Mark Rowland | Chief Pollinator

Mark has built a career around a simple idea: the hardest problems are rarely solved by one organization acting alone. For more than two decades, Mark has brought together businesses, governments, entrepreneurs, universities, nonprofits, and investors to turn ambitious ideas into collaborative action.

His work has helped build initiatives including Australia’s Greenhouse climate innovation ecosystem, Climate Action Week Sydney, and AFWERX, the U.S. Air Force and Space Force innovation program. At Green Our Planet, that ability to connect people and possibilities earned him an unusual title: Chief Pollinator.

Mark leads strategic partnerships and growth, bringing together companies, funders, educators, governments, and innovators that can help Green Our Planet expand its impact. Increasingly, his work is focused on a larger question: how can major investments in technology, infrastructure, and economic growth also leave communities healthier, more resilient, and more connected to the natural world? For Mark, partnerships are not simply a source of funding.  They are how ideas become movements.