Kathleen Alexander

Kathleen is co-founder and CEO at Savor, a start-up working to decarbonize the global food system by producing delicious, carbon-neutral fats without any agricultural inputs. Fat and oil production accounts for more than 7% of anthropogenic GHGs and uses over 15% of our planet’s habitable land. Savor’s low-emissions, low-land-use technology has the potential to mitigate virtually all of it while delivering deliciously rich, high-performing favorites like butter, cheese, ice cream, and so much more. 

Kathleen’s professional career has been driven by a passion for bringing sustainability-enabling technologies to life. Prior to co-founding Savor, Kathleen served as a project director at Orca Sciences, a philanthropist-backed research and development organization focused on the energy and climate spaces. She also worked as a consultant evaluating the technical and economic viability of high-risk, high-reward climate solutions. She holds a PhD in Materials Science & Engineering from MIT where she held multiple fellowships. When she’s not working, she likes to be outdoors and look at unusual plants.