Christie Lagally is the founder and CEO of Rebellyous Foods, a food production technology startup working to make plant-based chicken price-competitive with conventional chicken. Lagally is a mechanical engineer by trade and the holder of multiple patents in manufacturing technology. She began her career in the aerospace industry working on testing, designing, and manufacturing commercial airplanes at Boeing. Lagally also served as a senior scientist for the Good Food Institute, uncovering technical barriers in the development of plant-based and cultured meat. Now at Rebellyous, she focuses on designing novel manufacturing equipment that addresses the two most significant obstacles facing the plant-based meat industry: cost and quality-at-scale. Lagally holds a BA in organizational psychology and a BS and MS in mechanical engineering.