circulist - A Community Committed To Circularity.

Nick Gonios

Co-founder & CEO

Nick is a seasoned technology executive and entrepreneur with 30 years’ experience across private and publicly listed software technology ventures, early-stage tech investments, and board member to software subscription scale-ups globally.

At circulist, Nick is leading a mission driven venture to build a tomorrow where products are made to be used rather than thrown away. Where circular design and intelligent ecosystems will enable us to reuse and recycle natural resources, and where products can be good for people and the planet.

Jim Lounsbury

Co-founder & CMO

Jim is an award winning filmmaker who has spent 25 years helping brands tell better stories and drive engagement through innovative content, enterprise marketing and storification.

Jim wrote and directed the feature film Love is Now [Universal], worked on the directing team of the BAFTA Award winning TV show Lockie Leonard [BBC], and has produced and directed a number of documentaries including The Aussie Who Baffled the World [National Geographic], The Meaning of Vanlife [STAN] and two seasons of Inspired Architecture [Shelter].

At circulist, Jim is passionate about building an impact driven film studio, and a media network with a charter to unite a new generation of changemakers in the mission to accelerate the shift to the circular economy.

What is a Circulist?

A circulist is committed to unlocking the value of the circular economy, and empowering the potential to reimagine our world as a better, more sustainable place, where products are good for people and the planet.

Collaborators

Caradoc Ehrenhalt

Bret Recor

Ninotschka Titchkosky

Sara Wikinson

Meet The Circulists

The Circulist Story.

Circulist was born out of a desire to solve the climate crisis, and provide a pathway toward complete material stewardship in product design, manufacture and use.

A closet architect and lover of design, Nick Gonios spent 30 years in the tech industry, helping to transform the inefficient software titans into streamlined, cloud based SaaS offerings that provided better service in a far more sustainable way.

It was this grounding that led him to look at the big 'unsolved problem' of e-waste, and work with industrial designers, architects and engineers to develop a new system of making and using products.

Jim Lounsbury, in much the same way, wanted to use his 25 years of experience in the film industry to empower positive environmental change, and build an engaged community passionate about taking real steps to reverse the climate crisis.

Not long after the discovery of this mutual desire to build a global impact venture, circulist was born.

From Our Partners

For our planet to provide us with clean air and water, and all that we need, we must create and manufacture in a circular and sustainable way. Circulist creates a blueprint we can all implement to help our planet, and in the process help us all.

Caradoc Ehrenhalt

Founder and CEO, EV Safe Charge

For our planet to provide us with clean air and water, and all that we need, we must create and manufacture in a circular and sustainable way. Circulist creates a blueprint we can all implement to help our planet, and in the process help us all.

Caradoc Ehrenhalt

Founder and CEO, EV Safe Charge

For our planet to provide us with clean air and water, and all that we need, we must create and manufacture in a circular and sustainable way. Circulist creates a blueprint we can all implement to help our planet, and in the process help us all.

Caradoc Ehrenhalt

Founder and CEO, EV Safe Charge

What Circulist is doing is a fundamental shift in the way industrial designers have been trained. Its an incredibly exciting time with huge innovation opportunities just waiting to be realized.

John Van Den Nieuwenhuizen

Senior R+D Director, Typhur

It is our responsibility as designers to create better products and experiences while making less waste. We must stop talking about how we must change and start changing now.

Bret Recor

Founder, Box Clever

“Circulist is an opportunity to support and be inspired by like minded people who believe in the power of collaboration and want to do better for our planet, for people and for nature.”

Monica Richter

Senior Manager, Low Carbon Futures

“As a society we are facing significant challenges and can’t afford to continue building the way we do now. What is required is the far-reaching transformation of our current practices including new approaches to design, materials, construction and business models. Moving from a linear economy to circular economy will be fundamental to decarbonising our building culture.”

Ninotschka Titchkosky

co-CEO, BVN Architecture

"Moving our world & transitioning our economies toward a circular (cradle to cradle) model is paramount in order to accomplish positive outcomes for People, Planet and Profit. The digital revolution over the last few decades has shown us the way, the future will be Circular."

Vinko Grgić

Founder, Three Eyed

The Circulist Team

Nick Gonios

Jim Lounsbury

What is a Circulist?

Collaborators

The Circulist Story.

From Our Partners

Let’s Pave the Way.

Re-imagine products for good.