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Sarah Kauss is Managing Partner at Avignon Partners where she is an investor and advisor to a range of brands in retail, tech and wellness. As the founder and former CEO of S’well, Sarah is a consumer products leader with a track record in launching companies, building multi-million dollar successful brands, and assembling high-performance senior leadership teams. She is a successful global entrepreneur, product design expert and has deep experience in helping companies develop and implement growth strategies to prepare for successful exits. Sarah held the position of CEO of S’well for ten years: bootstrapping with $30k of her savings to reach over $100M in annual revenue. During this time, Sarah created a new category and well-loved brand, helping to make sustainability more mainstream. With S’well, she helped displace more than 4 billion single-use plastic bottles and her original, iconic invention was named one of 25 designs that helped shape the world by Architectural Digest before Sarah sold the company in 2022.
Sarah is a member of the 2018 Class of Henry Crown Fellows and a member of the 2020 Class of Braddock Scholars within the Aspen Global Leadership Network at the Aspen Institute. She earned a BS in accounting from the University of Colorado, Boulder and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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