Catherine Roggero-Lovisi: Modern Meadow
Episode description
This week’s guest is Catherine Roggero-Lovisi, CEO of the bio-design technology company Modern Meadow. Founded in 2011, these researchers and scientists are using nature-inspired proteins to develop sustainable materials and products for fashion, beauty, and other industries, like biomaterial alternatives to leather!
After leadership roles at L’Oréal, Christian Louboutin, and Revlon Inc, Catherine joined Modern Meadow as President and COO in 2021. She became CEO in 2022, and she’s using her global consumer goods expertise to push the company to new heights.
Catherine brings a refreshing perspective to the conversation. If you’re interested in valuable takeaways from her leadership roles at prior beauty companies, how Modern Meadow is innovating the biofabrication industry, how to align purpose and profits, or what the future of material science holds, you’ll get all of that and more. Listen now on all major podcast platforms!
More from the episode:
Modern Meadow on LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/company/modern-meadow/ ||
Catherine on LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-roggero-lovisi-1a38a543/ ||
Conor on LinkedIn → https://www.linkedin.com/in/ckgone/ ||
Episode time stamps:
00:00:04 Cold Open
00:00:52 Introduction
00:02:34 Background and Early Influences
00:07:38 Career Before to Modern Meadow
00:14:56 Modern Meadow
00:25:58 Sustainability and Science
00:36:52 An Industry-Wide View
00:42:40 Aligning Profit and Purpose
00:45:30 What’s Next?
00:51:24 End Credits