Eric Fischgrund

Eric Fischgrund is the Founder and CEO of FischTank PR, a communications agency specializing in helping clean technology companies tell their stories through public relations, media relations, and strategic messaging. Based in Philadelphia, Eric has spent roughly 15 years working at the intersection of communications and the clean tech sector, building expertise in how emerging energy and environmental companies can effectively reach their audiences.

On The Grove podcast by Earth Onward, Eric joined host to break down the often misunderstood distinctions between PR, media relations, and marketing, offering practical clarity for founders and operators in the clean tech space. The conversation went beyond definitions, exploring what it actually means for a clean tech company to communicate its mission clearly and credibly. Eric also shared his perspective on how the clean tech sector has matured across Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York over the past decade and a half, including how the region's ecosystem has grown and how communications strategies within it have had to evolve alongside it. His background gives him a front row view of how companies in this space develop their public presence from the earliest stages, and the episode reflected the kind of informed, on the ground insight that comes from years of working directly with the people building the clean energy economy.