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April 2018 30 Under 30

With a mission to inform, empower, celebrate and advocate for British Columbia's current and aspiring business leaders, BCBusiness go behind the headlines and bring readers face to face with the key issues and people driving business in B.C.

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bcbusiness.ca lIfE SToRY: There's a hint of embarrassment in Alison Carr's voice as she talks about Nada's humble beginnings. Carr, born in Victoria to a hospital administration manager mother and a biomedical technician father, was in her last month of studying geography at UBC when she got wind of a market research survey circulated by the company's founder and CEO, Brianne miller, for an organic grocery store where customers bring in their own containers. "I messaged her on Facebook, like any very profes- sional university student would do, before I even had LinkedIn," Carr remembers with a nervous laugh. That was about two years ago. Since then, she and miller have taken Nada to farmers markets, pop-up shops and community festivals around Vancouver. The company will open a permanent location at Broadway and Fraser Street this month. THE boTToM lINE: At Nada's 24,000-square-foot flagship store, the four full-time employees will build on the 10,000 containers they have already saved from the landfill. –N.C. A L I s o n C A R R Buyer and supplier relationship manager naDa age: 27 ApRIL 2018 BCBusiness 31 BCBUSINESS.CA lIfE SToRY: Curiosity defines mike Outwin. It brought the New England native to Vancouver in 2013 to learn how to extract valuable metals from low-grade ores and mining waste, and to build a company that could do it. Outwin had no background in mining, having earned a BA in international business and management from pennsylvania's Dickinson College in 2010. After gradua- tion he worked in San Francisco for greatpoint Ventures, a venture capital firm. Outwin's job was to look for dif- ficult problems, identify technologies to solve them and fund companies to commercialize those technologies. he spent his days reading scientific papers, talking to scientists and sponsoring promising research. Normally he'd let others run the companies greatpoint funded. That is, until he came across some work being done at UBC by materials engineering professors Ed Asselin and Dave Dixon to unlock copper from abundant but hard-to- process ores. he launched Jetti with greatpoint colleague Andrew perlman in 2014, knowing he had to be its first CEO. "I had looked at so many opportunities at great- point," Outwin explains. "We never had a company and a problem that resonated so much with investors." THE boTToM lINE: Jetti has raised $24 million in funding and secured grants including a $300,000 Ignite Award from the BC Innovation Council. It is work- ing with 10 copper producers to deploy its technology at mines in North and South America. –D.H. m I k e o u t W I n Co-founder, director and CEO jetti resources age: 29

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