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Oakland, Ca, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

VIA Global Health is a groundbreaking social enterprise that leverages technology and innovative partnerships to make quality medical supplies and healthcare solutions more accessible to healthcare providers in low-resource communities. The company's innovative platform connects medical suppliers with distributors in underserved regions, enabling efficient and equitable access to life-saving medical products.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Ganaz is a venture backed public benefit corporation that provides a SaaS People Management / Financial Services Platform for agriculture, allowing employers to hire, onboard and pay their workforce in this $1T market.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

How Women Invest is an early stage venture firm seeking to connect female founders and female investors, creating wealth for both. Only 2% of companies founded by women get venture backing, although 40% of companies are founded by women, and they generate 26% greater return than those founded by men.Together, with sister organization How Women Lead, a professional network of 14,000 women, we see female founders as a force to be reckoned with and are working to create ecosystem change by investing in and amplifying female-led and female-majority owned companies with venture capital and mentoring resources. Learn more here: www.howwomeninvest.com and info@howwomeninvest.com.

Oakland, Us

Mightly is a direct-to-consumer, sustainable children’s wear brand targeting the more than 30 million GenX and Millennial moms purchasing from brands that share their values.

Oakland, California, Us

Pacific Community Ventures envisions a world of thriving communities where everyone has a fair shake. Our mission is to invest in small businesses, create good jobs for working people, and make markets work for social good. By providing diverse, low-income entrepreneurs with affordable loans paired with pro-bono mentoring through our national platform, BusinessAdvising.org, we've doubled the number of small businesses we serve. Our multi-stakeholder Quality Jobs initiative is creating jobs that are good for workers, for businesses and for communities, and we've launched Good Jobs, Good Business: a practical toolkit to help small business owners create jobs that boost the bottom line. Our Impact Investing consulting practice provides foundations and investment managers with strategies and tools to better align their capital with their financial, social and environmental objectives.

Oakland, California, Us

As Chief Impact Officer - a role that combines Chief Operating Officer and Chief Growth Officer - I led a a 70 person, $10M social enterprise which influences global supply chains to improve the lives of farmers and workers, while enabling people to purchase products that are aligned with their values. Led all operations from “origin to shelf”, including Business Development, Supply Chain & Producer Services, Marketing Communications, Grass Roots Advocacy, and Impact Management. Launched Fair Trade for All strategy and redesigned marketing communications - including new logo, positioning, website and messaging - increasing consumer awareness by 40%. Represented Fair Trade with media and at key conferences (see People Centered Sustainability)

Oakland, Ca, Us

Created first Corporate Innovation Group to develop & manage an innovation pipeline delivering $50MM of annual growth and improve innovation capability across the company. Group included Front-end Discovery, Product Design, Open Innovation Networks & Advanced Technology.Created first Environmental Sustainability Group which better incorporated sustainability into decision making by simultaneously evaluating risk, identify ways to reduce footprint and costs, and finding opportunities for growth

Oakland, Ca, Us

Created first New Business Group which delivered over $500M in new product sales, including GreenWorks, Clorox Anywhere, Clorox Bleach Pen, Clorox Toilet Wand, and Clorox ReadyMopActed as the Innovation General Manager, leading a multi-functional team of directors responsible for setting innovation agenda, developing new ideas and commercializing products.

Oakland, Ca, Us

Created and led a 75 person team in developing Clorox 2005 Strategic Plan. Team identified external trends and core competencies, and challenged many of Clorox’s current business practices. Team reported to CEO and Executive Committee and findings were used to generate several new long-term growth opportunities.

Oakland, Ca, Us

Acquisition & Licensing: Lead in acquisition & integration of Black Flag Insecticides, a $30MM business with strong equity but declining share. Acquired global rights to new technology that was highly desired by competitor five times Clorox’s sizeB-to-C Brands: Brand management roles across brands such as Kingsford Charcoal, Hidden Valley Salad Dressings, Fresh Step Cat Litter, Combat InsecticidesB-to-B Brands: Grew volume and profit over 25% on Maxforce Professional Insecticides line

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Marketing, International Business

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Accounting & Business Administration