Consumer Products Executive Luncheon - May 25th 2017

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May 25, 2017 10 AM - 12 PM PDT

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On-line registration for the Consumer Products Executive Luncheon is now closed. Contact Rahul Merani or Paul Gurrola if you are interested in attending.

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Sonali Kothari

Kiva
COO
Sonali is responsible for driving impact and growth across Kiva’s product management, strategic planning, analytics and people functions. She particularly enjoys enabling collaboration and creativity across teams.
 
Kiva is an international nonprofit, founded in 2005 and based in San Francisco, with a mission to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty. ... 100% of every dollar you lend on Kiva goes to funding loans. Kiva covers costs primarily through optional donations, as well as through support from grants and sponsors. For more information, visit http://www.kiva.org.

George Richter

OCEANX
CEO & Founder

Georg is the CEO and Founder of OceanX a Silicon Beach startup that is reinventing what membership means, transforming the way customers and brands interact and providing a powerful engine for subscriptions. Georg specializes in implementing next-generation technologies and innovative software to solve problems, transform industries, and increase financial performance. He is a seasoned leader and entrepreneur with decades of experience in subscription commerce, direct marketing, media, operations and technology.

OceanX is the only technology company that connects brands with consumers through an all-in-one integrated subscription platform for physical goods.This enables our clients to build brand loyalty and grow their businesses while inspiring a sense of belonging in all of their customers.

Nithya Ramanathan

Nexleaf Analytics
President

Nithya is the CEO and Co-Founder of Nexleaf Analytics. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley. Nithya brings over 20 years of experience as a computer scientist to the development of sensing and analytics applications, including her work in research and hardware development at Intel and Hewlett-Packard and as an Assistant Research Faculty in Computer Science at UCLA.

At Nexleaf, Nithya leads the strategy, vision, and partnerships to design and evaluate the use of low-cost sensors in global health and environmental applications, currently implemented in the ColdTrace and StoveTrace programs. She oversees Nexleaf’s cold chain monitoring program, ColdTrace, developed and scaled in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Google.org, Gavi the Vaccine Alliance, UNICEF, Ministries of Health in several countries, and NGO partners. For StoveTrace, Nithya leads an innovative approach to monitoring improved cookstoves by applying a climate financing model with Project Surya partners, a collaboration dedicated to using cutting-edge climate science to increase clean energy access in the developing world.
 
Nexleaf is a non-profit technology company that provides organizations, governments, and manufacturers sensors that are designed to provide real-time monitoring and data collection. Sensors are paired with cell-phone-based technologies to access important information from remote locations.

Stephen Dash

Credible
Founder & CEO

Stephen is the Founder and CEO of Credible. He founded Credible because of sheer disbelief at the burden student debt placed on young Americans (a problem that does not exist in his native Australia). Stephen is still recovering from his many years as an investment banker at J.P. Morgan - where he spent his days (and nights) analyzing and advising major international banks on operations, M&A, capital adequacy and funding. More recently he founded QC Media and was an Investment Director at MHC & Co.

Credible is a multi-lender marketplace that allows borrowers to receive competitive loan opti
ons from its vetted lenders, in 90 seconds. Credible puts borrowers in control. Users can compare personalized rates from multiple lenders without sharing their personal information or impacting their credit score.

Shaffiq Rahim

QTrade
CFO
Shaffiq is the Chief Financial Officer at QTrade Teas & Herbs, where he manages the company's finance and accounting functions and plays a key role in the development and execution of the company's strategic plan.
 
Founded in 1994, QTrade is a pioneer and market leader in the Organic & Specialty Tea industry across North America. As the largest supplier of organic teas domestically, QTrade has built relationships with the most pioneering tea companies and helped them become more innovative.

Meredith Walsh

Method | Ecover
Seniro Director

Meredith is Sr. Director of Financial Planning and Analysis at People Against Dirty, the makers of method and ecover products. PAD is incorporated as a public benefit corporation (B corp), building social + environmental benefit into its products and everything it does. Meredith has put her passion for conservation and education to work as an active member of the Oakland Zoo Board of Trustees for the last five years, where she has served as Co-Chair and, currently, as Treasurer. The Oakland Zoo is charting a new course for zoos by leading animal conservation efforts from the San Francisco Bay Area to Uganda, and using the visitor experience as an opportunity to educate children and adults about how they can make an impact on conservation efforts locally and globally.

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On-line registration for the Consumer Products Executive Luncheon is now closed.  Contact  Rahul Merani <RMerani@dlcgroup.com> or Paul Gurrola  <pgurrola@srr.com> if you are interested in attending.