# Caroline Vanderlip

> Caroline Vanderlip is the founder and CEO of Re:Dish, a Brooklyn-based reusable foodware company that swaps single-use containers for durable, USA-made ones, then collects, sterilizes, and redistributes up to 75,000 items a day from an automated industrial warewashing plant. After three decades launching businesses inside NBC, CNBC, AT&T, and her own publishing-tech ventures, she traded media for dishwashing in her sixties, betting that the most radical thing a company can do is wash its own plates and use them again.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Re:Dish Co.
- **Organizations:** Re:Dish Co., SharedBook, Amplify, NBC, CNBC, AT&T Personal Online Services, Softbank Interactive Marketing, ACE INA / YouDecide.com
- **From:** New York City, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** BA, American Studies, Vassar College, MBA, Finance, New York University (Stern)
- **Known for:** Founded Re:Dish, building proprietary software and an automated warewashing facility processing up to 75,000 reusable items per day, Diverted nearly 2 million food-service packages from landfill in 2023 alone, Named to Inc.'s 2023 Best in Business list in the Sustainability category

## Career timeline

- **1988-1995** — Senior executive roles at NBC, ending as SVP, NBC Cable & Business Development; helped launch NBC SuperChannel across Europe
- **1989** — Helped write the original business plan for CNBC and became one of its first employees
- **1995-1997** — President of AT&T's Personal Online Services group
- **1997** — CEO of Softbank Interactive Marketing
- **2000s** — EVP of ACE INA and President of employee-benefits venture YouDecide.com
- **2000s-2010s** — Founder & CEO of SharedBook, a publishing technology platform
- **2010s** — SVP of Corporate & Business Development at Amplify (education)
- **2019** — A conversation about NYC's un-recycled waste sparks research into the circular economy
- **2020** — Founds Re:Dish; pivots from restaurant takeout to institutional clients during COVID
- **2022** — Raises seed funding (latest $3.4M, December 2022); partners with Barclays and others
- **2023** — Re:Dish diverts ~2 million food-service packages from landfill; named to Inc. Best in Business (Sustainability)
- **2024** — Targets 7.5+ million packages diverted; scales automated warewashing to 75,000 units/day

## Achievements

- Founded Re:Dish, building proprietary software and an automated warewashing facility processing up to 75,000 reusable items per day
- Diverted nearly 2 million food-service packages from landfill in 2023 alone
- Named to Inc.'s 2023 Best in Business list in the Sustainability category
- Raised $6.25M in total funding for Re:Dish
- Helped write CNBC's original business plan as one of its first employees
- Helped launch NBC SuperChannel across Europe as SVP of NBC Cable & Business Development

## Latest updates

- **2024-01** — Re:Dish targets diverting over 7.5 million food-service packages in 2024 and scales daily warewashing capacity to 75,000 units.
- **2023-01** — Named to Inc.'s Best in Business list in the Sustainability category.

## Links

- Website: https://redish.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carolinevanderlip/

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Last updated: 2026-06-25