Mathias developed a passion for renewable energy and clean water while studying civic engineering at Berkeley. ย In October of 2002, he came up with the idea for blueEnergy during a class entitled โEntrepreneurship in the Developing Worldโ in the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ย Mathias co-founded blueEnergy as a nonprofit organization and has been its Executive Director since then. ย He is fluent in English, French and Spanish.