Lauren Dunford
About
Lauren Dunford is from San Francisco Bay Area. Lauren is currently Unreasonable Fellow at Unreasonable. Lauren also works as CEO and Co-Founder at Guidewheel, a job Lauren has held since Jul 2018. In Lauren's previous role as a Executive Committee at US Center for Advanced Manufacturing, Lauren worked in until Oct 2025. Prior to joining US Center for Advanced Manufacturing, Lauren was a Chief of Staff at Revolution Foods and held the position of Chief of Staff at Oakland, CA. Prior to that, Lauren was a Regional Partnership Director - West Coast at Revolution Foods, based in San Francisco Bay Area from Jul 2014 to Jun 2016. Lauren started working as Regional Partnerships Manager at Revolution Foods in Oakland, CA in Oct 2013. From Jun 2012 to Oct 2013, Lauren was Partnership Executive at Revolution Foods, based in Oakland, CA. Prior to that, Lauren was a School Account Manager at Revolution Foods, based in Oakland, CA from Jul 2011 to Jun 2012. Lauren started working as Fulbright Scholar at United States India Educational Foundation in New Delhi in Aug 2010.
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Lauren Dunford's current jobs
The Unreasonable Fellowship is by invitation only and provides a lifetime of support to select entrepreneurs operating at the nexus of impact and profit.
Guidewheel is on a mission to empower all the world’s factories to reach sustainable peak performance. We're founded out of Stanford and backed by top investors including BlackRock and Temasek's Decarbonization Partners fund, Greycroft, and Breakthrough Energy Ventures. Guidewheel's AI-powered FactoryOps platform clips onto any machine to turn its real-time “heartbeat” into a connected, actively learning system that empowers teams to reduce lost production time, increase throughput, and perform better and better over time. The more teams use Guidewheel, the bigger the impact—for their businesses and for the planet. Guidewheel works with 250+ manufacturers across five continents, has received awards from McKinsey, MIT, Stanford, and is recognized by the World Economic Forum as one of the 100 most promising companies globally poised to have a significant impact on business and society. We're growing fast! Join us: https://guidewheel.com/careers
Lauren Dunford's past jobs
The U.S. Center for Advanced Manufacturing is the first U.S. entity within the World Economic Forum's sixteen Centers for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It drives local, national, and global initiatives that accelerate and strengthen advanced manufacturing in the U.S. while helping to inform the global manufacturing agenda. Guest author for upcoming book on CRISP Manufacturing: Connectivity, Resilience, Intelligence, Sustainability and People Centricity.
Revolution Foods produces and delivers over 2 million fresh, healthy meals a week to 1,500+ schools across the country; 80% of students served quality for Free or Reduced Lunch.
Based out of Revolution Foods' East Oakland production facility, led West Coast team of Regional Partnership Managers, >$65M revenue (>50% of company-wide revenue). Recruited, trained, and created new partnership management and upsell systems and resources, and led partnership team for company's largest district account - 120 schools with 56,000 students - rolling out new programs reaching 60+ schools with >10,000 additional healthy meals/day.
Managed 120 partnerships to renew and grow programs ($9M in partnerships, 340,000 students). Closed new accounts and upsells worth $4.6M.
Business development and account management across Northern California. This included adding new platforms for existing partners and identifying and closing new partnerships. The resources my team developed to strengthen account management procedures and pitch new programs were rolled out companywide.
This role encompassed comprehensive account management for 46 sites in Northern California ($1.5M revenue, 24,000 students). Identified a partnership with the Stanford d.school to use design thinking to improve Revolution Foods' sales and account management structure, and worked as part of a cross-functional team to make recommendations and bring the project to fruition.
Supply chain research in India. Peer-reviewed paper published.