Astrid is the Founder and CEO of TIKO Global, a trading company focused on food commodities, and the rescued food market. TIKO products are sold into food service and retail through the TIKO BASICS, and La Dama brands. TIKO aims to democratize b2b commerce with an integrated wholesale marketplace that empowers stakeholders across the supply chain powered by blockchain.
Astrid comes from a fourth generation food trading family, where she continues to run the family investments through her family office as CIO. Astrid previously spent 15 years executing private equity transactions, and was named one of the Most Influential Women in M&A by Mergers& Acquisitions while raising the first-time fund of one of the members of the Goya foods family. She started her investment career at Audax Group in Boston, where she attended Harvard Law School and Suffolk University.
Astrid is a serial entrepreneur focused on food, transformative technologies for the supply chain, and clean energy. She empowers women through the M&A deal making company she co-founded Exponent.