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How I Make Sustainability Work for Big Corporations

No. 121

ECO BCG

CEO: Sergio Castillo

Category: Engineering

Three-year revenue growth: 4,030%

In 2009, Sergio Castillo stepped out of a corporate career in manufacturing with 3M to take over Eco BCG, the consultancy his father had started a decade before. After a time, Castillo, 54, concluded that the company was in the wrong country (Panama), the wrong market (South America), and the wrong business (consulting). So he reincorporated in Minnesota as

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