Kami Krista

Kami Krista is the CEO and co-founder of Elio, a software company with the aim of making sustainable manufacturing the norm by providing scientists and engineers with an AI co-pilot to evaluate process design decisions based on sustainability - starting in the pharmaceutical industry. By trade, Kami is a bioengineer, who studied at Harvard, and pursued drug development research at the MIT on a novel HIV therapy that he began developing while still in high school. Through these experiences, he became an engineering consultant for biotech companies on multi-billion dollar M&A deals. His work on sustainability has been the red thread throughout his life, starting with writing a letter to President Lula about the harms of deforesting the Amazon at age 8 and in recent years being a youth delegate for Austria at UN COP26, sitting on the UN Youth4Climate Advisory Committee, and building the 200-person volunteer translation team for ClimateScience. Kami is a fellow with Sigma Squared and the 776 Foundation.