Troy Swope

About Troy

• I played football in school and had the mindset that I was there to play sports rather than focus on academics.
• I got the opportunity to do an internship with Intel and loved it—I was really drawn in by the competitive culture and the energy that stemmed from leading the computer revolution.
• I spent seven years in research and development at Intel and then eight years running a materials organization.
• After realizing that shipping Intel’s products was contaminating them with plastic, I started getting concerned about all of the other products—like food—that could be contaminated.
• I started bringing food products into Intel for testing—everything that we tested was contaminated with plastic.
• My business partner and I eventually founded Footprint, which is focused on designing, developing, and manufacturing alternative, healthier solutions to plastic.