In the run-up to the 2025 edition of the North American Sustainability & Responsibility Summit series we spoke with Jessica Monserrate and Jordan Keller of BASF, a 150-year-old chemical company with 111,000 employees working in 230 production and R&D sites in 90 countries. BASF is committed to ambitious sustainability targets, including a 25% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and achieving net zero across all scopes by 2050. In this wide-ranging conversation, we explore how BASF

is driving sustainability, which role renewable carbon plays, the importance of mass balance and agriculture, and how all of these efforts can provide significant benefits to both customers and the environment. For all this and more, give this episode a listen!

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Jessica Monserrate
Head of Sustainability Agricultural Solutions, NA
BASF

Jessica has 10 years’ experience in R&D, most recently serving as Head of Microbiome Discovery and Head of Trait Engineering driving new lead discovery and improvement for Trait Research in Pest, Herbicide and Disease Control. During this time, she led the operation to manage and screen BASF’s 100,000 microbial strain collection looking for input traits and natural product chemistries for a variety of research projects. Prior to this she led the Mode of Action team for Bater as well as several global projects related to scouting for new bio-based solutions for pest control, and worked with VC fluids for the creation of new start-ups.

Most recently at BASF she worked alongside various operating divisions as a BASF R&D representative on a regional key customer account. In this role she entered various BASF R&D platforms looking for new sustainability productions to offer this key customer and co-develop biobased solutions customized for the customer’s market.

Jessica earned her Doctorate in Genetics, Cell Biology and Biochemistry from the University of California, Irvine followed by a post doctorate at Duke University studying small molecule and protein interactions. Her passion is to apply scientific innovation in solving the world’s greatest challenges and proudly represents BASF’s commitment to sustainability.

Jordan Keller
Head of Renewable Carbon NA
BASF Renewable Carbon (BReC)

Jordan Keller joined BASF twelve years ago as an engineer and has held roles of growing responsibility ever since. Today she is the Head of Renewable Carbon for North America, after more than two years as the Senior Manager Biomass Balance Solutions North America.

Jordan graduated from the University of Texas in 2013 with a degree in chemical engineering and now works for BASF in Houston.

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BASF is a global chemical company that combines economic success with environmental protection and social responsibility. The company has around 112,000 employees in more than 90 countries, managing over 230 production sites, including 6 Verbund sites. In the United States, BASF runs over 100 production and research and development (R&D) facilities. The company boasts a diverse portfolio of more than 45,000 products for the segments Chemicals, Materials, Industrial Solutions, Surface Technologies, Nutrition & Care, and Agricultural SolutionsIn 2023, BASF reported a turnover of 68.9 billion euros.

BASF is committed to ambitious sustainability targets, including a 25% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and achieving net zero across all scopes by 2050.

In terms of the circular economy, BASF is committed to decoupling growth from resource consumption. The company aims to generate sales of € 10 billion from Loop Solutions for our customers by 2030 (2023: €5 billion). This encompasses revenue from circular products, which are based on renewable or recycled materials or support the recycling proces

In the run-up to the 2025 edition of the Medical Device Manufacturing Excellence Summit series we spoke with Shawn McCarthy, Jessica Swanson, and Peggy Hansen of Regenity Biosciences about exciting developments in the Medical Device space, with a particular emphasis on both the power of collaboration and the importance of a regulatory strategy. Regenity is an industry-leading CDMO working with 120 different industry partners and offering special expertise in regenerative devices. In this wide-ranging conversation we talk about industry trends, how medical device manufacturers are evolving to continue to meet the needs of patients, and also about some of the big ideas Regenity wants to share with the executives attending MDMES25. For all this and more, give this episode a listen!

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Regenity Biosciences, a Linden Capital Partners portfolio company, is a leading global developer and manufacturer of bioresorbable technologies to repair and regenerate natural tissue and bone for a variety of markets including dental, spine, orthopedic, sports medicine, advanced wound, neurosurgery, ENT, and nerve repair. Founded in 1997, Regenity (formerly Collagen Matrix, Inc.) is headquartered in Paramus, New Jersey, with manufacturing locations in Oakland and Allendale, New Jersey and Groningen, the Netherlands. Regenity’s product portfolio includes a variety of collagen-based and synthetic polymer solutions that support the company’s platform for tissue and bone regeneration. Regenity develops proprietary products that are sold to OEM customers on either a contract or private label basis and offers partnership opportunities including contract product development and manufacturing services. For more information, please visit www.regenity.com.

There is a podcast Executive Platforms would like to bring to the attention of our network of senior executives. For everyone interested in online speech, especially issues like trust and safety, content moderation, regulations and compliance, and how technology is changing the way people engage with one another, we recommend the Ctrl-Alt-Speech Podcast co-hosted by Techdirt’s Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation’s Ben Whitelaw. In this episode we talk about how the podcast came to be, what it hopes to do to help people navigate the evolving landscape of online speech, and what business leaders especially should be thinking about and learning about to prepare their organizations for a new and changing reality, with all that means for the future of commerce. For all this and more, give this episode a listen!

Mike Masnick
Co-Host, Ctrl-Alt-Speech Podcast
CEO and Founder, Techdirt

Ben Whitelaw
Co-Host, Ctrl-Alt-Speech Podcast
Editor, Everything in Moderation