• Alumni

Austin Blais, MBA '20

  • Sr. Manager, Sustainability Strategy at The Wonderful Company
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Biography

Austin helps lead sustainability and innovation at The Wonderful Company, a diverse company specializing in agricultural products and consumer packaged goods. He leads the agricultural byproduct innovation practice upcycling agricultural waste into value-added products like fiber fit for human consumption. Austin also creates and executes the strategic sustainability approach for Wonderful to reduce carbon emissions and natural resource consumption. He graduated from Cornell Johnson with an MBA in Sustainable Global Enterprise.

Education: Cornell MBA ’20, Univ. of Virginia BA ’10 Environmental Economics

Expertise

  • Consumer Packaged Goods
  • Agriculture
  • Food & Beverage Production
  • Transportation
  • Waste Management & Waste Upcycling
  • Corporate Sustainability, including Sustainable Packaging, Corporate Sustainability Strategy, and Traditional Roles in Sustainable Organizations
  • Data Management
  • Strategy & Innovation
  • Change Management, including Organizational Change
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Carbon Emissions (Measurement & Management)