Lisa has an abiding interest in sustainable development: in 2015 launching a vocational agricultural MBA in Kenya and Uganda in partnership with the University of Milan; designing a low-cost intramedullary nail to supply her local hospital in South Africa; and her patented bread-making process won a national business plan competition garnering her a business woman of the year nomination.
After McKinsey, Lisa led sustainable investment for Unilever as a Director of their corporate venturing unit and continues to facilitate global brand and start-up collaborations most recently as Entrepreneur in Residence at the RCA Dyson Incubator. Lisa is a chartered engineer with an MBA from Harvard Business School.