David Cutler of Fortuna Cools: Coconuts, Cold Chains and Culture. Ep.4

David Cutler is the founder of Fortuna Cools and Nutshell Coolers, a company up cycling coconut husks into insulative packaging. His business employs and manufactures in the Philippines where this unique business opportunity started. 

Fortuna Cools capitalizes on an agricultural byproduct's natural characteristics of insulation and turns it into a product that directly replaces traditional styrofoam packaging for cold supply chains (think fish markets, etc.). 

It's rare to find a company whose model directly improves the lives of all those within their supply chain, from the raw material suppliers, manufactures, and customers. All while creating a scalable model that can be replicated throughout the world, reducing plastic waste from packaging and up cycling agricultural byproduct into a profitable and high performance product. This is a sustainable business model in all senses of the word! 

We speak about David’s journey from working in policy,  going to graduate school, to launching his business. How interconnected we all are in this global economy, and the ups and downs of starting a business that spans multiple countries from the get go.

You can find out more about Fortuna Cools here, and their consumer goods company Nutshell Coolers here.

Watch the full recording here.

Enjoy!