Overview

Gender

female

Investor Type

Angel

Christiana Wyly is an environmental advocate who serves as an evangelist for a sustainable future. Christiana's unique perspective as a twenty-something businesswoman has landed her on the cover of Kiplinger's and inside The New York Times, C Magazine, The Dallas Morning News, and The Herald Tribune among others. In addition to contributing regularly to the HuffingtonPost.com's “Green” column, Christiana is a frequent lecturer. Her recent speaking engagements include the Green Inaugural Ball, the Aspen Ideas Festival, the Conscious Capitalism Conference, Hollywood Goes Green in Los Angeles, and the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali.

She was a founding partner of Zaadz.com, an online network for people who want to change the world, which was sold to Gaiam, inc. in 2007. Her passion for social technology, global change, and empowering young entrepreneurs globally keep her on the cutting edge of new media and emerging ideas.

Christiana inspired her father, Sam Wyly's, environmental education, leading him to found one of the largest clean-energy companies in the country, Green Mountain Energy. This experience showed her how business can be a powerful force for change. Christiana remains actively involved in the company, and she and her father are in the process of coauthoring a book about its creation, its ongoing mission, and success.