Boryana Straubel

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Boryana Straubel
Dineva, Boryana September 2015.jpg
Straubel in 2015
Born
Boryana Dineva

(1983-05-25)May 25, 1983
Bulgaria
DiedJune 19, 2021(2021-06-19) (aged 38)[1]
Washoe Valley, Nevada[2]
EducationCollege of San Mateo[1]
University of California, Berkeley[1]
Alma materStanford University[1]
Spouse(s)J. B. Straubel[1]
Websitestraubelfoundation.org/thefounders

Boryana Dineva Straubel (May 25, 1983 – June 19, 2021) was a Bulgarian businesswoman and philanthropist who emigrated to the United States.[3] She managed a family foundation that focused on environmental sustainability. She founded a jewelry company, Generation Collection, to promote environmental sustainability through the recycling of metals.[3][1][4] [5][6] She was a manager in Human Resources at Tesla, the electric car company.[3] She married Tesla executive J. B. Straubel in 2013.[3] In 2015, she became the vice president of Human Resources for the Wikimedia Foundation for one year.[3] As she was bicycling in a designated lane in Nevada in June 2021, a car crossed the center line and struck her, killing her instantly.[2][3]

Education[]

She studied at the Silicon Valley College of San Mateo and later at the University of California, Berkeley. She went back to school and obtained a Management Science & Engineering Master's degree and an MBA at Stanford University.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Elizabeth Paton (April 23, 2021). "Does Recycled Gold Herald a Greener Future for Jewelry? Boryana Straubel, founder of Generation Collection, calls recycled gold a way to clean up electronic waste — and a canny investment". The New York Times. Retrieved July 5, 2021. ...With economics and industrial engineering degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford, and a decade working at Tesla, the electric-car company where her husband was a co-founder, Boryana Straubel had long set her sights on the technology revolutions spawned in and around Silicon Valley....
  2. ^ a b Terell Wilkins and Chelcey Adami (June 19, 2021). "UPDATE: Cyclist killed in crash on U.S. 395A ID'd as 38-year-old Washoe Valley resident". Reno Gazette Journal. Retrieved July 5, 2021. ...The crash took place around 7:44 a.m., and the bicyclist, Boryana Straubel, 38, of Washoe Valley, died at the scene....
  3. ^ a b c d e f Penelope Green (July 1, 2021). "Boryana Straubel, 38, Dies; Founded a 'Green' Jewelry Company: A former Tesla executive, she ran a family foundation that focuses on environmental sustainability". The New York Times. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  4. ^ Staff writer (March 4, 2021). "Introducing: Generation Collection". Yahoo! Finance. Retrieved July 5, 2021. ...Generation Collection is proud to announce their official brand launch, and introduce their premier collection of investment grade, sustainable jewelry .... The products of the future need to be both sustainable and financially beneficial for people. Recycled 24k gold is just that.” – Boryana Straubel, Founder
  5. ^ Penelope Green (NY Times) (July 2, 2021). "Boryana Straubel, 38, dies; founded a 'green' jewelry company". Silicon Valley Business Journal. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
  6. ^ Rachel Cernansky (March 4, 2021). "Jewellery's sustainable future: Recycled gold: A new startup positions recycled gold as an investment strategy as well as a fashion statement, hinting at a possible future for sustainable jewellery". Vogue Business. Retrieved July 5, 2021. ......
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