Troy Swope is one of Footprint’s founders and has served as its Chief Executive Officer and director since 2013. Prior to co-founding Footprint, Mr. Swope served as the sustainability director of Sprig Technologies, a product research firm, a senior vice president of Unisource Worldwide, Inc., an industrial products distributor and logistics provider, and in a variety of roles at Intel Corporation, starting as an intern, spending significant time in Asia, and ending as an Engineering Manager. Mr. Swope completed the Global Executive Leadership Program at the Yale School of Management in 2020. 

In the past two years as CEO Mr. Swope was named to Newsweek’s 2021 Greatest Disruptors list, a Business Intelligence Group Sustainability Hero of the Year, Phoenix InBusiness people who are making a difference 2021, and a Mountain Desert Finalist for E&Y’s 2020 Entrepreneur of the Year. Additionally, Footprint was selected as a 2021 CNBC Disruptor 50 company, won Conagra’s 2021 Supplier Excellence Award in the sustainability category, was named a Fortune 2020 Change the World company, and named one of Fast Company’s World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies. 

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