Erik holds a CPA (Certified Public Accountant) designation with over 23 years of public accounting experience and four years in government accounting, with experience working at the United States Embassy Association in Israel.  

He is active in his community as a Volunteer Firefighter and EMT and recently retired from the US Air Force Reserve after 21 years of service. 

Erik holds a BBA in Accounting from Hofstra University. 

Kim has held leadership roles in the tech, retail and e-commerce industries at both startups and large organizations. Prior to joining Closed Loop Partners, Kim was the Vice President of Operations at Rent the Runway, leading the company’s investment strategies in scaling the Fashion and Inventory organization and initiating transformative change across multiple departments. After seeing the growing business opportunity and amount of waste generated by decommissioned clothing, Kim was instrumental in ideating, identifying partners for, and then launching their resale business model. Prior to this, Kim began her career in retail at Bloomingdale’s as a merchant and inventory planner.  

Kim holds a BA in Economics and Public Policy from Brown University. 

Prior to joining Closed Loop Partners, Alicia served as Executive Assistant to C-level executives at YipitData, Advanced Generation & Efficiency, Healthy Planet Partners and Recyclebank. Earlier in her career, Alicia worked in a variety of backstage and onstage roles in Broadway and off-Broadway theaters, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. 

Alicia has been a volunteer with the Jolly Rovers Trail Crew, a 501c3 specializing in technical stone construction, for over a decade. 

Alicia holds a BFA in Theatre from Southern Oregon University. 

Key initiatives include identifying solutions to increase recycling and recovery of paper and plastic cups, innovating on the materials that comprise these packaging formats to make them more recoverable in the recycling system, and supporting the development of industry-leading reuse models and innovative alternatives to single-use packaging.  

Prior to joining Closed Loop Partners, Dan spent nearly a decade in corporate sustainability consulting and clean energy development working for leading sustainability consulting firms and the Clinton Foundation’s Climate Initiative. 

Daniel holds an MA in International Affairs and Urbanization from the New School University and a BA from McGill University. 

Prior to joining Closed Loop Partners, Carolina worked at TerraCycle, where she was in the founding team of Loop, a platform for reusable versions of products sold at retailers. Prior to that, she was at Procter & Gamble, where she managed the launch of record-breaking products and sustainability initiatives in Latin America. 

Carolina holds a BS in Industrial Engineering from Universidade Federal Fluminense. 

Paula has worked across sectors and along the supply chain in various operations and marketing roles. She began her career in water policy and later launched a startup that upcycled textile waste and employed women coming home from prison. Before joining Closed Loop Partners, she worked in operations and sourcing roles for brands including Nike, Amazon, and Starbucks.

Paula received her B.A. in Consumer Behavior from Cal Berkeley and her MBA and MS from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and School for Environment and Sustainability.

As a connector who brings brands together to catalyze behavior change, Sarah most recently partnered with Kroger, Ulta Beauty, Dollar General and 160+ others to activate a campaign to reduce single-use bag waste, impacting 2M+ customers. She also led an effort with 160+ global and local retailers across multiple states to support customers to adopt sustainable behaviors––reinforcing the habit of bringing their bags back into store. This led to an almost 5% reduction in plastic bag use, or the equivalent of up to 9.5M single-use bags annually across the two markets.  

Sarah brings a decade of experience spanning strategy consulting, impact investing and CSR, which she leverages to support the world’s most prominent brands to realize their sustainability goals. Prior to joining Closed Loop Partners, Sarah worked for Arborview Capital, a private equity/venture capital firm that invests in companies building a more sustainable future. Prior to that, Sarah spent four years with Deloitte Consulting leading strategy and analytics projects for federal agencies, nonprofits and higher education institutions. At Deloitte, Sarah was selected to join Deloitte Global’s Corporate Social Responsibility team to develop and launch the firm’s 2030 impact strategy.

Sarah holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management and a BA in Public Policy from Princeton University. 

Matt brings over a decade of experience in designing and implementing sustainability initiatives that span consumer behavior change, policy, supply chain optimization, recycling and data analytics. Matt leads the Consortium to Reinvent the Retail Bag, an industry collaboration managed by the Center, which launched the world’s largest reusable bag pilot, assessed 40+ different legislative mechanisms and identified and vetted 25 tactical bag waste reduction strategies.  

Prior to joining Closed Loop Partners, Matt worked at Deloitte Consulting as a practitioner in their supply chain practice. He specialized in analyzing and optimizing large organizations’ end-to-end supply chains, working across the retail, industrials, healthcare and automotive industries. Matt also worked at Dow, where he analyzed the economic and environmental value of a new plastics recovery program for four separate stakeholder groups, including materials recovery facilities. 

Matt holds an MBA from Cornell University’s Johnson School of Management, a BA in Environmental Science from the University of Michigan and a BBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. 

Georgia drives strategic initiatives, fosters cross-sector connections and is an expert storyteller.  Her multifaceted role involves connecting stakeholders across industries to accelerate the transition to a circular economy. 

Prior to joining Closed Loop Partners, Georgia honed her skills in in business development and marketing at Inspiring Capital. Her diverse background encompasses experience in startups, nonprofits and social enterprises, providing her with a unique perspective on driving change across various organizational structures.   

In 2022, Georgia was recognized by Waste 360’s annual 40 Under 40 awards program, which honors the next generation of leaders who are shaping the future of the waste and recycling industry. She has also contributed her thought leadership to various outlets including GreenBiz, Recycling Today and Waste360.

Georgia holds a BASc from University College London.  

Prior to joining Closed Loop Partners, Mike was the controller at ICV Partners, where he worked on both fund accounting and management company accounting for the firm. Prior to that, Mike worked in the tax departments at KPMG and Ernst & Young, focused on private equity and alternative investment clients.  

Mike holds an MS in Accountancy and a BBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He is also a licensed CPA (Certified Public Accountant).