Speaker Bios

Hayden has always loved entrepreneurialism.  He had a gaggle of businesses growing up – gutter cleaning, a snack shop, web design – and ultimately started a co-op bookstore in college which challenged the campus monopoly and received a tremendously positive response from students.  After college he received two fellowships – one to look at the impact of tourism on the mountainous communities of Asia, and another to do an MBA at Oxford, after which he accepted a job at Ford of Europe and helped create an innovation department.  He very quickly decided the corporate life was not for him, quit, and moved to San Francisco to explore entrepreneurial opportunities.  A few months later he launched ProgressiveRx.com to try to provide a low cost option for those without health care benefits, and then founded Progressive Health Worldwide (phww.org) to provide free pediatric TB clinics for kids in rural India. 

GreenPrint was created in 2005 as the result of frustration over a wasted page with just a URL which was printed at the end of a New York Times article, and as a potential solution for the mountains of orphaned pages printed daily at Ford when he was there (and millions of similar print stations around the world).  When he couldn’t find any sort of solution available on CNET or through a Google search, he started to brainstorm potential solutions with a friend from the product innovation department at Ford who went on to become the CTO of GreenPrint. After about a year of development, GreenPrint launched in November 2006, and shortly thereafter received a very positive review in The Wall Street Journal by Walt Mossberg as well as a segment on CNBC.  Those initial stories have led to a plethora of press which has attracted the attention of dozens of Fortune 500 companies as well as journalists from CNN, The San Francisco Chronicle, Entrepreneur, Inc., ComputerWorld, and many other environmental and trade publications.