Life is short. And it is about doing meaningful things, with the people you love.
Elliot Costello is Co-Founder and CEO of Phantm, Australia’s leading plastic reduction platform. For the past three years, Elliot has studied the complexity of our problem of plastics. His deep understanding has enabled him to develop Phantm’s market-leading technology that supports Australian brands in their transition away from fossil plastics to authentic natural materials.
Prior to Phantm, Elliot cofounded ygap - a nonprofit that finds and backs local impact entrepreneurs in some of the world’s most vulnerable communities. Under Elliot’s leadership as founding CEO, ygap backed and funded over 550 early-stage impact ventures that significantly and measurably improved the lives of 1.1 million people living in poverty. The organisation successfully fundraised over $20M AUD.
Elliot is also the founder of three other successful social enterprise businesses in different industries and two international fundraising campaigns, including the Polished Man Campaign, which has raised millions of dollars while engaging hundreds of thousands of men around the world to take an active stand against gender-based violence.
Talking Points
Building and leading purpose-led ventures
Building and leading purpose-led ventures
Designing solutions to save our fragile world
Designing solutions to save our fragile world
How to address social and environmental problems
How to address social and environmental problems
Is a plastic-free planet possible?
Is a plastic-free planet possible?
Building companies that change the world
Building companies that change the world
Leading high-performing teams motivated by purpose
Leading high-performing teams motivated by purpose
How to raise purpose driven capital
How to raise purpose driven capital
Video
Listening, Through Someone Else's Ears | Elliot Costello | TEDxOxford
Most people listen with the intention of replying, not always with their focus on understanding. Elliot Costello shares a local, national, and global example of why it is important to listen, through someone else's ears. Listening has a profound capacity to create deep and meaningful connections, and, importantly, to facilitate social change. Elliot Costello is a post graduate student at Oxford University, focusing on Christian Ethics and contemporary Islam. Prior to coming to Oxford, Elliot co-founded and was CEO of YGAP, a global nonprofit organisation that finds and backs locally-based impact entrepreneurs in some of the world's toughest communities. Under Elliot's leadership, YGAP has supported 470 impact ventures which has significantly and measurably improved the lives of over 590,000 people living in poverty.
