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Manika Doshi
Manika Doshi is the CEO of rePurpose Global, the New York-based plastic action platform that has pulled 100 million pounds of plastic waste out of nature across 11 countries and partnered with 500+ brands. A materials science engineer turned operator, she rose from COO to chief executive in January 2026 as the company pivots toward packaging-compliance software and Extended Producer Responsibility. Her brief: make a tangled, regulation-heavy problem simple enough that brands move from intention to action at scale.
Nanna Nielsen
Nanna Nielsen is the Chief Business Officer of Critical Loop, a Los Angeles-area industrial power company that helps factories, airports and data centers get electricity in days instead of years by pairing battery storage with autonomous control software. A Danish-born operator who once ran banking operations for fintech unicorn GoCardless - overseeing more than $52 billion in transactions for 93,000+ businesses - she now applies that same operational rigor to fixing America's grid bottleneck. The company raised a $26 million Series A in April 2026.
Shelby Rhodes
Shelby Rhodes is the Senior Director of Product Operations and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Strava, the world's leading fitness social network with 180+ million athletes across 190+ countries. She brings 11+ years of experience from Google and YouTube, where she oversaw products used by billions of people including YouTube Shorts, Gaming, Live, and Comments. Now at Strava during one of its most pivotal chapters - a confidential IPO filing and a surge past $500M in annual revenue - she sits at the intersection of product strategy and executive leadership at a company betting that movement beats doomscrolling.