Julianna Keeling
Founder & CEO, Terravive
Julianna Keeling’s biggest recent achievement is helping feed over 7,200 refugees with only seven days’ notice for a large-scale humanitarian effort. Terravive replaced over 1.2 million lbs of plastic and Styrofoam pollution with its compostable, American-made dining and cafeteria consumables ⏤ directly improving the health of the environment and the people involved.
“Julianna possesses a rare combination of technological vision, pragmatic insight, entrepreneurial grit and strategic geo-political thinking that has propelled Terravive’s growth under her admirable leadership,” said Joe Swider, Terravive co-owner.
Why Watch
In 2023, Keeling and her team are heavily focused on turning off the tap of plastic pollution globally by providing real, impactful solutions to the plastic pollution crisis with products from the company’s 16 U.S. manufacturing facilities.
As a woman-, minority- and veteran-owned company, Terravive is literally eliminating mountains and oceans of plastic pollution throughout the U.S. and in four continents.
“Our impact is growing exponentially,” Keeling said.