Caren founded Conscious Container, a California Benefit Corporation, in 2017 to bring refillable glass bottle marketplace back into US economy and infrastructure to reduce single-use packaging waste.

After 20 year as a successful project and change management consultant, Caren was inspired by the circular economy solution refillable bottles presented. Standing up several proof-of-concept collection pilots proved the demand from consumers and producers. Caren quickly gained traction collaborating with global beverage producers and glass manufacturers, policymakers, leading non-profits, and investors to scale this business.

On the side, Caren loves mountain sports, barrel-aged craft beers, and connecting with family, friends, and anyone who wants to dialog about refillables!

Bruce has 40 years business experience in sales, supply chain manufacturing, warehousing, and factory production operations. He majored in Business Administration at California State University, Chico. In 1979 became west coast representative for the Tony Lama Boot Co. with a retail customer base of over 400 outlets. Separately, he helped form Western Boot Service, a custom boot rebuilding facility in Auburn, CA .

He moved to Cornwall, England in 1986 while working for Kean Productions, a Taiwanese neoprene rubber and clothing manufacturing company. He set up European warehouse distribution and facilitated custom OEM products. In 1994 he founded City Software Consultants, an SAP recruitment company and ultimately sold the business to Value Stream Engineering a SAP implementation partner. In 2009 Bruce was CEO and founder of Wine Bottle Renew, a glass container washing operation in Stockton, CA.

Since 2011 he has setup Aquaponic Greens, an aquaponic herb production facility in Sonoma, CA He is an avid winemaker and lives in Sonoma, CA.

Darilyn is Creative Director at DK Design Studio, with 30+ years experience in the high-tech industry and 15 years focused on sustainability businesses and organizations.

As an entrepreneur she has managed 100s of accounts including the Alameda County Sustainability program, CodeScience, the Altwork Station, Earl’s Organic Produce, Tahoe Food Hub, Jeff King & Company, Conscious Container, Citizens’ Climate Lobby, Elders Action Network, Elders Climate Action, GreenLynx, La Serena Properties, S&L Realty, and many more.

Living in a small house in north Lake Tahoe, she practices organic permaculture gardening, composting, bike transportation, and is a non-consumer advocate. She is mostly vegan and single-use plastic free, has ridden her bike around the world, learned how to fly planes, and loves to cook. Adopting older dogs and sharing the end of their lives is a privilege that has taught her patience & gratitude.

Kelly Northridge MBA, MPH, DPHIL has worked with, started, and grown many entrepreneurial ventures over the past 20 years across industries including corporate services, fashion, biotech, health tech, and social enterprise.

She has a background in finance including venture capital and mergers and acquisitions; economic impact; international strategy; change management and organizational development. She holds a BS in International Business and Economics, cum laude, from the University of Nevada, Reno, an MBA focused in International Sustainable Development from Cornell University, a Master’s in Public Health focused in International Health Management from UCLA, and completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford focused in Strategy & Innovation.

Trip is a serial entrepreneur with 25+ years experience in business building, sales, and growth management across the CPG, Hospitality, and tech industries. After graduating from Cornell, he spent a brief stint in the US Army as an armor officer, then joined the reserves and set about the nomadic lifestyle of hospitality management in resort locations.

Trip grew up in a family that focused on self-sufficiency and family business. In the mid 90’s he found his forever home in Lake Tahoe—then he drank some stuff out of a blue and silver can—and accepted a job that took him to LA.

After a period expanding US markets for Red Bull in the late 90’s, he joined a tech company pioneering web-based solutions for inventory management for bars and restaurants. He then began opening restaurants and hotels with his brothers in San Francisco and then New York. He consulted on multiple projects for SSP America’s airport operations.

Trip can be found in the company of his lab mutt and young son eating oysters at Marshall, trekking northern CA parks, boating on lake Tahoe, or biking anywhere they can fit in a ride.