How Instacart Health Is Delivering the Ingredients for Healthier Living
Sam Kass is the former Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition in the Obama administration, Executive Director of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Campaign and the Obama family chef. He is a Partner in Acre Venture Partners. After cooking for the Obamas in Chicago for two years, Sam joined the White House kitchen staff in 2009. During his White House tenure, he took on several additional roles including Executive Director of First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign and Senior White House Policy Advisor for Nutrition. Sam is the first person in the history of the White House to have a position in the Executive Office of the President and the Residence. As one of the First Lady’s longest-serving advisors, he helped the First Lady create the first major vegetable garden at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden. Currently Sam is a Partner at Acre Venture Partners. Acre is a venture capital fund investing in the future of food with a mission to improve human and environmental health in the food system. The fund focuses on early stage, highly disruptive impactful companies in the food system focused on agriculture, supply chain and consumer. In 2011, Fast Company included Sam in their list of 100 Most Creative People, and in 2012, he helped create the American Chef Corps, which is dedicated to promoting diplomacy through culinary initiatives. He is an MIT Media Lab fellow and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago.Sam is the author of Eat a Little Better: Great Flavor, Good Health, Better World, which was published by Clarkson Potter on April 17, 2018.
Sam Kass is the former Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition in the Obama administration, Executive Director of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Campaign and the Obama family chef. He is a Partner in Acre Venture Partners. After cooking for the Obamas in Chicago for two years, Sam joined the White House kitchen staff in 2009. During his White House tenure, he took on several additional roles including Executive Director of First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign and Senior White House Policy Advisor for Nutrition. Sam is the first person in the history of the White House to have a position in the Executive Office of the President and the Residence. As one of the First Lady’s longest-serving advisors, he helped the First Lady create the first major vegetable garden at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden. Currently Sam is a Partner at Acre Venture Partners. Acre is a venture capital fund investing in the future of food with a mission to improve human and environmental health in the food system. The fund focuses on early stage, highly disruptive impactful companies in the food system focused on agriculture, supply chain and consumer. In 2011, Fast Company included Sam in their list of 100 Most Creative People, and in 2012, he helped create the American Chef Corps, which is dedicated to promoting diplomacy through culinary initiatives. He is an MIT Media Lab fellow and a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago.Sam is the author of Eat a Little Better: Great Flavor, Good Health, Better World, which was published by Clarkson Potter on April 17, 2018.
Fidji Simo is the Chief Executive Officer of Instacart. She joined Instacart as CEO in August 2021, and has been a member of Instacart's Board of Directors since February 2021. Simo is a consumer technology industry veteran, having spent more than 15 years leading the operations, strategy and product development for some of the world’s leading businesses. In 2022, Simo launched Instacart Health, a sweeping new initiative designed to deliver the ingredients for healthier living. Through new products, strategic partnerships, cutting-edge research, and policy advocacy commitments, Instacart Health is built to help increase nutrition security, make healthy choices easier for consumers, and expand the role that food can play in improving health outcomes. Prior to joining Instacart, Simo was the Vice President and Head of the Facebook app, which reaches billions of people every month. During her decade at Facebook, Simo oversaw the development and strategy for the Facebook app, including News Feed, Stories, Groups, Video, Marketplace, Gaming, News, Dating, Ads and more. Prior to Facebook, Simo joined eBay in 2007 as part of the Strategy team, where she helped build out the company’s local commerce and classified-advertising initiatives. Simo also serves as co-founder of Metrodora and President of the Metrodora Foundation, a multidisciplinary medical clinic and research foundation dedicated to the care and cure of neuroimmune conditions. In addition, Simo is the co-founder of Women in Product, a leading non-profit organization dedicated to empowering women in technology. She also serves as a member of the Board of Directors at Shopify. Simo holds a Master of Management from HEC Paris and spent the last year of her Masters program at UCLA Anderson School of Business.
Fidji Simo is the Chief Executive Officer of Instacart. She joined Instacart as CEO in August 2021, and has been a member of Instacart's Board of Directors since February 2021. Simo is a consumer technology industry veteran, having spent more than 15 years leading the operations, strategy and product development for some of the world’s leading businesses. In 2022, Simo launched Instacart Health, a sweeping new initiative designed to deliver the ingredients for healthier living. Through new products, strategic partnerships, cutting-edge research, and policy advocacy commitments, Instacart Health is built to help increase nutrition security, make healthy choices easier for consumers, and expand the role that food can play in improving health outcomes. Prior to joining Instacart, Simo was the Vice President and Head of the Facebook app, which reaches billions of people every month. During her decade at Facebook, Simo oversaw the development and strategy for the Facebook app, including News Feed, Stories, Groups, Video, Marketplace, Gaming, News, Dating, Ads and more. Prior to Facebook, Simo joined eBay in 2007 as part of the Strategy team, where she helped build out the company’s local commerce and classified-advertising initiatives. Simo also serves as co-founder of Metrodora and President of the Metrodora Foundation, a multidisciplinary medical clinic and research foundation dedicated to the care and cure of neuroimmune conditions. In addition, Simo is the co-founder of Women in Product, a leading non-profit organization dedicated to empowering women in technology. She also serves as a member of the Board of Directors at Shopify. Simo holds a Master of Management from HEC Paris and spent the last year of her Masters program at UCLA Anderson School of Business.