Greg Sherwin has been a scientist and technologist for nearly the past three decades, specializing in electrical engineering, bioengineering and medicine, software, product development, and most recently, complexity science and innovation. Mr. Sherwin is deeply passionate about bringing disparate technologies and experts together to solve complex problems in unique and creative ways. As an aspiring polymath, he is energized by collaborating with diverse teams to find uncommon solutions.

Mr. Sherwin is a senior principal engineer for Farfetch, a global technology platform located in Lisbon, Portugal. Mr. Sherwin leads the engineering strategy around the experimentation practice as a Center of Excellence within Farfetch, where his team defines practices, creates communities of practice, and provides common tool sets for everyone across the organization to make hypotheses, run experiments, and interpret the data to accelerate organizational learning and innovation. In addition, Mr. Sherwin guides the engineering strategy behind Farfetch’s Ecosystem Products team and he consults on circular economy projects through their Positively Farfetch sustainability efforts. In the recent past, Mr. Sherwin served as the vice president of engineering for Singularity University at NASA Ames Research Center in California, with a focus on exponential technologies and how they could solve the world's greatest challenges. Mr. Sherwin now lives in Portugal where he is part of Singularity University’s global faculty through Singularity-U Portugal.

Ecosystems are at the core of what Mr. Sherwin does for work: from helping an organization of 3500 navigate ecosystems of customers, brands, boutiques, delivery agents, technology providers, etc., to his work with Theory U and the Presencing Institute at MIT on collective community actions through his participation as an active shaper in the Platform Design Toolkit community. Mr. Sherwin states, “Ecosystems require experimentation to change, and complexity science underscores all of our great social and environmental problems of our era.”

Mr. Sherwin is involved with many impact organizations in Portugal through Casa do Impacto, MAZE, and the Lisbon chapter of Makesense. He has worked with Climate Interactive and Planetiers, and he has connected with Project Drawdown’s scientists and researchers. Mr. Sherwin is also an active speaker at conferences on sustainability and systems thinking.

Written by Greg Sherwin