Lise Laurin founded EarthShift in 2000 to support businesses in their endeavor to reduce environmental impacts. She brings to this effort over 20 years in industry, with roles in manufacturing engineering, R&D, and marketing. For the last nine years, she has been working at various levels of capacity building within the areas of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Total Cost Assessment (TCA), providing software tools, training, and consulting. Lise chairs the AIChE’s TCA Roundtable. She is a member of the board of advisors of the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment, a member of the board of advisors to the US LCI Database Project, a Technical Advisory Group Member, CarbonFund.org, contributor to the UNEP SETAC Life Cycle Initiative, and a member of the IEEE, AIChE, and MRS. She began her professional life as a process engineer at Intel. She holds a BS in Physics from Yale University.