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              Naomi Baer
                Chief Operating Officer
              
              
              
              
                Naomi Baer (she/her) is the Chief Operating Officer at...
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
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              Cyrus Wadia
                CEO
              
              
              
              
                Cyrus Wadia (he/him) is CEO of Activate. Wadia was...
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
             
                
                								
              Naomi Baer
                Chief Operating Officer
              
              
              
              
                Naomi Baer (she/her) is the Chief Operating Officer at...
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
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              Cyrus Wadia
                  CEO
                
                
              Cyrus Wadia
                CEO
              
              
             
                	
              Naomi Baer
                  Chief Operating Officer
                
                
              Naomi Baer
                Chief Operating Officer
              
              
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              Cyrus Wadia
                  CEO
                
                
              Cyrus Wadia
                CEO
              
              
            
              Cyrus Wadia (he/him) is CEO of Activate. Wadia was previously Director of Worldwide Product Sustainability at Amazon, Vice President of Sustainable Business & Innovation at Nike, and Assistant Director of Clean Energy and Materials R&D in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He was also a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, a Senior Program Officer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the Founding Co-Director of the Haas School of Business Clean Tech to Market initiative. Wadia holds a Ph.D. in energy and resources from UC Berkeley and an M.S. in chemical engineering from MIT.
            
            
            
           
                	
              Naomi Baer
                  Chief Operating Officer
                
                
              Naomi Baer
                Chief Operating Officer
              
              
            
              Naomi Baer (she/her) is the Chief Operating Officer at Activate, bringing over 16 years of experience in social entrepreneurship to this role. Baer was previously Practitioner-In-Residence at the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford University Graduate School of Business; Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Programs at Net Impact; and Senior Director of Global Partner Operations at Kiva, where she started as an early employee. Baer is a certified translator with an executive degree from Stanford and a B.A. from Brown University.
            
            
            
          