping Point: Lab Sustainability and Future of Single-use Plastic
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
12:30 – 13:00 CET