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Laura Modi

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Chief Public Policy & Impact Officer

Lauren Riplinger

Laura Modi is the Founder and CEO of Bobbie, the only mom-founded and led pediatric nutrition company and the third-largest fully integrated infant formula manufacturer in the U.S. As a mother of four, Modi is on a mission to fundamentally reform the infant formula industry—setting higher nutritional standards, increasing transparency, and driving accountability in a historically opaque and under-regulated space.

In the wake of the 2022 infant formula crisis, Modi refused to accept the status quo. She launched Bobbie for Change, the company’s social good and advocacy arm, to champion the issues that matter most to modern parents—including better nutritional standards by the FDA, paid parental leave, and the maternal health crisis. Under her leadership, Bobbie has become a platform for systemic change, pushing the industry toward more rigorous, science-backed, and parent-centric standards.

Modi has spent the last two years working alongside lawmakers to co-create and introduce the 'Infant Formula Made in America Act', a landmark piece of legislation aimed at ensuring greater domestic resilience, safety, and access to infant nutrition. She is simultaneously growing Bobbie and reshaping an industry to make sure a nationwide shortage never happens again.

To date, Bobbie has nourished over 500,000 American babies. Modi has been recognized as a TIME Woman of the Year and a CNBC Changemaker, hailed as a disruptive force in a $90 billion global industry that has long prioritized profits over parents.

Before founding Bobbie, Modi held executive roles at Airbnb and Google Finance. Originally from Westport, Ireland, she now lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and four children—Mary, Colin, Owen, and Etta.

Lauren currently serves as AHIMA’s Chief Public Policy and Impact Officer. In this capacity, she is responsible for providing strategic and operational oversight over AHIMA’s advocacy and programmatic strategy to demonstrate mission impact. Prior to that, Lauren served as Vice President of Policy & Government Affairs at AHIMA, overseeing the organization’s policy and advocacy before Congress and various federal agencies. With two decades of healthcare policy experience, Lauren previously worked on Capitol Hill where she was actively involved in almost every aspect of a congressional office, including serving as Chief of Staff—a position that requires the ability to quickly synthesize multiple issues and adapt to constantly shifting priorities. Lauren received her JD from American University Washington College of Law and a Bachelor of Arts from Vanderbilt University. She is admitted to practice law in New York.

As a CEO and mother of two, Kara is driven to create solutions that value a woman’s time. She leads a passionate team at Teal Health, on a mission to develop a more equitable and accessible future for women’s healthcare, starting with cervical cancer. By creating the option for a woman to screen for cervical cancer from the comfort of home and providing telehealth follow-up, Teal can increase access to this life-saving cancer screening. Kara has spent her career at the intersection of healthcare and technology as a health tech investor (.406 Ventures), a software investor (Emergence Capital), and an operator at tech companies (Zendesk). Most recently, Teal Health announced FDA approval of the Teal WandTM, the first FDA-approved at-home cervical cancer screening. This includes both an at-home self-collection device and a telehealth platform to make it easy for women to order a kit, learn of their results, speak with a Teal medical provider, and be referred to any in-person follow-up care at a local OBGYN office. 


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Kara Egan