SupplyShift is definitely a huge Santa Cruz success story. With its beginnings at TechRaising seven years ago, SupplyShift was co-founded by Alex Gershenson and Jamie Barsimantov — two PhDs in Climate Science and Environmental Economics.

From the SupplyShift website:

While consulting with companies to help them understand their carbon footprint, Alex and Jamie saw a change in corporate sustainability thinking. Businesses were starting to expand their focus from only their own internal operations into their supply chain, where the greatest impact is found. They also noticed a gap in the way businesses managed their supply chains. Companies were spending too much time managing data, leaving them no time to drive the strategic changes they wanted to see in their supply chains.

 So Alex and Jamie put together a passionate team of professionals to build a solution — a solution that helps businesses work efficiently with their suppliers to improve the products they make and sell. Because without tools to help streamline the process, you’ll never get to the important part — transforming your supply chain. We believe that with the right resources, companies will view the supply chain as a strategic asset for their business, where transparency, risk resilience, and responsible business work in tandem to the value of the business as a whole.

Flash forward to today, G Craig Vachon announced on his LinkedIn page that he joined SupplyShift as the head of corporate development.

Excited to announce I have joined SupplyShift as the head of corporate development. SupplyShift is a data management platform uniquely architected to capture and analyze a customer's #supplychain #sustainability and #ESG metrics. This amazing team and its timely mission have earned us >40 #fortune500companies as customers including Walmart, HP, and Johnson & Johnson. Want to learn more? Let's talk soon.

G Craig Vachon

Check out this weeks Santa Cruz Works Lightning Interview with G Craig Vachon (video above) as we discuss more about SupplyShift and why he jumped on board. He also lets us know his original feelings about SupplyShift that were not so favorable but how his mind was changed (a great lesson for entrepreneurs here).