A visionary union - Prince Ea unites with world's largest renewable diesel producer Neste

ESPOO, Finland, March 2, 2016 -- Neste, the world's leading producer of renewable fuels, has started collaboration with spoken word artist and YouTube star Prince Ea. Richard Williams, better known by his stage name Prince Ea is known as a passionate environmentalist and a spokesperson for sustainable lifestyles. His spoken word videos have had over half a billion views on YouTube and Facebook.

Prince Ea is going to join Neste's forward-looking Pre-order the Future project. Neste has been planning this project for over a year now and will research how renewable materials can be used to build new kinds of innovative products for the future generations. Pre-order the Future is part of Neste's continuous work on renewable materials and solutions.

"Our paths crossed at a Sustainable Brands event last year, Prince Ea was invited there as a guest speaker. We immediately fell in love with his attitude and his way of seeing things; you could say that we have a lot in common," explains Osmo Kammonen, Neste's Senior Vice President, Communications and Brand Marketing." We told Prince Ea about our Pre-order the Future project and we asked if he'd be interested in joining our team. We got started right away," he summarizes.

Prince Ea completes Neste's Pre-order the Future team as a futurologist. The gifted spoken word artist challenges the company's thoughts and procedures with both his vision and courage.

"We met in London for the first time and people from Neste came to talk to me. They told me about their Pre-order the Future project. I'm always really open-minded but I didn't want to rush into anything," Prince Ea recaps. "We arranged a meeting and it was clear from the beginning how determined they are to make the planet more sustainable. I think there's a lot we can achieve together. You could say that it was an easy call for me."

The collaboration started in February 2016, in San Francisco when Prince Ea was invited to the Super Bowl City fan event. The Super Bowl City's generators were running on Neste's renewable diesel providing cleaner air and green energy for over a million football fans. Prince Ea shared his thoughts with many influencers from James Curleigh, EVP of Levi's to Deborah Raphael from San Francisco's Department of Environment on the significance of sustainable renewable solutions.

Watch Prince Ea's introduction video and influencer interviews neste.com/preorderthefuture/

Neste Corporation

Kaisa Lipponen
Director, Corporate Communications 

Who's Prince Ea?
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/prince_ea/
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/thamagicsho2003/
Twitter https://twitter.com/PrinceEa
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/PrinceEa/

More information:
Osmo Kammonen, Senior Vice President, Communications and Brand Marketing, Neste Corporation, tel. +358 10 458 4885, osmo.kammonen(at)neste.com

Neste in brief

Neste is a pioneer in oil refining and renewable solutions. We provide our customers with premium-quality products for cleaner traffic and industrial products based on world-class research. We are the world's leading producer of renewable diesel, and our annual production capacity is more than 2 million tons. We also are the world's largest company providing renewable fuel from waste and residues. Our sustainable operations have received recognition in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and the Global 100 list of the world's most sustainable companies, among others. Our net sales for 2014 amounted to approximately EUR 15 billion, and our shares are listed on NASDAQ Helsinki. Cleaner traffic, energy and life are moved forward by around 5,000 professionals. More information: neste.com

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