Impact Podcast with John Shegerian Features Thrive Market’s Kristin De Simone

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kristin De Simone, Senior Manager of Mission at Thrive Market, is the featured guest this week on the Impact Podcast with John Shegerian. The show is hosted by Shegerian, Co-Founder and Chairman/CEO of ERI, the nation’s leading fully integrated IT and electronics asset disposition provider and cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction company.

De Simone acts as the architect of Thrive Market’s mission and environmental stewardship. Thrive Market is the online, membership-based market delivering the highest quality, healthy and sustainable products at member-only prices. De Simone joined the Thrive Market team in 2015 with a hunger to help Americans reclaim access to healthy living, making it easy and affordable for everyone. At present, her areas of leadership include managing social and environmental impact, leading the team’s food equality and social impact arm. She also steers Thrive Market’s sustainability and environmental stewardship efforts, where she atlased securing the coveted “B Corp'' certification, an impressive set of standards verifying social and environmental performance, public transparency and legal accountability to balance purpose and profit.

“It was rewarding to have Kristin on the show to share her story and all the impactful work she and her team at Thrive Market are accomplishing,” said Shegerian. “Thrive Market’s sustainability successes and game plan for the next five years are beyond impressive and I know our audience will be inspired to hear Kristin describe her team’s laser focus on environmental and social responsibility.”

Impact Podcast guests are invited as thought leaders to share with listeners first-hand accounts of how they are able to help make the world a better place on a daily basis.

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