Ellie Symes

About Ellie

• I grew up watching my mom thrive as a successful career woman.
• I went into college knowing that I ultimately wanted my career to involve solving environmental problems—I chose to major in environmental management.
• I decided to go to graduate school straight after completing my undergraduate degree—I studied international development and worked with women farmer groups in India and Africa.
• While in graduate school, I became very interested in bees and started a beekeeping club.
• I was encouraged by my university to take the beekeeping club further, which resulted in switching my major to information systems and co-founding The Bee Corp.
• My co-founder and I won a substantial amount of money in a business plan competition to help get our business started.
• We originally wanted to use technology to become the best beekeepers in the country, but decided that was too capital-intensive, so we decided to focus on developing technology to help beekeepers.
• I currently manage The Bee Corp as the CEO and hope to keep growing and creating a positive social and environmental impact throughout my career.