Lauren Greenlee is the Executive Vice President of the Food + Water + Waste Domain at the XPRIZE Foundation. XPRIZE is the world’s leader in designing and operating incentive competitions that set audacious goals, drive technology innovation, and aim to solve humanity’s grand challenges. Lauren leads the foundation’s work across food, water, and waste and brings 20 years of experience working in national laboratory, academic, and startup environments. Before XPRIZE, Lauren served as the Chief Technology Officer for sHYp, an early-stage startup company developing technology to produce green hydrogen from seawater sources. Lauren holds a B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan, an M.S. in Environmental Engineering and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, a Certificate in Strategic Leadership from the Pennsylvania State University, and an M.B.A. from the University of Iowa.
