Kristi brings extensive experience in business development and sales management to her fundraising work at AchieveMpls. She is a former business development manager for Siemens, a global technology and engineering company, and has also held marketing and sales positions with British Petroleum and Eastman Kodak. Kristi is an active volunteer in the Twin Cities community and the Minneapolis Public Schools, where her three children attend school. She is former treasurer of the board of directors for Community Emergency Service, and was recently elected to the board of directors of the Friends of the Hennepin County Library. She holds a B.S. in marketing from Indiana University.