Candace brings 20+ years of experience building, growing, and transforming businesses as an operating executive in software and consumer products companies, with particular expertise in strategy, cross-functional operations, supply chain, growth, and e-commerce. She was CEO of Monti Kids, a pioneer in the early child development space, providing patent-pending, authentic Montessori toys for children, and educating millennial parents through an innovative e-curriculum. Her track record also includes reinventing the electrolyte drink market as co-founder of H2ORS, where she personally led product and supply chain development, selling drink powder as effective as IV therapy to athletes, hospitals, oncology patients, and leisure segments. She also pioneered the social media analytics movement, founding Crimson Hexagon with Harvard professor Gary King. Crimson was a SAAS provider of data-based insights from Twitter, Facebook, and other social data sources on a massive scale, and completed a very successful exit via Brandwatch/Cision. Prior to her years as an entrepreneur, Candace began her career as a management consultant and then at HP, where she was part of a groundbreaking analytics and modeling team, which optimized the way consumer and industrial HP divisions worldwide managed their supply chains.Candace holds an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and double majored in Industrial Engineering and English at Stanford. She is on the Board of Trustees at Seven Hills School, and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and two children.Expertise: Business Strategy, Scaling Technology Companies, New Business Creation, Team Building, Venture-Funded Startups, eCommerce, Operations, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Product Development, Operations Management, Project Management, International Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Children’s Product (CPSC) & FDA Safety Protocols, Customer Support Management, Data-Driven Insights, Machine Learning, Leadership.