# Tiffany Card > President & CTO, Board Member | Stanford MBA + IDEO Alum focused on Carbon Markets & Existential Risk Mitigation Location: Palo Alto, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/tiffanycard As the President & CTO and a Board Member of Komaza, I led the vision and execution of our innovative technology platform that is revolutionizing African forestry by unlocking the potential of small farmers to serve booming wood markets. My passion for climate innovation and social impact is driven by my background in mechanical engineering, design methodology, and business administration from Yale and Stanford. I leverage my skills in user research, product design, rapid prototyping, and lean methodology to create scalable and sustainable solutions to carbon removal. I also advise and mentor start-ups on product usability, design, branding, marketing, and strategy, helping teams better integrate human-centered design and lean methodology to nail product/market fit. ## Work Experience ### Board of Advisors @ StartX Jan 2024 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States Founder alum mentor advising start-ups via the Board of Advisors program on strategic market advice in the Climate Tech space, with a focus on fundraising strategy, product, brand, marketing and user growth. ### President & CTO, Board Member @ Komaza Jan 2016 – Present Komaza is revolutionizing African forestry by unlocking the potential for small farmers to serve booming carbon & wood markets. With roots in San Francisco and headquarters in coastal Kenya, we have planted over 10 million trees with more than 25,000 farmers, making us one of Africa's top 3 commercial tree planters. By leveraging farmers’ contribution of land and labor, Komaza can access effectively limitless land and establish a hectare of trees for far less than big plantations – a powerful cost disruption to the traditional forestry model. ### Designer-in-Residence, Design Mentor @ StartX. Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto, California, United States Advising the StartX community on product usability, design, branding, marketing and strategy. Focus on helping teams better integrate Human-Centered Design and Lean Methodology to nail product/market fit. StartX is a non-profit organization whose mission is to accelerate the development of Stanford's top entrepreneurs. ### Founder + CEO @ Briefly Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Palo Alto, CA Briefly was a mobile consumer fashion concierge disrupting the e-commerce sector through smart use of social algorithms. We built a network of fashion influencers then used behavioral data to match shoppers and stylists in order to deliver personalized, complete look recommendations. ### Director of Business Development @ Sociometrics Corporation Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Los Altos, California Reorganized internal sales team and launched new selling strategy based around vertical markets, leading to a 35% increase in profit from product sales. Designed and led technology pivot to turn decades of top evidence-based content into a cloud-based platform for health educators to learn and teach new curricula. ### Business Strategist In Residence @ West Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco, California, United States Business strategy at West, a hybrid marketing and venture capital studio focused on helping to launch and scale a new generation of market creators and disruptors. Worked with founding teams at Path and Dropbox. ### Senior Product Designer and Project Leader @ IDEO Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 Led project teams and engineering of innovative products across a wide range of industries including healthcare, fashion, CPG, and automotive. Did everything from ethnographic research to prototyping, CAD and six-sigma design for manufacturability. Champion brainstormer. IDEO is an award-winning global design firm that takes a human-centered, design-based approach to helping organizations innovate and grow. ## Education ### MBA Stanford University Graduate School of Business ### MSME in Mechanical Engineering, concentration in Design Methodology Stanford University ### B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Literature Yale University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tiffanycard - Website: https://komaza.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/tiffanycard JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/tiffanycard/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-08