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Lauren Greenlee
EVP
XPRIZE
May 2026, SynBioBeta
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Lauren Greenlee is the Executive Vice President of the Food + Water + Waste Domain at the XPRIZE Foundation. XPRIZE is the world's leader in designing and operating incentive competitions that set audacious goals, drive technology innovation, and aim to solve humanity's grand challenges. Lauren leads the foundation's work across food, water, and waste and brings 20 years of experience working in national laboratory, academic, and startup environments. Before XPRIZE, Lauren served as the Chief Technology Officer for sHYp, an early-stage startup company developing technology to produce green hydrogen from seawater sources. Prior to sHYp, Lauren spent 11 years leading research programs that centered on materials engineering to address sustainability issues in water, energy, and agriculture. Lauren holds a B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan, an M.S. in Environmental Engineering and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, and an M.B.A. from the University of Iowa.
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