Overview

Gender

female

Lisa Dyson is the CEO of Kiverdi, a next-generation sustainable oil company that converts CO2 and waste carbon gases into customized oils using the power of biotechnology. Lisa's technical background began with a Ph.D. in physics from MIT and has included research in bioengineering, energy and physics at Stanford University, University of California-Berkeley, Princeton University, University of California-San Francisco and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories. Lisa was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of London, where she earned a master's degree, and has degrees in physics and mathematics from Brandeis University.

Lisa's entrepreneurial background began when she was on the founding team of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) start-up that received funding from Microsoft and later built and led a team that developed a technology that reached millions in volunteering campaigns. Among her recent accolades, Lisa was honored by the San Francisco Business Times as One of the Most Influential Women in the Bay Area for a second year in a row and was given their Forty Under 40 award for her leadership.