Sarah Bellos, CEO and Founder of Stony Creek Colors, has 15+ years of leadership experience in the textile, agriculture, and sustainability industries. Sarah developed Stony Creek Colors to help lead the sustainable transformation of the textile dye industry and build the most transparent and profitable renewable chemicals company on earth. She has been a recognized leader in research efforts to bring bio-based colorant production to farmers in the Southeastern U.S. In 2015, Bellos was awarded the Young Entrepreneur Award by the AATCC, American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists, the world’s leading association serving textile professionals. In 2016 she was a Martha Stewart American Made Honoree and she and the company were featured as the Tennessee choice in Fast Company Magazine’s annual “United States of Innovation” feature article in May 2017. Prior to founding Stony Creek Colors, Sarah owned and operated a textile dye house offering garment and piece dyeing to independent fashion designers, and graduated from the Cornell University Agriculture School in 2004.