Jason Green

Jason Green is the CEO and Cofounder of Upward Farms. Jason is a computational biologist who has spent his career developing hardware and software technologies that enhance the performance of real-world, complex biological systems.

In 2013, Jason and his cofounders Ben Silverman and Matt La Rosa founded Upward Farms to accelerate the world’s transition to regenerative agriculture. Today, Upward Farms is a breakthrough vertical farming company that has brought whole ecosystems into controlled environment agriculture. As a result, Upward Farms is home to the most exciting research, development, and commercialization — and the innovators driving those approaches — of biodiverse microbiomes for naturally better food production.

Prior to founding Upward Farms, Jason was a neuroscience researcher at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Jason completed his BS with High Honors in Physiology and Neurobiology at the University of Maryland, where he graduated as the Undergraduate Researcher of the Year and received a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellowship to advance the development of virtual and augmented reality technologies for accelerated brain rehabilitation. These unique technical insights about how environments drive biological performance, combined with deep personal passion for good food grown well, led Jason to start Upward Farms.