Lauren Palumbo is the Senior Director, Operations at HXE Partners.

Lauren’s background is in strategic organizational growth, systems implementation, and team and culture development. She previously served as the Chief Operating Officer at Lovin’ Spoonfuls where she oversaw scaling the organization from a small startup to New England’s largest food recovery organization and worked to address the parallel challenges of wasted food and food insecurity. Prior to this, Lauren worked in operations, marketing, and management roles across the socially responsible investing, education equity, and hospitality sectors.

Lauren holds a B.S. from Northeastern University in Graphic Design and Business Administration. She was previously recognized as one of the Boston Business Journal’s ’40 Under 40′, which recognizes Boston’s young business leaders.