Ilana Golant - Founder & CEO - Food Allergy Fund - Improving Lives Of All Living With Food Allergies

Ilana Golant is the Founder and CEO of The Food Allergy Fund ( https://foodallergyfund.org/ ) a leading nonprofit dedicated to funding food allergy research, with a focus on identifying underlying causes, discovering new therapeutics, and improving the lives of all people living with food allergies, and through their ground-breaking research and unique thought leadership summits, accelerating innovation to find solutions.

Ms. Golant is a marketing and PR executive, an attorney, and a former government official, as well as a mother of a child with food allergies.

Ms. Golant has extensive experience working with media organizations, academic institutions, and Fortune 100 clients. She has held executive roles at WPP, the world’s largest advertising and PR conglomerate, as well as at NBCUniversal, specifically working with CNBC, MSNBC, and NBC News.

Prior to joining NBCU, Ms. Golant was an attorney-advisor in the Office of Financial Stability at the U.S. Department of Treasury and an attorney at Mayer Brown LLP. She received her B.A. from Columbia University and her J.D. from the New York University School of Law.