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Vanessa Tapia Hartigan

Co-Founder and President of MUSE

Vanessa Tapia Hartigan is the co-founder and President of MUSE, focused on building the value-based economy. She was an advisor and board observer at BlueX Trade, Inc., a global freight tech platform, where she previously served as CFO. She is a financial services executive with 20+ years of industry experience spanning institutional sales, wealth management, and investment banking. Before that, she was with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where she served on the Western Region Institutional Sales Leadership Team and as a Senior Relationship Manager & cofounder of the local prime brokerage sales initiative. She is an active volunteer in her community. 

She is currently on the board of trustees of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, serving as Treasurer and Chair of the Finance Committee, and as a board member and Treasurer of the Stanford Latino Alumni Association. Vanessa spent her early childhood in Liberia, West Africa. She has a BA in International Relations with Honors, an MA in Food Research (Developmental Economics), and an MBA from Stanford University. She lives in San Francisco with her husband Pete and son Rohan who is a NSHSS member.