Benjamin Rombaut

Benjamin Rombaut is the co‑founder and CEO of Sand to Green, a regenerative-agriculture startup transforming arid lands in Morocco into productive, biodiversity-rich farms using agroforestry, desalination, and carbon finance. Under his leadership, Sand to Green secured $1 million in seed funding through Catalyst Fund and the EBRD Star Venture programme, achieved notable milestones — cultivating a 20 ha pilot, advancing a 30 ha development, generating local jobs, and pioneering scalable tech-driven monitoring platforms. Recognised as one of Africa’s top early-stage tech startups in 2024, the team showcased their model at COP16 Riyadh and ChangeNOW 2025.