Mikela Druckman
CEO & Co-founder, Greyparrot
Mikela co-founded Greyparrot to close the most critical gap in climate data: what happens to materials after we throw them away.
Mikela co-founded Greyparrot to close the most critical gap in climate data: what happens to materials after we throw them away.
The problem most people don't see
We measure less than 1% of the waste materials we process. That gap – between what the recycling industry assumes and what it can actually see – is the problem Mikela has built her career around solving. She co-founded Greyparrot in 2019 to bring AI and computer vision to the waste sector, creating the data infrastructure that makes circular economy policy actionable.
Over a decade at the frontier of AI
Before Greyparrot, Mikela was Chief Commercial Officer at Blippar, one of the UK's first tech unicorns, where she led growth across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Her expertise in scaling AI computer vision systems at speed is what Greyparrot was built on.
Her articles cover waste intelligence and recycling data, circular economy regulation (EPR, PPWR), AI applications in climate tech, and the case for inclusive leadership in deep tech.
Greyparrot now operates in 20+ countries, analyses 52 billion waste objects annually, and has been named one of the Cleantech Group's top 100 global climate tech companies, and one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies for 2025.
Connect with Mikela on LinkedIn for her latest insights on waste intelligence, the circular economy, and AI in climate tech.