Abby was born and raised in Stonington, Maine. She’s worked on lobster boats and tall ships, in classrooms, and now in the lab and on the Bay as a marine biologist. Her mission is to improve water quality and increase access to locally grown sustainable seafood.

Abigail Barrows works as a consultant and holds a Master’s degree from the College of the Atlantic. She studies airborne and aquatic microplastic pollution. For more information, please go to www.abbybarrows.com.

Amy Keister is the Global Director of Sustainability for Compass Group North America as part of the Envision Group. Envision Group is a visionary team created to shape the future of food service. Amy plays an integral part in shaping Compass Group’s groundbreaking global sustainability strategy. This strategy includes actionable targets that will positively impact people and the planet, drive growth, and futureproof our business. She is also a founding member of Stop Food Waste Day, a global day of action created to raise awareness of the issue surrounding food waste and provide everyday solutions for individuals and organizations.

Amy is on the board of The Center for Environmental Farming Systems, a partnership of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

Amy holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing Information Systems from James Madison University and a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Andrew Montesano is a San Francisco State alum, baker, writer, and artist in the San Francisco Bay Area. Andrew is part of the LinkedIn Program Operations team, helping to drive operation, strategy, and design for the North American food program. For the past 6 years, Andrew has managed events and catering service operations in LinkedIn’s San Francisco and South Bay offices, as well as breakroom operations for 50+ breakroom spaces in those locations before moving into the Program Operations role. In his time at LinkedIn, he has influenced event design and catering menus for events with upwards of 5,000 attendees, team building classes, food operations, design of food service spaces, sustainability initiatives, and breakroom operations for over 8,000+ employees.

Andrew is passionate about employee experience, sustainability, and being creative. Prior to LinkedIn, he worked for Bon Appetit at Google, where he opened and managed a variety of cafes and 200+ employees in his tenure there, as well as supporting memorable food events such as the Spring Fling Chicken Wing and Pig-a-palooza. He also worked for the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, supporting their local and sustainable concessions on San Francisco’s Crissy Field. He also has worked in retail food and coffee for companies like Nordstrom, Peets, Starbucks, and Borders. Outside of food, Andrew has also worked for Puppet School, helping teach people how to build and manipulate their own Muppet-style puppets. He is also currently writing a young adult fantasy novel.

Carroll Muffett is President of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL), a nonprofit organization that uses the power of law to protect the environment, promote human rights, and ensure a just and sustainable society. He is a recognized expert on international environmental law and a leader in the emerging fields of climate litigation and climate-related financial and legal risks. Carroll is a lead researcher on CIEL’s Smoke and Fumes investigation into the deep history of oil industry engagement in climate science. He is co-author of CIEL’s Fueling Plastics series, which examines the linkages between fossil fuels and the global plastics crisis. He is an editor and contributing author to CIEL’s Hidden Cost of Plastics series: Plastics & Health and Plastics and Climate.

Carroll is a member of the Commission on Environmental Law of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and serves on the Board of Trustees for the Climate Accountability Institute.

A third-generation resident of Long Beach, California, Charles attended the University of California at San Diego, where he majored in Chemistry and Spanish. After founding Long Beach Organic to fight urban runoff with organic community gardens and Algalita Marine Research and Education to restore the giant kelp forests of Southern California, he launched his purpose-designed Oceanographic research vessel, Alguita, in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1995.

Oceanographic Research Vessel Alguita and its Captain found their true calling in 1997 on a return voyage from Hawaii. Captain Moore veered from the usual sea route and discovered a virtual garbage dump in the middle of the ocean. Since then, Captain Moore has dedicated his time and resources to understanding and remediating the ocean’s plastic load. He has appeared on numerous television shows and documentaries, including “Trashed,” narrated by Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons. His book, Plastic Ocean, details his discovery of the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch” and what it means for our peaking civilization. Captain Moore continues to tour the globe, sparking “The Great Plastics Awakening.

Christie Keith is GAIA’s Development Coordinator and U.S. Executive Director. She joined the network in 2005 and brings more than 25 years of experience with social movements and international nonprofit organizations, including seven years in Guatemala as a popular educator, program coordinator, and strategic planning consultant.  Christie has held multiple Executive and Development Director positions, primarily with international human rights and environmental health and justice organizations that have experienced growth or were undergoing transitions. Her leadership has played a critical part in developing GAIA’s collaboration with organized waste workers to raise the profile of zero waste and the rights of informal sector recyclers and in generally expanding GAIA’s work in the economic and climate justice arena. In 2018, she received a prestigious 3-month sabbatical awarded by O2 Initiatives to successful nonprofit leaders who are aiming to grow their organizations. In the last four years, Christie has helped to spearhead GAIA’s engagement in the Break Free From Plastic movement and in addressing the issue of ocean plastic pollution through investment in grassroots organizing, upstream policies, and community-led solutions.

Christine is a marine conservation biologist and ocean advocate. She has worked in marine research and conservation in Central America for over a decade, where she is applying her research findings to the conservation of different endangered species, in particular, marine turtles.

She is a founding member of the grassroots organization Costa Rican Alliance for Sea Turtle Conservation & Science (COASTS) in Costa Rica, which is meant to empower local conservationists and scientists, in particular local women. Her claim to fame and shining public moment is a viral video she uploaded in 2015 that documented the removal of a plastic straw from an olive ridley turtle’s nose. That video provided fuel and a valuable tool for the global anti-straw movement, leading to several straw bans by businesses such as Starbucks, Disney, and Alaska Airlines. It has also given her a voice in the conversation around the use of single-use plastics and other environmental issues affecting marine life. She has made such an impact that she was recently named a Next Generation Leader by Time Magazine and was a finalist for the feature “Texan of the Year” by the Dallas Morning News.

So, while the video might be a few years old at this point, her research, her campaign against single-use plastics for the benefit and conservation of marine life, and her empowerment of women in STEM are still young, important, and necessary.

Dr. Claire Sand focuses on science and value chain initiatives to achieve more sustainable product systems. This involves more sustainable packaging that prevents waste. Sand is a Global Packaging Leader with 30+ years of broad experience in the science and packaging spectrum.  It leads cross-functional efforts, infuses innovative solutions, provides compelling business technology strategies and business cases, and generates implementation roadmaps for the packaging and food industry. Sand has held a variety of roles across the science and packaging spectrum, from basic research and development to marketing and everything in between. Her portfolio includes working with Gerber-Nestle, Pillsbury-General Mills, Kraft Foods-Kraft Heinz, Dominick’s-Safeway, and research institutes in Germany, Colombia, and Thailand. Dr. Sand holds a Ph.D. in Food Science from the University of MN and both a BS and MS in Packaging from MSU.

Dan Morrison has reported on global health and other topics for outlets including The New York Times, National Geographic, and BBC. He is the author of The Black Nile (Viking, 2010).

David Azoulay is the Managing Attorney of the Geneva office of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) and Director of CIEL’s Environmental Health Program.

David is a French attorney who studied public international law in France and Spain before specializing in environmental law. Before taking on that role at CIEL, he worked as an associate in environmental law in the Paris office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and coordinated Friends of the Earth Europe’s campaign for REACH implementation of REACH from Brussels.

David co-leads CIEL’s plastic work, examining the environmental health aspects of it (David was the main author of the joint report Plastic and Health: The Hidden Cost of a Plastic Planet) and coordinates civil society’s engagement in global policies forums such as the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA) and the Basel Convention. He also supervises CIEL’s work at the EU level to ensure that the various impacts of plastics throughout its life cycle are adequately considered in EU policy, and in particular in the design of the EU circular economy strategy and EU Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals strategy.

David is also a member of the steering committee of IPEN, a network of over 600 NGOs around the world actively working for a toxic-free future.

Emily DiFrisco is the Senior Director of Communications at the Center for Environmental Health. She has 13 years of experience in communications and digital strategy for nonprofit organizations. She helped create viral social media campaigns “Orangegate” and “Open Your Eyes” with Jeff Bridges for Plastic Pollution Coalition and on toxic chemicals and children’s health for Healthy Child Healthy World and Environmental Working Group. She lives in Chicago, IL, with her spouse and 3 children.

Jan Dell, PE, is an independent chemical engineer (M.S. University of California, Berkeley) and founder of The Last Beach Cleanup, a non-profit organization that collaborates with shareholders and environmental groups on initiatives to reduce plastic pollution. Jan has worked with companies in diverse industries to implement sustainable business and climate resiliency practices in more than 40 countries. Appointed by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Jan was the Vice Chair of the US Federal Advisory Committee on the Sustained National Climate Assessment in 2016-2017.

Jennie Romer is the Deputy Assistant Administrator for Pollution Prevention at the US Environmental Protection Agency. Prior to this position, Jennie was a Legal Associate for the Surfrider Foundation’s Plastic Pollution Initiative. Surfrider’s expansive network of more than 170 chapters and student clubs nationwide organizes around plastic pollution policy through the lens of ocean protection. Jennie leads Surfrider’s policy efforts and litigation to reduce plastic pollution at local, state, and national levels.

Jennie has more than a decade of experience as an attorney and sustainability consultant fighting for effective legislation on waste reduction and single-use plastics. Her knowledge is routinely sought by legislators, environmental nonprofits, and businesses across the U.S.

Jennie is a native of California and earned her JD from Golden Gate University School of Law. She also holds bachelor’s degrees in Zoology, Environmental Studies, and Black Studies from UC Santa Barbara. In addition, Jennie is a member of the California and New York state bars.

Judith Enck is the Regional Administrator for the US Environmental Protection Agency. Prior to this position, Judith was a senior advisor at the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development. She was a visiting scholar at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University in the Hudson Valley. Appointed by President Obama, Enck served as the Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, overseeing environmental protection in NY, NJ, eight Indian Nations, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. Working with a staff of 800 and managing a $700 million budget, she secured a number of environmental accomplishments during her tenure at the EPA.

Enck has worked on environmental and energy issues related to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, serving on the Governor’s Hurricane Recovery and Resiliency Advisory Committee in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Enck previously served as Deputy Secretary for the Environment in the New York Governor’s Office and served as a policy advisor to the New York State Attorney General. Prior to that, she was a Senior Environmental Associate with the New York Public Interest Research Group. She also served as the executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York. She is a past president of Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, former executive director of the Non-Profit Resource Center, and a designer of her town’s rural recycling program. Enck was a visiting faculty member at Bennington for Fall 2018. She became a senior fellow in the Center for the Advancement of Public Action in January 2019.

Lori Bestervelt is an Entrepreneurial Executive who brings a strong combination of technical and scientific expertise and business acumen, as well as deep P&L experience in product line expansion. Throughout her career, she has been a trusted partner of and advisor to the senior leadership team, valued for her sound judgment and ability to work cross-functionally with all key executives. She is proud of her high level of name recognition within the dietary supplements industry, the U.S. professional sports nutrition industry, and the anti-doping industry.

At NSF International, an independent, global, accredited inspection organization, Lori was continuously promoted through a steady progression of roles of increasing responsibility, culminating in Executive Vice President & Chief Science Officer. She developed and implemented short- and long-term growth strategies with key performance indicators for multiple business units and served as a Board Member of two China joint ventures.

She served as the company’s “chief scientist,” evaluating and approving new technologies and operated as the “final arbiter” for all scientific decisions. She created an advisory board of eminent scientists from universities, regulatory agencies, and private industry to contribute their thoughts and peer review scientific papers, and led research & development activities that resulted in publications, presentations to trade associations and regulatory bodies, and training for clients.

Lori also managed more than 800 employees running three global business units operating in 13 countries, including scientists, consultants, standards developers, and customer relationship & project managers. She increased laboratory efficiency by 30%, completed 10 acquisitions in six countries (the U.S., the UK, Germany, Brazil, Peru, and China), established and grew the health sciences business, and launched the Certified for Sport program, which is used by U.S. professional sports leagues and worldwide anti-doping organizations.

Earlier in her career, Lori was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Pathology & Experimental Toxicology for Parke-Davis Pharmaceutical and a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Michigan Medical School.

An experienced board member, Lori is a member of the board of advisors for the American Botanical Council and has also served as a member of the board of directors for the Women’s Center of Southeastern Michigan.

Lori completed Competition & Strategy through the Harvard Business School Executive Education and Corporate Innovation through MIT’s Sloan Executive Education. She earned a Doctorate of Toxicology, a Master of Science in Nutritional Biochemistry, and a Bachelor of Science in Microbiology & Immunology, all at the University of Michigan. She has been a Member of the Council For Responsible Nutrition and the American Herbal Products Association.

Marcus Eriksen is the co-founder of Leap Lab, as well as the Research Director and co-founder of the 5 Gyres Institute. He studies the global distribution and ecological impacts of plastic marine pollution, which has included expeditions sailing through all 5 subtropical gyres, the Bay of Bengal, the Southern Ocean, and inland lakes and rivers. He also recently published the first global estimate of all plastic of all sizes floating in the world’s oceans, totaling 270,000 metric tons from 5.25 trillion particles.

In 2013, he and colleagues published the discovery of microbeads in the Great Lakes, which became the cornerstone for a US-based campaign to eliminate plastic microbeads from cosmetics, resulting in the Microbead-Free Waters Act, which became US federal law in 2015.

Years earlier, in 2000, he traveled to Midway Atoll, finding hundreds of Laysan Albatross with plastic pouring out of their stomachs, and that experience narrowed his focus to plastics. He received his Ph.D. in Science Education from the University of Southern California in 2003, months before embarking on a 2000-mile, 5-month journey down the Mississippi River on a homemade raft of plastic bottles to bring attention to this issue. Again, in 2008, he rafted across the Pacific Ocean from California to Hawaii on JUNK, floating on 15,000 plastic bottles and a Cessna airplane fuselage as a cabin (junkraft.com). The journey, 2,600 miles in 88 days, brought attention to the work of the 5 Gyres Institute, the organization he co-founded with his wife, Anna Cummins.

His first book, titled “My River Home” (Beacon Press, 2007), chronicled his Mississippi River experience and paralleled it with his tour as a Marine in the 1991 Gulf War. His second book, titled “JUNK RAFT: An Oceanic Voyage and the Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic Pollution” (Beacon Press, 2017), tells the story of how plastic pollution at sea was discovered, the impact on people and the planet, and the growing movement to solve the problem through zero waste initiatives in the largest cities worldwide.

The experience of war, sailing across oceans with wonderful crew-mates, and long rafting voyages have led to a strong conservation ethic worth fighting for. “We must understand and define conservation and social justice as our collective self-preservation – a rationale that crosses all boundaries between all people.”

Since 2000, Martin has led the Ecology Center, a community-based organization incorporated on Earth Day in 1970. Under Martin’s leadership, the Ecology Center is leveraging local direct community service programs to have state and national impact. Martin has spearheaded innovative efforts such as creating a farmers’ market industry group, pioneering electronic food stamp access and incentives at farmers’ markets, and passing the nation’s first Soda Tax. By linking local grassroots grit with highly competent program implementation and increasingly effective policy advocacy, Martin has led the Ecology Center to become a high-impact engine for change.

Martin’s previous experience includes working as the Sustainable Agriculture Program Director for Food First, The Institute for Food and Development Policy, where he helped build the international organic farming movement throughout the US, Caribbean, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. Martin also edited Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance: Transforming Food Production in Cuba, a compilation of Cuban authors on organic farming, and co-founded Californians for Pesticide Reform (CPR) to reduce the worst pesticides in California through public education and regulatory reform.

Martin served as the National Director of Training for ALTERTEC Guatemala, where he helped develop a Guatemalan non-profit from a small organization into a leading Central American force promoting farmer-led sustainable agriculture. Martin led Freirian-based curricula development, trained trainers, and organized Meso-American Campesino Congresses on

Organic Farming, Permaculture, and Alternative Technologies. Additionally, Martin facilitated the development of a national Guatemalan organic certification program, MayaCert.

Martin has served on the Community Food and Justice Coalition Advisory Committee, The Grassroots Recycling Network Board, and the Alameda County Source Reduction and Recycling Board (StopWaste). Martin earned a Master of Arts in Latin American Studies and Environmental Policy from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior from UC San Diego.

Michael has served as the Recology President & Chief Executive Officer and a member of its Board of Directors since November 1990.  Over the past three decades, under Mr. Sangiacomo’s leadership, Recology has expanded its operations from Northern California to include more than 60 operating companies and facilities across California, Washington, and Oregon, increasing the company’s annual revenue from $250 million in 1990 to $1.3 billion in 2019. As the largest employee-owned company in the waste and recycling industry, Recology proudly serves 134 communities along the West Coast.

Recology has been at the forefront of innovation in recycling for nearly a century as the City and County of San Francisco’s waste services provider, partnering with our communities to transform traditional waste management into resource recovery.  Recology investments and innovation technology have positioned Mr. Sangiacomo as a leading voice on national recycling, composting, and recovery programs. He currently serves as the Chair of the Board of Trustees for the California Historical Society and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Bay Area Council.

Mindi Porebski is the Solutions Operations Lead at Google, driving initiatives within her organization to reduce reliance on single-use materials, with a focus on plastics.

Norah Lewis is the Senior Manager of Circular Product Design at LEGO. Prior to this role, Norah was a Technical Specialist for WRAP Global, specializing in resource-efficient business models and circular design for packaging. She leads the technical work for WRAP Global’s Plastic Pacts, collaborating with partners in South Africa, Chile, Malaysia, Portugal, Australia, and the Pacific Islands to launch and implement systemic change within the plastic packaging sector.

Most recently, she has worked on NIR detectability of plastic packaging at the end of life for the UK Plastics Pact, in addition to completing a Life Cycle Assessment to determine suitable material alternatives for certain plastics.

She has a background in industrial design (BA) and environmental technology (MSc) and was awarded the Schmidt-MacArthur postgraduate fellowship in 2015, working in collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to undertake an 18-month design research project to analyze the circular business opportunities enabled by the internet of things (IoT).

John Peterson “Pete” Myers is a founder of Sudoc and serves on the board. As one of the world’s foremost scientific thinkers on challenges related to endocrine disruption chemicals, Pete coined the term “endocrine disruption” and was one of three authors of the seminal, best seller book Our Stolen Future (1996) that alerted the world to the hormone disrupting effects of toxic chemicals. Pete is a guiding force in how Sudoc plans to address the need to replace and eliminate toxic chemicals from our lives and our environment.

Pete is the founder and Chief Scientist of Environmental Health Sciences, a not-for-profit organization that promotes public understanding of advances in scientific research on links between the environment, including climate, and human health. For a dozen years beginning in 1990, Dr. Myers served as Director of the W. Alton Jones Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is actively involved in primary research on the impacts of endocrine disruption.

Pete serves on a number of boards including those for the Science Communication Network and the Jenifer Altman Foundation. He has also served as board chair of the National Environmental Trust and the H. John Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. He is an Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University.

Over the last few years he has received 3 major national and international awards: the first “Champion of Environmental Health Research” award from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (of the 11 awardees in addition to Myers, 3 others were the current and former directors of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences); the Laureate Award for Outstanding Public Service from The Endocrine Society (the world’s largest association of medical and research professionals specializing in endocrinology); and the Distinguished Service Award from the Sierra Club.

Pete lives just outside White Hall, Virginia. As he was growing up he lived near Baltimore and in Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia, Uruguay and Paraguay. He holds a doctorate in the biological sciences from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA from Reed College. He is an ornithologist and an accomplished photographer and has been featured in exhibits in Charlottesville, Boston and the San Francisco Bay area. His study of birds and his observation of unnatural behaviors spurred him to explore the effects of toxic chemicals on our environment and our living species. His photography is on display at Calidris Photography.

Richard is an environmental scientist by training and has strong expertise in leading teams to deliver more resource-efficient and sustainable practices within businesses, tackle plastic pollution, reduce food waste, and increase recycling. He is the Director of Impact Growth for WRAP GLOBAL, a business unit of WRAP – a UK charity at the forefront of the circular economy that is comprised of thought leaders, champions of action, and catalysts for change.

When Richard joined WRAP, he led the team that created and delivered the innovative ‘Courtauld Commitment’ – the first agreement of its kind between WRAP and UK supermarket retailers committed to an ambitious and collaborative approach to packaging and food waste reduction. He has been responsible for the success of 11 voluntary agreements in the UK and has led the team that has helped establish Plastic Pacts on 4 continents around the world and helped partners tackle food waste in Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Collectively, these agreements have reduced waste by millions of tonnes, saved billions of pounds, and reduced greenhouse gas emissions by tens of millions of tonnes.

A professor of chemistry and chair of the Department of Geology and Environmental Science at the State University of New York in Fredonia, New York, Dr. Mason gained initial recognition as the first to research and identify pollution from microplastics in the Great Lakes, the largest freshwater system in the world. Her work has drawn international attention to the threats posed by microplastics in freshwater and led to the passage of state measures banning microbeads (small pieces of plastic used in cleansing products as exfoliating agents) and to the enactment of the federal Microbead-Free Waters Act of 2015.

Other countries are following suit, with bans established in Canada and New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, and other Scandinavian countries rolling out bans over the next two years. To date, 448 brands from 119 different manufacturers have promised to remove plastic microbeads from their products.

Dr. Mason’s research has also identified microplastics in treated drinking water, sea salt, and bottled water, prompting a review by the World Health Organization, and her work has expanded to include the discovery of other non-biodegradable materials that are introducing chemical contaminants into water supplies and the Great Lakes food chain, including synthetic fibers that are shed when fleece items are laundered. These tiny fibers are ingested by fish and enter the food chain, introducing chemical contaminants that are potentially harmful to both aquatic organisms and humans, including endocrine disruptors, neurotoxins, and carcinogens.

Additionally, Dr. Mason is a member of the Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP) Working Group 40, a body that advises the United Nations on the scientific aspects of marine environmental protection.

Steve Reiss is a Grammy-nominated content producer, entrepreneur, author, and ocean activist.  He is the strategic advisor for SustainableSurf.org, transforming surf culture into a powerful force for protecting the ocean’s resources, launching the campaign Patch the Planet to raise awareness In 2020 in partnership with Boardriders Inc.  He is also partnered with Bruce Mau of the Massive Change Network and George Orbelian of Project Kaisei, co-producing a global ocean health campaign to bring ocean organizations together towards a common cause.

Stiv Wilson is currently the Co-Director of Peak Plastic Foundation. Stiv brings over a decade of experience in grassroots advocacy, systems innovation, and campaign strategy to The Story of Stuff Project. His role at The Story of Stuff Project is to design, execute, and lead community-sourced campaigns to measurable conservation victories. Stiv is a waste and plastic pollution expert who is frequently asked to speak on Solutions to the vexing inefficiencies in the materials economy all over the world. He’s created and led several campaigns to victory, from plastic bag bans to plastic microbeads to plastic water bottles at the state, national, and international levels. He’s sailed over 35,000 nautical miles to four of the five oceanic ‘garbage patches,’ documenting and communicating maritime plastic pollution firsthand.

Teesha brings over 12 years of experience across finance, technology startups, supply chain innovation, and sustainability. Currently, at Google (2018-till date), she works on gTech Sustainability driving strategy and operations. In this role, she is responsible for reducing plastic waste in Google food service operations and driving food industry partnerships.

Prior to Google, Teesha was at Staples and was responsible for driving strategic advisory, conducting financial due diligence, implementing transformational programs, and advising senior leadership on the latest innovations to promote business growth (2014-2018). Prior to Staples, she bootstrapped 2 tech startups in India (2011-2013) and was a Senior Private Equity Lead (2008-2012) at Executive Access, India.

She has a Master’s in Business Administration: Business Analytics from Babson College, Wellesley, MA (2014) and a Bachelor’s in Commerce with Honors: Finance, Statistics from Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi (2008).