Jacob Ward

Operations Manager

Jacob provides operational support and business planning for Bio-Logical Capital projects, with a focus on restaurant and retail businesses. His work is guided by an interest in deploying scalable, collaborative, and market-based solutions to address issues like soil loss and degradation, climate change, food access, and water rights. He sits on the American Sustainable Business Council’s regenerative agriculture working group, which advises on federal policy to support regenerative land use.

Jacob previously sat on the Sierra Club Rocky Mountain chapter’s legislative committee, and worked with Food Policy Action’s Plate of the Union campaign. Environmental issues have played a defining role in his academic and professional careers. Jacob brings with him a background in food systems, finance, policy, and non-profit work. Prior to joining Bio-Logical Capital he developed the partnerships program at Localize, a pioneer in food information transparency based in Edmonton, Canada. And he co-founded a small traveling food business called Better Breakfast Bureau, in Denver, whose mission is championing local farmers by way of the humble breakfast sandwich.

Jacob grew up along the Mississippi River in beautiful, bucolic Iowa, and moved west to attend the University of Denver where he earned a Master’s degree in business administration and environmental policy, and a bachelor’s degree in business management and sustainability. In his free time, and depending on the season, you can find him on mountain peaks, river valleys, or anywhere in between.