Adrian Solgaard

Idea generator, Inventor, Investor, Social entrepreneur, World traveler

Inventor, Investor, Philanthropist. I’m a global citizen on a mission to prove business can be a force for good at scale. 🇳🇴 🇨🇦 Norwegian + Canadian - NYC based 🗽 with previous addresses in Mallorca, Amsterdam, Kristiansand, Vancouver, Montpellier, Aarhus, Munich, Ghent, San Jose Costa Rica. 🌊 ♻️ 3.5m+ million pounds of plastic saved from the ocean. Co-Founder of The Solgaard-Nyx Foundation 🥇Winner of TIME Magazine Best Inventions, FastCompany World Changing Ideas, and won a Telly for dressing up as a Viking magician lol My company makes the bags you receive at TED! Solgaard travel gear is made with Shore-Tex®️ - premium fabric made from ocean-bound plastic. Learn more at www.Solgaard.co

Play / Oceans / Humanity / Design Oceans and rewilding our planet. With a focus on healthy plastic free oceans, natural systems, and mangroves I believe that all product design must be climate positive, and created with end of life and circularity in mind Play because life’s short and it’s not like any of us are gonna make it out alive - be weird, lean into fun.

Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

kickstarter, ocean health, product design, startups, sustainability

I went to TEDx Vancouver in 2011 with the goal of making some deeper connections and friendships after recently moving to Vancouver. I was dropped off at the event and my goal was to find a ride back with someone and find an afterparty. The folks I left with are still good friends to this day.

riding anything with two wheels