Our Team | The People Behind SHELLWORKS

INTRODUCING SHELLWORKS

For 120 years, our modern society has been built on materials that work at scale but last forever.

We don't accept that as a given. We look back to billion-year-old technology; microorganisms that have been making polymers since before anything else existed, and collaborate with that biology to create change today.

VIVOMER represents materials that perform exactly as you'd expect, run on the infrastructure that already exists and never create waste.

Nothing permanent. Nothing wasted.

At our core, we believe in the power of possibility and that anything can be done. Driven by the notion that “If it exists, it’s possible”.

Amir Afshar
Co-founder

Insiya Jafferjee
Co-Founder

Amin Zouine
Materials

Anand Gaston
Materials

Andrea Kung
Operations

Blanche Malet
Operations

Daniel Hale
Engineering

Danielle Silvestro
People

David Cattermole
Engineering

Donghyeon Seo
Creative

Ella Cope
Commercial

Florie Guneratne
Manufacturing

Henry Parkin
Manufacturing

Inés Cid Blasco
Commercial

Jacob Sinopoli
Materials

Jamie Gilbert
Manufacturing

Jasper Driessen
Engineering

Jonah Gordon-Boyd
Commercial

Katherine Manshreck
Sustainability

Katya Foong
Commercial

Kelan Patel
Operations

Matty Caldwell
Manufacturing

Natalie Connors
Manufacturing

Niels Werner Hersmann
Creative

Rob Woods
Manufacturing

Siobhan Sugrue
Materials

Sophie Kisnorbo
Founder's EA

States Lee
Manufacturing

Tabby Bunyan
Operations

Tom Adey
Engineering

FOUNDING STORY

Amir and Insiya met at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College London - he came from architecture and engineering, she came from Stanford and Apple. They shared the same frustration: plastic works, but it never goes away. So they built a material that does everything plastic does, then disappears.

Soon they had their first customer and their first order – then an electrical fault burned their workshop to the ground overnight. They climbed through the wreckage, cleaned what they could salvage and delivered the order, only three weeks late.

Throughout the journey, people told them it wasn't possible, manufacturers pulled out mid-production, but every time, they kept going.

What started as two people in a lab is now a team of scientists, engineers, designers and manufacturing specialists, all driven by belief in the same thing.

Today, SHELLWORKS has produced over eight million parts. VIVOMER isn't the alternative to plastic. It's what comes next. And we're not stopping until it's the standard.