Drew FitzGerald

Drew is an authority on clean tech, clean energy and clean water initiatives. His work includes collaborations with MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Material Science & Department of Plasma Science and Fusion, the MIT campuswide Innovation Initiative, and the UCLA Samuel School of Engineering. For the past 25 years, Drew has worked in New York and Los Angeles helping international brands like Coca-Cola, Universal Music Group, Sony/Columbia Pictures, General Motors, Land Rover, Sprint Wireless, Live Nation, Apple TV, and HBO tell stories of brand innovation. He's also done extensive work in the entertainment industry, promoting recording artists like Lionel Richie, Mary J. Blige, Calvin Harris, Enrique Igesias, Marc Anthony, Pharrell Williams, Queen Latifah, Patti LaBelle, and BB King.
 
An accomplished entrepreneur, Drew founded and continues to lead Facet Creative, a group that specializes in content creation, creative direction, design, brand development, and company building across various sectors. In 2015, along with Will and Jaden Smith, he co-founded JUST Water in his hometown, Glens Falls, N.Y., to reduce plastic and carbon emissions in single-serve bottled water packaging through innovative paper packaging and bioplastic alternatives to petroleum. He also co-founded 501CTHREE.org, a non-profit dedicated to driving content and innovation around water, health, and shelter solutions. 501CTHREE has deployed innovative water filtration systems in water crisis areas including Flint, Jackson, Newark, Watts, Skid Row, St. Louis, Cheyenne Tribal Lands, and Puerto Rico. He is a founding advisor of The Prime Coalition, a non-profit that steers philanthropic capital to early-stage, clean energy technologies.