Kathleen Egan

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Kathleen Egan is an innovator, serial entrepreneur, and champion for sustainability. She is currently the CEO and Co-founder of Ecomedes, the largest B2B SaaS platform for efficient communication across the $1T building product supply chain, and the Chairman of the Board of The 5 Gyres Institute, the leading non-profit working to reduce the harm from plastic pollution. Kathleen has worked in Silicon Valley since 2000 and achieved four venture-backed exits: ProfitLogic, a price optimisation pioneer acquired by Oracle; Revionics, the leader in merchandise optimisation, acquired by Aptos; Quri, the first crowd-sourced app for CPG store compliance, acquired by TRAX Retail; and flyswat, an early web navigation tool acquired by NBCi. She is passionate about communicating complex topics through art, producing a documentary, It Ain't Pretty, about sexual objectification and pay inequality in big wave surfing. She pioneered making artwork from beach plastic in a series of mosaics. Her education is in engineering at Lehigh University and business from The Harvard Business School. Kathleen lives at Ocean Beach in San Francisco with her son and husband where they love to surf, bike, ski, attend concerts, and watch whales. "AI is already giving us 6x time savings internally. The next step is putting that power in the hands of designers and project managers." "Sustainability shouldn't require a PhD. With AI, we can make climate-smart decisions as easy as clicking a button."