Paul Lightfoot
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Founder and President of BrightFarms (Raised >$100m), and board member of United Fresh Produce Association.

A healthy and sustainable food zealot, Paul leads the company on its mission to revolutionize the U.S. produce supply chain by creating the first national brand of local produce. Beginning his career as a Wall Street attorney, Paul went on to found Foodline, a venture-backed software company providing customer and reservations information technology to restaurants. He then became CEO of BSG (and its predecessor, AL Systems), which provided enterprise software solutions to improve the supply chains of large retailers and distributors, for 10 years before joining BrightFarms in 2011. Paul has been featured on Fast Company’s list of “1000 Most Creative People in Business” and was recognized as a “Rising Star in Retail” by Chain Store Age magazine.