2024 ReFED Food Waste Solutions Summit
June 11-13, 2024 | Baltimore, MD
Baltimore Convention Center
Abhi Ramesh
CEO and Founder
Misfits Market
Bio:
Abhi Ramesh is the CEO and Founder of Misfits Market, a direct-to-consumer online grocery marketplace focused on sustainability, affordability, and accessibility.
In 2018, Abhi founded Misfits Market, building an entirely new food value supply chain that solves the many inefficiencies across the food system. Through working directly with farmers and producers to rescue food that might otherwise go to waste, the company has saved over 228 million pounds of food and has delivered $155 million as a new stream of “rescue revenue” to farmers and producers. Abhi led the company through the acquisition of Imperfect Foods in November of 2022, putting both companies on a path to profitability and one step closer to creating a more affordable and sustainable grocery experience.
Abhi holds a Bachelor of Science in economics and a Bachelor of Arts from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and has been recognized as a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and EY Entrepreneur of the Year for 2021.
Schedule
Wednesday, June 12
9:00am - 10:30am
Mainstage 1 | The Road to Scale: Accelerating Action for Lasting Impact
Mainstage Session
Food waste is a solvable problem, and dozens of high-impact solutions already exist. So what will it take for the food system to finally start adopting them at scale? Our opening session will dig into the answer from a few different angles. We’ll hear an opening keynote from ReFED’s Dana Gunders and be welcomed to the Summit by a White House representative. Then we’ll hear from a series of innovators about how they were able to get their solutions to “break through” with end users. And we’ll close with a keynote by a special guest. As Dana famously said in her opening remarks at last year’s Summit, the time for pilots is over – we know what works, so let’s start doing it.