Alison Sunstrum is the CEO of CNSRV-X Inc. (Conserve X), a Canadian company developing and investing in emerging technology in agriculture, and a General Partner of The51 Food and AgTech Fund, investing in outliers transforming the business of food and agriculture. She is also a Venture Partner, Ag, and LP at Builders VC, a San Francisco/Calgary venture capital fund investing in founders re-imagining large, underinvested, antiquated industries. She is a Founding Partner and Fellow in the Ag Stream of the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Rockies, and the Manufacturing stream Seattle.
Alison is a member of the Canadian Council of Innovators, Agri-Food Innovation Council, the Canadian Institute of Corporate Directors, and a former member of Canada’s Agrifood Economic Strategy Table. In 2021 Alison was recognized as one of Canada’s most influential leaders in agriculture.