Peter Lawrence
President and Co-founder of Biomimicry New England
From 1985 to 2014, Peter was Chairman & Founder of the Corporate Design Foundation, whose mission was to improve the quality of life and the effectiveness of organizations through design. In 2001 he received the Teknion Humanitarian Award for the work of the Corporate Design Foundation. Prior to this he was Director of the Design Management Institute in Boston. From 1986 to 1997, he was a Lecturer at Boston University School of Management, and he has also taught design at Babson and UT Austin’s School of Business. During 1982-84, he was a Lecturer at London Business School and served on the Advisory Board of the School’s Design Management Unit. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Warren Center of the University of Sidney from 1986-87. He received a degree in economics from Lafayette College, and after serving as a Supply Officer in the U.S. Navy, he received a degree in architecture from Rhode Island School of Design. In 2011 he received an honorary Doctor of Arts from Kendal College of Art & Design.
Timothy R. McGee
Co-Founder
Timothy R. McGee is Founder & Chief Scientist at LikoLab, exploring bio-inspired materials, manufacturing, and product innovation.
Prior to Likolab Tim spent time at IDEO (a global design firm) and Biomimicry 3.8 (a global biomimicry consulting firm) building on the interaction between biology and design. This included conducting design research for both global and local clients. His experience spans creating new service offerings, managing projects, facilitating workshops, teaching professional courses and directing the materials and products area of focus for Biomimicry 3.8.
Tim holds a BA in Biology from Colby College, and a MS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of California Santa Barbara. When not in the studio Tim is often with his family looking in the woods for edible mushrooms, fiddling with camera equipment, or dipping his toes in the ocean.
Anamarija Frankic
Co-Founder and Director of the Green Harbors Project
Anamarija Frankić is a founding director of the Green Harbors Project®, and the Biomimicry LivingLabs®, a research professor at UMass Boston and University of Zadar, Croatia. She is a Biomimicry, Fulbright, AAUW and Sea Grant Knauss Congressional Fellow. In 2014 she co-founded the Biomimicry New England. to bring nature-based solutions to K-12 education and wider public. The premise of her work is to teach and learn by doing locally applied science research projects based on nature's solutions. She has been a leader nationally and internationally in promoting biomimetic solutions and applying the whole system approach for resilient living in the human built environment. Dr. Frankic’s work has been recognized by awards from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), the US President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, two US National Awards in Engineering Excellence, and the City of Boston award for her services to local communities. In 2017, her team NexLoop won the Global Biomimicry Challenge award, with the AquaWeb (patented) biomimetic design for in situ capturing, storing, and distributing atmospheric water to support sustainable and affordable local food production.
Sara Remsen
Treasurer
Sara is the CEO and co-founder of Melodi, a venture-backed startup that helps AI companies automatically improve their AI models based on human feedback. She is a leader in product, design, and emerging technologies and sold her first startup Waypoint to PTC in 2018. After leading the product design team at PTC and overseeing the launch of several new products, she spent a year exploring business opportunities in the climate space. She is an expert on ocean resilience, carbon markets, and carbon dioxide removal technologies. Sara earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College in Biology and Digital Arts and her M.S. from MIT in Integrated Design and Management. While at MIT, she worked at the MIT Media Lab where she developed a real-time model of carbon flows in a recently restored wetland. Sara is a regular guest lecturer for entrepreneurship classes at MIT and is a longtime mentor for their summer startup accelerator Delta V.
Erin Anastasia Murphy
Program Director, 400 Trees Gloucester
Erin has 15 years of experience working in both the private and nonprofit sectors, specializing in operational and knowledge management, community engagement and strategic learning. Since 2011, Erin has worked in the international development sector, leading women’s health, advocacy and climate equity programming in Southeast Asia, Africa and North America. Most recently, Erin spent three years co-leading the ‘Catch Carbon’ unit at Rare, a conservation organization based in Arlington, VA with a domestic “Climate Culture” program. Through that work, Erin developed a deep knowledge and passion for natural solutions to climate change, specifically around urban forestry and tree planting and preservation. She has a close working relationship with City Forest Credits, the only urban forest carbon credit registry in the United States. She brings her deep expertise, networks and curiosity to this new role leading the 400 Trees program for Biomimicry New England.
Erin earned a bachelor’s degree in English & History from the University of Vermont where she graduated with honors. She also earned a Master of Science in Information and Knowledge Strategy from Columbia University in the City of New York where her capstone thesis redesigned information governance and internal collaboration for Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest and Hawaiian Islands.