Amie Vaccaro is founder and CEO of Cobblestone Solutions. She works with a network of talented individuals to provide clients the highest quality service possible.
About Amie
Amie’s passions in life are people, doing more with less, incentivizing positive change and using the power of business to improve lives and save the planet. From an early age, she has had an innate drive to conserve resources and make money – for example, as a small child growing up in New Hampshire, she would regularly collect things around the house that she imagined no one needed and then attempt to sell them on the corner, much to her parents’ chagrin.
Previously, Amie has worked as Director of Business Development and Marketing at Viv, which gives consumers an easy and powerful way to drive environmental change. There she was responsible for developing all partnerships and relationships necessary for rapid growth, spearheading investor conversations and other fundraising efforts, and end to end marketing, execution and community building for a new core product launch which resulted in doubling twitter followers, 50% increase in newsletter subscribers, 25% growth in Facebook fans, enhanced web traffic, and 11 media mentions/articles about the new program in 1 month.
As Program Manager at SVT Group, Amie developed an “SROI Lite” calculator tool that provides a consistent mechanism by which organization staff may assess the potential impact and return on investment of disparate programs. The tool has been made a part of SVT’s core product suite. While at SVT, Amie was also responsible for managing a team of interns, managing the co-working space, creating marketing materials, developing new business, and recruiting.
As an Associate Consultant with Bain & Company, Amie worked with Fortune 500 and nonprofit clients on critical business issues in the healthcare, retail, and utilities spaces. She focused on growth strategy, cost reduction and organizational performance improvement. While at Bain she also founded and led a Green Team for the 300-employee San Francisco office, which achieved significant strides in reducing the company’s carbon footprint.
At green media company, Green Zebra, Amie refined the venture’s sustainable savings guides, built and managed relationships with local businesses, and was instrumental in the development of corporate, government and small business sponsorships.
Amie graduated phi beta kappa with a B.S. with high honors from Brown University. She is fluent in Spanish. She writes for TriplePundit, GreenBiz, NextBillion and Sustainable Industries about green business, social and eco-entrepreneurship, and other bright ideas. She is a member of the Full Circle Fund’s Environment Circle, on the New Leaders Council’s Advisory Board, founding member of The Hub and spoke at Net Impact 2009 about finding a green job. See what others have to say about working with her here: http://www.linkedin.com/in/amievaccaro.