Kristin Toth
Kristin Toth is a founder, board director, and trusted advisor to CEOs and leadership teams at pivotal moments in their companies’ evolution. She founded Ulu Partners to help leaders navigate the shift from building a business to building a scalable, enduring company. Previously, she was a late-stage founder, board director, and President & Chief Operating Officer at Fernish (acquired by Showroom Group/Vesta Home). Her startup career began at Zulily as Vice President, Operations where she built and scaled the full operations organization through IPO. She subsequently held CEO and COO positions at startups Code Fellows (software coding school) and Dolly (on-demand last-mile delivery and moving, acquired by IKEA/TaskRabbit). Earlier, in eight years at Amazon, Kristin led several teams across the company, building Prime, launching same day delivery, serving as category manager of Movies & Television, and leading teams responsible for building and launching Amazon’s digital music offering.
Kristin holds a BSE and MSE in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research from the Tauber Institute for Global Operations at the University of Michigan, a SM in Civil and Environmental Engineering from MIT, and an MBA/SM from MIT’s Sloan School of Management through the Leaders for Global Operations fellowship program.
Kristin is a director and governance committee chair for Radiant Logistics (RLGT) and serves on the boards of Seattle Hospitality Group's portfolio company MTR Western, Armoire, and Aira Technologies. She's also an active volunteer and serves on and leads non-profit boards of directors and dedicates time helping others be successful, through education, coaching, advisory positions, and mentoring. She is a lecturer for and serves as the Board Chair for University of Michigan’s Center for Entrepreneurship. She was a contributing author for Women in Tech (Sasquatch Books) and enjoys speaking at conferences and corporate events and teaching at universities and privately. Kristin lives on Lake Sammamish, just outside of Seattle, where she can often be found paddle boarding (with her golden retriever, Maizey) or wake surfing.