Magi Richani is the founder and C.E.O. of Nobell Foods, a company making dairy products from plants to create a radically more sustainable food system. Nobell is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Robert Downey Jr. ‘s FootPrint Coalition and has raised over $100m to commercialize its first product: cheese. Prior to founding Nobell, Magi was a project manager at Shell. She holds a bachelor’s degree in civil and environmental engineering from the University of Texas Austin and a master’s degree in engineering and project management from UC Berkeley.