Toby Hammond

Toby Hammond is the co-founder and Managing Director of Futurepump, Ltd., a leading manufacturer of solar irrigation pumps designed for one-acre smallholder farmers, mostly in the global south, displacing gasoline-powered water pumps. Futurepump has built a factory in India from where it serves a network of distribution partners throughout the tropics. Futurepump products are designed to be simple, robust, easy to maintain and each one is supplied with a ten year warranty and spare parts kit.

Toby was recently elected as a councillor for the UK’s Green Party and is part of the political administration running local government in his native East Suffolk, UK. Prior to Futurepump, Toby was the founder of a business in the wind turbine industry. He has a degree in Environmental Biology, a Masters in Sustainable Development, and once cycled over 8,000 miles from London to Johannesburg to attend the UN Earth Summit.