
Rob Wilson
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer,
Toast Ale
Rob is Chief Toaster (Co-Founder and CEO) at
Toast Ale, the delicious planet-saving beer brewed using yesterday’s bread from bakeries to fight food waste. Toast was the first UK brewery to become a certified BCorp and is a carbon neutral beer business. All profits are poured into environmental charities. Toast has nationwide retail, pub and hospitality distribution. They have brewed nearly 3 million slices of surplus bread and their open-source source recipe has been accessed over 80,000 times. Toast has influenced over 50 collaboration brews using surplus bread in more than 8 countries and raised close to £100,000 for charity. Toast recently raised investment from Heineken to further scale it’s impact. Raise a Toast. Save the World. Cheers. Prior to Toast Rob founded and led multiple social impact organisations. As a serial social entrepreneur. Rob lives in Kent with his wife Nikki and their three very cheeky kids Thomas, Matthew and Jessica. In his spare time Rob coaches his son’s football team, runs to try and burn off some of the beers, and is a geek for all things social enterprise.
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07-Feb-2023