She has built supply chains for slavery-free tomatoes, sockeye salmon trim, humanely-raised poultry, chocolate processed at origin, and generally doesn’t take ‘no’ for an answer, prodding supply chain partners to do more. She is an adjunct faculty member at both the Haas School of Business at U.C. Berkeley and the Food Business School of the Culinary Institute of America teaching students how to build sustainable supply chains, and preparing for the challenges they will encounter.

Her past board leadership positions include FishChoice, a B2B platform for sustainable seafood purchasing, and Humane Farm Animal Care, which runs the Certified Humane® assessment program. Helene earned her AB from Harvard College and MBA in Strategy from Yale. She resides in Northern California.