Rhea Singhal

Rhea Singhal

Founder, Ecoware

India

Rhea Singhal is Founder and CEO of Ecoware, India’s largest sustainable food packaging company. Prior to which, Rhea was a senior sales executive in the Oncology team at Pfizer UK. She founded Ecoware with the sole aim of fixing India’s plastic menace. Ecoware disrupted the food packing industry by introducing a fully compostable alternative to plastic and styrofoam. Ecoware is made from the waste of common agricultural crops, that would otherwise be burnt in the open to clear farmland. One of her greatest successes has been to persuade the Indian Railways, the largest food service operator in India, to switch to biodegradables. Rhea has been featured in many national and international publications – Forbes, Fortune, Hindustan Times, Economic Times, India Today, Gulf News. As a mother to twoyoung children, Rhea know first-hand the harmful impact of pollution on themost vulnerable. This is her constant motivation to do better.