Lauren Toretta

Lauren Toretta is the President and a partner at CH4 Biogas, a company specializing in clean energy biogas solutions in the United States. Under her leadership, CH4 Biogas focuses on providing renewable energy and environmental waste solutions primarily for the agricultural and food & beverage sectors. Since joining the company in 2012, she has been instrumental in driving its growth, overseeing financing and business development, which has resulted in multiple operating biogas facilities and several others in development, particularly in the Northeast and Midwest regions.123

Toretta has over twenty years of experience in strategy and sales within industrial and environmental sectors. Before her tenure at CH4 Biogas, she worked for GE Industrial and was a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company. Her educational background includes an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Environmental Science and Public Policy from Harvard College, where she graduated magna cum laude.124 Additionally, she serves on the Board of Directors of the American Biogas Council, contributing to the development of industry policies that promote the benefits of anaerobic digestion.35