Ariana Day Yuan

Ariana Day Yuen is the Founder of Forested, an ingredients marketplace on a mission to conserve the world's most critically biodiverse forests. She started her career as a management consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton in their DC and New York City offices where she advised clients across the government, non-profit, and private sectors. She then joined TechnoServe in their Ethiopia office consulting on projects with Nespresso, Mondelez, Gates Foundation, JDC, the Swedish Government, and Diageo to design and build more sustainable and equitable smallholder value chains and market systems. Her accumulated experiences, passion for sustainable and delicious food, and deepening sense of responsibility to tackle complex societal issues are what led to her building Forested. Prior Forested, Ariana co-founded Common Farms, an indoor farm in Hong Kong, as well as a North Korean arts fundraising series.

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Ariana grew up in Hong Kong before she moved to the United States to attend Syracuse University, where she triple-majored in Advertising Communications, Entrepreneurship, and Economics. She later received her MBA from Yale’s School of Management, with a concentration of courses from Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.

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