Profiles

Ariel is the Senior Business Development Manager for ELEVATE’s risk analytics platform, “ELEVATE IQ”. Her MBA with an emphasis in Sustainability coupled with a decade’s worth of client management experience makes Ariel the perfect EiQ client-facing expert at ELEVATE. Her role is to understand how risk management comes into play with maintaining a responsible sourcing program.

As a bicycle enthusiast, Ariel started out working in soft goods for a number of cycling brands and eventually transitioned into social impact business development. In her professional career, Ariel was first exposed to manufacturing at a backpack factory in San Francisco and she has since visited apparel and furniture factories across India and Pakistan.

Ariel received her Master’s in Business Administration from Presidio Graduate School in San Francisco. She has deep experience in soft goods production, account management and corporate sales.