About Tuu
Tuu helps your school track its sustainability metrics, make better decisions for the environment, empower students, and communicate your progress to stakeholders, parents and the wider community.
Track: Operational Data, Curriculum and Community, Water Consumption, Energy, School Supplies, Waste Management, Food and Beverage, Transport and Air Quality. Teach: Certified project-based ECA’s aligned with SDG’s for students covering key sustainability concepts for Prep School, Middle School and Senior School. Reduce: Cost and carbon. There are 15,000 + global K-12 international school groups and independent international schools and colleges and 163,093 state schools in the U.K and the U.S. The average carbon footprint of a K-12 school is 10,000 metric tons of Co2 per year (ref: EPA). Tuu aims to reduce partner schools Co2 by 5-15%.
Our co-founders hold a shared belief
The young people of today are the best hope we have at truly tackling climate change. We believe that by tracking sustainability in schools in real time and putting students at the heart of eco tracking efforts, we can give young people the agency they need to truly make a difference and become the green leaders of tomorrow.
Our vision is to give schools a simple and structured way to track their sustainability metrics and communicate their genuine eco efforts among stakeholders, employees, parents and potential customers.
Meet the team
Terry Blackburn
Cofounder and CEO
An entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in Southeast Asia, Terry created the Asia Property Awards, the region’s largest real estate event covering 15 territories. He assured that recognising green and sustainable achievements in real estate were a key component of the awards and encouraged property developers in the world’s fastest growing real estate markets to focus on this essential component of their work and its impact on the environment.
Udomluk ‘May’ Suwan
Cofounder and Business Dev Director
May is a Bangkok-based sales veteran whose strengths and core values lie in leadership, team building and business development. She has managed sales teams to exceed their targets and create rapid revenue growth in market leading recruitment and events businesses in the last decade. Years of experience working with property developers across Southeast Asia have made her determined to improve green building and management standards.
Ian Paynton
Cofounder and Brand Director
With journalism, publishing and branding experience in London, Singapore and Hong Kong, Ian launched We Create Content - a content agency in his favourite place on earth: Vietnam. He works with global hospitality, development and tech brands and joined tuu as a consultant early on. By quickly sharing the beliefs and vision of tuu as a green tech start-up, he was on-boarded as a cofounder to help build the product and brand in Southeast Asia.