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Leveraging Business for Good
Workshop Speakers 
Lara Jackle Dickinson, MBA, has 20+ years’ at the highest levels of the natural foods industry. Currently Partner at Pluot Consulting, she works with some of the most mission-driven food companies in the world, and also co-founded and is Director of OSC2 (One Step Closer to an Organic Sustainable Community), a group of founders and CEOs working together toward sustainable food solutions.
Ahmed Rahim, co-founder/CEO of Numi Organic Tea, the largest organic, Fair Trade Certified tea company in North America, which builds partnerships with farming communities worldwide, also co-founded the Numi Foundation (whose initiatives include Together for H2OPE, providing safe drinking water to farming communities across the globe) and OSC2, One Step Closer to an Organic Sustainable Community, a national community of sustainable natural...
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Frederick Schilling, founder of the pioneering socially-responsible organic Dagoba Chocolate brand, after selling Dagoba went on to co-found Big Tree Farms in Bali, which has grown into SE Asia’s largest organic supply chain with close to 14,000 organic farmers, focused especially on coconut and cacao products. Frederick also co-founded AMMA Chocolate, Brazil’s leading premium chocolate manufacturer and is a founding member of the...
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Kate Tierney is President of Alter Eco Americas, PBC, the North American and Australia/New Zealand division of Alter Eco, an exemplary, mission-driven, fair trade, environmentally and socially responsible food importing company. Tierney has 24 years' experience in the natural products industry, including 15 years with United Natural Foods Inc., the largest national distributor of organic and natural products in the U.S.
