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Laura Modi

Laura Modi

Founder & CEO, Bobbie, Henry Crown Fellowship

Washington, DC

Laura Modi is the Founder and CEO of Bobbie, the first mom-founded and led infant feeding company and the third-largest fully integrated infant formula manufacturer in the U.S. As a mother of four, Modi is on a mission to fundamentally reform the infant formula industry—setting higher nutritional standards, increasing transparency, and driving accountability in a historically opaque and under-regulated space. A 2025 TIME Woman of the Year and CNBC Changemaker, she has become a leading voice for reform in a $90 billion industry long resistant to change. In the wake of the 2022 formula crisis, Laura worked with lawmakers to help introduce the Infant Formula Made in America Act and launched Bobbie for Change, the company’s advocacy arm. Before founding Bobbie, Laura held leadership roles at Airbnb and Google. Originally from Westport, Ireland, she now lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and four children.