Kristi Knaack Riordan is an experienced business leader with expertise in building and scaling innovative companies. She holds degrees in both accounting and law from prestigious universities such as Iowa State, Northwestern, and Drake. Riordan has served in leadership roles in various companies, her most recent ones being in the education and agri-business sector. With over 15 years of experience, she has honed her skills in product development and sales and marketing. Her passion for redefining categories and utilizing technology to build better business models, coupled with her strong leadership skills, has undoubtedly helped to shape the companies she has worked with into today's category-leading solutions. Riordan is a co-founder of Harvest B, a company focused on opportunities in the agri-business. She has served as a mentor at Startmate and as a Board member at Hope Street Group. In addition to that, Kristi Knaack Riordan was the Global Chief Operating Officer & Managing Director APAC at The Flatiron School and later on at WeWork. She has also worked as a Judiciary Law Clerk at the United States Senate and Financial Analyst at The Weitz Company, Engagement Manager at KPMG.