Adriana Kliegman

Adriana is a founding partner at AKA Imagine, LLC, a product development firm. She has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a M.S. in Sustainability Management from Columbia University. She has worked internally and as a consultant for several Fortune 500 companies such as Energizer, Revlon, Stryker, Dell, and OXO Good Grips. She’s passionate about developing products, services, and ideas with benefits that help improve people’s quality of life. Her expertise in various manufacturing processes, technologies and materials allows her to find unique and innovative product solutions that can be easily manufactured and brought to market. She has developed and launched several patented products over the years resulting in increased market share and revenue growth. To ensure that products are safe and reliable, she employs risk management techniques used in the medical device industry. Adriana’s M.S. in Sustainability Management helps her analyze the economic, social and environmental impacts associated with sourcing, distribution, use, disposal, and re-use of products.