An Interview with Ron Gonen of Closed Loop Partners
Ron Gonen is the founder and CEO of Closed Loop Partners, an investment firm comprising venture capital, private equity, project-based finance and an innovation center. The mission is to help support and move the circular economy forward in many different industries.
Founded in 2014, Closed Loop Partners has been investing, supporting and promoting a range of circular economy collaborations with a range of players, including global consumer goods companies, retailers, industry experts and municipalities — to name a few. Scaling commercial composting, advanced recycling collaborations, mechanical recycling, and commitments from large food and beverage companies are just some of the issues Closed Loop Partners is working on.
In late 2021, Closed Loop Partners announced a private/public partnership with a small-scale materials recovery facility, called the Solid Waste Complex of The Authority. The collaboration included The Authority, Closed Loop Partners and Canusa Hersman, a recycling company, where Closed Loop brokered the financing of an application that manages valuable materials through small-scale recycling units. The units are less capital intensive and seen as a way to increase recycling in the U.S.