Founder and CEO, Plastiks.IO

Bachelor's degree in Political Science from the State University of New York and Master's degree in Business Administration. In 2005, André co-founded and launched Bestv®, a leader in push VoD and datacasting software for television, and had also founded Visualcom Inc., an e-commerce consulting firm and leading internet provider for businesses in Latin America. An avid entrepreneur, in 2019 Andre founded Nozama, to make it the largest sustainability technology company. Plastiks, its main product, was born at the end of 2021. Plastiks is an NFT marketplace and Web3 ecosystem that merges utility NFTs with plastic recovery data. The mission of the company is to connect People, Organizations and Companies around the world to fight against global plastic pollution, by giving everybody an equal opportunity to take verifiable environmental action. The platform tokenizes the data of recovered plastic and transforms it into “Plastic Recovery Guarantee” (PRG) NFTs from the invoices generated by recovery projects and recyclers around the world. Plastiks connects these recovery projects worldwide with companies and individuals that want to support them and empower their impactful stories.