Albin Kälin

EPEA Switzerland (Switzerland), Founder and CEO
Albin_Kalin

Albin Kälin

EPEA Switzerland (Switzerland), Founder and CEO

About the speaker

Albin Kälin is founder and CEO of EPEA Switzerland GmbH started in 2009. Kälin implements Cradle to Cradle ® projects in all industries in the Alpine Region, particularly in Switzerland and Austria. From 1981 to 2004 he was Managing Director of Rohner Textil AG in Switzerland. Under his leadership, the company won 19 international design awards and acknowledgments and gained the recognition as world-renowned pioneer in successfully linking environmental and economic concerns. In 1993 he stimulated the development of the product line Climatex ® and thus the first Cradle to Cradle ® products worldwide. From 2005 until the end of 2009, he took over the management of EPEA Internationale Umweltforschung GmbH (International Research center) in Hamburg. Since 2007 he cooperates with the scientists in the development of the business field Cradle to Cradle ® in the Netherlands. He takes over the management of EPEA Netherland, founded in 2008. With the founding of the EPEA Switzerland GmbH, he resigns as CEO of EPEA in Hamburg and from the Netherlands.

Speech

Redesigning products and business models

10:30 - 11:00