Mahima is the SVP of Commercial Development at GIST Impact, the world’s leading provider of science-based data and insights on social and environmental impact. GIST Impact is the chosen impact partner for the world’s largest corporations, and investors representing over $8 trillion in assets under management. Mahima has led GIST Impact’s commercial team through a period of rapid growth, building out key product propositions and channel partnerships.

She was previously a Director at Xynteo, a sustainability advisory firm, where she led the innovation practice and worked with multinational companies to design and re-design products, services and business models to tackle a wide range of social and environmental challenges, from plastic waste, to access to energy, to sanitation.

Her background is in product innovation, and she has led teams to develop several new-to-world products in the wearable technology and smart home categories.

Mahima is on the Advisory Board of BirdLife International, and a judge on Tech Nation’s Net Zero accelerator programme.

She graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a degree in Political Science and Environmental Studies.