Sarah Nolet

Sarah Nolet

Australia
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About

Sarah Nolet is an internationally recognized food systems innovation expert and co-founder of Tenacious Ventures, a high-support, high conviction, sector-specific agrifood tech venture firm. Sarah has been instrumental in building the early stage agtech ecosystem - from advising dozens of startups, designing accelerator programs and consulting to established agribusinesses, to helping industry, universities and government develop and implement forward-looking initiatives in food system innovation. Sarah is also the host of the AgTech...So What? podcast, telling stories of innovators building the food system of the future.

Sarah holds a Masters in System Design and Management from MIT, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Human Factors Engineering from Tufts University.

If you're an agrifood tech startup looking for funding, I'd love to hear from you! Please get in touch via tenacious.ventures/apply (and feel free to let me know in a DM that you've done so!)

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    Tenacious Ventures

    Sydney, Australia

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    Australia

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    Sydney, Australia

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    Sydney, Australia

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    Cambridge, MA

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    Cambridge, MA

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    Cambridge, MA

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    North Liberty, IA

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    MIT Sloan School of Management; MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design

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Education

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    Activities and Societies: Food and Agriculture Club (President); 2015 Sustainability Summit (Director of Marketing); 2016 Sustainability Summit (Co-Managing Director); Product Management Club

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    Activities and Societies: Varsity Women's Soccer; Varsity Women's Basketball; Varsity Track and Field; Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES); Association of Women in Computer Science (AWIS)

Licenses & Certifications

  • Certified Scrum Product Owner

    Jeff Sutherland, Scruminc.

  • Essentials of Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Operations

    PatchPlus Consulting

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    Sustainability Certificate

    MIT Sloan School of Management

Volunteer Experience

  • Non Executive Director

    Agricultural Business Research Institute (ABRI)

    - Present 4 years 9 months

    Science and Technology

    The Agricultural Business Research Institute (ABRI) is a not-for-profit company with its headquarters located on the campus of the University of New England in Armidale, NSW. The mission of the company is to develop and implement world-class agribusiness information systems with special emphasis on the needs of livestock industries.

    ABRI has become a world leader in providing breed registration and genetic evaluation services, and since 1972 ABRI has been responsible for running…

    The Agricultural Business Research Institute (ABRI) is a not-for-profit company with its headquarters located on the campus of the University of New England in Armidale, NSW. The mission of the company is to develop and implement world-class agribusiness information systems with special emphasis on the needs of livestock industries.

    ABRI has become a world leader in providing breed registration and genetic evaluation services, and since 1972 ABRI has been responsible for running Australia’s National Beef Recording Scheme (BREEDPLAN) and ABRI’s beef recording services are now used in 15 countries internationally.

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    Non Executive Director

    Future Farmers Network

    - 2 years 1 month

    Education

    Future Farmers Network (FFN) is a not for profit organisation which aims to provide opportunities to young people in agriculture and agribusiness through networks and connections within the agricultural and agribusiness industries in Australia.
    FFN hosts a range of events annually including: Young Beef Producers Forum, Roma, QLD; Youth Agricultural Central, Canberra, ACT. FFN also supports a number of events across the country including: Royal Agricultural Society Youth Group, Future…

    Future Farmers Network (FFN) is a not for profit organisation which aims to provide opportunities to young people in agriculture and agribusiness through networks and connections within the agricultural and agribusiness industries in Australia.
    FFN hosts a range of events annually including: Young Beef Producers Forum, Roma, QLD; Youth Agricultural Central, Canberra, ACT. FFN also supports a number of events across the country including: Royal Agricultural Society Youth Group, Future Directions Committee, Australian Sheep & Wool Show, Young Agricultural Producers Conference.

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    Farming, Sales, Marketing, Accounting

    WWOOF Latin America

    - 9 months

Publications

  • Discovering the Support Requirements for Geospatial and Socio-cultural Intelligence Analysis and Synthesis

    Proceedings of the 2012 Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE)

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Languages

  • Spanish

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