Susan Hunt Stevens is an award-winning founder & CEO in the climate tech and sustainability space. She is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of Tessi, which helps people repair homes after natural disasters. Tessi was incubated inside of Spark Global, a climate innovation studio that provides investment, advisory services, and new venture development in the climate innovation space.
Previously, she was the Founder & CEO of WeSpire, an employee experience technology platform focused on educating and activating people in sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and social impact initiatives. WeSpire was used by over 100 global companies, hundreds of thousands of employees, received a World Changing Idea award from Fast Company and was selected as Environmental Leader’s Product of the Year. As CEO of WeSpire, Susan was named an EY Entrepreneur of the Year, to the Environmental Leader 100, Meaningful Business 100, and recently received a top Women in Sustainability Leadership Award. In 2023, WeSpire was acquired by Bonterra, an Apax and Vista Equity Partners portfolio company.
She is also a highly rated speaker, writer, and advisor in the impact space. She has served as an executive in residence for Earthshot Ventures, a strategic advisor to CIBO Technologies, and serves on the boards of the Massachusetts Technology Leaders Council and SRI Inc and the advisory board of The Trustees of the Reservations. She also spent several years on the board of the Center for Women in Enterprise and the Alliance for Climate Transition.
Prior to WeSpire, she spent 9 years at The New York Times Company, as a senior vice president of marketing and digital for The New York Times Digital and The Boston Globe. She also served as General Manager of Boston.com and co-founded Abridge, a natural language processing and machine learning focused collaboration startup. She started her career in management consulting at APM and Oliver Wyman.
She has an MBA from The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where she was named a Tuck Scholar, and graduated with high honors from Wesleyan University. She has a graduate certificate in Sustainable Design from the Boston Architectural College and credits her class on LEED buildings for giving her the idea behind WeSpire.
A native of the Pacific Northwest, she now lives in Newton, MA with her husband Peter, son Hunter, daughter Quinlen, and rescue lab Felix.
