Sarah Pamplona Santos
Sarah is Senior Project Director at Closed Loop Partners’ Center for the Circular Economy, the firm’s innovation center for research, analysis and collaboration.
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.
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