McDonough School of Business

Kristin Kelly (MBA’00)

After receiving a bachelor’s degree in Biology and Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University, Kristin began her career in healthcare marketing in Washington, DC. Kristin earned her MBA from Georgetown University in 2000 and went on to pursue a career in brand management at Lancome, a division of L’Oreal. She later became a merchandising executive at Cole Haan’s design offices in New York, NY. Kristin is married and is the proud mother of two very active boys. Since 2009, Kristin has held numerous leadership roles in the Parents’ Association at her children’s school, as well as in local community organizations such as the Greenwich Land Trust. As a board member of the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation, the nation’s largest pediatric cancer research charity, Kristin founded a series of celebrity chef dinners which have raised over $700k for pediatric cancer research since 2017. Most recently, she founded and owns Wander, a boutique catering company and food truck based in Jackson, Wyoming.