Sharon Samjitsingh

Sharon Samjitsingh is a global technology commercialization leader with more than 25 years of experience bringing complex innovations to market across sustainability, advanced manufacturing, and healthcare. She believes climate and health are inseparable because sustainability is ultimately about protecting human life and reducing harm at scale. Sharon is known for thinking and building in systems: navigating real-world constraints, externalities, and unintended consequences to turn breakthrough ideas into scalable solutions with measurable human impact.

Previously, Sharon served as Director of Commercialization at Sweetwater Energy, where she invented and developed the world’s first biomass processing system proven at commercial scale; technology now operating internationally. She holds three patents in sustainability and several in healthcare, and has led large-scale commercialization efforts across multiple sectors, including managing a $150M innovation and capital portfolio spanning 14 industries. Her work also includes international trade and economic development, having led a joint venture between two multinational conglomerates that helped create a free trade zone leveraging global treaty frameworks.

Sharon is currently the CEO of Health Care Originals (HCO), where she leading a team committed to transforming chronic respiratory care with proprietary sensing, care and AI, applying the same commercialization rigor required to scale sustainability innovation in regulated markets. She has been featured in Forbes, named Technology Woman of the Year, and honored in The Names Dress, a sustainable 3D-printed installation celebrating the Top 300 women in STEAM across all time.