Co-founder in Clean FoodTech🧋Avid athlete🏃🏻‍♀️⛷ Techstars Mentor 💫 Cross-pollinator 🐝 Global Citizen living in CO 🌎 Gregarious Introvert 🕊 Insatiably curious lifelong learner 👩🏻‍🏫 Wearing way too many hats 🤹🏻‍♀️🤪 📓 Here to listen, learn, contribute and connect with fellow kind, multifaceted people. 🛠 Building the Impossible Foods of (encapsulated) flavor delivery 🙌🏻 Co-founder @BobaVida, bringing plant-based molecular gastronomy to the masses in the form of clean, flavorful, imaginative, better-for-you popping boba (what we like to call “flavor spheres”). 1st/only commercial producer in the Americas! www.BobaVida.com 🗺 Global Partnerships @Go! Running Tours, enabling runners who travel (and travelers who run!) the chance to discover the best sights, history, culture & running routes of the world’s top cities through the lens of a local (www.gorunningtours.com) 🏆 Partnered with 4x Olympic Marathoner & Berlin Marathon winner Colleen De Reuck to launch Strength Training for Runners with an Olympian (www.gorunningtraining.com) 📱Leading Energize Colorado’s Digital Innovation Initiative (nonprofit founded by Brad Feld), empowering CO-based small businesses to embrace digital solutions to innovate and grow their businesses. 🏡 Raised in Cary, NC 🌄 Based in Evergreen, CO 🌏 Lived in 6 countries (Australia🇦🇺, Italy🇮🇹, Switzerland🇨🇭, Singapore🇸🇬, Germany🇧🇪 & US🇺🇸) and worked in/traveled to 35. 🏔 Mountain sports masochist 🏃🏻‍♀️ Runner of all the distances (9x marathoner, BQ’er, fmr 10k Trail Championship AG runner up) ⛷ Skier of all the disciplines (downhill, backcountry, Nordic, Turns All Year!) ☃️❄️ Snow bunny 🏋🏻‍♀️ Fitness fanatic 🧘🏻‍♀️RYT-200 certified Yoga Instructor & universal group fitness instructor 🐕🐕🐕 Proud dog mom of 3 husky mix rescues and wife to a sustainable materials genius 🤓 Previously... 💡First startup was named “Top 5 Most Promising Startups in the World” (Kauffman Foundation) & nominated for a TED award. 🦈 Successfully pitched Damon John 1:1 in the lobby of a Miami hotel 😳 🧞‍♀️Former strategy consultant on Corporate Innovation & Change Leadership to Fortune 500 C-suite leaders from many of the world’s most admired companies. 🥍 Played D1 lacrosse & was a member of the US Olympic Development Skeleton team (you know, that crazy sport where you sled down an ice track head first at 80mph? 😇) 🥇🥈🥉Haven’t yet given up on my childhood dream of competing in an Olympics...Cortina 2026 anyone? LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/in/alanavaughn