Maria Fernandez Guajardo

Vice President of Product, Clear Labs Inc

fernandezMaria Fernandez Guajardo is the Vice President of Product at Clear Labs Inc, where she brings together genetic scientists, food technologists, engineers and designers to deliver the first platform for molecular analysis and data science for the food industry. Prior to Clear Labs, Maria was the Vice President of Product at RetailNext, the market leader in IoT retail data analytics, named one of Top 10 world’s most innovative companies in Big Data by Fast Company Inc. Before that, she held multiple products, engineering and business roles at Texas Instruments in France and Dallas, TX. She started her career as a chip designer for Cadence Design Systems. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Zaragoza in Spain.

Maria received a Silicon Valley Business Journal 40 under 40 award in 2016. She is on the Board of Directors of Ignited Education, is an Advisor of Made Safe, and also volunteers with a variety of organizations focused on making science, technology, and entrepreneurship more equitable for women.